The nose eloquently communicates a profound and existential desire to boop it.
Yet the seal’s expression suggests that it might not enjoy being booped.
The scenarios which this seal prompts the viewer to imagine contain a nuanced dialogue about the nature of consent.
Also, it says RN2 on the flank of the seal in the second photo.
The asymmetry of identification between the photos lead the viewer to wonder whether or not they are of the same seal, and to inquire how it would be possible to tell two elephant seals apart with just a pair of photos, or confidently demonstrate that two individual photos are of the same seal. Thus, the pictures contain 2,000 words about the nature of identity.
(eta: that XKCD was posted on June 22, 2011, at which time it seems that Biden happened to have been picked at random to represent an individual of his demographics. Revisiting it in 2023, the temptation to regard his inclusion as somehow prescient, or just the difference in experience reading the name, seems to gesture toward an interesting and subtle cognitive bias)
The nose eloquently communicates a profound and existential desire to boop it.
Yet the seal’s expression suggests that it might not enjoy being booped.
The scenarios which this seal prompts the viewer to imagine contain a nuanced dialogue about the nature of consent.
Also, it says RN2 on the flank of the seal in the second photo.
The asymmetry of identification between the photos lead the viewer to wonder whether or not they are of the same seal, and to inquire how it would be possible to tell two elephant seals apart with just a pair of photos, or confidently demonstrate that two individual photos are of the same seal. Thus, the pictures contain 2,000 words about the nature of identity.
Finally, there is an echo of https://xkcd.com/915/.
(eta: that XKCD was posted on June 22, 2011, at which time it seems that Biden happened to have been picked at random to represent an individual of his demographics. Revisiting it in 2023, the temptation to regard his inclusion as somehow prescient, or just the difference in experience reading the name, seems to gesture toward an interesting and subtle cognitive bias)