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Cake day: May 1st, 2024

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  • Someone fucked these up badly and there’s no way to tell from this how.

    Are the numbers swapped between candidates but the sizes correct? Are the sizes swapped between candidates and the numbers correct?

    As an aside, this is why serious data people don’t use pie charts. They’re terrible for lots of reasons, one being it’s very hard to compare areas instead of lengths, like a bar chart, as demonstrated by how many people didn’t notice these were so bad at first.

    If you see data presented in a pie chart you should immediately be suspicious that it’s dishonest or incompetent.

    None of that is to take away that voting for third parties this election is a terrible move - just saying this chart is useless.


  • EPA has never banned small trucks. This is from consistent misinformation that shifts blame from car manufacturers to the government.

    EPA made a scaled plan that required improvements to emissions from smaller trucks first, then larger trucks over the years.

    Car manufacturers chose to abuse that flexibility by simply not making smaller trucks, instead of making ones that meet the standards, which is why trucks have steadily inflated in size in the US as they make whatever the next unregulated size class is that year.

    You can of course partially blame EPA for not having the foresight to predict that would happen - but they also make regulations under pressure from politicians and lobbyists who are themselves influenced by car manufacturers.






  • Laws are generally not stupid enough to allow magic wording loopholes.

    If it’s obvious that the nurse saying they gave the boy a “brave boy” sticker means the boy got a vaccine, that’s the same thing as saying he got a vaccine.

    Compare to hypothetical statements like

    “I can’t say what procedure she got, but she’s going to need to keep buying tampons for the next 9 months”

    “I can’t say what procedure they got, but they’ll definitely need to sit to pee from now on.”

    “I can’t say what procedure he got, but keep strong magnets away from his chest.”







  • Wow. You’re really bad at math. Maybe the reason you think this isn’t a problem is because you’ve never been in school?

    Wanna try again?

    EDIT: Naaaah. I’ll just give it to you. You’re right! It’s only once a month.

    Just because it want to see how much of a fucking idiot you’ll make of yourself trying to bend farther over backwards to see if you can walk it back to once a year and still look like a fucking psychotic moron.