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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

You picked two random days, compared their active user counts, and concluded that it must indicate a continuous trend.

Yesterday, it was 60°F out. Today it's 30°F out. Clearly, by next week, everyone in my town will be dead by freezing.

Experts struggle with statistics. Laymen, doubly so.

EDIT:

Also, that's only a difference of 7%, so it's not even that drastic.

EDIT2:

Also also, what does any of this have to do with your post being removed? What was the post? Did the mod/admin give you a reason for removal?

[–] [email protected] 44 points 6 months ago

Which explains why it was standard procedure for presidents to put their money in a blind trust. And why Trump didn't.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The population of NYC is 8 million, and they had fewer than 1M votes for mayor? That, like, 12.5%.

Even if you limit it to just citizen population, I found that number to be 6-7 million. Thats still only a 14-16% voter turnout.

The fuck?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

I had never heard that before, and that now my truth. It makes so much sense.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The previous conviction was overturned on a procedural issue, like a mistrial. He wasn't pardoned or found not guilty, so it isn't double jeopardy. It's just a "redo" to make sure another jury would still convict without the procedural issue.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

the [worst] Democrat [is] better than the best Republican

That's generally true, but not in the hypothetical. I'd honestly vote for Mitt Romney before I'd vote for hypothetical Democrat-Ticket Trump.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

It's called "Whattaboutism" and it's straight from Russia's playbook.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

See, we all thought that.

Turns out the problem wasn't that they committed genocide. It's that the genocide was directed at the Jewish people.

And as Netanyahu would have you believe, if you're against Israel, you're against the Jewish people. So that makes you a Nazi.

Flawless logic, clearly.

/s

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

At this point I can only understand it if I know who's saying it.

That is the most frustrating thing about discussion these days. Everyone using the same words but speaking an entirely different language.

When you don't agree on the definitions of words anymore, or you don't hold yourself to using them in good faith, then you take discussion off the table. You're no longer debating; now you are just arguing. It's one step away from violence.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

There are no bad dogs. Only bad dog owners.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Karma is just debt for morality.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

The Brood War remaster was actually pretty good, too. It was the last Blizzard product I bought.

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