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Wasn't there a no poo poo Federal commission convened at some point to standardize two letter abbreviations for States?
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Elviscat posted:Wasn't there a no poo poo Federal commission convened at some point to standardize two letter abbreviations for States? There was one for moving everyone to metric, too.
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Apr 1, 2020 17:54
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AnoHito posted:Missouri should be in its own dumb special category of "desperately trying to camouflage with Montana for whatever reason" 
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Apr 1, 2020 17:58
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Apr 1, 2020 18:31
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Tree Goat posted:Some good ones here: I want to start using "not shown but implied" on my graphs.
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Apr 1, 2020 19:09
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Tree Goat posted:Some good ones here: anything can have Measures
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Apr 1, 2020 19:16
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I think this one might be my favorite in the whole thread just for its simplicity.
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Apr 1, 2020 19:34
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Tree Goat posted:Some good ones here: There's so much to love about this. I think my favorite is the arrow that isn't connected to anything on the bottom left.
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Apr 1, 2020 20:10
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Ariong posted:I think this one might be my favorite in the whole thread just for its simplicity. yeah, it’s beautiful
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Apr 1, 2020 20:24
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Y'know what, I'm ok with this
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Apr 1, 2020 20:24
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Elviscat posted:Wasn't there a no poo poo Federal commission convened at some point to standardize two letter abbreviations for States? Yes, I saw a documentary about it once. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLECCmKnrys
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Banana Canada posted:... Not states, but everybody at my current work refers to Cote d'Ivoire as CDI, which confused me for a while. Having the 'd' in the abbreviation makes no sense because it's a preposition. At my old job it was always RCI (Republique de Cote d'Ivoire). At both places there are people who insist on pronouncing it coat dee vwaa
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Mauser posted:At both places there are people who insist on pronouncing it coat dee vwaa Isn’t that pretty much how it’s pronounced? I’d want a trace of an “r” at the end, but better than the “DIV-wahr” I kept encountering in the US.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz2mmM-kN1I
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Subjunctive posted:Isn’t that pretty much how it’s pronounced? I’d want a trace of an “r” at the end, but better than the “DIV-wahr” I kept encountering in the US. You still pronounce the r though. The waa sound would be 'oi' like in moi.
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Apr 2, 2020 05:16
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Um, what about the other 10%?
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Apr 2, 2020 05:30
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They’re neither, obviously.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Um, what about the other 10%? Good news, I have an update for you! 
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Apr 2, 2020 14:41
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Tree Goat posted:Some good ones here:
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Apr 2, 2020 15:12
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four anglophone countries. aaaand sweden
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Apr 2, 2020 16:10
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~anything can have 𝓶𝓮𝓪𝓼𝓾𝓻𝓮𝓼~
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Apr 2, 2020 17:32
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Krankenstyle posted:~anything can have 𝓶𝓮𝓪𝓼𝓾𝓻𝓮𝓼~ right, that’s why it’s so important to have 4D information mastery in the 21st century command battlespace
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Subjunctive posted:Isn’t that pretty much how it’s pronounced? I’d want a trace of an “r” at the end, but better than the “DIV-wahr” I kept encountering in the US. It's pronounced "EYE-vree COAST" 
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Apr 2, 2020 18:00
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I think the USAF hired the same ad house that generated that Pepsi document. More: https://twitter.com/OperatorMaid/status/1245154580054319105 Phanatic has a new favorite as of 20:08 on Apr 2, 2020 |
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Apr 2, 2020 19:59
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That Pepsi document: https://twitter.com/AndrewM_Webb/status/1245493805530451968
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Apr 2, 2020 20:00
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Tree Goat posted:Some good ones here: I feel like this person just found a book on graph theory
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Watermelon Daiquiri posted:I feel like this person just found a book on graph theory and took a big poo poo all over it
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Watermelon Daiquiri posted:I feel like this person just found a book on graph theory Did graph theory hurt you?
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The Cheshire Cat posted:Optimistic of them that they haven't shaded the end of the chart grey there to mark it as a recession. It turns out the Goldman Sachs estimates were way, way too optimistic:  
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Zogo posted:It turns out the Goldman Sachs estimates were way, way too optimistic: can't help reading the bottom right as a sarcastic comment
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Apr 2, 2020 22:02
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I like this graph, it’s a great illustration of what most people picture when you use the word tsunami.
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Phy posted:can't help reading the bottom right as a sarcastic comment 
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ultrafilter posted:That Pepsi document: Worth reading through the thread, the graphs are amazing.
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The Pepsi brand doc should be on the next extra-solar space vehicle launched from Earth. Fair warning and all that.
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ultrafilter posted:That Pepsi document: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAG7pye0V1g
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Fathis Munk posted:Worth reading through the thread, the graphs are amazing. Some good shitposts in here https://twitter.com/AndrewM_Webb/status/1245493839651053574?s=19
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Do either the people who make this bullshit or the people who buy it think it’s somehow worth the money, or is it just rich people doing a bit of wealth redistribution among themselves
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Soricidus posted:Do either the people who make this bullshit or the people who buy it think it’s somehow worth the money, or is it just rich people doing a bit of wealth redistribution among themselves I think it's a mix of both.
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I think it was a marketing strategy. How often are these dossiers just "found" in the wild?
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