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Carthag Tuek posted:i am vexed by these posts There should be harsh pennanties for puns that awful
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How big is the "contains the Union Jack" category?
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Feb 7, 2021 14:19
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Nenonen posted:There should be harsh pennanties for puns that awful 
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Feb 7, 2021 14:24
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Photux posted:What's wrong with the Y-axes? They don't have the exact same scaling but they're fairly similar (the Spectator graph spans 60K subscribers, while the others span 70K, 70K, and 30K). The axes don't go down to zero, but that's good, because doing so would make the charts harder to read and would obfuscate the trend mentioned in the tweet. The point of these graphs is to show the trend of the change in subscribers: one magazine's subscription count has been steadily increasing over the past few years, while the others' peaked in 2018 and have been declining since. I know basically nothing about these magazines, so maybe comparing them doesn't make sense, but the graphs themselves seem fine. Because the intent of the image is to deceive the viewer into thinking The Spectator is more successful than those other magazines, a deception you have demonstrated was effective by falling into it and saying those graphs show a trend of The Spectator growing while the other magazines have been declining. Here's what it looks like when you plot those numbers properly: https://twitter.com/paulste1957/status/1357732823302623234 Only The Week could be said to be in decline, and even then is significantly outperforming The Spectator.
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Feb 7, 2021 15:57
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BonHair posted:How big is the "contains the Union Jack" category? Smaller than it used to be. If Scotland or Ireland leave the union they'll have to cha he the UK flag. A bunch of crumbling luddites are going to vote for the stupidest design and immediately die. Ten years from now the remaining UK citizens will moaning about their stupid flag. Nothing can stop this from happening.
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Feb 7, 2021 16:50
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Outrail posted:Smaller than it used to be. I don't think they really have to change it.
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Feb 7, 2021 16:59
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Going by New Zealand not changing their Union Jack flag because change is scary, and Brits being the worst, no they will not change a thing.
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Feb 7, 2021 17:20
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They might change it to the st george cross, which would probably please a certain section of the population.
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Feb 7, 2021 17:49
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OwlFancier posted:They might change it to the st george cross, which would probably please a certain section of the population. You gotta give us the Welsh dragon!
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Feb 7, 2021 19:15
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Best case scenario would be Wales leaves and the EU gets an awesome new flag
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Feb 7, 2021 19:16
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I think if you counted just the votes from Wales they came out as more anti-EU than the general vote so seems unlikely in the immediate future.
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Feb 7, 2021 19:17
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flavor.flv posted:Best case scenario would be Wales leaves and the EU gets an awesome new flag It would be pretty sweet if Cymraeg was one of EU's official languages.
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Feb 7, 2021 19:24
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Pasco posted:Here's what it looks like when you plot those numbers properly: The fixed graph still shows everyone else declining over the past three years, and the original tweet was about trend not overall numbers, so it honestly seems fine. Is this one of those things were the Spectator is run by bad people and so you must dunk on them no matter what?
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Feb 7, 2021 21:36
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Patrick Spens posted:The fixed graph still shows everyone else declining over the past three years, and the original tweet was about trend not overall numbers, so it honestly seems fine. Is this one of those things were the Spectator is run by bad people and so you must dunk on them no matter what? While the trends still technically are correct, it vastly overexaggerates them. Private Eye has lost maybe a couple percent over the last three years, well within the normal random fluctuation. The Week had a bit of a dip, but it was hardly the massive drop shown on the original plot. The Spectator is trending up, but the exaggerated graph makes it look like an exponential increase when it's pretty obviously still linear.
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Feb 7, 2021 21:50
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Patrick Spens posted:The fixed graph still shows everyone else declining over the past three years, and the original tweet was about trend not overall numbers, so it honestly seems fine. Is this one of those things were the Spectator is run by bad people and so you must dunk on them no matter what? Why did you pick 3 years to start your trend from and not 5
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Feb 7, 2021 22:12
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The Spectator was the magazine that was once edited by supposed politician Boris Johnson, who famously told his successor to sexually assault the magazine's publisher. Though as a journalist, Johnson didn't sink as far as publishing literal AIDS denial like Neil did.
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Feb 7, 2021 23:36
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 https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/12/03/book-review-evolutionary-psychopathology/
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Feb 11, 2021 19:39
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Incredible that there’s a table that includes Hogwarts houses and it’s not the most depraved column on the thing.
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Feb 11, 2021 19:52
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Now I really care about whether those angels are assigned to those houses, or if it's possible to have strong Uriel/Gryffindor energy.
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Feb 11, 2021 19:54
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I am very angry right now, but can't articulate why, because that would entail typing a long post about Hogwarts houses.
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Feb 11, 2021 19:58
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THE ARCHANGEL MICHAEL KILLS DUMBLEDORE
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Feb 11, 2021 20:01
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https://twitter.com/eparillon/status/1360028740290449409
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Feb 12, 2021 05:03
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I like the idea that portland, salt lake city, and seattle are the three competing northwestern megacities.
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Feb 12, 2021 05:09
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Courtesy of Gartner, behold the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Meeting Solutions: There's a whole report, and I'd bet it'd have more, but I have to give Zoom an email to download it and screw that noise.
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Feb 12, 2021 05:15
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I haven't done a statistical analysis or anything, but my gut tells me redrawing on these state lines would be a huge improvement fot American politics.
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Feb 12, 2021 06:41
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whats up with san francisco the city being in the "state" called bay valley, not the one called san francisco
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Feb 12, 2021 07:23
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“San Francisco” notably excluding San Francisco?
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Feb 12, 2021 07:28
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Not that this is the Map thread, but yeah there's more where that came from: https://www.postaltimes.com/postalnews/usps-2020-annual-report-to-congress/ quote:As part of the operational realignment, the Postal Service adjusted its Retail and Delivery Operations areas and districts, as well as its Logistics and Processing Operations regions and divisions, to better serve the American public Image #1 shows the new Retail and Delivery Operations Areas and Districts, and Image #2 shows the new Logistics and Processing Operations Regions and Divisions Image #2: USPS – Logistics and Processing Operations Regions, Divisions  This one admittedly has less of the "future-dystopian-consumerism-nightmare-idiocracy" thing going on.
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Feb 12, 2021 11:47
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I Can't Believe It's Not 'Till Death
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Feb 12, 2021 14:08
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Carthag Tuek posted:whats up with san francisco the city being in the "state" called bay valley, not the one called san francisco Platystemon posted:“San Francisco” notably excluding San Francisco? https://twitter.com/tomcoates/status/1360042018659913728 Hippie Hedgehog posted:Not that this is the Map thread, but yeah there's more where that came from: Is there a map thread?
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Feb 12, 2021 15:04
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ultrafilter posted:https://twitter.com/tomcoates/status/1360042018659913728 It's my favourite thread on this forum https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3531615&pagenumber=1689&perpage=40
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Feb 12, 2021 15:38
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well, SF being in SF is honestly disappointing
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Feb 12, 2021 15:40
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Carthag Tuek posted:well, SF being in SF is honestly disappointing What did SF do to deserve that anyway?
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Feb 12, 2021 15:42
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Outrail posted:What did SF do to deserve that anyway? you know... *gestures*
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Feb 12, 2021 17:47
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Outrail posted:What did SF do to deserve that anyway? The quality of Rice-a-Roni has really slipped in recent years
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Feb 12, 2021 18:30
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Feb 12, 2021 19:02
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There are a lot of totally inexplicable enclaves in that GIS data unless mail is getting delivered via crop dusters.
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Feb 12, 2021 19:08
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Pfft
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did someone seriosly plagiarize barney for an academic paper
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