Sentient Data posted:

Good thing there's no rule in there that the woman needs to know it's happening

Hyperlynx posted:

it's "eg...Ghana", can't you read?

Besesoth posted:

But the screenshot clearly shows Australia.

Paladinus posted:

Aleph Null posted:

This one I understand.

Edit: Christ, how did you match the font?

ArtIsResistance posted:

Thank you for your hot take on just why this picture was bad, we were all trying to figure it out

Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/60th_parallel_south

gradenko_2000 posted:

Woodrow Wilson was a progressive?

Roblo posted:

If anyone has an actually good infographic like that world history chart I'd like to see it. I'm terrible at lining world history up in my head, and how one areas history lines up with another.

Can certainly see the issues with that one, though.

Aleph Null posted:

How well will our floppy disks, CDs, USB drives, and hard disk drives record our history? How long will celluloid film, magnetic tape, and paper documents last? In 10,000 years, what we do today will be a mystery. Some history from the last 100 years is already lost because the medium on which it was stored is unreadable.
Just film history, every time a new consumer format is developed, not all material gets up-converted or re-released. If you think working VCRs are hard to find, try a BetaMax player.

Krankenstyle posted:

In Scandinavia until the late 1800s, they'd just reuse the name of the last kid that died. I've seen like 4 kids with the same name die and be "reborn" like that.

One major reason was that children were almost always steadfastly named after a certain rigorous system, depending where you were from. Some places it was grandpa paternal/maternal, then grandma maternal/paternal, etc. Very inscrutable, and very specific. Also, if someone in the family died, regardless of specific relation, chances are the next kid born would bear their name, so naturally a child born after a dead older sibling would get their name as well.

"Alright, John _{the fourth} — let's see if you can catch the ball this time eh?" says John the first, desperately

Krankenstyle posted:

Please: Philips Hamilton


lmbo thats how you trick the devil, literally with literalisms

also a very much better story than Lutha Mahtin's incredibly white tedx talk about seeing the musical with his fiancée. gross.

Brawnfire posted:

And Ricky fucks it up for him every time

Der Kyhe posted:

-40? Time to go home and drink! -20? Time to go home and drink! 0? Time to go home and drink! +20? Time to go home and drink! -+40? OK so I am hallucinating, time to cool down and drink!

Memento posted:

I'm most offended at "left scale" and "bottom scale".

Goon Danton posted:

It's worse than that. That's an attempt to "fit" the curve to data. The original curve was based on these three points:

• At 0% tax, you collect no money.
  
• At 100% tax, you also collect no money, because everyone would evade taxes out of necessity.
  
• At some point in between, there must be a maximum amount of money collected.
  

From this he draws a curve literally (actually literally) on a bar napkin and earns himself a spot on Reagan's Economic Policy Advisory Board.

TinTower posted:

You're assuming the function of tax revenues collected as a percentage of GDP is continuous.

ultrafilter posted:

Not only is the implication the other way around, but in fact most (whatever that means) continuous functions from R to R are nowhere differentiable. We live in a very strange corner of the mathematical universe.

Paladinus posted:

It can be a spectrum. Imagine the centre is marked 'taintlickers'.

Lutha Mahtin posted:

a lot of comedies are still really funny though. charlie chaplin is still funny. laurel and hardy. i love lucy. blazing saddles. the canard "comedies don't age well" is the problem really

Don Gato posted:

Fascism also had Willpower as an actual physical force that could change the universe, thus why you'd always win against superior odds because you had THE WILL and they didn't. They weren't even subtle, there's a reason the infamous propaganda film is called Triumph of the Will. If the Ratte has all those problems, it doesn't matter because the pure Aryan WILLPOWER emanating from it's crew will make it invincible.

Bobby Digital posted:

Maxwells Demon posted:

You say anti-clockwise, I say positive in theta.

Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:

Have you ever been in the countryside east of Denver?? It's basically West Kansas.

ultrafilter posted:

The other issue is that the major cultural regions of the US don't line up very well with state borders. Eastern Texas is part of the South, for instance, but the rest of the state is definitely not.

Trabant posted:

It says Obama supports them all, but not equally.

Which is probably true, but I'd bet he's more of a Warren man.

ikanreed posted:

Where the gently caress else can you put literal mansions

zoux posted:

The maths is incontrovertible lads

Lutha Mahtin posted:

that graph was taught to me in school as one of the best ones ever. i believe it. a fun fact about it is that the guy who designed it made it because he was anti-war, and wanted to have an easy way to show people how much Napoleon's wars were costing in terms of human life

DarkHorse posted:

There was that civil war doctor that had a 300% fatality rate for a surgery

Numerical Anxiety posted:

Used an archaic name instead of Tbilisi and recognized Western Sahara? Both of those are forgivable, but besides those minor hiccups, the map seems legit.

Mr. Fix It posted:

Armenians and Kurds only want one thing

klafbang posted:

It's a model of when we can multitask; we can multitask if tasks don't overlap on any of 3/4 dimensions: modality, coding, response, (and visual channel).

Why are the response and code dimension in the same direction? Why is there an unnecessary stage dimension? What even is the visual channel dimension ovaling into the visual modality? Why is this a box? A box suggests that as long as we don't overlap on any one dimension, we're good, while the model states we need to avoid overlap on all of them. gently caress you, that's why.

Dr. Arbitrary posted:

Ugh, this graph is terrible. I can't believe that people make graphs like this and expect to be taken seriously. At least the axes are labeled, but there's no indication of units or amount, and there's no source.

DontMockMySmock posted:

The big long dip is for summer vacation, the big downward spike at the end of each year is for Christmas break, the smaller downward spike just before that is probably for American Thanksgiving, and it peaks just before summer for spring finals. Interesting that there seems to be a significant difference between fall and spring baselines, with spring consistently higher. Is exponential growth a topic more likely to be taught in the second semester of a year-long course? Do students give more of a poo poo in the spring? I don't know.