ultrafilter posted:

Vampire Ecology in the Jossverse

SupSuper posted:

Why wouldn't everyone vote for the imaginary candidate of their dreams?

SerialKilldeer posted:

Thought that was the wizard school map for a second:

https://twitter.com/Devon_OnEarth/status/1234229657702207490?s=19

What continent is the green area north of the MIDDLE EAST supposed to be?

Tobermory posted:

The idea that Disney only has six problematic songs makes me suspect some other things about the author, too.

Edit: I encourage him throwing Song of the South down the memory hole, but he didn't see anything wrong with "Everybody Wants to be a Cat"?

MrUnderbridge posted:

For the ultimate version of this, watch A Very Secret Service on Netflix (French: Au service de la France). The scene where the Quebecois try to get the French to help with their independence movement is hilarious, even with subtitles. One weird thing is that even in French, the Quebecois have a really obvious accent. And I don't speak more than enough French to get a hot chocolate half the time. (The other time I ended up with a ham sandwich, sooo....)

Most Americans don't really realize that other languages have different accents, too.

Outrail posted:

I held off on my marshmallow on the assumption I would get two marshmallows later and now I don't have anything and the researcher has a house made of marshmallows. The system works.

Vavrek posted:

This is a good post, but I want to point out one factual error. Kahneman and Tversky weren't economists. They were a pair of psychologists researching cognitive biases. Despite never formally studying economics, Kahneman was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for this research. (Tversky had died by then. )

Albino Squirrel posted:

It's from the first edition, published 2003. Jakarta's rapid transit system is relatively new and might not have had much in the way of maps at that point.

Tenebrais posted:

It's on the bottom-right?

Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:

All I actually want is suborbital half hour flight to anywhere that is low cost enough for the average human

DarkHorse posted:

I fixated on the impossible 0 pH (for what is supposed to be a logarithmic scale) and completely missed the horrendous transposition of labels

Pakled posted:

Freemasonry being a "low brow" thing is pretty interesting to me too.

SiKboy posted:

Exactly! You'd need at least a breeding pair.

Carbon dioxide posted:

Similarly, lots of people don't seem aware that while in the US, CNN is reasonably leftist, CNN World / CNN Europe or whatever it's called tends to be much more neutral.

For charts like that you really need to add from what country you accessed some media, it may change things around quite a bit.

Antigravitas posted:

GW at least sells you an actual thing, not the printout of a jpeg.

redleader posted:

imagine having a language where one word could mean more than one thing!

Kennel posted:

Is this the name of a visual novel or JRPG?

Ariong posted:

yikes

Powered Descent posted:

That depends on whether or not our universe has a particular integer overflow bug.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Gandhi

Captain Hygiene posted:

The tail end of that is great, you just have all these major, historical international cities, and also Charlotte.

OwlFancier posted:

Participation trophies are bad but actually it's not about winning it's about number of medals.

OwlFancier posted:

I guess I take issue at least with the notion that a decentralized news wire thing can be said to have the same sort of political bias as like, I dunno, the BBC, or the Guardian or something.

Sure all information provision existing in political reality is necessarily therefore political, but from a charting standpoint it seems weird to put it next to the BBC which functions very differently. Even if you argue both are centrist I find it hard to imagine that they are a similar kind of centrist?

AP News posted:

For all Rumsfeld’s achievements, it was the setbacks in Iraq in the twilight of his career that will likely etch the most vivid features of his legacy.

Nine months into his second tour as defense secretary, on Sept. 11, 2001, suicide hijackers attacked the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon, thrusting the nation into wars for which the military was ill-prepared. Rumsfeld oversaw the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan and toppling of the Taliban regime. Frequently presiding at televised briefings on the war, Rumsfeld became something of a TV star, applauded for his blunt talk and uncompromising style.

By 2002 the Bush administration’s attention shifted to Iraq, which played no role in the Sept. 11 attacks. The war effort in Afghanistan took a back seat to Iraq, opening the way for the Taliban to make a comeback and prevent the U.S. from sealing the success of its initial invasion.

OwlFancier posted:

I also like that whether or not you get dementia and whether or not you have depression, anxiety, other mental problems is classed as "individual behaviour" lmao.

Sagebrush posted:

it really puts into perspective how much of a ripoff the 3090 is, too, being like four times the cost of a 3060 but only 1% more number.

zedprime posted:

Feel like there's cheaper ways to buy a grade these days than trying to give a professor enough alcohol that they actually get drunk.

Muscle Tracer posted:

Tunicate posted:

And of course there's the Cox-Zucker Machine, invented by a couple mathematicians who met in grad school, realized the opportunity they had, and spent most of a decade trying to codiscover something that would force people to use the name.

Tenebrais posted:

I like that "Toxic" exclusively covers Beryllium and the secret unspoken element next to Beryllium.

Brawnfire posted:

I'm afraid their weird little feet will scamper over my own as they flee

OwlFancier posted:

I would suggest the difficulty in getting a dog to take a bath is that you like the dog and you can't just hit the RKO on its rear end to make it take a bath, but there are no rules in wolf fights.

Now if the wolf has the element of surprise, that's a different matter, but if it's hell in a cell I think I have a chance, I could almost certainly defeat a wolf in a ladder match.

Simply Simon posted:

I could probably take you

OwlFancier posted:

See, a wolf is only 4/5th as dangerous as a parrot, which is twice as dangerous as a pitbull so if you are afraid of pitbulls you should be twice as afraid of parrots.

Antigravitas posted:

"This is a large pizza of 30 cm.
The small one is supposed to have 26 cm
I measured the widest diameter…"

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jjack229 posted:

Also

Muslim - 27%
Jewish - 30%
Atheist - 33%
Christian - 58%

Total - 148%

Paladinus posted:

Red Bones posted:

Economics is a cautionary tale of what happens when people think hard science is inherently superior to soft science. If a social scientist made the argument that "human society will never, ever run out of resources, because we will always invent a way to be more efficient with resource consumption", it'd be recognised as total speculation, but an economist slaps an arbitrary number on the same idea and suddenly it's quantifiable and rigorous enough to underpin decades of mainstream economic theory.

It's just social sciences for people who find it easier to read equations than sentences.

90s Cringe Rock posted:

"average person earns 3 dollars a year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average person earns 0 dollars per year. Billionaire Georg, who lives in cave & steals over 10,000,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

Unperson_47 posted:

LARPing looks like a lot of fun.

Phosphine posted:

Them being dead now does not invalidate them having survived the Titanic