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DontMockMySmock posted:They've got over 11 popes per square mile; This tickled my fancy
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I wonder how the Vatican fares in Olympic medal counts if, like a paranoid 19th century protestant, you count all the Catholic olympians as secretly competing for the Vatican.
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Aug 4, 2021 05:32
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Space Kablooey posted:we should allow countries to hire olympic mercenaries imo We should just host the Olympic War Games every 4 years: every country gets a certain number of soldiers, tanks, missiles, planes, trucks, self-propelled guns, and other weapons systems, and fights for two weeks to see who can control the most of Australia. Points are awarded on how many of the enemy you kill, how many explosions you do, how much of Australia you control, and how few civilians you accidentally murder. But it's always Australia. Every four years Australia.
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Aug 4, 2021 05:44
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I don't think you could get the emu to sit on the podium.
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Aug 4, 2021 08:22
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CodfishCartographer posted:It is, in fact, an English phrase - it means to be carried off or stolen without notice. For example, a talented thief could spirit away some jewels. That being said, it's very rarely used nowadays, and I'd be shocked if there was significant enough searching for it to influence search results for the movie - the entire first page of google when searching "Spirited away" just shows info related to the film. That just shows that Google is awful.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:We should just host the Olympic War Games every 4 years: every country gets a certain number of soldiers, tanks, missiles, planes, trucks, self-propelled guns, and other weapons systems, and fights for two weeks to see who can control the most of Australia. Points are awarded on how many of the enemy you kill, how many explosions you do, how much of Australia you control, and how few civilians you accidentally murder. But it's always Australia. Every four years Australia. I like this idea, but how would you motivate the soldiers? It's not like anyone would want to control Australia. And the Australians would have a huge disadvantage by knowing how much it sucks already. No, we should do it somewhere else, maybe the middle east?
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Aug 4, 2021 11:21
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OwlFancier posted:I don't think you could get the emu to sit on the podium. You don't get the emu to do anything. An emu does as it pleases It doesn't matter though because the cassowary ensures there will be no survivors
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BonHair posted:I like this idea, but how would you motivate the soldiers? It's not like anyone would want to control Australia. And the Australians would have a huge disadvantage by knowing how much it sucks already. Tell them they can't leave the outback until there's a winner.
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Outrail posted:Tell them they can't leave the outback until there's a winner.
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Aug 4, 2021 13:13
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BonHair posted:I like this idea, but how would you motivate the soldiers? It's not like anyone would want to control Australia. And the Australians would have a huge disadvantage by knowing how much it sucks already. Actually we should have a winter and summer warlympics. The summer version would be in the death valley and the winter version would be in Antarctica
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Aug 4, 2021 13:23
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:We should just host the Olympic War Games every 4 years: every country gets a certain number of soldiers, tanks, missiles, planes, trucks, self-propelled guns, and other weapons systems, and fights for two weeks to see who can control the most of Australia. Points are awarded on how many of the enemy you kill, how many explosions you do, how much of Australia you control, and how few civilians you accidentally murder. But it's always Australia. Every four years Australia. This feels like step 1 in turning the world into G Gundam. I'm not sure if that's a good or bad thing.
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Aug 4, 2021 13:47
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The Cheshire Cat posted:Obviously the goal is to get Vatican City to compete in 2024. Granted it may be difficult for them to qualify given the average age of the citizenship but I'd imagine the swiss guard are pretty athletic. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatican_Athletics quote:Vatican Athletics was launched on 10 January 2019 with 60 initial accredited members which includes Swiss Guards, nuns, priests, museum workers, and maintenance workers as well as two migrant Muslim Africans as honorary members.
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I'm okay with the Catholic Church getting swindled by the IOC EDIT: jjack229 posted:They would occur simultaneously then? 
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Space Kablooey posted:Actually we should have a winter and summer warlympics. The summer version would be in the death valley and the winter version would be in Antarctica They would occur simultaneously then?
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:We should just host the Olympic War Games every 4 years: every country gets a certain number of soldiers, tanks, missiles, planes, trucks, self-propelled guns, and other weapons systems, and fights for two weeks to see who can control the most of Australia. Points are awarded on how many of the enemy you kill, how many explosions you do, how much of Australia you control, and how few civilians you accidentally murder. But it's always Australia. Every four years Australia. Valve's keeping Team Fortress 3 under serious wraps.
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BonHair posted:I like this idea, but how would you motivate the soldiers? It's not like anyone would want to control Australia. And the Australians would have a huge disadvantage by knowing how much it sucks already. Wait what motivates people to compete in the regular non-war Olympics??
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Wait what motivates people to compete in the regular non-war Olympics?? The winners get to keep a piece of the land it was hosted on. That's why they always have to build new arenas instead of using pre-existing infrastructure.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Wait what motivates people to compete in the regular non-war Olympics??
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BonHair posted:
Sorry, that venue is booked for the foreseeable future.
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Aug 5, 2021 19:07
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 Heavy stuff, but I can't help but feel this could have been displayed better. Could even be an appropriate time for pie charts.
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trapped mouse posted:
Most deaths occurred at the start of the pandemic when nothing was known about how to treat it, and obviously there was no vaccine. If it instead covered say the month of July then we'd be able to see how the vaccinated and non- compared more directly.
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Count Roland posted:Most deaths occurred at the start of the pandemic when nothing was known about how to treat it, and obviously there was no vaccine. If it instead covered say the month of July then we'd be able to see how the vaccinated and non- compared more directly. Reading their website that is data collected since May 1st, not since the start of the pandemic.
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Not sure what point they’re trying to get across. If no one is vaccinated then all deaths are from non vaccinated people. Once everyone is vaccinated then all death will come from vaccinated people.
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Aug 6, 2021 08:16
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HerStuddMuffin posted:Not sure what point they’re trying to get across. If no one is vaccinated then all deaths are from non vaccinated people. Once everyone is vaccinated then all death will come from vaccinated people. People have a rough idea of what the vaccination rate is, and that it's nowhere near 2%. Especially easy right now with the rate near 50%. That comparison makes it a useful point, though yeah it's not the best way to do things.
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The vaccination rate varies by state, obviously, and I’m not sure that many people know if Montana is overall more vaccinated than South Dakota or whatever, so it makes comparisons between states non trivial. More troublesome, as more and more people get vaccinated and the unvaccinated, at-risk demographic dies off, the time evolution of this graph is expected to show the proportion of death from vaccinated people to increase, giving the wrong impression that over time getting vaccinated is making you more and more likely to die, because the untrained average human has difficulties telling the probability of A knowing B and the probability of B knowing A apart. It’s not just a bad chart because it’s showing redundant data in a way that makes it hard to visualize and compare, but also because it’s not showing anything useful. For instance, what conclusions would you draw from directly comparing the New Jersey and Arkansas lines, and how does that match up with your perception of the handling of the pandemic in those states ?
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A better way would be to look at how many percent of vaccinated vs unvaccinated people die. But that would give you very low percentages and less striking bars.
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It would still be somewhat misleading because more old people are vaccinated but they're also more likely to die than younger people, all else being equal.
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BonHair posted:A better way would be to look at how many percent of vaccinated vs unvaccinated people die. But that would give you very low percentages and less striking bars. https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1418952154342166539
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mobby_6kl posted:It would still be somewhat misleading because more old people are vaccinated but they're also more likely to die than younger people, all else being equal. You'd need to somehow indicate in the chart how age plays a role. Age is so central to the pandemic though-- young people die of covid only very rarely but if you're 80+ its quite deadly. Most data about Covid should include some sort of age differentiation.
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John Burn‐Murdoch posted:a fully-vaxxed 80-year-old now has the same risk of dying from Covid as an unvaxxxed 50-year-old This may be objectively true, but it sounds awful. Do not put that stat in the public briefing.
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Better way to put it would be to say to say that the vaccine divides the likelihood you’ll die from covid by 20. But those arrows being the same length across all ages makes them look highly suspicious. Is that the graphical representation of real data or an infographic?
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HerStuddMuffin posted:Better way to put it would be to say to say that the vaccine divides the likelihood you’ll die from covid by 20. But those arrows being the same length across all ages makes them look highly suspicious. Is that the graphical representation of real data or an infographic? I mean that is how it would look on a log scale if there was a % reduction.
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I think the weird thing is how that shows that the reduction is the same for all ages. I'm pretty sure that's just an infographic where they found a 'vaccine drops risk by 20 times' data source and applied it to the fatality rate in england
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:If you consider how much I would weigh on the Moon, I'm not so fat anymore! Your mom, on the other hand ... Count Roland posted:Ah but how much gold is in an Olympic medal? https://www.newsweek.com/are-olympic-medals-solid-gold-tokyo-2020-silver-bronze-size-weight-metal-1614284 quote:Despite having the appearance of the luxury yellow metal, these medals are actually mainly composed of silver. The required amount of silver in Olympic gold medals is at least 92.5 percent, the gold itself only making up the plating on the outside.
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GWBBQ posted:
So the gold is made of silver and the bronze is made of brass?
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Tenebrais posted:So the gold is made of silver and the bronze is made of brass?
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I'd blame them for being retroclassical about calling it bronze and hoping noone noticed but its not like the greeks were handing out medals. Now I want the media to take a stand and start including brass medals in their tallies.
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You don' even want to know what substitute they are using to save money on the chocolate medals...
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zedprime posted:I'd blame them for being retroclassical about calling it bronze and hoping noone noticed but its not like the greeks were handing out medals. Now I want the media to take a stand and start including brass medals in their tallies. The Olympics are a weird sort of "rich guy gets a $10 haircut" thing; apparently the cost to actually make all the gold medals out of pure gold would be a couple million dollars, which is a lot of money but given what is already spent on the Olympics, would barely make a dent in the budget.
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The Cheshire Cat posted:The Olympics are a weird sort of "rich guy gets a $10 haircut" thing; apparently the cost to actually make all the gold medals out of pure gold would be a couple million dollars, which is a lot of money but given what is already spent on the Olympics, would barely make a dent in the budget. But it would be a couple million less to go to the IOC's buddies' pockets and get spread around from there, so
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