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TotalLossBrain
Oct 20, 2010

Hier graben!

And here I thought the plot of Four Lions was improbable.
I suppose dumbassery knows no nationality.

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TotalLossBrain
Oct 20, 2010

Hier graben!
I think it's time someone fully committed to both idiocy and pie charts made a pie chart that doesn't slice radially outward from the center at all. It should look like one of those hosed up pizzas.

Like this, but with more politics:

TotalLossBrain
Oct 20, 2010

Hier graben!

CannonFodder posted:

I'm a liberal that is registered Republican so I can vote in the GOP primary, because that is the election that decides Sheriff

Pretty sure this is the part Tiggum was wondering about. As am I. What the gently caress?

TotalLossBrain
Oct 20, 2010

Hier graben!

foobardog posted:

We do it for judges too.

So only registered Republicans can vote for sheriff/judges in the Republican primary in some places? That's what CannonFodder stated. I live & vote in the US. I have never heard of this. (not the bit about directly electing a sheriff or judge, but rather restricting it to registered party members in a closed primary)

Edit: Content to make up for this stupid derail

A chart about banana exports from a German wikipedia article.

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TotalLossBrain
Oct 20, 2010

Hier graben!

Lottery of Babylon posted:

I think the percents show how tall the IUD block is, not where in the chart the IUD block is positioned. The IUD block has the same vertical width at each end of the graph, but at the start it's below 24% worth of stuff and at the end it's below 33% worth of stuff, so the whole IUD segment has been shifted downward.

Of course, the chart doesn't bother to mention what it's ten percent of, and by putting the percents at the top of each block it looks like they're labeling the lines between blocks rather than the individual blocks, hence the confusion over why 10% moves down. Also, the IUD 10% moving down represents absolutely nothing about IUDs themselves or their use. It's not a very good chart.

The percentages represent share among all birth control methods combined.

TotalLossBrain
Oct 20, 2010

Hier graben!

Lottery of Babylon posted:

Share of what, though? Of total uses? Of total users? Of total failures? Of total successes? Of marketing budget?

This is why we label our axes.

Presumably they mean percentage of use reported by individuals in a survey/series of surveys. That would make the most sense, but who knows?

TotalLossBrain
Oct 20, 2010

Hier graben!

Pakled posted:

Noted socialist FDR.

Umm New Deal. That's all they care about.

TotalLossBrain
Oct 20, 2010

Hier graben!

Carbon dioxide posted:

From an European point of view, Sanders is center/center-left, the Democratic party as a whole is center-right/far-right, the Republican party as a whole is extreme right, and Trump is an idiot that can't even be categorized in any kind of political scale. America has no real leftist politicians and they have no clue what a socialist actually is.

Also, red has always been the colour of socialism/the left, and in graphs in Europe, rightist parties are often shown as blue (because it's a clear 'opposite' to red).

However, we enjoy calling everything left of GWB "socialism", as the poster above me explained.
Someone you don't like? :siren: SOCIALIST :siren:
Something you disagree with? It's :siren: SOCIALIST :siren:
Can't stand your neighbor? He's probably a feminazi :siren: SOCIALIST :siren:

If Americans ever found out what the word actually means, heads will explode.

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TotalLossBrain
Oct 20, 2010

Hier graben!

Absurd Alhazred posted:

Ars Technica has been a tech news and analysis site for ages, I remember reading them mostly about hardware, new CPU technologies and such back in the day. Pretty sure that's how I first learned about VLIW architectures. Are they even that focused on gaming?

Ars reports on the social aspects more than anything, though they do occasional game reviews - mostly the big titles.

TotalLossBrain
Oct 20, 2010

Hier graben!
M kWh, seriously?

Have these people heard of MWh or GWh?

That graph is all sorts of dumb, but that is really irksome.

Outrail posted:

How do you generate negative energy? Or is that from a norm?


It's showing the monthly deviation from the monthly average calculated over a year.

TotalLossBrain
Oct 20, 2010

Hier graben!

Platystemon posted:

Watt‐hours are dumb, full stop. Why use a unit of power, energy ÷ time, when you’re just going to multiply it by time immediately and cancel out the time unit?

That is a rhetorical question.

Convenience mostly. And now everything is already built around those units. It'll never go away.
Just like the grid's archaic infrastructure.

TotalLossBrain has a new favorite as of 06:02 on Jun 28, 2016

TotalLossBrain
Oct 20, 2010

Hier graben!

Fathis Munk posted:

:aaaaa: how did this name never enter my mind.

I'm so used to kilo, milli, micro, nano etc grams but have never thought of them in the other direction for some reason. Force of habit I guess

"kilo" is going the other direction?

TotalLossBrain
Oct 20, 2010

Hier graben!

Bobby Digital posted:

Ah, so that's why we measured in kilotons. That was very culturally sensitive of us.

drat.

TotalLossBrain
Oct 20, 2010

Hier graben!
Logarithmic, perhaps.

TotalLossBrain
Oct 20, 2010

Hier graben!
Gay people are most aroused by robots having sex. Got it.

TotalLossBrain
Oct 20, 2010

Hier graben!

Judge Schnoopy posted:

I'm aroused by point 20, the transition between gay sex and robot sex. Gay robots having sex. Or robots sexing gay people. Guess I'm either homosexual or homophobic.

I'm not into 8, the transition between fat people loving food and animals loving each other (fat people loving dead animals?), so I guess homophobia is out.

Look at this robosexual over here.

TotalLossBrain
Oct 20, 2010

Hier graben!

Carbon dioxide posted:

Let me just say that I live in a country where liters per 100 km is commonly used, and I don't get them. Those numbers are meaningless to me.

I literally need to grab a chart of values for different vehicles and find if a number falls in the top, middle, or lower part to get an idea if a car uses a lot of fuel or not.

I don't know if km/liter would be more intuitive though, I never had to deal with those values.

E:

A good argument which I hadn't considered yet.

LOL I haven't lived in Europe for 20 years now and those numbers still make sense. Which part is it that doesn't make sense?

TotalLossBrain
Oct 20, 2010

Hier graben!
:catstare:

TotalLossBrain
Oct 20, 2010

Hier graben!

:confused:

TotalLossBrain
Oct 20, 2010

Hier graben!
I think I got it now. Everything except the raises add up to 100%. So of the 69.5% for common school districts, 86.33% is spent on raises.

A pie chart is a strange choice for representing a set and subset of data. Not sure if my terminology is right.

Edit: Whatever OK is spending on their teachers, they clearly need to spend much more.

TotalLossBrain
Oct 20, 2010

Hier graben!
Probably physics?

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TotalLossBrain
Oct 20, 2010

Hier graben!

vyelkin posted:

When I think of three political stances that should be tightly grouped together, I think of Barack Obama, Josef Stalin, and the Taliban.

A lot of people believe just that.

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