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Tree Bucket
Apr 1, 2016

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I hear disco follows a similar trajectory

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Tree Bucket
Apr 1, 2016

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Today I learned that the Rupee symbol would make a pretty good Endless Space 2 faction icon.

Tree Bucket
Apr 1, 2016

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Peanut Butler posted:


really though something that evokes the locally-famous badass mural in the capitol building would be ideal




What an incredible image. It looks like the box art from an unsuccessful board game. I love it.

Tree Bucket
Apr 1, 2016

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Son of Thunderbeast posted:

Those are tteok, a type of rice cake. Some have sweet bean filling, some have fruit, there's a bunch of varieties and they're all great!

I have never in all my life seen a word that begins with "tt." That's amazing!
(Scrabble, here I come)

Tree Bucket
Apr 1, 2016

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Powered Descent posted:

Ran across a page with some hideously bad information about password strength, but the real crime here is the presentation of the (laughably wrong) data.

https://www.betterbuys.com/estimating-password-cracking-times/

Context: computers have gotten faster as the years go by, so the amount of time it would take to brute-force a particular password has correspondingly dropped. Let's see, how best to convey that to the reader...



I'm speechless.

That is a staggeringly awful image.

Tree Bucket
Apr 1, 2016

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Jurgan posted:

Imagine four taints on the edge of a cliff.

...do I have to?

Tree Bucket
Apr 1, 2016

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I feel like that graph should be accompanied by one showing how much each movie cost to make...

Tree Bucket
Apr 1, 2016

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Vorpal Cat posted:

Did you know the leading cause of death among medieval and early modern map makers was gouging their own eyes out to try to make the pain stop.

"Ugh, time for another 'here be dragons'"

Tree Bucket
Apr 1, 2016

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NoNotTheMindProbe posted:

I just realised that all it's representing is that the US is the top export market for Japan and how large other Japanese export markets are relative to it. Why not show absolute values and let the reader come to their own conclusions?

e. Someone clearly didn't bother finding out where Canberra is. That dot centred on Albury-Wodonga Wangaratta.

Wangaratta could work. Literally every tiny inland town I lived in while growing up had its own story about "did you know they almost chose [insert our town name here] to be the capital of Australia??"

Tree Bucket
Apr 1, 2016

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So many of the graphs in this thread make me feel like I'm having a stroke, it's incredible

Tree Bucket
Apr 1, 2016

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Can we have a specially-jpeg'd version of this information for posting to Facebook?

Tree Bucket
Apr 1, 2016

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Many people are eating my liver and internal organs and ripping off my skin. Many such cases. It's the worst ever.

Tree Bucket
Apr 1, 2016

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Mmmm, so rational.
Now someone fix Europe.

Tree Bucket
Apr 1, 2016

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Platystemon posted:



Report: Evaporation from California Irrigation Adds Enough Water to Colorado River to Supply 3 Million People

The magnitude of this effect is questionable, but I have to give them points for the graphic.

The paper

I adore the "perspective" on those 3D arrows.

Tree Bucket
Apr 1, 2016

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The artist did 43 rather good illustrations, and then let the intern do the perspective on "useful objects: lower middle brow"

Tree Bucket
Apr 1, 2016

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It's Jorcestershire Rorcestershire Rorcestershire Torcestershire


mycelia posted:

My hometown is the Australian town of Launceston. It has a British equivalent for which it's named. The two are not pronounced the same.

How is the British Launceston pronounced?

Tree Bucket
Apr 1, 2016

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Outrail posted:

Where does science advisor to political party come in?

Possibly the Fourth Circle

Tree Bucket
Apr 1, 2016

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I obtain perfect information by only consuming... let's see... socialist alternative and fox & friends

Tree Bucket
Apr 1, 2016

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fosborb posted:

brutish, low, malevolent elevation

I tried to say "malevolent elevation" out loud and now I feel unwell

Tree Bucket
Apr 1, 2016

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Byzantine posted:

"If we pull this off, we'll eat like kings!"

That one always really confused Young Me. Surely they'd want to leave the web where it is? Pulling it off the slide would just be a waste!

Tree Bucket
Apr 1, 2016

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Blue Footed Booby posted:

I remember my sat score for the same reason I remember the theme songs of the cartoons I watched in first grade, but can't reliably remember my social security number: there's something deeply wrong with my brain. I am useless and cannot be trusted.

Countless generations of your ancestors encoded family histories, geographical info, knowledge of plants and animals and inter-clan politics within the words of songs, passed down from generation to generation. Anyone requiring you to memorise strings of digits deserves to be eaten by thylacines.

Tree Bucket
Apr 1, 2016

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Antigravitas posted:

Huh, you don't often see an eastern-centric graph.

It's pretty funny seeing only three rye bread variants and only one sweet wheat yeast bread, though.

Also, where's my Roggenmischbrot? :mad:

...is your av an anime phalangite?

Tree Bucket
Apr 1, 2016

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Outrail posted:

A chicken picking numbers from a grid is more accurate than wherever those.figures came from. I used to do the research, interviews, data analysis and final reporting to generate market forecasts. You'd be given a market you knew nothing about and be expected to develop a model for the industry and it's economy within a month by digging through random financial reports and talking to gas station attendants. They're complete trash and basically meaningless made up numbers.

But numbers don’t lie!

Tree Bucket
Apr 1, 2016

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By inference, there are no far left men.
Oh wait, they're all in group sex.

Tree Bucket
Apr 1, 2016

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Sagebrush posted:

humans really love categorizing and grouping stuff and putting things in little boxes. it's why we're all racist

And collect funko pops

Tree Bucket
Apr 1, 2016

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Serperoth posted:

So is that like, Jewish people by percentage of that type of employment then?

Also that font is amazing I need it

I think it's all hand written. Incredible.

Tree Bucket
Apr 1, 2016

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ultrafilter posted:

SEPT2 has been renamed to get Excel to stop loving up in that particular way.

Imagine having genes named after you. Then losing that honour. Uriel's not going to be happy.

Tree Bucket
Apr 1, 2016

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I guess this is kind of a chart?

Tree Bucket
Apr 1, 2016

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Well, the first one is, and the rest live in my heart

Tree Bucket
Apr 1, 2016

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Sounds like you'd need an ION MICROPROBE to find that guy's sesnse of ethics and decency.

Is that how they work

Tree Bucket
Apr 1, 2016

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I just thought urinal cakes were a kind of soap? Looks way more complex than I suspected.

Tree Bucket
Apr 1, 2016

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Irradiation posted:

Liars La is actually naturally radioactive and it shows up in the spectra of my LaBr3 detectors. :mad:

Extraordinary post/username combo

Tree Bucket
Apr 1, 2016

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Blue Footed Booby posted:

To get a common ancestor between humans and octopuses surely you have to go back like "how do I feet" far.

That's a great way to phrase it.
The great divergence of "bones: y/n"

Tree Bucket
Apr 1, 2016

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Tetrapod is a deeply satisfying word to say.
Tetrapod

Tree Bucket
Apr 1, 2016

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This witch king of Angmar sounds like a kind and simple soul

Tree Bucket
Apr 1, 2016

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ikanreed posted:

He's not from angmar, he conquered angmar

Drat! Foiled by the genitive case, again!

Tree Bucket
Apr 1, 2016

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Give me fat grey buttons with labels like CRTT and DMJA and AS(1) in tiny letters

Tree Bucket
Apr 1, 2016

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There's something weirdly charming about the long-held goon antipathy for the Sun and all his works

Tree Bucket
Apr 1, 2016

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Dew this in remembrance of me

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Apr 1, 2016

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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

Are you the taxation dept of a national government?

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