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CharlieWhiskey
Aug 18, 2005

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Why doesn't the chart go up to 212F? Why are they trying to suppress a huge swath of the temperature scale at which water is still a liquid?

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CharlieWhiskey
Aug 18, 2005

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Ramos posted:

We also need to hold onto the official dick length measuring unit, for cultural reasons.

We'd be 2.54 times as long in centimeters though...

CharlieWhiskey
Aug 18, 2005

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Innumeracy

CharlieWhiskey
Aug 18, 2005

everything, all the time

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Gorilla Salad posted:

I once almost yelled at a suit at work for making a chart exactly like this for a meeting only to be told "It's only supposed to be representative."

That's when I discovered that to a certain type of person, "representative" means "just, like whatever looks pretty" and not, as I had thought, actually representative of the data being displayed.

:negative:

Typically when I point out that numbers are significantly wrong and might lead to incorrect assumptions, I'm corrected and told they are "directionally correct".

Years out of school, slackers and dimwits are still trying to squirrel their way out of finishing their homework, and just couching their shortcomings in the smooth wrapper of business buzzwords.

:allears:

CharlieWhiskey
Aug 18, 2005

everything, all the time

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TheDon01 posted:

We don't have many tall buildings here because of a massive amount of cheap and available space and we get a lot of earthquakes.

I wanna know why they put the bar where they did. That's a long way from anywhere.

They put the bar roughly in the center of the state.

CharlieWhiskey
Aug 18, 2005

everything, all the time

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Slime posted:

The very bottom of the scale is negative one rapes. Are people committing anti-rapes? What even is an anti-rape? Is it being a 40 year old virgin living in a basement who's never so much as touched a woman?

A negative rape is if a potential rapist even thinks of raping, they instantly get raped, duh

CharlieWhiskey
Aug 18, 2005

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On a scale from Cute to Action-Packed, how Strange-Smart are you?

CharlieWhiskey
Aug 18, 2005

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TinTower posted:

It'd probably be more accurate to say that Scientology ∈ paranormal bollocks ∩ religious bollocks ∩ quackery bollocks ∩ psuedoscientific bollocks, as you haven't proved that Scientology is the only member of that intersection. :goonsay:

Well, if you believe what the psychiatrists want you to believe

you're right, and I'm impressed ∈ and ∩ work fine on my phone

CharlieWhiskey
Aug 18, 2005

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Robot Lincoln posted:

Mixing up metric and a meaningless unit of measurement for children has been a long-standing tradition in space travel. NASA did the same thing with the Mars Climate Orbiter and it worked out just fine.

I've done that a zillion times.

CharlieWhiskey
Aug 18, 2005

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President Ark posted:

to most americans socialist/leftist literally means "any politician i don't agree with"

there are angry conservative bloggers labeling trump as a leftist

Given his voting history, hard line conservatives would view him far to the left of most republican candidates in recent years.

CharlieWhiskey
Aug 18, 2005

everything, all the time

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CharlieWhiskey
Aug 18, 2005

everything, all the time

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mobby_6kl posted:

Holy poo poo I just found another one in yospos:



Of course the budget was tight so the newly introduced pedals will each need to be shared by 4 students.

CharlieWhiskey
Aug 18, 2005

everything, all the time

this is the world
So should I call up my electric utility and demand they change my billing unit of measure from kWh to joules?

CharlieWhiskey
Aug 18, 2005

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a kitten posted:



The exact moment De Niro stopped caring.

I would love to see an overlay of salary per film. I bet he's making a pile of loot for those poo poo movies.

CharlieWhiskey
Aug 18, 2005

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Wow, that is beautiful. I have horrid graphs like that buried as excel drafts in folders, and I know what they mean, but that poo poo is never seen by another human, let alone published.

CharlieWhiskey
Aug 18, 2005

everything, all the time

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I find most of this awesome. But what are the plus signs? And why does it say 1 tspn is 1/3 cup? And 2 tspn is 2/3 cup? What am I missing?

CharlieWhiskey
Aug 18, 2005

everything, all the time

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Xenoborg posted:

The plus means you need both combined. 1/3 a cup is 5 tablespoons and 1 teaspoon. I also don't find that chart to be bad, sure the measurement system behind it sucks, but thats not the charts fault.

Wow, that's awkward as gently caress. If I didn't have a 1/3 cup measuring device in the kitchen, I sure as gently caress wouldn't measure out 5 big spoons and 1 little spoon. I'd fill up 1 cup a third of the way and call it done (unless it was a super dangerous meth recipe).

For those of you who like the chart and aren't going to print it out and scotch tape it to the inside of your spice cabinet, you can buy a "removable" cabinet sticker for $50: https://shannon-lattin.squarespace.com/how-many-guide/

CharlieWhiskey
Aug 18, 2005

everything, all the time

this is the world

The scoop on who was recording history before humans, next week on TECH I N S I D E R

CharlieWhiskey
Aug 18, 2005

everything, all the time

this is the world
When I'm shopping for cars, fuel per unit distance might be helpful. When my low fuel light dings on a dark rural road and now I'm trying to find a gas station and looking at my gas gauge every few minutes, I need to know how many miles per unit fuel my car can do. When frantically googling fuel stations, I need to know my car can do 20 miles with that last gallon, not that my car requires 5 gallons to travel 100 miles.

Oh, and I know all of your fancy new cars have gauges that tell you how many miles you have left, but none of my cars do any math for me.

CharlieWhiskey
Aug 18, 2005

everything, all the time

this is the world

This is a great diagram of how my exgirlfriend acheived orgasm.

just kidding, she always faked it

CharlieWhiskey
Aug 18, 2005

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this is the world

Idaho: Slightly Better Than DC and Nevada

CharlieWhiskey
Aug 18, 2005

everything, all the time

this is the world

Proof of 23 missing letters of the alphabet revealed in Dan Brown's new thriller, The Last Cypher!

CharlieWhiskey
Aug 18, 2005

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Outrail posted:

They could easily have cut down on the number of symbols per letter by using something other than dots and dashes. Even just incorporating a vertical line would half the length of the signals.

Are you talking about morse code? The code transmitted via telegraph? How is a vertical line differentiated from a dot on a telegraph?
Or is that :thejoke:

CharlieWhiskey
Aug 18, 2005

everything, all the time

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I suppose if you wrote literally no other laws, the Articles of Confederation would be anarchocapitalist. But so would my grocery list.

CharlieWhiskey
Aug 18, 2005

everything, all the time

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CNN, NBC & ABC: more state run than PBS

CharlieWhiskey
Aug 18, 2005

everything, all the time

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Yeah, not only is it a horrible way to organize data visually, it has mistakes in it

:downsbravo:

CharlieWhiskey
Aug 18, 2005

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I was high for 34% of 1997, so this checks out.

CharlieWhiskey
Aug 18, 2005

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Phanatic posted:

Interesting palette choice.



I wonder how much education was had by the person who assembled that graph.

My other gripe, albeit stylistically, is when a lazily placed transparent legend lays text on a gridline. Sloppy on top of stupid.

CharlieWhiskey
Aug 18, 2005

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The Cheshire Cat posted:

What happened in 1973 that made muttonchops make a comeback?

Mu][onchops

CharlieWhiskey
Aug 18, 2005

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Carbon dioxide posted:



I don't know if this should go in the maps or in the graphs & charts thread so I'll post it in both.

Ahh, so the poorest states didn't just vote for Trump, they're also drunk/poo poo drivers.

CharlieWhiskey
Aug 18, 2005

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Are people supposed to masturbate to this?

CharlieWhiskey
Aug 18, 2005

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The Cheshire Cat posted:

I'm guessing it was an internet poll based on the obvious troll answers. Like even if you don't know anything about geography, you probably aren't going to pick an arbitrary spot in the middle of the ocean when asked to point out a specific country.

Oh what faith you have in humans

CharlieWhiskey
Aug 18, 2005

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Hyperlynx posted:

... what?

Dude, look at the map. Look closer.

If there is a dickbutt or a loss just tell us where, i dont have time for this poo poo steve

CharlieWhiskey
Aug 18, 2005

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Senor Dog posted:

How do you get any freakin work done in the yellow zones.

Grow drugs?

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CharlieWhiskey
Aug 18, 2005

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UWBW posted:



Who thought this was a good idea?

Just checked this in Google maps and unless there is some insane mercator projection voodoo going on, there is no way Cuba has a larger sector than the USA. Florida alone should be similar to Cuba.

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