pride and propaganda and such makes it hard for people who don't understand the sunk cost fallacy to change course.
I mean, I know conservatism is nothing but a series of projections, but this is just impressive. I really don't think I could have said it better myself.
Don't get me wrong, the gap is huge, but this graph is designed to misrepresent the information.
The scale starts at 45% and tops out at 60%. Even the bottom of the scale is only JUST below half, and the top is only 10% above it. The midway point is not the 50% mark, which one would expect to be the case for a graph showing percentages. So that low point is not the low point the graph insinuates, and the gap is only 15%, not the like 95% differential the graph insinuated until you start looking more closely.
The message is ultimately factual, but misrepresenting data to misrepresent vibes is still misinformation.
Weirdly, I know for a fact I've upvoted a number of posts today, but my search on this ONLY shows my downvotes?
I definitely down vote more than I upvote, though. It's habitual to think "that is fucked up and really shouldn't be here," but a lot less habitual to hit an up on every mildly neutral to positive comment that, tbh, deserves it. It's eye opening to have all my downvotes laid out in front of me. Though still weird that the ups I know for certain exist aren't showing.
Corporations should be allowed to lie and abuse people who aren't knowledgeable or practiced enough to avoid it, because they deserve it?THAT'S your take?
You know, I knew I recognized that name from somewhere. You're that one who was trolling around here pre-election spreading misinformation that I got into an argument about over your completely insane perspective on the Liberals destroying Canadian identity. I'm glad I get to share a message with you post election, so I can point, proudly, to the way Canada happily rallied together under a Liberal banner, sporting a national togetherness that we certainly haven't seen since the selfish, Conservative nutjobs started doing their damnedest to sow division and tear us apart to their benefit before and through the Covid era. I'm not shocked that, in the brief 5 minutes I gave your account to figure out why I recall your name, I saw a majority of your posts filled with vitriol and hatred, while you continuously deny objective reality and dismiss everyone who disagrees with you as being intellectually stunted. Losing the election and watching Canadian's rally together must really be shaking your world view, and since the only real responses are to adapt and grow, or lash out and blame the world, it really is no wonder you're here, spreading hate.
Your completely ethically bankrupt and sociopathic take on the topic at hand here doesn't even deserve a response, but I'm giving you one for the satisfaction of myself and everyone who works to make this world a better place while people with your perspective justify abusive practices and beliefs: fuck you. You should be embarrassed just thinking it, let alone typing it out. Get off social media, stop treating the people you interact with like garbage - if your posts here are any indication of how you speak to people, you are a truly reprehensible piece of shit - get out of your hate-filled bubble, and at least try to experience the world from a perspective other than the one that bred this abhorrent, inexcusable take. Or, just fuck off.
So "gullible and foolish people" deserve to be abused by corporate interests? We aren't supposed to build a world that benefits everyone, regardless of how "gullible and foolish" they are?
So, the capitalist brainrot belief is that Adam Smith's invisible hand is going to make sure that money only goes to the people who deserve it, because people obviously will buy the best product at the cheapest prices and everyone else deserves to be pushed out of the market unless they do better.
Except we have consistant evidence that that isn't true. The raw existence of marketing and advertising completely undermines the core concept of what is supposed to make private business good. "We'll just make sure we're the name people know and appeal to their cultural wants" is a complete subversion of how businesses are supposed to function. And then there's the reality that once businesses have reliabily built themselves into the cultural needs of people, they don't need to care anymore: see the process of enshitification in the mass of new business concepts - streaming services, 2nd party food deliver apps, etc. - and this becomes obviously true.
On paper, providing a better service should result in higher income. In reality, there are a million manipulatable factors to undermine this concept, and as we continue to argue that wealth is an inherent virtue, we'll continue to give perceived moral superiority to the private businesses that will pull the plug on your grandmother's life support if it will save them a dollar. Fuck that. The more services we can keep our of the hands of greedy CEOs and venture capitalists, the closer we are to a genuinely just world.
The BMI was created by a social scientist to place people into rough categories for a study on how obesity impacts social interactions, in greater research on how the "average man" represented a social ideal. The fact that we now use it to define who is obese and overweight is a little insane. While it's been adopted by major health organizations (and hopefully adjusted by genuine health professionals), it is a horrible singular indicator of physical health. People in the extremes are statistically more likely to face health issues. This is not the same thing as "being in the obese category makes you unhealthy because you are fat."
I'm so sick of watching these fascist fucks do their best to replace the empire they don't like with an empire they do like, all the while cosplaying as a modern leftist. These guys are left wing like Stalin was left wing.
The term “eighty-six” is a verb, which the Merriam-Webster online dictionary defines as informally meaning “to refuse to serve” or “to eject or ban” a customer, and “to reject, discontinue, or get rid of” something.
Trump: "He called to have me killed!"
Calm down, snowflake in chief, he said you deserve to be let go. An opinion most of your country agrees with.
I mean, I know conservatism is nothing but a series of projections, but this is just impressive. I really don't think I could have said it better myself.