• @penguin
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      My favourite way to teach how averages aren’t always the perfect metric is:

      Most people have higher than the average number of arms.

  • paper_clip
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    You know, if you do a curve fit on that data, you’ll see that US Presidents have become more criminal over time.
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      • @[email protected]
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        According to all the right-wingers…Joe Biden has masterminded the murder and coverups of thousands of murder while simultaneously being the most incompetent senile sitting president in history…while Hunter Biden has all the details documented on his laptop…

        • @[email protected]
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          When my wife’s old laptop bit the dust, she jokingly said I should blank the hard drive put it on ebay as “hunter bidens laptop” and start the bidding at what we originally paid for the laptop.

          I really thought about it but figured it would just cause trouble for us.

            • Flying SquidOP
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              211 months ago

              Definitely not Hunter Biden’s Laptop”

              Description: This 2021 Dell XPS 13 was definitely not owned by Hunter Biden and we do not know why you would think that. It features a 13.4" screen, which Hunter Biden most certainly did not use to look at child pornography, a 4.1 GhZ Intel Core i3-1115G4 with integrated GPU, which did not process video calls between Hunter and Joe Biden where Hunter used his connections with Joe as leverage in Burisma, 8GB LPDDR4x 4267MHz memory, which was not used to cache videos Hunter took of himself naked as he recorded them, and a 256GB PCIe NVMe SSD which ABSOLUTELY DOES NOT contain any compromising material about either Hunter or Joe Biden which would end the Biden presidency and tank any chances of re-election.

              Price: $650

          • @[email protected]
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            411 months ago

            Just post it as “laptop from hell” and refuse to elaborate. Some Qnut will definitely buy it

  • PugJesus
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    7611 months ago

    tbf accepting a pardon is an admission of guilt, so I feel like Nixon should at least have a little bit of a bar there.

    • @samus12345
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      He was sadly never charged.

      • PugJesus
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        If you weren’t charged, but make a legally binding admission of guilt, have you committed a felony?

        I feel like this is like, something they teach in some extra credit course at law school lmao

        • @samus12345
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          It says “charged,” not “committed.” Every president has probably committed felonies.

  • @[email protected]
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    5811 months ago

    Why take a screenshot? Why not link to the Mastodon post and let it inline render. Or does Lemmy not do inline rendering of links from Mastodon like Firefish does?

    That’s a big miss / needed feature if so. Last thing we need is more taking screenshots and reposting across the internet. Fediverse is perfectly positioned to do better than that.

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    Remember this when our hyper-capitalist politicians and CEOs crow about what a “wealthy nation” we are despite this:

    https://www.vox.com/policy/2023/3/8/23618237/homelessness-tent-encampments-housing-affordable

    And this: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-24/two-in-three-can-t-cover-400-emergency-in-us-suze-orman-survey

    We look wealthy statistically because of this: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/18/the-wealthiest-10percent-of-americans-own-a-record-89percent-of-all-us-stocks.html

    We’re just a gold plated cesspool of greed, exploitation, and greed worship.

    • @[email protected]
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      Mostly valid criticism, but the poorest American is still one of the richest people in the world despite our kneecapping of the housing market and insufficient social safety nets.

      Also has literally nothing to do with capitalism, since this isn’t a thing inherent to all capitalist countries.

      • @[email protected]
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        American is still one of the richest people in the world despite our kneecapping of the housing market and insufficient social safety nets.

        Okay, but what does that mean when the average American has a notably lower quality of life than competing poorer nations? Because that sounds like typical “starving kids in Africa have it worse, stop complaining” thought-terminating cliches that serve to end a discussion rather than find possible solutions.

          • @[email protected]
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            On my phone so I can’t do tons of research, but if you want the long short then just go here and check how many countries ranked higher than America that have lower GDP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Happiness_Report#2023_report

            Of course you can nitpick certain stats to no end, so I’ll primarily focus on the disparity of

            -Annual vacation days

            -Public healthcare

            -Public transportation, and

            -Public education

            that the average American has compared to other developed nations

            • @[email protected]
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              Happiness and QOL are not directly related, and happiness is much more of a cultural thing than a cost of living thing.

              I’m all for the bullets you list but that doesn’t make these concepts shared ideas.

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    611 months ago

    I wonder what the average would be if they were charged with the crimes they actually did order done?

  • hamid
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    611 months ago

    Trump is the rule not the exception. US presidents are slave owners, genociders and war criminals since it’s inception

    • @[email protected]
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      Exactly. If the justice system were apolitical, the average would be a lot higher and the variance a lot lower. Just the last two presidents before Trump alone are responsible for so many crimes against humanity. I know Chomsky went through every recent president and explained how they all could have been impeached.