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  • Bertuccio@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldWhat's your radical opinion?
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    5 days ago

    Misunderstanding “right of way” is half the problem.

    Right of way is ability to make a road, or the road itself by extension. You can’t have the right of way - it’s usually the government’s - and you can’t give it away. This is why wording is consistently who must yield the right of way, and not who has the right of way.

    If it’s a driver’s turn to act, they are obligated to act. It’s not their option or right to act.


  • Someone fucked these up badly and there’s no way to tell from this how.

    Are the numbers swapped between candidates but the sizes correct? Are the sizes swapped between candidates and the numbers correct?

    As an aside, this is why serious data people don’t use pie charts. They’re terrible for lots of reasons, one being it’s very hard to compare areas instead of lengths, like a bar chart, as demonstrated by how many people didn’t notice these were so bad at first.

    If you see data presented in a pie chart you should immediately be suspicious that it’s dishonest or incompetent.

    None of that is to take away that voting for third parties this election is a terrible move - just saying this chart is useless.




  • Laws are generally not stupid enough to allow magic wording loopholes.

    If it’s obvious that the nurse saying they gave the boy a “brave boy” sticker means the boy got a vaccine, that’s the same thing as saying he got a vaccine.

    Compare to hypothetical statements like

    “I can’t say what procedure she got, but she’s going to need to keep buying tampons for the next 9 months”

    “I can’t say what procedure they got, but they’ll definitely need to sit to pee from now on.”

    “I can’t say what procedure he got, but keep strong magnets away from his chest.”







  • Wow. You’re really bad at math. Maybe the reason you think this isn’t a problem is because you’ve never been in school?

    Wanna try again?

    EDIT: Naaaah. I’ll just give it to you. You’re right! It’s only once a month.

    Just because it want to see how much of a fucking idiot you’ll make of yourself trying to bend farther over backwards to see if you can walk it back to once a year and still look like a fucking psychotic moron.