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Cake day: October 19th, 2024

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  • They were right THAT the data was wrong? Awkwardly worded headline. Now I have to read the article.

    (Edited here)

    The bottom line is that, for 20 years or more, including the months prior to the election, voter perception was more reflective of reality than the incumbent statistics.

    Lol, they failed to care about what really matters. Median wage - cost of living = economy (CPI) ! It’s simple!

    But that’s not the economy of the rich. They’ve included the wages of the megarich and the prices of things that only the top 50% would buy. This skews the stats. “How can you say there’s inflation when the price of a ferrari hasn’t risen at all?”






  • Unlike the human head, the earth actually is nearly spherical. There’s got to be some differences in how spherical projections work when the object actually is a sphere, I would think. I know that 2D maps are distorted, but are globes actually this distorted as well? Never knew that, if so.

    Edit: After reflecting on it for a minute, I see they’re demonstrating forms of 2D map distortion. The way depth is represented is variable. With modern concepts of 3D imagery, we must have solved this distortion problem. If you open up Google Earth’s globe, it doesn’t have such distortion.