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Cake day: October 15th, 2023

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  • No, modern polling is mostly useless. The respondents skew heavily in one direction (old people that answer the phone).

    There is no sample size big enough to account for a complete cultural shift away from answering phone calls and text messages from people you don’t know.

    Most polls report a response rate of about 90%, as reported by a PEW analysis of available studies. However, that is a made up number which does not account for attrition (quitters) or non-response to panel recruitment (no answers). If you include those numbers the real response rate is about 3%. Which means between the initial contact and giving their opinion 97% of people asked don’t participate in a given poll.







  • Some choice lyrics from “If you own the Washington Redskins you’re a cock” by Atom and His Package:

    And you’ll go “Wah wah wah, you’re so PC” And I will say “Wait” Remind me again how it came to be That being “the stupid American” is a desirable trait

    Wouldn’t it be offensive if we cheered: “Rah rah rah” for the Carolina Negroes With a beatbox cheer and big foam afros? Or if the Minnesota Vikings became the New York Kikes With dollar bills on their helmets cause that’s what they like You know?

    “Atom, what about the Saints, Angels, Padres too? Ain’t that the same thing for Christians that’s offending you?”

    When there’s a Jesus Christ mascot dog shooting crucifixes Nailed to a cross, dying to save the team You’ll be right, you’ll be right But until then You’re. Not. Right




  • No you nailed it. The meme is a poor metaphor because it implies that the system has ever been superman or that OP believes it to have been superman.

    Or that capitalism only behaves like Homelander when times are tough.

    For many people Capitalism has always treated them like Homelander. For many people they’ve never seen the Superman fascade.

    So this meme reads as though the creator only recently learned some world history, or has some privilege in life but is becoming aware of reality for others.

    You could also fix it by just having Homelander say “I’m you!”






  • I can understand saying it was rushed and poorly done, but the trained assassin, who serves the god of death, absolutely should have been the one to kill the night king. No one has a bigger beef with death than the undead army master.

    Jon came back to kill Danny and take the throne and restore what passes for peace.

    The Three Eyed Raven took it from Jon.

    None of this was especially well laid out or planned or paced correctly, but it’s the most Game of Thrones path they could’ve taken.