elbucho
@elbucho@lemmy.world
- Comment on Carl? 2 weeks ago:
God damn, Nature. You scary.
- Comment on tremendous 5 weeks ago:
“Population” could also mean “Eligible voting population”, not just “total population”. Both contexts work.
- Comment on tremendous 5 weeks ago:
Well, I mean - that’s a pretty misleading figure, tbh. It’s true that around that percentage of Americans as a whole voted for him, but “Americans as a whole” includes a whole bunch of people who are not eligible to vote. Like, people under 18. Or people who have felonies and cannot exercise their voting rights. The eligible voting population in 2020 (according to the US census bureau) was 231.6 million. As Trump received 74,223,975 votes in 2020, that represents about 32% of the population. Of course, 231.6 million people didn’t vote in 2020. Only about 168.3 million were registered to vote, and only about 154.6 million actually voted. So if you look at the percentage of people who were willing to vote who preferred Donald Trump, that’s a staggering 48%. What’s depressing is that if you tally up the people who didn’t vote (either because they weren’t registered to vote, or they were registered and decided not to), you get about 77 million voters - more people than actually voted for Trump, or about 33% of the total eligible voting population.
So what’s probably most accurate is to say that America is roughly divided into thirds: those who think Donald Trump is swell, those who don’t, and those who couldn’t give a shit either way.
- Comment on degree in bamf 1 month ago:
…such as the suppression of fire, or the psychical thinning of fuels in forests, or prescribed burns.
I’m definitely picturing Jedi clearing debris from the forest floors using the Force, now.
- Comment on IT support work be like 4 months ago:
A buddy of mine used to like telling the users that sometimes fat electrons get stuck in the prongs, so you have to occasionally unplug it and shake it out.
- Comment on IT support work be like 4 months ago:
At one point in a former life, I was one of the trainers for the incoming helpdesk technicians. One of the practical exams we put them through involved us doing creative things to fuck with their computers before they came to class, and then having them figure out what was wrong and how to fix it. Plugging the mouse from one computer into its neighbor’s USB port and vice versa was one of my favorite tricks. For whatever reason, it had a 100% success rate in effectively fucking with them.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
The Babylon Bee is like The Onion in the same way that a fungal infection is like nail polish. Sure, both provide non-standard colors for your toenail, but that’s pretty much where the similarities end.
- Comment on Tall, short, whatever—we're all screwed 6 months ago:
I really want to hear more about muffin encryption.
- Comment on The news did it first 7 months ago:
Thanks for that; I’m way too old for TikTok, so had absolutely no idea what I was looking at here.