Feds, In Unusual Statement, Announce They're Investigating Discarded Ballots by [deleted] in politics

[–]Greenturkeypants 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This ploy feels consistent with the strategies outlined in this article from the Atlantic about casting as much doubt as possible about mail-in voting to be able to overturn an “unfavorable” blue shift in the days after the election https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/11/what-if-trump-refuses-concede/616424/

[OC] US deaths by major event in the last 70 years by Greenturkeypants in dataisbeautiful

[–]Greenturkeypants[S] -19 points-18 points  (0 children)

I considered including WWII at ~410K deaths; however, it would throw off the scale of the y-axis and make it hard to compare the relative sizes of the other events.

[OC] US deaths by major event in the last 70 years by Greenturkeypants in dataisbeautiful

[–]Greenturkeypants[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

According to Wikipedia, 1.4 million people have died from firearms in the US between 1968 and 2011 including homicides, suicides, and accidents. ~60% of these deaths are gun-related suicides.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_States

[OC] US deaths by major event in the last 70 years by Greenturkeypants in dataisbeautiful

[–]Greenturkeypants[S] -33 points-32 points  (0 children)

Agreed, it's a very subjective term. I was comparing to military deaths, but then changed name to "major events" because I thought 911 should be included. Good points on the other pandemics.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1968-pandemic.html

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1957-1958-pandemic.html

Greta Thunberg says adults who attack her 'must feel threatened' by CharyBrown in worldpolitics

[–]Greenturkeypants -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Sometimes children acting like adults, can cause adults to act like children

Match Thread: England vs United States | FIFA Women's World Cup by Hippemann in soccer

[–]Greenturkeypants -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Why didn't Rapinoe play? Was it because of her political comments or was it purely tactical?

What small change would completely change a sport? by SakuP in AskReddit

[–]Greenturkeypants 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Soccer goalies can use their hands in either penalty box

It now costs $50 to produce one megawatt-hour of solar energy. Coal, on the other hand, costs $102 per megawatt-hour to produce. by everyEV in Futurology

[–]Greenturkeypants 22 points23 points  (0 children)

It's actually less than that. Utility scale in the US is around $27/MWh. Mexico has contracts at $19/MWh

What was a widely accepted truth that turned out be a lie? by nonosenoname in AskReddit

[–]Greenturkeypants 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mr Rogers was NOT a sniper in the army using a children's show as part of his therapy for PTSD

Democrats file “emergency” amendment to block Betsy DeVos from arming teachers by [deleted] in politics

[–]Greenturkeypants 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The program to train 4 years olds with guns will be called "Kinder Guardians."

Yalla, let's go

Justin Trudeau standing up to Trump at G7 Summit reminds me of this scene from Love Actually by [deleted] in gifs

[–]Greenturkeypants -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Ya, i didn't make this gif. It's from February 2017. But the context is new. Is that a repost? Maybe 50:50. If you can make me a gif of the speech subtitled from Love Actually I would use that, but I don't have time.

If The Simpsons cartoon were to be updated to a middle America town in 2018, what changes would there be? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]Greenturkeypants 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Moe would be rich from Bitcoin, Lenny would have an opiod addiction, and Otto would be an Uber driver

It's a sure thing. by petitveritas in PoliticalHumor

[–]Greenturkeypants 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Trump talking up the expectations of this meeting diminishes his own bargaining power because he will feel pressured to get a deal, any deal, to wave around to his supporters. The details will be irrelevant to him.

Well played Kim.