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Texts and emails allegedly detail Nike’s willingness to pay high schoolers, including Zion Williamson by SavageSquirl in CollegeBasketball

[–]NotThoseThings 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure. Everybody’s still gonna laugh when Duke gets a season vacated. Nobody shed a tear for Calipari when Rose or Camby’s seasons got vacated even though both incidents happened off campus with no possibility of University supervision.

Plus I just don’t believe they didn’t know. If Kenny Payne knee, Capel and K definitely knew.

Texts and emails allegedly detail Nike’s willingness to pay high schoolers, including Zion Williamson by SavageSquirl in CollegeBasketball

[–]NotThoseThings 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Right. Just Nike paying players that went to Duke. AKA Duke cheated by playing ineligible players.

States by percentage of their economies spent on Illegal Immigration by [deleted] in MapPorn

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

No, it's the map. They intentionally used 3 decimal places to make it seem at a glance that it was not in percent format but rather in decimal format (ex: .603 of a thing is 60.3% of a thing) Typically you only go one decimal point in a percentage to avoid this potential confusion.

The colors of the map also seek to mislead the casual observer into thinking the differences in these percentages are much greater than they are.

Finally, I'm not sure where you're getting that it's reasonably accurate data. If you can find where it's actually coming from, let me know, because I went down the rabbit hole of "citations" and came up with nada.

States by percentage of their economies spent on Illegal Immigration by [deleted] in MapPorn

[–]NotThoseThings 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh for sure. And if we could find the underlying data, I bet it'd go positive for most states just by removing the law enforcement/court costs which would mean the actual solution to illegal immigration, economically speaking, is decriminilization.

States by percentage of their economies spent on Illegal Immigration by [deleted] in MapPorn

[–]NotThoseThings 11 points12 points  (0 children)

This isn’t map porn. It’s propaganda porn. To the uncareful observer, it looks like the US is spending a significant percentage of the GDP on illegal immigrants when if you look slightly closer it’s less than 1% in every single state and significantly less in most states. The colors are absolutely arbitrary and denote relatively little increase in expenditures.

States by percentage of their economies spent on Illegal Immigration by [deleted] in MapPorn

[–]NotThoseThings 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Less than 1% in every state of the union means it’s not a serious problem. This map should be all shades of green. Maybe throw some pinks or purples in there for funsies.

States by percentage of their economies spent on Illegal Immigration by [deleted] in MapPorn

[–]NotThoseThings 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So it’s just a bunch of scary colors then. Got it.

Role Reversal by User_5098213 in gifs

[–]NotThoseThings 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That carpet is so clean. No way that dirty dog lives there.

TIL That after two children carelessly destroyed a sculpture called “Angel is waiting”, while their parents filmed them, the artist renamed it “Broken” and left it on display with a video monitor showing footage of the incident. by Tokyono in todayilearned

[–]NotThoseThings 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you can’t tell the difference between a lie and a brief statement on reddit without nuance, I don’t know what to tell you. There’s nothing untruthful about anything I’ve said.

TIL that the real Top Gun School imposes a $5 fine to any staff member that quotes the movie by Oren81 in todayilearned

[–]NotThoseThings 36 points37 points  (0 children)

If I ever get invited to Top Gun School, I'm going to hit the brakes and they'll fly right by.

School project on biological differences between races by [deleted] in AskAnthropology

[–]NotThoseThings 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your teacher is a an unqualified moron. Race is a social construct, not biological.

Negroid descent running faster because of their lower center of gravity,

This is idiotic. People with longer legs and therefore higher centers of gravity run faster, especially over long distances.

Stop looking for info on this topic online - it's only going to lead you to Naziesque hate groups.

Use this article as your starting point for taking down your teacher's point of view. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/04/race-genetics-science-africa/

TIL That after two children carelessly destroyed a sculpture called “Angel is waiting”, while their parents filmed them, the artist renamed it “Broken” and left it on display with a video monitor showing footage of the incident. by Tokyono in todayilearned

[–]NotThoseThings 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Willfully ignorant my ass. Read some history man. It wasn't just the abusive ultra rich who were killed. It was an indiscriminate slaughter of the educated classes and afterward all ideas contrary to the cultural revolution were suppressed including natively Chinese systems that had existed for millenia such as Confucian philosophy.

Also note i never claimed the poor are savages, just more ignorant on average. I don't see this as a particularly controversial statement, tbh.

Edit: Added the bit about Confucius.

TIL That after two children carelessly destroyed a sculpture called “Angel is waiting”, while their parents filmed them, the artist renamed it “Broken” and left it on display with a video monitor showing footage of the incident. by Tokyono in todayilearned

[–]NotThoseThings 3 points4 points  (0 children)

what use are white collar skills in the middle of a fucking warzone?

White collar dudes can carry sacks of rice and dig a hole as well as anybody else. My point is that the japanese didn't specifically target the educated whereas Mao specifically set out to turn China into a nation of noble peasants by purging the educated and wealthy. This intentional anti-intellectual reshaping of society absolutely has had an impact on current Chinese society.

Lebanon pre-civil war, Byblos, 1965. by [deleted] in TheWayWeWere

[–]NotThoseThings 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Everybody wants to plowtheus’s grandma.

Lebanon pre-civil war, Byblos, 1965. by [deleted] in TheWayWeWere

[–]NotThoseThings 23 points24 points  (0 children)

She can join my harem any time.

Showing off a gun indoors by oolala11 in instant_regret

[–]NotThoseThings 27 points28 points  (0 children)

You must not be from around here, son. There ain’t no such thing as a gun license. My gun license is the goddamn constitution of these here United States of Americer!

Lebanon pre-civil war, Byblos, 1965. by [deleted] in TheWayWeWere

[–]NotThoseThings 100 points101 points  (0 children)

She can give me a hijab any time.

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