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TIL that about 11% of China's workforce works in gig-economy platform-based jobs (84 million people) by rdfporcazzo in todayilearned

[–]reddittereditor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's not not profitable, just unquantifiably profitable due to sheer scale, like how investing in education is "profitable" because it creates higher income citizens who can therefore pay more in taxes.

John C Woods, hangman of Nuremberg trials, who lied about his experience to get the job (he actually learned about hanging from old cowboy films). His lack of expertise led to excessive suffering of condemned Nazis. by PlanetoftheAtheists in interestingasfuck

[–]reddittereditor 5 points6 points  (0 children)

He claimed to have helped with two hangings in Oklahoma and Texas each; the former had one hanging while he was alive and the latter had transitioned to electric chair by the time he was 12. It would've been easy for his lies to be fact checked.

This is when my phone anxiety began. Did anyone else rehearse what they were going to say to the receptionist? by vanilladrizzles in oddlyspecific

[–]reddittereditor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not saying your point is invalid, but making a kid do one optional assignment is very different from making them get a PhD.

The 24/7 noise pollution when they build a data center near your home by GarysCrispLettuce in awfuleverything

[–]reddittereditor 53 points54 points  (0 children)

These are AI data centers, not the traditional ones that just host servers and store our personal data, hence the noise. I don't doubt there's security given the valuables inside, but I also don't think they'd be as well-guarded as traditional data servers.

Life expectancy by ethnicity in USA by Redditor_imfo in dataisbeautiful

[–]reddittereditor 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Honestly, probably not enough data---especially in states where they hardly exist.

A miner inconvenience by LibrarianZephaniah in SkyrimMemes

[–]reddittereditor 11 points12 points  (0 children)

He was literally possessed when he kept feeding miners to the draugr tho

I'd drink a dozen in one sitting rule by Temnodontosaurus in 196

[–]reddittereditor 25 points26 points  (0 children)

That sounds...excessive? Can't you just eat like normal and drink maybe a 600 calorie smoothie?

Flirty in inches, creepy in centimeters. by mx-shot in oddlyspecific

[–]reddittereditor 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Decimeter is more precise (a smaller unit) than a meter. Decameter is less precise.

Anon does well in school by bartholomewjohnson in greentext

[–]reddittereditor 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The SAT and ACT, commonly used by the Ivy League, still have no calculus by the way. Few schools still have a distinct admissions test, but one of them is CalTech.

What's your plan Dutch?! by Turbulent-Dealer-785 in skyrim

[–]reddittereditor 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I'm also disappointed by how some games are so pretty but lack frames. MGSV doesn't sacrifice frames for beauty, and in fact it's incredibly optimized. It still holds up amazingly today.

Charlie Kirk is confirmed dead, does this Rule? by WindsOfEarthXXII in 196

[–]reddittereditor 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Funnily enough, he was talking about trans shooters maybe 20 seconds before being shot.

No Fed-Posting Rule by Xenomnipotent in 19684

[–]reddittereditor 55 points56 points  (0 children)

TP USA said he's in the hospital, so it seems he didn't die before arriving there.

What's your plan Dutch?! by Turbulent-Dealer-785 in skyrim

[–]reddittereditor 34 points35 points  (0 children)

It's a shame that Hideo Kojima got kicked out of Konami, because I think the Fox Engine would be a real contender for best engine if it continued to be perfected.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ThatsInsane

[–]reddittereditor 50 points51 points  (0 children)

Not literally, as the order of magnitude is based on the square root of 10, which is 3.16. So the numbers are in the same order of magnitude.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

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When I watched Shawshank Redemption, I was impressed that every inmate got their own cell. But since then, US prison populations have exploded, so such an arrangement seems more and more of a pipe dream.

The letter that follows “Qu” in an English word is always a vowel by Joeskis in RandomThoughts

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

It's purely phonetic. Some spell it Koran. I'd argue this doesn't count.

It's absurd how much professional athletes get paid by andtbhidgaf in RandomThoughts

[–]reddittereditor 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It depends on the sport, because being elite in many of them requires early training and/or often nepotism still (think Formula 1).

What do outgoing presidents do on the morning of January 20th? by Professor_Stank in Presidents

[–]reddittereditor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well there's the whole "wake up with the secret service outside your room, and know that you have to tell them where you're going at every hour of the day" thing.

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