@fluffy @charliejane that's almost as absurd as a (luckily only German, not EU standard) that takes fuel consumption and divides it minimum gross weight:

Resulting in the Leopard 2 being the most efficient domestic made vehicle in spite of guzzling 200l/100km of B7 Diesel, but at a weight of 62.000kg it's fuel coefficency is <0,0033 compared to an Audi A4 @ 10l/100km ROZ95E5 Gasoline & 2.000kg's = 0,0050...

In the end it's only #LyingWithNumbers and #Lobbyism (see #ChickenTax)...

@yogthos Since there is no #PressFreedom, there's no way to independently verify said figures.

Also OFC if people earned $0,10 an hour 25 years ago and now $0,40 that's OFC a major increase and gets above the arbitrary absolute powerty line...

See I too can do #LyingWithNumbers ...

@yogthos So does every nation to some extent.

Granted if you know me and my opinions [I don't expect you to have checked out my entire feed] you'd know that I think #HumanRights are not negotiable.

Basics like housing, food, water, freedom of movement, ban of forced labour, right to defend oneself and one's mutuals, etc.

I don't deny said ties - that would be foolish.

I just think that by every metric and skew #Taiwan is freer than the #PRC...

Everything else would be #LyingWithNumbers...

@SwiftOnSecurity #programming is #creative and #intellectual labour.

Measuring a programmer's efficiency or value with easy #metrics like #LinesOfCode (#IBM) or #Commits (#Huawei) doesn't work.

In fact the latter ones did that #LyingWithNumbers for #KPI so hard on the @linux / #Linux #Kernel that they were close to getting #banned from the #LKML and #git.

Instead they got called out that their "code cleanup" commits are not appreciated as code #readability is being a priority in #Linux!

@mpoletiek would still not be #CarbonNegative but simply offset #Renewables, like outsorcing production to overseas (i.e. "P.R." #China and #India) just to reduce domestic industrial emissions...

#LyingWithNumbers...

@NefariousAryq #LyingWithNumbers works well in #Politricks, because if #Cops want to find a reason to bust someone, they'll make one up on the spot.

Like dropping some stuff in someone's car or toilet or trashcan to justify jailing someone.

It's not as if cops can't get their hands on criminalized merchanise to make up a victimless crime and brutalize someone!

@steve It's #LyingWithNumbers because one can literally buy "#CO2 #Neutrality" with products.

The product didn't get more envoirmentally, but one can just literally buy an Indulgence instead.