@carnage4life Is the italic text engagement bait for those who understand subsets & a taste for the literal? "X in lifetime" is a subset of "all X" so if the X selected from the subset is the maximum of the superset it is also maximum of the subset - and statement similar to "this is the biggest man I have ever seen" (a subset of men) is not wrong by virtue of failing to evaluate the superset (e.g. "all men") - maybe here a subset of #notallmen is OK for once and not a straw-man argument?

@briankrebs @SQLAllFather @[email protected] In terms of alt text I'd see where photo was taken and if in South America then guess "jaguar or similar big cat" as jaguars are in the Americas but understand if "spotted big cat similar to a leopard" is closest you can get (as distinctions not obvious from brief look at photos).

@briankrebs @SQLAllFather @[email protected] Brian I am saying if you look at the Wikipedia cheetah page photos for like a half minute - maybe a minute(?) - you should notice some pretty distinctive black stripe present on either side of cheetah nose running down like tears from eye - absent in Gor photo. But even I can't easily explain visual difference of leopard vs jaguar (but both have different head shape viewed head on compared to cheetah). I.e. not too hard to rule out cheetah in Gor pic.

@briankrebs @SQLAllFather @[email protected] On cue:
Please just look at the Wikipedia photo of a cheetah https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheetah#/media/File:A_little_cheetah_lying_on_his_mom_A.jpg . Is it a jaguar or a leopard ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaguar or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panthera_pardus_tulliana ) is the kind of thing that cursory look at photos of those animals is not enough for - but is it a cheetah or not I think can be ruled out/in by just looking for a few seconds. Apart from the cheetah's noted reputation for speed - they have distinctive look among big cats.

@mekkaokereke non-religious white folks at 27% Trump voters in that NBC poll - being product of "non-religious white folks" who, while not conservative, would not think important "sit down & analyse mechanisms of racist inequality" I wouldn't mistake voting numbers similarity with situation of non-white groups with similar voting patterns but in a very different position regarding effects of racism! But within whites seems notable Religion: None vs Protestant/Christian is 27% vs 72% GOP voters.

@mekkaokereke given your analysis is very good - taking exit poll which does religion among white voters https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-elections/exit-polls and religion by gender from https://www.pewresearch.org/religious-landscape-study/database/gender-composition/ if one assumes white women are religions from Pew survey and vote like their religion in NBC poll one gets Trump voters 31% Protestant + 13% Catholic + 5% non-religious for 49% GOP ww - near actual 53%. Given GOP Southern strategy would you frame partly as some white folks fleeing religion over last 50yrs?

@grimalkina For those who have not seen it and want tech guy talking to statistics guy in an amusing setting: the case of the 500-mile email - featuring tech support and the chair of the statistics dept https://ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html

@_calmdowndear @fesshole In terms of collective action - apart from rent control in South the Land Value Tax at end of this https://taxpolicy.org.uk/2024/06/09/stamp_duty_terrible_how_to_abolish/ might be good - idea is it is based on unimproved value of land so as to not deter folks from building. Wales has also used tax to incentivise selling second homes - often in areas where locals cannot buy. So various ideas for: having high salary in lower half of England actually means security; not wealth that vanishes without salary or family money