For some reason I just had a flash of the scene from Rick and Morty where the president goes “You're only Vice President because I need 10% of the white vote” lmao I don’t know why

[–] IndiBrony@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

England seems to have you guys beat if the past couple of days are anything to go by.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 3 months ago

like little hershey's kisses filled with turd nuggets

[–] SteveFromMySpace@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 3 months ago

Nah that’s in a lot of places regardless lol

[–] Midnitte@beehaw.org 18 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I know someone working in a pharmaceutical lab that believed climate change was fake because the atmosphere on Mars was mostly CO2 and it wasn't hot there.

God save us from the kakistocracy.

[–] SteveFromMySpace@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Jfc

[–] Midnitte@beehaw.org 6 points 3 months ago

You'd be surprised how conspiratorial scientists are - especially if it's outside their domain.

You'd think more deference to experts would be the default mode.... just because I took one physics class does not make me an expert on climatology or the green house effect

[–] xantoxis@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Well, someone who believes it was faked is crediting his side with that 13%. You're gonna trust the numbers of someone who thinks the moon landing was faked?

[–] SteveFromMySpace@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 3 months ago

This is also true

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Couldnt he percentage just be false?

Also, where did you get the 4.2 million US citizens from? Im pretty sure 13% is much higher

[–] SteveFromMySpace@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I’m an idiot. I put it as .013 because my brain clocked it at a far more reasonable rate.

It’s actually 42,900,000 which is way worse 🫠

[–] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 months ago

did you know that 74% of statistics are made up on the spot?

[–] shani66@ani.social 11 points 3 months ago

~~Iirc that's also the percentage of Americans who are functionally illiterate~~

Looked it up, it's worse.

[–] gandalf_der_12te@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think it doesn't actually matter whether it happened, but whether the technology to do it existed at that time. And they surely did.

[–] Deme@sopuli.xyz 11 points 3 months ago

To build on this: The technology to fake it didn't exist back then.