(the pic is a joke btw - https://fullfact.org/...)
crapwittyname 21 points a year ago
It's still relevant for England at least, there is a pretty close and probably casual relationship between population density and Brexit voting. Rural areas tended to vote Brexit, cities didn't.
healthetank 12 points a year ago
Ah yes, the urban hotspots of.....Scotland?
crapwittyname 13 points a year ago
relevant for ENGLAND at least
abbotsbury 32 points a year ago
its just spicy origami
WoodScientist 12 points a year ago
What really gets me is that not even ordinary autoclaving can destroy the CJD prions. Those things are fucking terrifying. Look at sterilization recommendations for surgical instruments that have been exposed to them. The first recommendation is "destroy them." The second is, "if you simply must reuse them, boil them in lye in an autoclave for an hour." And even then we're not really sure if this is effective at sterilizing contaminated instruments; the recommendations are based more on lab studies, studies in Petri dishes basically. They're largely not based on actual studies on contaminated surgical implements.
SkunkWorkz 17 points a year ago
Moo point, udder nonsense.
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FelixCress 31 points a year ago
Please tell me it is real...
koper 99 points a year ago
It's simply a correlation with population density. More rural areas tend to vote more conservative.
FundMECFSResearch 16 points a year ago
Not it isn’t. If it was london would be black and you’d see black dots for Ediburgh and Glasgow
Bassman1805 17 points a year ago
The plot is an inverse of population density: rural areas have more exposure to cows, cities do not.
FundMECFSResearch 11 points a year ago
Still isn’t, otherwise the whole of scotland would be black since thats by far the most rural bit of the UK.
TwoBeeSan 11 points a year ago
This has always read to me as "when you're around a bunch of different people you realize how the same we are"
Eidunno. Curious what others think of that. It is very true, the rural and the conservatism.
magnetosphere 19 points a year ago
I think that’s one of the big reasons conservatives hate college. When young people interact with people of different socioeconomic backgrounds, religious beliefs, etc, they realize that those people aren’t the two dimensional boogeymen that they’ve been made out to be. They begin to realize that blind hatred is the problem, not diversity.
callouscomic 3 points a year ago
People are mindless idiots.
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i_dont_want_to 1 point a year ago
Then who raises the sheep?
RadioFreeArabia 2 points a year ago
Scotland is mostly rural, is it not?
it_depends_man 28 points a year ago
Even if it wasn't a population density correlation, there are lots of totally unrelated correlations.
Someone made a fun website with them!
Feathercrown 16 points a year ago
Hold on now, this one might not be so spurious...
prime_number_314159 9 points a year ago
It is not real. https://www.snopes.com/...
WanderWisley 29 points a year ago
There is also a correlation between lead paint and serial killers in America in the 60s and 70s as well as leaded gasoline.
TheodorAlforno 24 points a year ago
Lead indeed caused violent crime as it influences our nervous system and thus our behavior. It is a widely accepted hypothesis by now.
Trainguyrom 4 points a year ago
There's an additional hypothesis that a lot of the violence in the 60s and 70s was also driven by people who grew up in broken homes with unhappy marriages that couldn't be ended
Rebecca_Corndogs 2 points a year ago
I've also seen theories about the effects of untreated PTSD on the children of WWII vets.
NigelFrobisher 9 points a year ago
Amazing how BSE knew and respected the modern border between England and Scotland perfectly.
RunawayFixer 6 points a year ago
As usual with memes, this one too is fake: it's 2 times the same map (of the Brexit vote) with different coloration.
A 2023 fact check of this meme: https://fullfact.org/...
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