But who's counting?

22 days ago by pelespirit to c/politicalmemes

disorderly 98 points 22 days ago

This is also ripe for a "so far" meme given the enormous number of omissions and redactions.

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Thteven 49 points 22 days ago

We were ALLOWED to see 38,000 entries. JFC.

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agamemnonymous 5 points 21 days ago

Mmm, I get what you're saying but that's not really how you use that meme. "Worst day of your life so far" means that a future worse day would make this no longer the worst one. Uncovering more mentions isn't going to change the fact that it's already higher than all those other things. That meme would just imply that the number of bird species or languages or something might eventually outnumber the mentions.

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SailorFuzz 52 points 22 days ago

Are there really less than 38,000 visible stars?

I've been out in the open ocean hundreds of miles from land, lights out, looking at the whole of the milky way on a clear night. Just from my one hemisphere view it seemed like 10's of thousands....

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MML 39 points 22 days ago path: 0 25024350 25024393, hotness: undefined, score: 39, children: 1
johntwinkletits 5 points 21 days ago

Can't trust a cancer site

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badmancrooks 2 points 20 days ago

Unassisted, to the naked eye.

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Triumph 45 points 22 days ago

11,000 bird species. 38,000 mentions.

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DagwoodIII 26 points 22 days ago

I like that every single mention of Obama is one of the pedos cursing his name.

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ThisSeriesIsFalse 18 points 21 days ago

curing his name

Didn't realize Obama's name was so sick, poor thing.

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DagwoodIII 4 points 21 days ago

edited

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cavitationfetishist01 -9 points 21 days ago
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DagwoodIII 5 points 21 days ago

What is this word salad supposed to mean?

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cavitationfetishist01 -2 points 20 days ago
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DagwoodIII 2 points 20 days ago

It looks like you threw a bunch of words down in no particular order.

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BiggestPiggest 21 points 21 days ago

Fewer*

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Fmstrat 3 points 21 days ago

Generally, fewer is used when a number of things can be counted ("fewer problems") and less is used when an amount is measured ("less trouble" or "less time"). However, this is not a strict rule and there are accepted instances of less being used with countable amounts such as "250 words or less," "3 items or less," and especially with money ("less than $20") and distance ("less than 3 miles"). Note that in all these cases, the things considered are often thought of as amounts rather than numbers.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/...

"38,000 mentions", so "less" is appropriate.

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Prathas 4 points 21 days ago

Well, they should be "fewer."

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DamienGramatacus 1 point 21 days ago

I thought it was, one less and two fewer.

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underscore_ 1 point 20 days ago

Also “fewer times/occurrences” vs “less often/frequently”

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starlinguk 0 points 21 days ago

It is absolutely a strict rule and Merriam Webster can fuck right off.

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Fmstrat 2 points 20 days ago

An entire Wikipedia page exists on this due to the evolution of use. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fewer_versus_less

Even Tesco avoided using "fewer" to keep from getting stuck in this debate.

The rule may have been codified in the 1700s, but plenty of linguistic shifts have occurred since then.

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some_kind_of_guy 0 points 20 days ago

*führer

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melsaskca 19 points 21 days ago

The "files" from the "Trump/Epstein" files are mostly MP4 files yet they throw written documents out there as if it is 1950. Don't fool yourself for a second, they videotaped most of that crap that was going on.

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saimen 4 points 21 days ago

Source?

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davepleasebehave 6 points 20 days ago

the amount of data indicates this. there would not big amounts of data if it were just emails and messages.

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pelespirit 3 points 21 days ago path: 0 25035122 25035944 25038435, hotness: undefined, score: 3, children: 0
ContactClosure 2 points 20 days ago

Epstein himself said he videotaped everything. Now why would a narcissist take orders from the leader of another country? What kind of absolute leverage would cause that? Tapes. Of unspeakable horrors.

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melsaskca 0 points 20 days ago

I cite bloody common sense as my most trusted source.

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Kolanaki 15 points 20 days ago

The only one I can't believe is the stars you can see with your naked eye.

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badmancrooks 9 points 20 days ago

The answer is actually stunningly low, 2-3000, max 10,000. The orange pedophile is mentioned 38,000 times over 3.5 million pages.

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vegafjord 4 points 20 days ago

Probably made by somebody from the city.

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WanderWisley 15 points 21 days ago

Yes, yes, yes, but what about Fauci pleading the fifth about Covid huh liberals?

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MacNCheezus 2 points 20 days ago

How is that relevant to the topic?

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bufalo1973 3 points 20 days ago

It isn't and that's the point.

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chiliedogg 1 point 20 days ago

I don't get why he pled the fifth.

It's not like they kicked his lawyer out of the building while trying to manipulate him into saying something they could stretch into justifications to prosecute him, right?

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Danarchy 12 points 21 days ago

Ok but there’s only one species of bird and that’s “bird” dumbass

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mnemonicmonkeys 6 points 21 days ago

False. Birds aren't real.

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Danarchy 2 points 21 days ago

THANK YOU

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Prathas 1 point 21 days ago path: 0 25027666 25029949 25036118, hotness: undefined, score: 1, children: 0
ehyuman 1 point 21 days ago

no way

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HCSOThrowaway 4 points 21 days ago

In the words of a "totally-not-Republican" person I know (who identifies as "far-right"):

"I'm not saying I would have the man over for dinner."

Obviously I was taken aback and have yet to come up with a response that I believe they would find convincing in demonstrating Trump should not be in the White House, even years later.

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ThatGuy46475 4 points 22 days ago

Is that the number of stars over the course of a year or at any given time

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Mouselemming 12 points 21 days ago

From the article linked by MML:

You might be in for a surprise when you read it, though. To answer the question, "How many stars in the sky?" The total comes to 9,096 stars visible across the entire sky. Both hemispheres. Since we can only see half the celestial sphere at any moment, we necessarily divide that number by two to arrive at 4,548 stars (give or take depending on the season). And that's from the darkest sky you can imagine. I don't know about you, but that number seems paltry to one's impression of an inky night in the backcountry.

At the poles, where the north and south polestars are pinned to the zenith and no stars rise or set, the same ~4,500 stars are visible every single clear night of the year. At northern mid-latitudes, the pole star is halfway up in the northern sky, allowing us to peer deeper into the southern realms of the celestial sphere. During the course of a year from latitude 45° north, we see roughly half again as many stars as we do at a particular time on a given evening. That tallies up to approximately 6,800 stars. Still pretty lean, but apparently enough to convey the impression of an intensely starry sky.

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FreshParsnip 3 points 21 days ago

Well, Jesus' name only appears in the new testament, which is less than half the Bible

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Funkt4st1c 3 points 21 days ago

Yeah but youll note that people tend to say the Bible is about jesus, or that hes the main character

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FreshParsnip 2 points 21 days ago

Well technically Jesus is God. But the name God appears way more often in the Bible than Jesus. The only book in the Bible that doesn't directly mention him is Esther

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