Yeah, I wish they'd made the second graph show percentage point difference instead of percentage growth.
skisnow
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[Israeli public broadcaster] "A boycott may begin today with Israel, but no one knows where it will end or who else it may harm."
If that's what they're leading with, it shows how weak the rest of their defence is.
(also, am I being cynical, or is "who knows where it will end" meant to be lowkey invoking the you-know-what?)
Instinctively I feel like doing that is a bad idea, since it makes it easier for scammers to create documents that have the feel of authority when trying to con people.
How is using the default font wasteful? Apart from anything else I'm pretty sure it uses less ink.
"been understood to" is doing a lot of shady sleight-of-hand there.
“laughable,” arguing that you can’t declare the majority of Americans impoverished because the suburbs they choose to live in are expensive, which is what Green did when he used the middle class suburb of Caldwell, New Jersey, as his median.
Yeah you're right, this is verging on dishonest. The whole point of him picking Caldwell, NJ was to find an extremely median place to live and avoid accusations of cherry-picking San Francisco or Manhattan prices. Essex county is 13th out of 21 counties in NJ for income, NJ is the 11th largest state by population. I'm sure you could find something more mundane, but not that would affect the final numbers to any significant degree unless you were cherry-picking in the other direction.
Sure there's lots of states with much lower property values, but you have to weight it based on where people actually live. Telling poor people to move to Buttfuck, ID and get a job there instead doesn't work.
ISTG there are more commenters up in here who obviously didn't read the article than ones who did.
The phrase "is linked to" should be a massive red flag.
If it was smuggling Iranian oil it would say, "is smuggling Iranian oil", not "is linked to smuggling Iranian oil".
until this administration is long gone
Based on past performance, the next Democrat administration will repeal maybe 50% of these changes at most.
Did you read the text? She told him she was 14. This isn't one of those "hey it's legal in my state" cases.
If it's only morons that use it "wrong", then it does indeed become right, but still gains the added subtext of "by the way I'm also a moron"
I'm reading this after coming from a thread in which people were mocking or handwringing over an article that suggested the official poverty line was unrealistically low.