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   picofarad (picofarad@noauthority.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Aug-2025 04:18:54 JST picofarad

   The "homicides are down 30% this year" report made a huge error. They shouldn't have said that.

   "this year" means "since trump became president" - not "30% year over year for the past 5 years"

   it means that anyone who wants to can correlate the 30% drop in homicides to *trump becoming president again*.

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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Monday, 25-Aug-2025 04:18:53 JST iced depresso

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     @picofarad is that what the report says or what the journo said.
     
     very often a scientist speaks with precision and the journo creases the papers a bit
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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Monday, 25-Aug-2025 04:41:22 JST iced depresso

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     @picofarad :neocat_magnify: yeah I have nothing to say about this
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     picofarad (picofarad@noauthority.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Aug-2025 04:41:24 JST picofarad

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     @icedquinn https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-homicides-down-2025-half

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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Monday, 25-Aug-2025 09:32:15 JST iced depresso

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     @picofarad texas senate claims 80% of republicans want a total weed ban. except none of the public survey orgs confirm that number.
     
     statistics is a lie factory.
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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Monday, 25-Aug-2025 09:32:17 JST iced depresso

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     @picofarad yeah when you said source was 'mayor' and the article didn't seem to link to an actual statatician i just shrugged.
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     picofarad (picofarad@noauthority.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Aug-2025 09:32:18 JST picofarad

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     @icedquinn https://noauthority.social/@picofarad/115085291128342933

     i meant to thread these, but didn't /shrug

     it isn't even the valid statistc, it's actually a 3% increase, not a 31% decrease. Lying with stats!

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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Monday, 25-Aug-2025 10:27:36 JST iced depresso

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     @picofarad the government doesn't take care of me so it should fuck off entirely when it comes to trying to be my dad :comfyshrug:
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     picofarad (picofarad@noauthority.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Aug-2025 10:27:37 JST picofarad

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     @icedquinn i used to care; i think it shouldn't be criminal to have plant material or derivatives. And i suppose the argument should be made that the state already extracts lots of vice tax, so why not on this stuff.

     However, i don't think it should be celebrated and sold at the corner store.

     i dunno, maybe i'm just getting old, and annoyed that i had to have a plug or connect whenever i wanted to partake.

     and my stupid ass state banned a tree leaf so /shrug

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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Monday, 25-Aug-2025 10:27:38 JST iced depresso

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     @picofarad other polls suggest 22-30% of republican voters want complete and total legalization so the numbers are obviously very swingy.
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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Monday, 25-Aug-2025 10:27:39 JST iced depresso

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     @picofarad i don't honestly know who they asked and if the methods were remotely scientific.
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     picofarad (picofarad@noauthority.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Aug-2025 10:27:41 JST picofarad

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     @icedquinn 80% of politician repulicans that don't own dispensaries i bet

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     Fish of Rage (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 25-Aug-2025 10:28:19 JST Fish of Rage

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     @icedquinn @picofarad it's even worse than that, there's a third guy, a headline editor, who often is even more dishonest than either of them
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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Monday, 25-Aug-2025 10:31:04 JST iced depresso

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     @sun @picofarad for a while i had a non-AI thing deal with that. it would use dragnet to extract text, then nltk to break sentences, and take the first 3 sentences which contained the most frequent words. and post the result to a mattermost room.
     
     completely obliterated headlines.
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