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[–] 5 points 2 months ago

Good thing the president of that country is hyper focused on pissing contests.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    I absolutely love the silly measuring systems the American media use to compare things. Is this Dodger Stadium full just in the seats? Stacked kids? Full to the roof of kids?

    I understand that 300k can be tough to conceive, but who even knows how many people fit in this one specific stadium?

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Worst one I saw was an article about a large cruise ship and they had an infographic that showed the number of city busses, brontosauruses and redwood trees if laid side by side it would take to equal the ship.

    The busses were like 30...which makes it tough to conceive in and of themselves. They also operate on land so a strange choice.

    Nothing more helpful to contextualize relative size than something 65 million years removed from anyone using its size for comparison.

    Since redwood trees are generally vertical, a helpful choice.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    That's the stadium of the big baseball team in California, the target audience of the article. They play in LA, the biggest metro area in the state, so quite a few people in the target audience would be somewhat familiar with it.

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    [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    This must mean UCLA is going to reduce tuition And student housing costs?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    These are elementary school students, which makes this even worse. I live in Los Angeles and I am disgusted the way this state allows this to continue. The funny thing, the politicians refuse to count how many empty homes there are. All these virtuous Democrats would hate to have anything happen to their precious property values.

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