Du weißt doch, Deutschlandtempo und so.

Ok ja ist passt, es gefällt! 😎

Sieht ganz schön aus! Eine feddit-Referenz passt nicht drauf, oder?

Waah ich hab’s verpasst, meine -42 Tabs tauchen in der Statistik nicht auf 🙈 hammer Auswertung! 🔨

Absolutely gorgeous, thanks for sharing!

Größter Schock meines Lebens war beim Dönermann im Pott: „Kräutersoße haben wir nicht, willst du Tzatziki?“ Musste notgedrungen auf Currywurst umgleisen 😖

So fluffy 😍

🥳🍾

I am a bit too dumb to understand that graph and asked ai for an explanation. It helped me, maybe it also helps others:

This graph comes from a study by Gilens and Page that examines how different groups influence U.S. policy decisions. It has three separate charts, each showing how policy adoption (whether a policy is enacted) relates to the preferences of different groups:

1 Average Citizens’ Preferences (top chart)

2 Economic Elites’ Preferences (middle chart)

3 Interest Group Alignments (bottom chart)

Breaking It Down:

• X-axis:

• In the first two graphs, it represents how much each group supports a policy (from 0% to 100%).

• In the third graph (Interest Groups), the x-axis shows alignment, with negative values meaning opposition and positive values meaning support.

• Y-axis:

• The left y-axis (dark line) shows the predicted probability of a policy being adopted.

• The right y-axis (gray bars) shows how often different levels of support occur in the data (percentage of cases).

Key Takeaways & Surprises:

1 The top chart (Average Citizens) is nearly a flat line.

• This means that whether the general public strongly supports or opposes a policy has little impact on whether it gets adopted.

2 The middle chart (Economic Elites) has a rising curve.

• This suggests that policies supported by the wealthy have a much higher chance of being adopted.

3 The bottom chart (Interest Groups) also shows a strong upward trend.

• The more interest groups align in favor of a policy, the more likely it is to be adopted.

Big Picture:

This graph suggests that the opinions of average citizens have little to no effect on policy decisions, while economic elites and interest groups have significant influence. This challenges the idea that the U.S. operates as a true democracy where the will of the majority decides policy.

Hard to compete with that 90s confidence 😎

„It‘s totally a lot smarter than I am, no way could I deliver (234 * 534)^21 as confidently!“

I want those fuckers powering little submarines that fight cancer cells right now - but realistically speaking, these microcontrollers would need to be at least one order two order of magnitude smaller for that, no?

Ich will nicht lügen, das ist ein ziemlich mieses Maimai. Aber auf die Aussage können wir uns einigen 🤝

Tanz in den Fünfhundertdrei!

Fick ja!

bedankt!

Ya interesting, your theory of mind checks out for me. I'm not "rich" as in "I have significant capital", but I'm certainly more "rich" than "poor". So yes, I don't notice it when I pay ~30EUR per month for a newspaper.

Are there any independent newspapers in your country? I Germany, there's taz, a daily newspaper that is owned by a cooperative. They certainly don't give a shit about the rich & powerful's opinion - for example, they publicly pissed off the editor-in-chief of Germany's biggest and most-powerful news corporation, Springer, just for the sake of free speech. Would you be willing to give money to that kind of newspaper?

Zu sehen ist richtig mies-böses Bubatz, dessen Trichome vor Harz nur so triefen.

I see your opinion, I’m curious to hear how you think about the media’s role in society. Journalists work at newspapers and they need to pay rent. A stance “paywalls are paid for by the rich and the stupid” kinda means that one doesn’t want to pay journalists.

I am genuinely curious about your perspective on this. Would you prefer a world without newspapers? Or is it more of a question of money? When I was younger, I didn’t have the money to pay for newspapers. Nowadays, I’m happy to pay for newspapers that interest me.

Every time someone pointed out they hate groups of people, in arbitrary subcategories, they got downvoted.

There, I fixed that for you.