Brick Fight Posted April 9, 2016 Report Share Posted April 9, 2016 I didn't want to start a new thread, so I'm shoehorning this in here. You should not believe a single thing 60 minutes has to say about derivatives because of one crucial error they make at 8:06. In this they claim that the size of the market of derivatives was 50 trillion dollars in 2008, which is about the same size as the gross world product of that year. That's self-evidently absurd. I saw a similar figure around 2010 at the time that seemed like it was fuzzy math that did things like just purely add figures from Collateralized Debt Obligations and Credit Default Swaps, so in essence doubling their math in some areas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostCosmonaut Posted April 12, 2016 Report Share Posted April 12, 2016 This is magical; http://tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belesarius Posted April 13, 2016 Report Share Posted April 13, 2016 http://breakingdefense.com/2016/04/breathless-british-tabloid-report-leaves-v-22-insiders-cackling/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted May 16, 2016 Report Share Posted May 16, 2016 Scolopax and Priory_of_Sion 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronezhilet Posted May 16, 2016 Report Share Posted May 16, 2016 I actually had to Google what is wrong with that... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted May 16, 2016 Report Share Posted May 16, 2016 We've apparently begun smuggling out shipments of a new drug called "marjijuana" as well. Sturgeon 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted May 16, 2016 Report Share Posted May 16, 2016 Just be glad you haven't started exporting the most dangerous drug, margeijuana:(The sad thing is, when I googled "marge simpson pot", I got a selection of images like this.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donward Posted May 16, 2016 Report Share Posted May 16, 2016 Why does USA TODAY TODAY TODAY think that Colorado is gender identifying as Wyoming and smuggling marijuana to other states? I'm not the only person to have caught this error in geography, am I? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khand-e Posted May 16, 2016 Report Share Posted May 16, 2016 Also, why would Washington D.C. need Colorado Weed when Recreational Marijuana is legalized in the capital? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted May 16, 2016 Report Share Posted May 16, 2016 Why does USA TODAY TODAY TODAY think that Colorado is gender identifying as Wyoming and smuggling marijuana to other states? I'm not the only person to have caught this error in geography, am I? No, you're not. Although for anyone who hasn't lived there, they are both rectangles... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted May 27, 2016 Report Share Posted May 27, 2016 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted May 27, 2016 Report Share Posted May 27, 2016 ... common belief, except among paleobotanists who note that there were mass die-offs of terrestrial plants and goddamn phytoplankton and benthic microorganisms. You know, the same benthic microoganisms that made the chalky deposits for which the Cretaceous is named. Where did you find this nonsense? T___A 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted May 27, 2016 Report Share Posted May 27, 2016 Facebook. Sort of like seal-clubbing, I know, but c'mon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted July 20, 2016 Report Share Posted July 20, 2016 DailyFail Fails Squared: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnsignExpendable Posted July 29, 2016 Report Share Posted July 29, 2016 hurrrrrrrr T___A, Priory_of_Sion, AdmiralTheisman and 4 others 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belesarius Posted July 29, 2016 Report Share Posted July 29, 2016 hurrrrrrrr For giggles, I replied to the tweet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted July 30, 2016 Report Share Posted July 30, 2016 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostCosmonaut Posted July 30, 2016 Report Share Posted July 30, 2016 Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect and Xlucine 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted October 26, 2016 Report Share Posted October 26, 2016 Politicians aren't people, again. Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted November 4, 2016 Report Share Posted November 4, 2016 Bay of Pigs was the CIA's fault? Maybe not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted November 11, 2016 Report Share Posted November 11, 2016 PBS Space Time does a good job of correctly explaining new astronomical data, contrary to most media outlets: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted November 25, 2016 Report Share Posted November 25, 2016 So Gazeta.ru Deputy Director wrote an "article" where she criticized that during Victory Parade S-400 system was shown, claiming that it was used to bomb villages in Syria and Chechnya. Zyklon and Collimatrix 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrashbotUS Posted November 25, 2016 Report Share Posted November 25, 2016 Flying cities I assume? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostCosmonaut Posted November 28, 2016 Report Share Posted November 28, 2016 Lord_James, Zyklon, Vanagandr and 3 others 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Priory_of_Sion Posted November 28, 2016 Author Report Share Posted November 28, 2016 Alright WaPo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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