• MudMan@kbin.social
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    10 months ago

    Alright, no offense, but that has to be the least useful visualization of a billion I’ve ever come across. I already have to do the math every time I want to calculate how many minutes there are in a day and you want to use the number of seconds in 32 years as a reference?

    “If you put it all in one dollar bills it would weigh ten tons”. There. Fixed. You immediately picture it now.
    In pound coins it’d be 8750 tons, which is not quite as intuitive, but it’s a lot heavier, so it still has an impact, I suppose. That’s about as heavy as a small battleship, if that helps.

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        10 months ago

        The fun part about that one is that Bezos himself is now reported at about one third more than reported in that video, so… that pile is too small now.

        But also, if you’re gonna use visual aids that’s cheating.

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          10 months ago

          If anyone ever wanted evidence that humans are too stupid to survive 1000 more years, they should read your comments.

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            10 months ago

            Yeah, I think I’m exposing your stupidy pretty effectively, right? I’m killing it with the visualizations today.

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              10 months ago

              “hey I agree with your point entirely but you’re fucking stupid. This other completely subjective way of saying your point is infinitely better even though it’s incredibly easy to find issues with! I’m way better at communicating than you, despite the fact that it takes two seconds to find and point out the flaws in my communication”