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  • I think in culinary terms garlic is most often used as a spice. Garlic powder would firmly fit the definition but might get more murky if you made a garlic dish (for example roasted garlic and potatoes).

    I gotta say I also use to hell out of some garlic. If the recipe calls for like 1 clove I’m gonna be like I think you mean 5.














  • Yep they actively campaigned against the petition and fundamentally misrepresented it.

    10 months ago PirateSoftware started a campaign against it starting here-ish: https://youtu.be/ioqSvLqB46Y

    Also 10 months Asmongold did a react video that supported PirateSoftware: https://youtu.be/AhVsyhjcndw

    PirateSoftware refused to acknowledge that he got several things wrong, and even refused to acknowledge it when confronted. He actively bans people with dissenting opinions in his stream so it wasn’t surprising that he refused to acknowledge that he was wrong. About a week ago Charlie (aka Penguinz0) confronted him about it and he still refused respond to basic factual inaccuracies: https://youtu.be/6sJpTCitKqw

    Ross did a video talking about the whole thing last week as well: https://youtu.be/HIfRLujXtUo

    There’s a lot more to it, but that’s the broad strokes. I hope PirateSoftware’s stream keeps declining until he is relegated to complete obscurity. Also, PirateSoftware can eat my entire ass.




  • Felt the same way about GTA. I don’t think the story is supposed to be serious though, but it certainly is disjointed and not very compelling.

    Have you ever play the Mafia games? Those games felt like a much better story with the right mix of city destroying chaos. Not quite as open as GTA, but I don’t really think that’s a bad thing. I really enjoyed 3 despite the missions being fairly repetitive. There’s just something about running around killing the Klan that just doesn’t get old to me.



  • Link to the data, a source of the infograph, or something that can get me to interpret what I’m actually looking at. I tried to figure out where it came from and can’t find it. I don’t see how a wiki link to “The Electoral College” even begins to explain this infograph, and I think it’s weird that you think it does.

    Electoral votes are winner take all with the exception of Maine and Nebraska. With that in mind there should only be a maximum of 4 colors for all of these maps. Since they are using shades we are led to believe that it is a proportion of population. If it is in fact using electoral college votes than these maps highly manipulative.

    The details are basically unreadable from how shitty this version of the infograph is. From what I can tell there’s 4 different legends that are unique to each map. The colors, at least according to what I can read on the legend, only convey what each state is named and how many electoral votes each state has. That may not be the case, but it’s impossible to tell since it’s basically unreadable. The legends also appear to be different on the last map than they are on the first 3 maps. Again, I can’t tell exactly because it’s basically unreadable on every map.

    There’s no way to tell what the hell the data means other than someone pasting big bold titles. The fact that the titles don’t appear to be displayed consistently and they cut out a dropdown on the left seems weird as hell. I have no way of telling what those selections were even within the tool they were using. Which seems like an odd bit of information to exclude.

    Which brings me back to the most important point, there’s no readable citation. All of these are cleared up with a citation to a source. The data could in fact be genuinely displaying what it’s made out to convey, but I can’t possibly tell that without looking at the source of the data, checking what/where the data came from, and then recreating these maps in whatever tool they used. A citation would at least be step 1 to make this infograph anything other than weird propaganda.