Not everyone lives in oceanside windows. Out of those who have looked at one they don’t necessarily know that’s an oil tanker; if it’s through a beach, it’s too distant (and likely heatwaved) to perceive something different with the deck at first sight, and at closer ranges I used to think they were just empty cargo ships “and of course the decks are so high up because the ship is floating higher up because it’s lighter”. Working with content who’ve never been on a ship they think there’s nothing beneath the deck except what makes it float.

There’s also the assumption that one wouldn’t think “it’s probably a different kind of oil tanker I haven’t seen since it ‘obviously’ says gasoline”. “What the fuck is an MMBtu?” Something related to gasoline, of course. Hindsight is not first sight.

Most US people are profoundly ignorant about energy infrastructure other than coal plants exist and the US relies on fossil fuels and you put petrol in your car. Just because you remember a great education doesn’t mean others remember their bad education. Ask someone outside of the energy and environmental subject what they learned in Earth Science (sorry if I got the subject name wrong) other than the different types of rocks, tectonics, and what the weather really is.

it just means they have zero standing to complain

An infographic’s purpose is to communicate to the uninitiated, not preach to the choir. This is just a single word that artificially limits its target audience and frankly I don’t see why we’re arguing so pointedly about it.

the reader would need to be willfully obtuse to construe the graphic to be about electric cars

I didn’t think it was about cars either, but I still think it’s plausible enough that one in a hundred could mistake it, and that is my point.

P.S.: Kudos for the diaeresis.

If you’re just gleaning it in a hurry, you miss the relatively fine print from “LNG” to “55%”. Selecting font sizes to emphasize the most important information, and being understandable by an uninformed audience base (think social media), is absolutely fundamental to infographics.

the comparison would be nonsense because electric cars pull from the grid, not pure solar.

Not necessarily. Quite a lot of solar installation companies like Tesla’s popular roof-like tiles push self-sufficiency for some reason. My guess is to sell batteries. Anyways, even without that, your petrol bill’s still a useful visualization for how much more economic solar is

anyone who’s seen a crude oil tanker

MMBtu

gas plant

https://xkcd.com/2501/

In Yankee places “gas” means “gasoline” so I’d blame the infographic for saying “gas imports” instead of “natural gas imports” if it’s supposed to target the country that uses the most natural gas

well that’s the proportion that thinks it’s wrong, not the proportion that thinks it should be criminalized. one reason is what you’ve pointed out in your first paragraph.

and even this statistic comes with a caveat. according to https://thebetterindia.com/134673/survey-nfhs-marital-rape-india/, it’s 42%, which places only 58% of men as against marital rape. that is a majority but it’s not what i’d call a “vast” majority at all. it seems plausible that at least 50% could be against criminalization if 42% don’t even think it’s morally wrong. (interestingly, 52% of women don’t think it’s morally wrong either.)

the point is that a lot of these examples of similar severity that happen to women would get rallying and protests from time to time, yet the MRA movement doesn’t say a word when these examples of patriarchy hurt men

school bullying and blue-collar work forcing definitely discriminate against men. there’s similar issues that also affect women, one prominent one being (generally white-collar) workplace discrimination

the vast majority of men are in favor of criminalizing rape of any kind

not in India, where this comic’s from

this one’s the size of a shipping container so it seems more believable. improvised solar stills give you 2L per square meter per day iirc

I mostly agree, but Tom’s/the reporter didn’t vibe the product. Ze reviewed something someone else vibed.

you can’t buy an iPad without a touchscreen. your argument feels like arguing that tariffs won’t affect consumers because they’re paid by the importers

fair point. I feel about this the same way though, because both are the consequences of events that should not have ever happened in the first place

one could argue it’s the fault of capitalism that his support system is so bad that he only trusts going to a borrow pit to let out his depression from his breakup

the horror of being trapped in mud like that

on that note:

The Copyright Office has separately rejected bids by artists for copyrights on images generated by the AI system Midjourney. Those artists argued that ⁠they were entitled to copyrights for images they created with AI assistance - unlike Thaler, who said his system created “A ‌Recent Entrance to Paradise” independently.

The Florida news outlet WCJB reported a statement from Vulcan, which praised its team for having “handled a trespassing situation with care and compassion shepherding first responders to a man who was in distress”.

my goodness, this is probably the first accident rescue post I’ve seen that’s also OrphanCrushingMachine

google APL

(FWIW, it says lead emissions dropped the IQ of those affected by 2.6 points on average, not the average intelligence which has not dropped.)

There’s five more years before she gets a bachelor’s degree (grad research school requirements), and by then it’s quite likely funding’ll be restored.

that was the opposite of what i meant; sorry i was unclear. when I said “how would it possibly be bad in factors other than efficacy, like BetterHelp was due to data nightmares and advertising a different mechanism” i meant that BetterHelp had many reasons it was bad other than efficacy like data nightmares and advertising a different mechanism, and asked how the tetris treatment would replicate BetterHelp’s notorious woes

i have never supported or defended BetterHelp

it’s not too limited just to assess general efficacy either