[Comics] XKCD chart
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Jesus fuck what.
I would create a Venn Diagram with two circles "Funny Webcomics" and "XKCD" and the two circles would never touch
GasBandit
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STFU Charlie
Heh, I wish I had a nickel for every time I've seen THAT posted in a thread.
That particular XKCD is not intended to be funny (though it has fun elements interspersed). Also, I would think Charlie would appreciate the many messages that can be gleaned from that infographic.
There are multiple typos, I think.
I actually looked at the chart, know it's not supposed to be funny, but I just can't resist taking a potshot at XKCD.
Waste of ammunition if you can't hit the target, dude.
Necronic
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I actually like the presentation quite a bit, except for the bit on taxes, I still can't figure out what all the groupings are for.
GasBandit
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I wish I could remember who you are, so I can remember if you being a dipshit is a new thing or not.
ElJuski
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My being a dipshit is older than the sands of time, old friend.
Isn't he Juski?
I didn't know it was "being a dipshit" to dislike something
ALSO I'm fairly certain I've seen something like this before, but presented in a better way. I wish I could remember where.
ALSO I'm fairly certain I've seen something like this before, but presented in a better way. I wish I could remember where.
Necronic
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The major groupings are orders of magnitude, but there's something in the tax section that looks different.
Notice that the shaded levels come in from the left side, while taxes cut in from the right? The shaded levels denote the proportion of each tier (starting on the left side) which would be required to be left untouched by taxes (which roll in from the right) in order to give the average family in that tier the "take-home" income stated (22350/44700/etc). If the taxes take too big of a bite out of that right side (ie, if they overlap the designated income border), then that means there is not enough TOTAL money in that quantile to theoretically give every family in that quantile the income stated (if split equally among all families in that quantile, that is).
What he's basically saying is that the bottom 20% earns an amount of money amongst all of them such that, if pooled together, there would be enough for every family to have a poverty-line income ($22,350/yr) after taxes, but there is not enough total money for everyone in the bottom 20% to have the $44700/yr which is his next graduation. If his scale is to be believed (that is, if his little yellow money blocks are accurate), then the total amount of the bottom quantile, if split evenly, would give each family (that's each family, not each person) about $28,100/yr after taxes (if we eliminate the taxes portion, it looks like there's about 13.6 columns of yellow blocks out of 17.1 total columns, so 17.1/13.6*22,350=28,100). So basically the bottom 20% are just completely hosed if they want to live any sort of a meaningful lifestyle.
--Patrick
What he's basically saying is that the bottom 20% earns an amount of money amongst all of them such that, if pooled together, there would be enough for every family to have a poverty-line income ($22,350/yr) after taxes, but there is not enough total money for everyone in the bottom 20% to have the $44700/yr which is his next graduation. If his scale is to be believed (that is, if his little yellow money blocks are accurate), then the total amount of the bottom quantile, if split evenly, would give each family (that's each family, not each person) about $28,100/yr after taxes (if we eliminate the taxes portion, it looks like there's about 13.6 columns of yellow blocks out of 17.1 total columns, so 17.1/13.6*22,350=28,100). So basically the bottom 20% are just completely hosed if they want to live any sort of a meaningful lifestyle.
--Patrick
GasBandit
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Ah, yes. "El Juski." We have dismissed that claim.
He didn't say "I dislike XKCD. He said it was, and I quote,
Also, STFU Charlie
xkcd warms gasbandits dusty ol' butthole
GasBandit
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Pardon me while I massage the bridge of my nose a second, before I calmly remind you that you are, in fact, BOTH ten pounds of shit in a five pound bag, and a sniveling hedge-born mental defective.
STFU Charlie
/Cynical Bastard One-Legged Tiny Tim mode: On.
STFU, every one!
STFU, every one!
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