I'm guessing they mean 'half of 145%', but yeah that headline is a hot mess.
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Posting it without comment or indication that it's misleading is treating it as reliable, or at least as reliable as any other news article posted here.
Obviously Trump is a fire hose of bullshit that is not shy about spewing bullshit, but if you just drop stuff here without comment we have no choice but to assume that it should be given the same weight as any other article. 'Do your homework' applies to both the poster and the reader.
One of my favorite movies of all time. Too bad I will miss it.
Seems like that's a good time to go 'Oh, maybe we should change it to say 11 then'.
Unless there are 3 of them hiding behind that machine, that looks like 11 to me?
Yes, I too am aware that people often misuse words. It might be safe to assume that the guy who just demonstrated that he knows how to operate a dictionary probably isn't one of them though. Especially if you had read my comment that they were replying to, because then you would have seen that the nation I was calling an authoritarian regime (in fact, a 'whole-ass authoritarian regime') was Nazi Germany, so I don't think we were in any danger of not labeling Western colonial powers as authoritarian in this thread.
YSK: The Guardian became the first major newspaper in Australia and Britain to ban all gambling ads.
Nah, it's more that the answer to 'why is doing this?' is virtually always 'because money'. People forget that sometimes.
It's weird to juggle anywhere, but you shouldn't let that stop you cause everybody's weird in some way or another and that's fine. A park seems like as good a place as any.
Hmm, obvious troll is obvious. My apologies for assuming that you were merely confused rather than confused and malicious. I won't make that mistake again.
Here's a tip: don't shove that phone in my face unless you want it smashed.
Joining a book and 2 movie clubs was one of the best things I've done in recent years. The book club sadly fizzled cause people didn't have time, but we have a bi-weekly movie club where we pick complex, difficult movies and talk about their themes and such, and a monthly kung-fu movie night where we just hang out and watch silly movies, and they're the highlight of my online week.
Bill Gates has a net worth of ~$168 billion. Even if this isn't just PR intended to launder his image, even if he does in fact give away 99% of that, it will still leave him with $1.68 billion dollars. Even if he ups that to 99.99% that'll still leave him with $16.8 million, which is still rich by anyone's measure. Bill Gates' idea of 'not dying rich' is radically different than yours or mine; he was never not going to die rich.