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[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 9 hours ago
[–] TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zip 60 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Also a negative percent change from previous year is a wild thing to try and visualize as being bigger than the previous year but ok.

[–] gbzm@piefed.social 15 points 1 day ago

It's ok: you only get this value every two years. That way, even though it's a decrease from the previous year you have actually no idea whether the figure is higher than two years before

[–] kboy101222@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh my God I didn't even notice that... Wtf

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 day ago

Gotta make sure everyone is still angry about the kids smoking the devil's lettuce. Dropping numbers are highly inconvenient when you're trying to rile people up.

See also: crime statistics.

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 day ago

What. the. fuck.

I think this graph just gave me a migraine.

[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 28 points 1 day ago (2 children)

So to be clear: there is no correlation between weed use and hotdog use, other than that they're both in decline. This means that they created this graph showing two unrelated datasets for no reason other than that they could. Or, maybe, because they wanted to use the cursed image of a spliff in a hotdog bun.

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

THC makes you hungry, and hungry people eat hot dogs. Checkmate, atheist!

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago

With THC everything seems more edible than it really is, even Hot Dogs.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago

I imagine they're trying to push an agenda of some sort

[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 day ago

This graph is such an awful data visualization that it's almost art

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

I don't see the problem.

*exhales* Anybody else wanna hit this shit? It's so good.

[–] kat_angstrom@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

I understand everything about this except why it exists in the first place.

[–] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 3 points 1 day ago

Why so blunt?

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I agree with all the comments here, but also, now I'm craving hotdogs.

[–] fireweed@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

First glance def had me thinking this was gonna be tampon related

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I thought raw fish

[–] GaMEChld@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What the fuck is this data trying to say?

[–] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

Worst lunch ever.

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago

I'm considering applying this to my plant science research. In response to drought stress we observed that the tree became -3 smaller marijuana. Accelerometer data reflects the impact of this change in biomass, with hotdog levels variably +2 to +5. We demonstrate that as the tree becomes smaller marijuana it also becomes bigger hotdog.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago
[–] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

Thought it was showing a cutaway view of fingers playing barre chords

[–] Zyratoxx@fedia.io 1 points 1 day ago

~~marijuana~~ Sukuna's finger dog :3