913
Sorry bout your heart
(discuss.online)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 30 Jun 2025
913 points (98.0% liked)
Microblog Memes
8566 readers
1001 users here now
A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.
Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.
Rules:
- Please put at least one word relevant to the post in the post title.
- Be nice.
- No advertising, brand promotion or guerilla marketing.
- Posters are encouraged to link to the toot or tweet etc in the description of posts.
Related communities:
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
% per 100k? This person is making a valid point, but it's undermined somewhat by the fact they've clearly fucked up something.
According to this, per 10,000 people:
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/homelessness-by-country
That's what I figured they meant.
Yeah, but those other stats are raw numbers. Okay, we have a higher number of unhoused people and food-insecure people, but we also have a higher number of people, period. If you wanna make a point, it has to be per capita. I like how the first stat got this right, but the others did not.
Ya might be a good point but it’s a distracting mess
Thankfully we already know a little bit about both of our situations so we get the gist
US population: ~350M Japan population: ~125M
Not even 3x as much.
You're not wrong. I'm just saying, if you want to make that point, you should compare per capita.
.2% per year? So we should expect about 10% of people to be murdered by 50?
I was going to say .2% is better than I thought, but that’s pretty dire.
0.2 people, not percentage. That was what they were trying to straighten out because percent per 100k doesn't make sense.
Eh, the population difference is less than one order of magnitude and the difference in homelessness is two orders of magnitude.
It's not about that, it's about "% per 100k" making no sense as a unit. It's either just %, or an absolute number per 100k. Mixing both together like this makes it seem like you've clearly messed something up and don't quite understand what you're actually talking about.
Literally 5.7 per 100 per 100,000.
Neither had cake nor ate it