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‘ICE Kidnapping’ Signs Are Popping Up Around D.C. —And the White House Is Freaking Out (mhtntimes.com)

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[–] theparadox@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

An incredibly convenient property of small numbers is that if you add a small number to a very small number, the % increase is orders of magnitude larger than both numbers combined and that looks very impressive when you are pretending to do statistics.

[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yes, that was the joke

[–] theparadox@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I was attempting to add to/build on the joke. Apologies if I came off as doing anything else.

[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 3 points 8 months ago

No worries, it read to me like you were explaining the bit without seeing the joke

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