President Donald Trump on Thursday announced a new round of punishing tariffs, saying the United States will impose a 100% tariff on imported branded drugs, 25% tariff on imports of all heavy-duty trucks and 50% tariffs on kitchen cabinets.

Trump also said he would start charging a 30% tariff on upholstered furniture next week.

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    6 days ago

    Yeah, but you can’t Gauge everything that way…

    Or bleach… we should have great information on the maximum amount of ordinary household bleach that a human being can drink at this point.

    To google scholar mobile chum!

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      With observational incident reports you can only get a list of symptoms and a very rough range of exposure. If you want something more detailed than that, you need a proper LD50 study.

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        5 days ago

        That’s fair. Not being an actual sciencer, approximately how many anit-vaxers would I need to deliver? Like you can probably round to the nearest truckload or something like that.

        I think I’m gonna go somewhere and find a new edge to lord over. Maybe even touch some grass… This is getting far too close to history :-(

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          A good rule of thumb in statistics is that a sample size of about 30 will give you some idea of the standard deviation. Anything less than that, and your analysis is on shaky ground. In logistics terms, all you need to get started is just one truck load of anti-vaxxers.

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            I think that truckload should be the new standard unit for ~30 anit-vaxxers.

            I propose the we call it T sub L as a challenge to the poor folks still trying to write Fediverse mobile clients ;-)

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              How about we just call it “The Standard Unit” and choose U its symbol. You know, just to mess around with all the other “units” we have for everything. I’m looking at you, Enzyme unit, in particular. Also, the “Astronomical Unit” was a pretty obnoxious name too, so points for that.

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                1 day ago

                That one kills me… I couldn’t even get U400 or however it goes. My doctors all blew off their chemistry prerequisites so they couldn’t fathom another human being keeping track of different concentrations.

                Pens designed so a literal blind person can work it out by shape :-(

                Ah well… it just adds to my country’s rich history of nonsensical metrics.