> In my 50 or so years of studying mathematics, I've never encountered "geometric growth", but often have met "exponential growth". So that's one small bit of evidence that if you want to sound like most mathematicians, you should use "exponential growth."
Remember when at the beginning of the pandemic we heard officials use the weirdo term “logarithmic spread”? I think folks with at least a little bit of knowledge have been so scarred by folks using "exponentially" to mean something non-mathematical like "explosively" that they’re bending over backwards not to mention “exponential growth” even when they should.
@PrivatePansy more like scrolling through parler datadumps
Also, it was quite weird to heard Belgian journalists pronounce Parler like it was the French verb for "To speak", instead of pronouncing it like the English word Parlor. Makes it sound way more fancy than it is.
> US District Judge Drew Tipton, an appointee of former President Donald Trump in the Southern District of Texas, issued a temporary restraining order that blocks the policy nationwide for 14 days following a legal challenge filed by Texas.
> Tipton said the Biden administration had failed “to provide any concrete, reasonable justification for a 100-day pause on deportations”.
It's a good thing Trump always provides a reasons for everything he did. Oh wait.
@Nzall That was how it was supposed to be pronounced but they gave up because obviously the type of people signing up there weren't going to say it that way
> The Acting Secretary of Homeland Security has issued a National Terrorism Advisory System (NTAS) Bulletin due to a heightened threat environment across the United States, which DHS believes will persist in the weeks following the successful Presidential Inauguration.
> Information suggests that some ideologically-motivated violent extremists with objections to the exercise of governmental authority and the presidential transition, as well as other perceived grievances fueled by false narratives, could continue to mobilize to incite or commit violence.
Ah, now we have a term for them, not sure if this is new, but its the first time I've heard it:
> Throughout 2020, Domestic Violent Extremists (DVEs) targeted individuals with opposing views engaged in First Amendment-protected, non-violent protest activity. DVEs motivated by a range of issues, including anger over COVID-19 restrictions, the 2020 election results, and police use of force have plotted and on occasion carried out attacks against government facilities.
they're trying to be like "hey we need more resources to uh, handle the guys who are out here posting about how they were in the capitol" but literally do not fall for it
because what they're actually going to do is listed in item #3 of that last sentence posted in here
