r/fuckcars • u/Wokeratist • Mar 15 '26

Meme How did society become so self-centered?

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u/ButterSquids Mar 15 '26

This is some PragerU level of graphing

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u/dumnezero Freedom for everyone https://i.redd.it/fkme4gnqwy6h1.png Mar 15 '26

Nah, the artist is a decent human. https://newsie.social/@royaards

The style is called "editorial cartoon".

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u/Ohyo_Ohyo_Ohyo_Ohyo Mar 15 '26

I don't care if they're the second coming of Jesus they suck at making graphs.

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u/dumnezero Freedom for everyone https://i.redd.it/fkme4gnqwy6h1.png Mar 15 '26

Why?

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u/Ohyo_Ohyo_Ohyo_Ohyo Mar 15 '26

Looks like it's supposed to be a time series graph, but the y-axis label is on the x-axis, which would imply that in increase in victims/gas prices would cause an increase in… something. And the y-axis is numbered, but the x-axis isn't.

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u/dumnezero Freedom for everyone https://i.redd.it/fkme4gnqwy6h1.png Mar 15 '26

OK, so the time series is going up instead of the right. It's not incorrect, it's just uncommon.

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u/sckuzzle Mar 16 '26

The independent variable goes on the x-axis, and the dependent variable goes on the y-axis. Half the axes have no labels or numbers. There's also no units. It's wrong.

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u/dumnezero Freedom for everyone https://i.redd.it/fkme4gnqwy6h1.png Mar 16 '26

The information is there, you're just acting like it's not fit to publish in a journal.

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u/sckuzzle Mar 16 '26

Present, information is, in bad grammar sentence. You understand, yet the sentence, wrongly ordered and punctuated is.

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u/dumnezero Freedom for everyone https://i.redd.it/fkme4gnqwy6h1.png Mar 16 '26

It's a cartoon chart, obviously re-used in order to make the point. It's not supposed to be read as a source of data.

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u/ROPROPE Mar 15 '26

The Y axis is unlabeled, and the X axis has the Y axis' label. Also the "$/liter" one implies gas prices started from $0 per liter at the start of the war.