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27 Nov, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Fascinating. When I first saw the "candle reviewers are complaining they have no smell" tweet a couple of days ago, I assumed it was either cherry-picked data or maybe someone pulling our legs. But these stats are ... kind of compelling.
It should be noted that the numbers in this particular chart are really small—it'd only take a few dozen "these candles have no smell!" to produce the results shown here.
But the drop-off we see here—in raw numbers of bad reviews for scented candles specifically, whether or not lack of smell is mentioned—look pretty dramatic, and involve a much larger sample.
So yeah, "undiagnosed Covid is making people get mad at scented-candle companies" feels a bit less urban-legendy to me than it did yesterday.

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You know what I wish? That people who felt compelled to make these pronouncements would make them in the first person, rather than the second. If you have a story about a Trump supporter in your life that YOU reached out to, Pete? Go ahead and tell it. But if not? Come on, man.
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Beginning to see some Trumpworld folks citing Gore's delayed concession in 2000 as precedent for their refusal to concede. Some context:
Al Gore conceded on December 13, 2000, 37 days after the election—and the day after the Supreme Court ruled against his campaign. Thirty-seven days after Election Day 2020 is one month from today.
Of course, in 2000, there was a legitimate, discrete dispute over the results in a single decisive state, and an ongoing process of litigating that dispute. None of that applies this year.
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