Insurance companies too exist to make money. If their customers generally went plus, the insurance company would go out of business.

that seems, inefficient

I’m pretty happy with my samsung. No really, hear me out, if power cuts out, when it resumes, the tv auto starts on the same input.

I have it connected to a pc, and use a smart plug for turning on and off. Haven’t seen a trace of the smarts for years :D

I hear he was a pretty good speaker 🫣

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… except in 100, when it doesn’t, except again in 400, then it does.

the locks are quite basic though, literally pickable with a hair pin

Why? It IS about my aesthetic preferences :)

I like when everywhere in a place is different and memorable.

If you like samey grids I have no reason not to respect that, but I wholeheartedly disagree.

so fucking much better!

shoulda named him colonel Sanders

I’m straight, but…

He did the thing!

One could say he did the wrong thing for the right reasons

does dry running have any meaning on a function that is inherently stochastic?

I mean, yeah, having good control and a sane culture around it, you couldn’t reach USA’s sheer number if you tried.

oh, well, luckily its not illegal for researchers in the rest of the world to study gun violence in America.

yeah I think the real world is more complicated. Like, its not just about numbers, but also how control is implemented and even culture.

That is absolutely fucked up, but whats the relevance?

notice how in the graph on wikipedia, excluding USA, the correlation is really not that strong.

dont get me wrong, i agree with the general sentiment, but bad data weakens even the best of cases.

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Google controls search results and has been caught meddling. Which negates the first two.

No it doesn’t negate the forst two. It only addresses the second, and bypassing the results completely, exascerbates the problem quite a bit.

Cry me a river.

great argument.

• It helps spread false information widely

• It puts a lot of control of information in a single companies hands

• It hurts the underlying sources

When google provides the info directly, and the first hand sources has become completely obsolete and shut down, what would new information stem from? It’s an inherently unstable and short sighted solution.