AbouBenAdhem @ AbouBenAdhem @lemmy.world

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How much of their profits do the Waltons put back into the Bentonville economy?

What percentage of the money you spend in that Walmart will stay in Bentonville, versus money you spend in alternative local shops?

She and her coauthors speculate that framing hardships today as civil rights violations evokes comparisons with the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, which makes contemporary problems appear less significant and therefore less worthy of government action. [...] Surveys were conducted in 2016 and 2019...

Six to nine years ago, it was easy to make the case that virtually everything had improved since the 1960s and that evoking that era made modern issues look relatively minor in comparison. But now we have federal agents rounding people up en masse and shipping them off to foreign prisons without a hearing—there are at least some dimensions of the current situation where a comparison with the 1960s accentuates how serious things have become.

Or The Game?

It was the power station near Arak that the IAEA had been monitoring.

If you think they’d be open to it, try Bayes’ theorem. Ask them to give percent likelihoods for the following:

A. The odds that the government (or whoever) is trying to kill everyone, before taking the evidence of excess deaths into account
B. The odds of seeing excess deaths for any possible reason, not just their conspiracy hypothesis
C. The odds of seeing excess deaths if the conspiracy hypothesis were true.

Then logically, the odds of the conspiracy being real given the excess deaths should be A*C/B. If you disagree with them on the outcome, you must disagree on one or more of the assumptions (probably A—if it’s B, you can find the objective odds by checking historical data).

If you still disagree on the prior assumption (A), you can set aside the excess deaths argument and ask what other evidence led them to form that prior assumption. Then you can repeat the process until you either reach agreement or they’re left with an assumption they have no evidence for.

My Dinner With André

Nobody is talking to Hegseth because Hegseth is talking to everybody.

I think it’s because music enhances the ability to remember accompanying songs, which helped human groups preserve fitness-enhancing oral information.

That makes sense—being raised by ChatGPT might be marginally better than being raised by Sam Altman.

Thanks! I hate it.

It sounds like they’re tracking people by state of birth, but how do they account for people who move to different states? They could just exclude them from the study—but mobility probably correlates with wealth, which in turn correlates with longevity.

Retailers order more plastic bags when their inventories fall below a certain level. If you reuse a bag, their inventories will last longer and they will order bags less frequently; and manufacturers will reduce production due to the decreased demand.

They’d have to prove they created the god in question first, which would undermine every other claim they made for it.

Words aren’t isomorphic to their dictionary definitions—words had commonly-accepted meanings long before the existence of dictionaries. Dictionary definitions are just an attempt to come up with a heuristic for identifying things as instances of the term in question, but they’re never perfect—and the real-world usage is ontologically prior.

If the dictionary definition of sandwich fails to distinguish cakes from sandwiches, it’s just an imperfect definition (like all definitions are)—and we can leave it at that.

In the limit, all data is either destroyed or made public—privacy is always temporary.

If life is an experiment, and there is a measuring tool

So that’s what keeps causing our wave function to collapse!

Our Father, which art...
...uh...
...which art foundation should we cut funding for next?

How does that compare to the growth in size of the overall code base?

They’ve got to do something with the cows once they’re too old to milk.

How would they enforce this, if they can’t identify the people violating it?