notsoshaihulud @ notsoshaihulud @lemmy.world

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wow. yeah waaay too expensive.

Yeah, facts aren't very popular when it's about shitting on the cybertruck.:D

this again? They didn't even read their own reference for the fire stats...

With its decade-long production run, the NHTSA reported that the Ford Pinto and its famously flawed gas tank behind the rear bumper caused 27 fiery deaths with its knowingly negligent design. https://www.autosafety.org/wp-content/uploads/import/ODIPinto.pdf

Cherrypicking galore:

1. They literally took 27 which is the fire deaths from rear-ending only (vs 41 fire fatalities from a 2.5 year period instead of the 9 years they mention
2. They conveniently did not use the 1,626 pinto fatalities from those 2.5 years.
3. They used the total number of pintos produced, not the number of pintos on the roads at the end of the analysis, which would be less than 2.2M.

At least they did get your clicks.

that was an edgy idea in the book, but stuff like that happens in ecological systems all the time. I read the book around the time of the election, and it read like a manifesto to justify oligarchic takeover as the next phase of human development (see the part how societal rules where assigned to the government and how the internet will take it back)

No surprise there. Couches are known to need long courting.

Not sure if European couches are into the whole eyeliner thing.

I suspect you have much higher standards than Americans. Just curious, how much time/money would it cost for you to take public transport to work? (for Americans, something 70-80 miles away is literally an impossible commute without a car, except for a few exceptions along the NYC, Philadelphia, DC axis.

It’s a distraction. Ignore it and focus on the actual damage he is doing.

They actually put enough energy into this distraction to justify some level of response.

What difference does this make? Some lower level employee will see this, roll his eyes, and then continue on with his day.

you push back every step of the way. that's how you deal with it. Apple maps reporting getting shut down for this is a sign that someone at a higher level took notice and it will have feedback to even higher leadership. So yes, this is feedback, even if companies do company things, it's also sending a signal that on the long run their company things might be better off aligning with the users. Is this gonna make any difference on its own? Nope, but a million of things like this may.

yup. at this point the bullshit coming out of trump's mouth is the least concerning thing in this admin. the heavy lifting is done by the heritage foundation and doge

Didn't last long...

ted to get the fuck out of here when she said: a lot of people wanted the lawnmower, but she doesn’t sell it to anyone (she mant she didn’t sell it to immigrants). And: “no offence to you, but your generation

do you drive, or take public transport? Americans will assume you drive, and then it is a pure waste of time. On the other hand, spending 3 hours on a train, one can sleep, work, watch a movie, read, whatever.

Nazis!

You guys are awesome!

Isotope alcohol? That’s what i call a real glow-up!

You can’t actually be that dumb, the militia part was state level.

This you?:D

well...I guess I can use chatGPT to walk me through setting one up?! I can use a double 4090 RTX config instead of heating too. (these are really fucked up times)

OK, what's the fediverse alternative for ChatGPT?

Well, the problem is, even if I take the single case where this one guy exploded himself with his truck and compare it to the Pinto data, the poisson distribution difference will probably be statistically significant, yet the measure would be absolutely useless from a real-world perspective, because it has nothing to do with the vehicle's design.

I'd also argue that many of these events might not even be entirely occurring independently from each other (i.e., some of the key assumptions of Poisson are incorrect here) when people do all sorts of stupid shit with these rolling garbage cans like shooting at them, submerging them, etc. in a meme-like fashion for Tiktok views. So 4 events might very well be influenced by non-design-based, non-random human factors, which applied to other vehicles could generate similar results, and if the analysis were serious, they would have individually reviewed how these whopping 4 events happened, accounted for reporting bias towards EV fires (especially Tesla) and compared it to the F150 or the Ford Lightning as an analogous vehicle.

And I know the internet tends to conflate condescension with competence, but seriously, you should understand the above-listed things as a stats teacher.

edits for clarity

edit 2: also, in the times of the prussian army they did not have to account for stuff like people suddenly starting to pull the horses' tails for social media views.

They’d suddenly become autism experts