TootSweet @ TootSweet @lemmy.world

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But the bonus to AC is so nice...

Assuming they ever even sell a million of them before ending production.

You don't think there's anything magical about the number "a million", though, correct? Just "enough to form a sufficiently good sample size" (whatever your threshold might be.)

Are you a fan of Tesla?

I’m a fan of rational thought processes and statistics...

I can't help but notice you dodged my question.

So, Wikipedia says the Ford Pinto sold 3,173,491 units. This article says there were 27 Ford Pinto fatalities. The article also says the Cybertruck sold 34,000 units and there have been 5 fatalities.

Your point 2 aside, you're not trying to argue that (5/34,000) / (27/3,173,491) isn't approximately 17, right?

(Again, point 2 aside) is your point that 5 deaths (or rather 4 deaths if you don't count the guy from point 2) out of 34,000 units isn't a big enough sample size to draw conclusions and that you think it's likely that as more units are sold, the rate won't stay that high and over time the data will average out to a fatality rate less than that of the Ford Pinto?

One more question if I may. Are you a fan of Tesla?

a fatality rate of 14.5 percent per 100,000 units.

Tell me you don't understand statistics without telling me you don't understand statistics.

It's clear they meant "14.5 per 100,000 units" because later they call that "17 times" the Ford Pinto's fatality rate of "0.85 per 100,000 units". 14.5 divided by 0.85 is 17.06, so very close to "17 times."

But that "percent" is just randomly thrown in there and is largely meaningless.

(Taking it as literally as it could possibly be taken, one could say it meant "0.145 per 100,000 units". But again, from the context in the rest of the article, it's clear that's not what they meant as that's not "17 times" 0.85.)

Somehow reminds me of this Zalgo comic:

You're the expert!

How much pig would a guinea pig guinea if a guinea pig could guinea pigs?

doesn't stop the worry.

As someone who makes a lot more money than I did previously, I'd say it largely does, at least for me.

I don't spend anywhere near as much time:

• Budgeting
• Looking at my bank account balance
• Deciding what needful thing I'll neglect this month

In short, I spend less time thinking about money, which means I spend less time worrying about money.

It's not like I don't worry at all about money, but I do worry a lot less of the time, and less intensely.

At this point, honestly, I think having more income might make me more stressed than I am now. Though I would like to be able to quit my day job for a business I own myself, maybe. As long as the income was reliable.

We summon the great demon king Asmeowdeus to teach us how to use can openers!

This bill was introduced by a Republican?

I mean... a broken clock is right twice a day, right?

A rare instance of Missouri becoming national news in a good way.

Do we really think there's a significant number of Trump voters out there who regret their vote? Really?

It seems far more likely to me that most Trump voters are doubling down. "Prices are going to come down way lower than they were before Trump took office. This is actually Biden's fault. Prices are going down, actually. Particularly eggs, depsite what the woke MSM would tell you. In fact, eggs are cheapest in states with the least restrictive gun regulations and highest deportation rates for illegals. Prices have never been this low. Trump is making Mexico pay our grocery bills."

Sure, you can find one or two people who will claim to be regretful Trump voters. (Just like you can find a very few microbiologists who swear the universe was created in six literal days around 6,000 years ago.) But I can't imagine any significant number of Trump voters having that much self awareness and intellectual honesty.

I once tasked the AI DeepSeek

The building of a distro to achieve

With while true ; do beep ; done

As PID 1

AI dubbed the poor distro "Kill Me"

I'm looking forward to "That Time I Got Reincarnated In The Backrooms."

Are you thinking of AlternativeTo?

Hamdling spicy stuff is all about conditioning. If you constantly eat spicy stuff, you'll easily be able to eat spicy stuff. If you haven't had anything spicy in a while, even a little bit of spice can feel very spicy.

At least that's how it works for your taste buds. I'm not sure conditioning so much applies to your gut. The gut is more about being on top of your gut health in other ways. Strictly avoiding the other things (other than spicey stuff) that your GI tract is sensitive to, getting enough fiber, etc.

But at the intersection of conditioning and gut health lies spicy stuff tolerance.

Yeah, I've written about my experience with long COVID once or twice. I'm one of the lucky ones who has finally gotten to "mostly recovered". Lots of people have had it much worse than me. Dianna Cowern/Physics Girl for just one example.

I'm still iso-fuckin-lating like it's August 2020, though. I have no idea what would happen to me if I got COVID again.

Revenge for not sending Hurricane Dorian where he and his sharpie said it would go.

This is why you don't piss in the dark. You piss in the soft glow of your phone screen.