FishFace
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- Comment on Oh momma Imma drippin' ❤️🔥 14 hours ago:
Unlucky for you :(
- Comment on Oh momma Imma drippin' ❤️🔥 14 hours ago:
People who live in the tropics are, broadly speaking, acclimated to tropical weather conditions. In the northern tropics, where most of that 40% live, February is still cooler than average even if there is no true winter season, so someone acclimated to hot temperatures is feeling less sweaty than normal.
- Comment on Oh momma Imma drippin' ❤️🔥 15 hours ago:
Perhaps, but the vast majority of the planet’s population lives somewhere where it’s not sweaty outside in February.
- Comment on British inflation hits lowest in almost a year 16 hours ago:
I think it’s pretty clear people want prices to go back to what they were. You hear it in the way people talk about the government and how “nothing’s changed”. Things have changed, but the thing people want to change is the cost of living, and that certainly has not gone back to what it was.
With 3% inflation, prices are pretty much stable, though. Inflation in that region does not cause the same kinds of instability and problems that the higher rates we saw cause.
- Comment on Oh momma Imma drippin' ❤️🔥 18 hours ago:
It’s February, I think you’ll be OK
- Comment on Say no to BAYES 19 hours ago:
So you have two groups of ten experiments, mean if group A is 100, mean of group B is 105, variance is 25 (for both groups). Obviously we are not confident that these groups differ.
Now suppose we repeat the experiment two billion times. The group A average is now 99, and the group B average is now 103. The variance is still 25. Are you still not confident that the groups are different?
- Comment on we're all a little gay inside 1 day ago:
OK? But we’re not calling archery bows and violin bows circular; we’re calling them bows i.e. curved. And we’re calling the rainbow a bow, i.e. curved, which it is. Curved does not imply circular, but circular does imply curved.
Besides, I don’t think the proto-indo-europeans were out there with calipers measuring the precise curvature of objects they decided to label with the *bheug- root.
- Comment on British inflation hits lowest in almost a year 1 day ago:
The reason things feel bad at the moment is in large part because of 3-4 years of sustained high inflation. That’s why everything seems expensive. A few years of low inflation and productivity and wage increases, could get us back on track.
- Comment on British inflation hits lowest in almost a year 1 day ago:
3% is fine. The Bank of England’s target is 2%, but there’s a margin within which things are OK. The Bank only has to explain what measures its taking to correct inflation if it’s more than one percentage point off, so 3% is just about there. Worldwide, central banks tend to have target ranges that start at about 2% and go up to 4 or 5% (figures obtained from intense wikipediaing).
And for reference, you can see the UK’s historical interest rates here.
- Comment on we're all a little gay inside 1 day ago:
A violin bow is made from a curved piece of wood, the same as the weapon.
- Comment on we're all a little gay inside 1 day ago:
Every person sees a rainbow in a different location because rainbows are an optical phenomenon not a real object - in that sense rainbows are occupying the entire space, not just a cone even. The expansion is dumb.
- Comment on ancient hyperfixations 1 day ago:
Gynecology is part of medicine so it’s already included!
- Comment on Say no to BAYES 1 day ago:
Are you saying you can’t determine a difference in aggregate statistics by performing more trials if the variance is high?
- Comment on there is another 3 days ago:
I don’t think teachers need to specify that answers should be in the largest class of numbers students have been introduced to so far at school :)
If students are smart and motivated enough to learn about other stuff outside of school, they’re smart enough to interpret the question.
- Comment on ESL homework 3 days ago:
Do you find it weird that Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet and King Lear are all written in English? We’ve been doing this for centuries.
Having a snippet of native language is a more modern invention as far as I know (because if you can’t rely on the audience understanding the language, you need to subtitle the snippet), but it’s just a way of communicating to the audience in what language the conversation is taking place by showing, rather than telling.
- Comment on BIG (like Americans) IF TRUE 3 days ago:
Yellow cheddar probably also has annatto colouring. Cheese can be naturally orange in the summer, but for a long time it has been more frequently obtained by colouring.
- Comment on there is another 3 days ago:
Why assume the solution is in the complex numbers, and not in * the real numbers (2 solutions) * the algebraic numbers (countably many) * the natural numbers (1 solution) * the complex surreal numbers (proper-class many)
Gotta use some context to interpret these things :)
- Comment on what a coincidence 3 days ago:
Wrong community
- Comment on BIG (like Americans) IF TRUE 3 days ago:
Some cheese varieties (cheddar, red Leicester) are traditionally coloured (with annatto)
- Comment on Weight 4 days ago:
Rip
- Comment on Weight 4 days ago:
What happened?
- Comment on ‘Seasons have become confused’: the people struggling in UK’s relentless rain 4 days ago:
I’m not sure rain in winter is a confused season. The reason we’re having is exceptional in any season.
- Comment on I dont think my opinion matters 5 days ago:
Not a shitpost
- Comment on Britain’s High Court says government acted illegally in outlawing protest group Palestine Action 6 days ago:
Well no, there are many situations where you will not be punished if you do something illegal (even if caught). If you do something illegal in the course of your job, it is quite likely that it is your employer who is taken to court, not you personally. If you don’t pay the correct amount of tax, you won’t be punished if it was found to have been an honest mistake. If caught speeding but not by much, and you aren’t a dick to the police, you may be let off with a warning.
There is also a relevant pedantic distinction between “unlawful” and “illegal”. The latter means in breach of the law. The former means otherwise than in accordance than the law. What’s the difference? If the law says “don’t drive over 30mph when the number 30 appears in the red circle” and you drive at 40, you broke the law and did something illegal. If the law says, “the local authority shall consider the conditions of the road when applying speed limits” and the local authority instead assigns speed limits at random, they didn’t do something specifically forbidden, but they didn’t do what they’re supposed to. That’s unlawful, and is treated differently.
Ultimately though the difference comes down to a presumption of good faith and the idea that if politicians or civil servants were prosecuted every time they got something wrong, we’d run out pretty quickly.
- Comment on 58 UK public libraries have parenting books with advice to encourage children to detransition 1 week ago:
The book sounds harmful, but is it the job of libraries to pick books according to such a criterion? That question was going to be rhetorical, but now I think about it, I genuinely have no idea if public libraries have some charter or other that would restrict what kind of books they hold.
I would be more concerned about books on woo-woo health stuff like homeopathy - I’m sure there are books in libraries that have the effect of discouraging people (including parents) from using alternative medicine instead of medicine.
BTW, 58 libraries is about 2% of the total libraries in the UK.
- Comment on You earned some more dislikes 1 week ago:
We are in a purely vibes based media landscape. The left cares more about facts than does the right, but overall neither cares overly much about them.
- Comment on We really need to bring back the 70s conversation pits 1 week ago:
If they don’t like the paint, they can repaint. If they don’t like the conversation pit, they can remodel… which is gonna be more expensive but I have to imagine if you’re buying a house with a conversation pit you’re probably pretty well off already.
- Comment on it's true 1 week ago:
So if you say like “people farm beans” that’s wrong because not all people farm beans? Presumably not all of the people in those two groups, it even every community within them, use the three sisters method, so is it still wrong?
Or is it just that it’s ok to say “<plural> does <x>” without meaning “all <plural> do <x>”?
- Comment on 50ohm goes brrrrrr 1 week ago:
Uh, no?
- Comment on Onii-Chan is watching you 😩 1 week ago:
Why is loaning “big brother” better than any of these options?
At this point, “big brother” has entered the lexicon, but originally it was surely supposed to convey the idea of someone you were close to but looked up to, and who would protect you. That irony is kind of lost if you don’t translate it.