WheeGeetheCat
@WheeGeetheCat@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Unity CEO John Riccitiello Steps Down After Pricing Blowup 1 year ago:
steps down with a golden parachute, all the richer.
We need real consequences for greed that is ruining everyone’s lives.
- Comment on Durham Public Works Employees “Illegally” Strike for 1st Time 1 year ago:
I do not understand how ‘illegal striking’ and serfdom are not synonymous.
- Comment on Bernie Sanders Champions 32-Hour Work Week With No Loss in Pay 1 year ago:
He’s right
- Comment on Why is everyone so giddy about the flooding thay happened at burning man? 1 year ago:
same, I assume you have heard of / watched the train wreck that was Action Park?
- Comment on Why is everyone so giddy about the flooding thay happened at burning man? 1 year ago:
If I add in the 85+ to the disney calculations it only makes your case worse (drives the # higher). I left it out to be nice.
Would you seriously take your family to disney as long as less than 10 people a day died there? Like get your head out of the #s for a second think with your common sense.
Lets do another really simple one. Imagine a playground near you serving kids 5-14. Are you taking your kids as long as less than 13 kids died there last year? Or are you maybe thinking its unsafe after 1 or 2 deaths? WHY?
- Comment on Why is everyone so giddy about the flooding thay happened at burning man? 1 year ago:
fucking hell mate, do you think selection bias is a fictional concept inapplicable to your calculations or are you going to continue to pretend that taking an entire countries population and comparing it to any sliver of the country 1:1 doesn’t fail basic representativeness analysis?
- Comment on Why is everyone so giddy about the flooding thay happened at burning man? 1 year ago:
I like how you chose casino, establishments known to especially attract the 85+ cohort, which I didn’t even include in my 10 a day disney # to be nice.
Do you think 10 people a day die at a single disney park behind the scenes? You’re dying on this hill?
- Comment on Why is everyone so giddy about the flooding thay happened at burning man? 1 year ago:
Haha I don’t care so much about burning man as much as this method you have.
So by your math, Somewhere like disney with 50k visitors a day is still remarkably safe as long as less than 10 people a day die there?
- Comment on Why is everyone so giddy about the flooding thay happened at burning man? 1 year ago:
Do you have any hospitalized people there? Because the USA has 919,649 hospital beds. Anyone needing assisted living? Because the US has 810,000 people in assisted living. Now the 70,000 number doesn’t seem so big eh?
My point is that ‘people capable of going to an event’ is already a helluva selection, especially when you compare it to the population that includes all those sick people.
- Comment on Why is everyone so giddy about the flooding thay happened at burning man? 1 year ago:
Something ‘middle class’ Americans may want to notice:
When people are living in abject poverty, you are comparatively ‘rich’.
Anger at the ‘rich’ is at an all time high.
The ‘true rich’ are out of reach of the poor.
As income inequality grows, this will get worse.
- Comment on Why is everyone so giddy about the flooding thay happened at burning man? 1 year ago:
check again it was up to $575 this year
Ive never been to burning man. I went to Coachella a LLOOONNGG time ago when it was hippies rolling around in the dust. Coachella ain’t that anymore, it’s instagram rich kids and tech bros. I assume the same thing has happened to burning man.
- Comment on Why is everyone so giddy about the flooding thay happened at burning man? 1 year ago:
LOL you’re really running with this line of thinking. Might people who plan to go to a week-long strenuous event in the desert lead to a sample that has some selection bias? For instance, selecting out the entirety of the demographic that is currently hospitalized, currently debilitating ill?
In which cause you should compare mortality rates with another group like that. Not the entire rest of the age demographic (which has all those sick people you selected out).
I don’t really care either way, just found this argument kind of hilarious.
- Comment on From gamer to what?? 1 year ago:
yeah I think this is whats going on here
- Comment on Reported UFO sightings. Aliens are very interested in the USA 1 year ago:
I think its like bigfoot / mothman etc - once someone in your area is talking about seeing a thing, it increases the likelihood you will think you saw that thing specifically next time you see something that would be otherwise unexplainable to you