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- Comment on Broccoli, cheese, and MILFs 1 day ago:
Broccoli in Thai curry is the way! So good!
- Comment on The South in a Nutshell 1 day ago:
I feel like we maybe shouldn’t give guns to bears
- Comment on and we thought our thing with beans was bad 3 days ago:
My last time talking to them, they were arguing that the use of the word “exploitation” in the vegan society’s definition of veganism simply meant “use” because that’s a thesaurus entry for exploitation. When their argument breaks down they go full on “words are just invented”.
- Comment on and we thought our thing with beans was bad 3 days ago:
Yeah, thank you for the clarification. Re-reading my comment, I realise I didn’t do a very good job of expressing this, as I didn’t mean to imply V@LW was a community for debate. Just that a polite question might be fine there, so long as it comes from a genuine desire to learn, instead of trying to make an opening to disagree.
- Comment on and we thought our thing with beans was bad 4 days ago:
!vegan@lemmy.ml specifically disallows debate style posts. Your best bet is probably either !askvegans@lemmy.ca or !vegan@lemmy.world
- Comment on and we thought our thing with beans was bad 4 days ago:
When I was a young vegling, I spent some time doing “outreach” on r/DebateAVegan (air quotes because it often felt about as impactful as having a wank), and you’d see those bingo arguments being used ALL THE TIME.
I actually did occasionally get some fairly novel and thought provoking stuff, from time to time, but mostly it was explaining the basics of biology or econ to people like in OP’s example.
- Comment on and we thought our thing with beans was bad 4 days ago:
Ah yes. That one is the one where every interlocutor happens to only eat meat “from their uncles farm with 3 cows on 40 acres of pasture, where they’re hand-scrubbed by cherubs while eating figs.”
- Comment on and we thought our thing with beans was bad 4 days ago:
Ah yeah, I’ve had some interactions with that anti-vegan user before, and let me tell ya, if you want to speedrun vegan bingo… ideal discussion partner right there.
- Comment on Looking for answers 5 days ago:
Yeah, sorry 'bout that; that was my bad. I didn’t mention it since you figured out my intent. Looks like me moving my comment might have led to some confused bystanders, though.
- Comment on Looking for answers 5 days ago:
Thanks! That’s a big help.
- Comment on Looking for answers 5 days ago:
Ok, well I don’t have the book, or links to the studies it’s based on, so that’s not particularly helpful.
I throughly scanned the page for data sources and scholarly papers, and also read some of the major concepts and provided anecdotes. I did not see any further studies or data linked in either of the pages you linked to yourself, but if I did miss something, please feel free to point it out.
Once again, thank you for providing the source data you already did. It’s a fairly complicated dataset, so it’ll take some effort to grok.
- Comment on Looking for answers 5 days ago:
I mean, you literally said:
the rest of the information and studies that accompany it,
(Emphasis mine.)
I only saw only one study referenced, which seems to be a book, not an academic paper.
In any case, I appreciate the data sources. I’ll take a look.
- Comment on Looking for answers 5 days ago:
That’s the exact same link I just read. There was a link to a $27 book titled “award-winning research”. I wasn’t able to find any further data sources beyond the provided anecdotes. Did I miss something?
- Comment on Looking for answers 5 days ago:
1900-2006? This past century has literally been humanity’s most transformative ever, and this chart is just glomming all the data together. We’d need to see trends of how these have changed over time to get a realistic picture.
- Comment on magic box rule 1 week ago:
This is a repost from a month or two ago… and it’s still funny the 2nd time. :)
- Comment on Che Mangione 1 week ago:
I thought we say: we need more flesh for the prison-industrial complex.
Although, sentence length doesn’t seem to be correlated to deterrence, that doesn’t mean the inevitability of imprisonment isn’t a legitimate deterrent at all. For example, the belief that there’s a high likelihood of getting caught does increase deterrence.
- Comment on Che Mangione 1 week ago:
Hypothetically, is there a specific number of billionaires that would have to be executed to have some sort of impact? IMO, even if the rich have just a little incentive not to be the most egregious profiteers, it’ll make some impact.
- Comment on Cooking advice 3 weeks ago:
Also, since there will be a bit of oil splattering, make sure to quickly secure your lid with clamps. Hope you have a blast!
- Comment on Het! 3 weeks ago:
OK, but what if I just add a 2nd moebius, and twisted them a little, and… oops, Klein bottle!
- Comment on Mikumemes 3 weeks ago:
She died for Zundamon’s sins.
- Comment on Examination you say? What kind? 4 weeks ago:
Presumably the sign meant to say something along the lines of pelvic, or vaginal examination, or whatever the English medical signage should be, which would have the correct connotation, but instead they only picked a word with the same denotation.
- Comment on Examination you say? What kind? 4 weeks ago:
What a great example of the difference between denotation and connotation.
- Comment on He may be a cat, but he's also a dawg 4 weeks ago:
Lost opportunity to call it “Operation CatSnip”
- Comment on rocketman 5 weeks ago:
Imagine just chilling in the dark, minding your own business, and some asshole comes at you with a light as bright as the sun, and you can’t even close you’re eyes because you don’t have eyelids.
- Comment on anyway, i started blastin' 5 weeks ago:
Whoa, good work! I think I’m going to have to go over this a few times to grock how it works, especially the Φ(b) - Φ(a) bit. My stats textbook has a bit too much dust on it. ;)
- Comment on anyway, i started blastin' 5 weeks ago:
Moreover, that’s not how probability works in independent events.
- Comment on anyway, i started blastin' 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, I was trying to compute the “ballpark” of thr odds, but it’s actually hard to do because of how astronomically improbable it is. Even computation systems that are designed to compute rather big/small numbers (think 100,000,000^1,000,000 big) fail.
Here’s another example: If a human only had 1,000 gut microbes, the chance that over 900 of them get snapped is 1 in ~10^162 [[WA(www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=CDF[BinomialDistribu…)]].
Now if you do that for every human on earth, the probability is still essentially zero. [WA]
When you consider that humans don’t have 1000 gut microbes, they have over 10 trillion, it’s just mind bogglingly improbable.
- Comment on anyway, i started blastin' 5 weeks ago:
The alternative is even more disturbing: snapped humans leave behind a cloud of poopy gut microbes.
- Comment on anyway, i started blastin' 5 weeks ago:
That would be incredibly unlikely. Due to the huge number of gut microbes, the chance to even lose 5% off of the median, even with billions of trials, is functionally zero.
- Comment on Wind from Uranus made it harder to probe 5 weeks ago:
Phrasing!!