silasmariner

joined 2 years ago

Misleading with statistics can certainly be done in some contexts, but it's harder to do that than it is to be wrong with just 'I have a gut feel bro'. The breakdown by income quartile here is, like, directly the narrative that the stats are intended to support and clearly a larger impact that immigration because... Well.. Quartiles are quite big...

It takes a long bloody time to build up topsoil. Ex-tundra will shit for agriculture for decades at best and centuries without borderline terraforming

[–] silasmariner@programming.dev 8 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Getting back from holiday in a few hours and the weather is cold? Turn the heating on from your app before you get back. Wow. Life changing. Don't have a use case for most things being connected but thermostat really isn't that crazy IMO.

This works best if you roast all the ingredients together. I like to take my cookie dough and mould it into fun shapes before roasting, gives it some lighthearted humour

[–] silasmariner@programming.dev -5 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

If my dentist is a racist, should I not go to the dentist? Seems like letting my oral hygiene suffer because of it would be a case of cutting off my nose to spite my face. In your search for a life lived in ideologically purity have you found some acceptable alternative?

[–] silasmariner@programming.dev -5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

It's weird though. One of the accounts I tagged has just become more and more reasonable and I feel like. Idk. They certainly weren't all bad or deceptive people -- and being mean to and about them won't really help them figure it out ... OTOH fuck ppl who do stupid shit because they're too proud to accept inherent complicity in the evils of the lesser.

[–] silasmariner@programming.dev 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Good for you babes, but I wouldn't trust you to wipe your arse if you can't even keep data consistent

[–] silasmariner@programming.dev 2 points 3 weeks ago

I misread the spine of a book when I was 10 and looking for my first username. George Eliot is fucking phenomenal though and no regregts.

[–] silasmariner@programming.dev 5 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

I tagged loads of accounts at the time, thinking they were just bots or plants, but a couple are still around and now I think maybe they're just well-meaning morons who couldn't quite figure out the implications...

[–] silasmariner@programming.dev 1 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Jesus fucking Christ man, not everyone's use cases are your use cases. Get some real world experience. If you don't know the kinda shit you have to actually do, it's easy, but sometimes the show's just gotta go on

[–] silasmariner@programming.dev 22 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
 

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