Humans are very bad with statistics. Even ones that know the statistics can let their emotions lead them when gambling.

Humans overly weight very very good and very very bad things happening and those stick in our brains. High risk and high reward are where our brains get stuck because of our built in risk aversion.

Case in point: Lotteries. It’s 289 million to 1 chance you’ll win $10 million. Meaning that in stats, it’s an expected value of loss on every ticket you buy should be $1 since we can’t lose 99.9995 cents (or whatever the math is). But how often do people say well, can’t win if you don’t play?" like fools and play their same numbers for the 84,000th time?

I mean, technically isn’t Trump correct for once? He didn’t even do the phone call. This was all JD’s flipper baby.

ITT: A bunch of people who think they know a lot about radar, expect to run their own radar at home, and think they can do it better for cheaper.

Are you sure? It looks like this is going “Hey, I can’t get the front door open to the house, so I called the cops and told them I was being held hostage so they would break down the door with a battering ram.”

How long is it before CoPilot can’t exit vim and just deletes vim as the solution?

It should be a “hard ts” which is something we mostly picked up from the French that is also a sound used in Japanese. So there should be a difference between saying “tsu” and saying “sue.”

Tsu should be pronounced with teeth together and pushing air out through the teeth first, tongue against the lower front teeth for the hissy-t sound, before the vowel. (it’s hard to write how to pronounce a word)

Sure thing - I’m always curious what happened to people in stuff like this. Are they still alive and mortified about this? Are their grandkids into it? Don’t know until you look.

Thanks for reading it!

Is that why this stainless steel French press needs wifi to work?

Let’s all have a moment of silence for Phyllis. Gone too soon, she got messed up by a horse and the cops, and was probably just trying to have a good time with the Devil’s lettuce. At peace, she rests in the shade of a mighty tree that’s probably just a touch more Phyllis than we would like to think about.

Oh shit, really? Like some limited release thing, or like in a lot of theaters?

Yeah, it’s from 2011, there were three of them. IIRC they were all straight to DVD releases. nothing theatrical.

Looks like you can find them on Bitchute without the slightest hint of irony of a movie about capitalism being pirated and probably monetized on a conservative streaming platform.

I came to appreciate better some of the local history of where I grew up. If you live around a thing that you see every day, it fades into the background, especially if you don’t understand why other people think it’s cool and travel from around the world to see it. Some distance gives perspective.

Send the message “oh, so I guess he wasn’t cheating on me at the same time.”

I hope each one runs in there shouting “Shelly!? Where are you??!?!”

It’s performative insecurity. And it’s not an opinion, it’s bullying. That’s the point, to steamroll other people and their opinions to make people capitulate to their “way of doing things.” To make them feel good about themselves. Which is cheap and fleeting.

But…I came here just for the gloating fediverse content.

What else could there be?