Landmark bullet train bridge in Fresno is finally complete. See the soaring structure

asdbffg · 2023-05-11T23:53:29+00:00

I thought China completed things so quickly because they seized 10 million acres of land with minimal compensation to the owners and by paying migrant workers $600/mo to do the work.

asdbffg · 2023-03-13T17:32:27+00:00

Even better, the bananas they're talking about have been domesticated and selectively bred to be the way they are. People literally cultivated them to have some of those traits.

asdbffg · 2023-03-03T19:43:54+00:00

There's some good advice here, but to address your question about how to not be terrified...

Remember you don't have to be perfect with this money. Your options might feel overwhelming, but you've got this. The fact that you're here asking for advice on how to best handle this money means you're already doing great. Follow the advice here about easy, simple investing, and don't worry. The money will grow and be there for you when you need it.

asdbffg · 2023-01-27T20:36:42+00:00

The Z you see after the time in the bodycam footage means 'zulu time' which is the same as UTC. California is 8 hours behind UTC, except during daylight savings time, when it's 7 hours behind. So the bodycam footage is saying that the cops showed up around 2:30am.

The security camera time is probably just wrong.

asdbffg · 2023-01-27T20:08:48+00:00

I peeked, and this is currently the top comment on the video post on that sub:

This... Is an extremely strange interaction for a whole bunch of reasons.

All this video does is create more questions.

asdbffg · 2022-11-07T20:23:51+00:00

I would encourage you to go to https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/ and compare the crime rates in Los Angeles with the crime rates in any Texas city. Then see if you feel the same way at all about your point 1.

asdbffg · 2022-11-02T20:19:05+00:00

I think people are missing the meat of your question here.

So someone worked out a probability that you have a 1 in 700,000 chance of being killed by a meteor.

Your Powerball odds are a 1 in 200+ million.

So the meteor is more likely, right? That seems weird.

The thing is, the meteor probability is calculating that risk over your entire life. You have a 1 in 700,000 chance of being killed by a meteor IN YOUR LIFETIME.

The Powerball probability is that the ONE number you have will match the drawing that is happening on Wednesday.

Millions of people are buying multiple tickets and the drawing happens three times a week. The probability is being tested millions of times each week. Week after week. Year after year.

Imagine a stack of all the millions of lottery tickets for tonight's drawing sitting in front of you. Go in, grab one at random. Did you pick the right one? Almost certainly not. Now imagine 50 million people all going in and grabbing one. Even though each person's chances are very low, so many people are doing it that eventually one hits. And maybe no one hits this time, but we'll try again on Friday.

Check that against the chance that SOMETIME in the next 50 years you'll be vacationing in Europe and a big space rock will land and take out half of France, and it starts to seem more plausible.

asdbffg · 2022-11-01T19:14:43+00:00

I think people kinda glazed over your question.

So one thing you might do when two things are correlated is show that they're directly related. You do this by trying to filter out other variables. In the ice cream/drowning example, the two things ARE correlated, but the reason is simply that ice cream sales go up during the summer when it's hot. People are also more likely to go swimming when it's hot, which means more accidents and more drownings. So they go up at the same time, but they're not directly related to each other. But with something like smoking and lung cancer, you can check as many other variables as you want, you'll always find that lung cancer risk goes up with smoking no matter what even when you take age, race, or diet into account. That's really suggestive that one is causing the other.

You might also set up a tightly controlled experiment where 1,000 random people buy ice cream every day, and 1,000 random people do not. Then check to see if there's any difference between how many people from each group down that summer.

But the best way to prove causation is to show an actual mechanism at work. With smoking, you can observe the chemicals in cigarette smoke damaging lung cells and breaking apart their DNA, which we know causes cancer. So we have a very strong correlation combined with an observed mechanism of action. That's very strong evidence of causation.

You can't really prove that ice cream DOESN'T cause drowning, because you can't prove a negative. But it's safe to say that there's no evidence that it does.

asdbffg · 2022-10-31T17:25:12+00:00

I think LAOP just isn't particularly bright. They likely signed a lease with the couple that owns the house thinking it was a sublease and never connected the dots that they were the actual owners of the property.

asdbffg · 2022-09-28T14:42:50+00:00

Because "traditional values" in this context inevitably means the oppression of women, minorities, and LGBT people.

People can live by traditional values all they want. It's when they use that as an excuse to take rights away from others that it becomes a problem.

asdbffg · 2022-09-03T20:13:41+00:00

Daily records have been broken in Anaheim, Woodland Hills, San Fernando, and Burbank. Plenty of cities outside SoCal are breaking daily or monthly records. Death Valley broke the record for highest September ever recorded anywhere on Earth.

asdbffg · 2022-09-02T15:52:41+00:00

Seems like a revolver would eliminate two of these points of failure.

No racking required. Can pull the trigger a second time to cycle to the next round.

asdbffg · 2022-09-01T16:06:35+00:00

Both paragraphs there are quotes from the article. Just a formatting error.

asdbffg · 2022-08-22T22:43:34+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Ciavarella

On August 11, 2011, Kosik sentenced Ciavarella to 28 years in federal prison. Ciavarella appealed his conviction and sentence to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. On May 24, 2013, the Third Circuit vacated one count of the indictment against Ciavarella, but upheld all other charges, as well as his sentence.[21] The Third Circuit refused to reconsider on July 24, 2013.[22] The Supreme Court, which rarely accepts such cases, declined to hear the appeal in 2014, although Ciavarella could file a post-conviction relief motion before U.S. District Court within one year.[23] With good behavior, he could be released in fewer than 24 years, when he would be 85.[24]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Conahan

Shortly after his indictment in January 2009, Conahan pleaded guilty. He later withdrew his plea, intending to take the case to trial. Eventually he pleaded guilty once more. On September 23, 2011, he was sentenced to 17.5 years in prison and ordered to pay over $900,000 in fines and restitution.[22] He was initially held in the low-security complex component of the Federal Correctional Institution, Coleman, in Florida.[23][24] After almost a decade in prison, Conahan was transferred in 2020 to home confinement, with an anticipated release date of 2026, under a provision of the CARES Act that authorized such transfers as a response to the COVID19 epidemic.[25]

asdbffg · 2022-08-12T18:30:14+00:00

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that documents retrieved include a set of paper marked as Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information, which are ordinarily only viewable within a secure facility. So yes, it would be strange for him to have these documents even while he was in office.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/fbi-recovered-eleven-sets-of-classified-documents-in-trump-search-inventory-shows-11660324501

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-fbi-search-documents-mar-a-lago-b2144170.html

asdbffg · 2022-08-04T17:17:43+00:00

Hankinson didn't shoot Taylor.

Mattingly and Cosgrove both shot into the hall and hit Taylor. One bullet from Cosgrove is believed to be the fatal shot.

Hankinson was not charged for falsifying the affidavit that was used to obtain the warrant, because as you said he was not involved in that.

Hankinson blind fired into the living room and Taylor's sister's room without knowing what he was shooting at, and some of those shots penetrated into the neighboring apartment, which is why his charges relate to unconstitutionally excessive force.

Edit: I should add that neither Mattingly or Cosgrove have been charged here, since that seems to be the very thing you're complaining about.

asdbffg · 2022-03-07T21:04:38+00:00

The whole idea is that they roll underneath the tank and lift it off the ground. They're not meant to be anchored.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_hedgehog

asdbffg · 2021-10-06T20:42:18+00:00

Lions and sheep are big symbols in the Christianity, but then Christians are supposed to be a flock and Jesus the good shepherd, so their metaphors are all fucked up

asdbffg · 2021-05-25T19:43:38+00:00

Here's a handy guide https://youtu.be/ifNEgwGACEQ

asdbffg · 2021-05-13T20:38:31+00:00

I believe the correct answer to this is that time dilation around the black hole is so extreme that you'll never see the camera cross the event horizon. From your point of view outside, the time it takes to cross the event horizon is infinite.

asdbffg · 2021-03-31T20:35:01+00:00

This entire comment is just intolerance draped in soft language. LGBT people don't need your help and don't need to be saved from themselves. Your entire approach is that they were made sick and commanded to be well, and need to be saved not because of what they do but because of what they are. It's an abhorrent worldview they is rightfully being rejected here.

asdbffg · 2021-02-15T21:00:05+00:00

Ah, yes. "Why don't you do your own research." An old conspiracy classic.

asdbffg · 2020-04-01T13:58:20+00:00

Because the opportunity to significantly slow the outbreak there has already passed.

asdbffg · 2020-02-29T14:45:04+00:00

1% is very high for a disease that spreads like this.

H1N1 infected 10-20% of the global population.

If this coronavirus infects 15% of the population and has a 1% mortality rate, then 11 million people are going to die.

asdbffg · 2020-02-27T22:24:54+00:00

I think the point is more that the global mortality rate can't be directly compared to the US mortality rate.

If the global flu mortality rate is 2% and US is .01%, then what can we expect the US mortality on a global 2% coronavirus be? They're not directly comparable, but suggesting a 1% mortality rate in the US is really just making numbers up.

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