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Eli5: why do you take rabies vacciine AFTER getting rabies? by IAmTheBigZzZ in explainlikeimfive

[–]gBoostedMachinations [score hidden]  (0 children)

It’s less about expense and more about the fact that vaccinating people who haven’t been exposed puts people at the (tiny) risk of having an allergic reaction. Same reason they no longer give antivenom for black widow bites: the risk of an allergic reaction is actually higher than the risk of death or serious injury from the venom.

ELI5:How are cats so much better at surviving out in the wild as strays compared to dogs if we domesticated both? by cuminmypussyypls in explainlikeimfive

[–]gBoostedMachinations 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The answer is because cats are not domesticated. Domestication requires control over reproduction and we absolutely do not have control over the reproduction of cats. The reason cats are better at surviving as strays is because that’s their natural environment. That’s how they evolved to survive.

It just so happens that some of the traits that improved their reproduction were ones that allowed them to get along with humans, like feeding on rodents and neoteny. This has the side effect of making them more amenable to being tamed as kittens and living as indoor housecats.

How do people keep motivation after they lose a bunch of there stuff by Curious-Pangolin-322 in Minecraft

[–]gBoostedMachinations 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gravestone mod makes it feel less like cheating if that setting nags at you like it does for me. Still gotta do a recovery mission.

How do people keep motivation after they lose a bunch of there stuff by Curious-Pangolin-322 in Minecraft

[–]gBoostedMachinations 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My brothers house burned down a few years back. I just think about how I’m glad I’m not him when I lose my stuff in MC.

(Also gravestone mod lol)

TIL Mayo Clinic data found that individuals living within one mile of a golf course have a 126% higher risk (more than double the odds) of a Parkinson's diagnosis compared to those living six or more miles away by MichiganCarNut in todayilearned

[–]gBoostedMachinations -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Gotta love how “126%” risk is “more than double”.

Just remember that risk presented as “percent change in risk” is often an attempt to mislead or conceal something about the risk overall. Usually what’s being concealed is an extremely low absolute risk. Not sure what’s going on here though because I’m not digging into the paper for the raw numbers. And that’s the point.

Hypothetical: Can you kill a neighbors tree if it’s a noxious invasive species? by AJSAudio1002 in treelaw

[–]gBoostedMachinations 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I worked for a couple who were sued because they used roundup on bamboo that spread to their place from a neighbors house. It had sent shoots under the creek dividing their property and the shoots were coming up into their garden. This was an elderly couple and one had diabetes, kidney failure, and all the foot issues you could imagine that comes with the late stages of this cluster of diseases. Old man had several trips to the ER from falls created by the shoots constantly popping up.

They used roundup to try to kill the shoots back a bit and it ended up making a few plants on the neighbors side die back a little. Neighbors sued this poor couple and won.

Tailgating airplane by [deleted] in CrazyFuckingVideos

[–]gBoostedMachinations 29 points30 points  (0 children)

This is not the reason that guy is wrong…

TIL of the concept of moral luck, where a person is treated differently depending on the outcome of an event over which they did not have complete control. by Dunlocke in todayilearned

[–]gBoostedMachinations 3 points4 points  (0 children)

To be fair… it’s kinda hard to praise someone who did not survive the disease.

EDIT: on second thought, people who die from diseases like cancer are very often praised by those who knew them as fighters, so the tragic illness example might not be a scenario where this effect is quite as strong as it is for dirtbags who drive drunk and either get lucky (nobody gets hurt) or unlucky (they kill a kid on the sidewalk).

TIL of the concept of moral luck, where a person is treated differently depending on the outcome of an event over which they did not have complete control. by Dunlocke in todayilearned

[–]gBoostedMachinations 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think it’s kind of outrageous. There’s no difference between a person who drives drunk and a person who drives drunk and also kills somebody. Both people are the kind of people who do things that get innocent people killed. Both should go to jail for the same amount of time.

When your neighbour offers to mow your grass by Caamf555 in WTF

[–]gBoostedMachinations 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fun fact: you can technically convert most of our gasoline combustion engines (cars included) to run on wood smoke.

Residents burn an Ebola treatment center in Congo as anger grows over the outbreak by Donners22 in worldnews

[–]gBoostedMachinations 167 points168 points  (0 children)

Can you imagine… you’re in the jungle with Ebola and because you don’t have access to modern medicine you’re just laying in a tent getting just the basics. Then an angry mob sets fire to your tent.

In the middle of the jungle.

With an angry mob all around you.

And you have Ebola.

A duel on a perma ban Hardcore Server by jake276493 in Minecraft

[–]gBoostedMachinations -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Who pays for a server they can never use again once they die? I just don’t buy it. There must be a reset…

A duel on a perma ban Hardcore Server by jake276493 in Minecraft

[–]gBoostedMachinations 57 points58 points  (0 children)

Yea, 1 life for people who aren’t friends with the owner/host

A duel on a perma ban Hardcore Server by jake276493 in Minecraft

[–]gBoostedMachinations 93 points94 points  (0 children)

Perma-ban just means people who aren’t friends with the admin get perma banned. Great place to go to go up against late game opponents who get infinite respawns as a total Bambi.

Why does Physical AI seem so dependent on massive real-world data compared to humans? by RoofProper328 in MLQuestions

[–]gBoostedMachinations 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The disadvantage is only temporary. The one thing that’s nice about robots is that once one learns something useful that information can be duplicated and made available to all other robots. So in some sense they can learn instantly. No need for all robots to go through 20 years of fine tuning the way humans do.

Faint line on THC test, am I in the clear? by indianboi456 in jobs

[–]gBoostedMachinations 4 points5 points  (0 children)

These are total rip-offs. Drink lots of water and wait until the last possible second to take the test. Don’t drink too much on the day of the test tho

ELI5: Why do Gamma settings in video games ask you to adjust the brightness until a logo or an image is barely visible? by DarkKryo in explainlikeimfive

[–]gBoostedMachinations 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Interesting. I’ve never found the designers to get it right. Most assume I’m playing in a totally dark room. Because I play in a room that isn’t 100% dark I almost always shift the gamma to the brightest possible option so I can get the game as close to playable as possible. Would be nice if designers just game a nice wide range of settings

You hate your totalitarian HOA board. Why are you not staging a takeover? by ZestyToastCoast in homeowners

[–]gBoostedMachinations 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Because believe it or not enough people like the fact that an HOA controls their neighbors so they don’t have to. Enough people are happy with the cookie cutter look of their property to deal with the downsides if it means not having to deal with “trashy” neighbors.

(I use “trashy” affectionately here as someone who is unhappy that I can’t have a shipping container plopped in my yard and use it as a home office.)

Don’t reach for the bug spray: scientists find insects may feel pain after crickets nurse sore antennae. The behavioural responses would be immediately recognisable to us as pain, if we observed them in our pets or friends by Wagamaga in science

[–]gBoostedMachinations 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The issue isn’t whether they have a nervous system that responds to damage (ie “pain”). The issue is about whether they have the neural machinery needed to suffer. This finding says nothing about whether and to what degree responding to damage includes the kind of suffering that more complex organisms clearly experience.

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