MystikIncarnate

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[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 months ago

Gamblers fallacy does go both ways. There's also a thing in gambling, not part of the gamblers fallacy, more of a superstition thing, that there can be runs of, what is more or less luck. The gamblers fallacy would have you believe that after 20 successes, a failure is "due to happen". According to math, that's not the case, and in the event of something that requires skill to execute, almost nothing is just luck or statistics.

So the last one isn't so much the gamblers fallacy, if anything it would be the superstition that the run of successes will continue; however scientists will look at this more as a game of skill. While 50% of all patients who have the procedure do not survive, or whatever, the last 20 of this doctors patients have survived. Clearly their skill for the procedure is above average. Even from a statistics perspective the rate might be 50% but you're in the hands of a doctor pushing that number up to 50%, rather than dragging it down to 50%. So on all fronts, if you hear this, bluntly, you have an unknown risk level, somewhere between 50% and 0%.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 months ago

Rogers also gives $10 off for having auto-pay setup.

All of them are terrible.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 22 points 11 months ago

Quality post for this community OP. Really good.

All the Bible humpers continue to surprise me that they're able to justify whatever with whatever. Since a hurricane is an "act of God" and it keeps happening to Florida, what do you think that means?

And they come back with "the Dems can't win a fair election".

.... I'm sorry, what?

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 6 points 11 months ago

Thanks, I hate it.

Take your upvote and get out.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago

My only trick to this is to have something more urgent and more important to do. Like an essay worth 80% of your mark in a class you can't fail for college.

I get so much done when I'm in crunch mode. Things like the dishes, cleaning, laundry, even that oil change I've been putting off for months.

Everything gets done, except that very important assignment of course.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The sponsorships should be for companies that thrive because they make products that increase global warming (or use them), which is most companies, so I digress.

It should also be an involuntary thing. Getting a natural disaster assigned to you should be a badge of shame, and any company named for it should be obligated to help with relief efforts.

Given the negative PR and cost for providing relief, I'm betting that quite a few would clean things up pretty quickly so they don't earn the badge of shame. Maybe enough to slow or stop global climate change.

But all of this requires that we care more about people and the climate than we do about corporations and their profits. Since it's been made clear that the government is basically bought and owned by corporate interests, this will never happen.

The solution is to supplant the existing government with one that actually represents the interests of the people that live in the country, not the corporations.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago

This is the most true thing that I've read in this discussion so far. Good work. ⭐

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 23 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I'm sure the dude has his issues.

He might just be better at masking them, who knows... Or maybe the issues he has aren't with his mental health or physical health.

Staying physically active is a big part of maintaining your mental health, I won't argue that, but it's not the magic bullet some people want you to think it is.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 6 points 11 months ago

Did Helene not eradicate all the idiots?

How are there more?

Graghhhhhh.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 7 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Is there a reason you use uncommon terms to refer to family members?

Eg "wife's son" vs "stepson"?

Or was the kid your offspring and you just wanted to bait that loser?

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago

Well, if the comparison is between a live instrument and the terrible speakers in the building, unless that instrument is not tuned, damaged, or otherwise not working correctly, the instrument will sound significantly better than anything else you could possibly subject your ears to.

The music selection is largely corporate/business picking something that's very safe to play, so it's usually very boring music.

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