Absolutely accurate yes. I meant post 1980; I should have specified. Back in the days when people were making big progress, it was all over (and rural more so than in the cities) as I understand it.
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Okay I'll try for the bingo another time. It is disappointing though.
We plotted the historical world records for bipedal and quadrupedal 100-m sprint times according to competition year. These historical records were plotted using several curve-fitting procedures. We found that the projected speeds intersected in 2048, when for the first time, the winning quadrupedal 100-m sprint time could be lower, at 9.276 s, than the winning bipedal time of 9.383 s.
Video analysis revealed that in quadrupedal running, humans employed a transverse gallop with a small angular excursion.
These results suggest that in the future, the fastest human on the planet might be a quadrupedal runner at the 2048 Olympics.
I stand by my analysis. Statement #1 is fine, if a little bit wierd. Statement #2 doesn't excuse or ameliorate the total cuckoo pants nonsense of statement #3, though.
If what's the in study is somehow different -- like if the first sentence is "obviously we're not saying that extrapolating these two particular curves forward suggests the exact year when sagittal trunk motion will manage to overcome millions of years of evolutionary re-optimization away from quadrupedal gait, that would be insane" -- then sure. But if that's true, they should have written the abstract different.
So somehow the lesson is not "be careful with curve extrapolation," but "extrapolating curves totally always works and so that's my justification for this xkcd-level of weird nonsensical conclusion, now more funding pls"
Just tell me that you're mad that CPI doesn't include housing fuel and food, or whatever
I want to get a bingo and exit the conversation
Yeah, it’s a perfectly fair question. Idk what the downvotes are about but be not afraid; they can’t hurt you.
Wait, how does that work? Can you do Nix package management on a Debian system or something?
Not true. Grimace will burn the place someday, he’s just waiting for his time. Look in his eyes and watch him close, and tell me it’s not true.
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“Historically” I meant like 1980-2015 or so
Was I not aware? I thought the big liberal cities on the coasts were the centers of activism, and the middle and the Southeast mostly got preyed upon by the American Thatcherites, and either said “More please” or “Aaaaah it hurts” with none of this “Fuck you stop that” energy that’s coming into play now. But maybe I was unaware of an activist history there?
Hey everybody this guy’s over here questioning the curve
Get him