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yeah, people lose so much credibility when they don't even control for simple easy things.

there will always be some confounding factors, but doing rate per population, is rarely hard - andneeded over decade comparisons.

demographic risk adjustment is more complex, so i'd not expect that. but if it is at least acknowledged, then the article is more credible and will get more (of my) attention.

media (and i guess their audience) seem to enjoy hype though . . .

oh shit this is the f.t. i used to think they were among the more credible journo's. pity.

i mean at least its not too hard to shift them if they get in the way.
ok maybe not if you're a wheelchair.

i wish i could gently relocate cars back on to the road when they accidentally park in the bike lane.

i thought "dontputyourdickinthat" had also been left on reddit.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Smork

maybe this flips down and a boxing glove pops out to repeatdly hit you in the face.

i really hope no one starts paying windows staff to do anything to whatever linux i'm using.

at least i can fork off though wen that happens.

yeah and ubuntu is probly one of the ones that has more paid workers.
ok i dont know that ; but canonical sure pays people,

I'm too young to die

hah, the only ones i liked were the early ones.
square acting, awful dialogue, kirk sh*gging random aliens.
comedy gold.

without that we'd have no Zapp Brannigan!

i did love dune, enjoyed the variety and dynamics; but i struggled with all the follow ups i think it just became more style, complexity and politics and there was not enough story left to drag me through it.
(cf. War and Peace)

there was a conversation on here about Greg Egan the other day.
thats what i call hard scifi.
i used to read that at lot and was glad to be reminded to look it up again.
http://www.gregegan.net/
permutation city, all the short stories, diaspora, i started on quarantine, still think that's a cool idea, even if it is improbable (thats a joke, it's not a spoiler until you observe the story).

i think i gave up around teranesia which might've started to go over my head.
but reading this group has inspred me to go back and revisit.

damn ive got to start buying Interzone again.

edit >>>> link to actual thread: https://lemmy.world/post/1892921
maybe it was a different group . . .

yeah fill up flat-roof buildings first - before even thinking about any of these wacko things.
it's nearest to electricity demand so less distribution losses.
and access for maintenance is probably already there.

Vive la France!