yimby
@yimby@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Cognitive Biases 4 weeks ago:
Survivorship bias?
- Comment on USA | California governor vetoes bill requiring speeding alerts in new cars 1 month ago:
Man you know what else pisses people off: the fact that speeding kills 33 Americans every day.[1]
- Comment on USA | California governor vetoes bill requiring speeding alerts in new cars 1 month ago:
The downvotes on this comment are a testament to the privilege of drivers. It’s crazy how good people, who would otherwise not break the law, believe it’s their right to speed. And before someone tells me it’s a victimless crime I’ll remind everyone that speeding kills both those inside and outside of your car.
- Comment on The later books are really something 8 months ago:
As with most sci-fi the author gets loopier in the later books. That being said:
- Dune: masterpiece of philosophy, one of the best books ever put to print
- Dune Messiah: a worthy sequel and must read after the first book; completes Paul’s arc
- Children of Dune: more plot driven than the first, but still thematically rich and entertaining.
- God Emperor of Dune: the most divisive of the books: you love it or you hate it. I am in the love it camp, the book is unhinged and the themes are marvelous. This is where I’d stop a read of the series.
- Chapterhouse and the other (Heretics?): forgettable in my opinion, simply because I’ve forgotten them. Later book fan opinions welcome.
- anything Brian Herbert: not terrible but not awfully good either. Makes for decent light reading I guess, and there’s good lore building in some of the books despite some unforgivable retcons (Agemmemnon, sigh)
- Submitted 10 months ago to xkcd@lemmy.world | 14 comments
- Comment on Tesla Has The Highest Accident Rate Of Any Auto Brand 11 months ago:
Read the source more carefully
Tesla drivers have the highest accident rate. From Nov. 14, 2022, through Nov. 14, 2023, Tesla drivers had 23.54 accidents per 1,000 drivers. Ram (22.76)
Accidents only. Worst driver counts DUIs a d fines as well.
- Comment on In Australia 6,000kg of clothing is dumped in landfill every 10 minutes. This is the life cycle of polyester T-shirt 1 year ago:
Clearly the statistics include fast fashion georg
- Comment on engineers gotta get their money up 1 year ago:
I’ve never met an engineer who wanted to intentionally design products to break.
The beancounters on the other hand…