• Wolf314159@startrek.website
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    2 months ago

    Similarly, there are a lot of really lazy bad maps out there that are trying to make some point about a statistic, but are really just population density maps. Give your up votes to the person that links the appropriate xkcd.

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    I like to say, “Stastically you’re much more likely to die in a car accident on the way to the beach than be attacked by a shark once there.”

    So people are less afraid of sharks and more afraid of each other, like it should be.

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      2 months ago

      Maybe, but if we rode on sharks to get around I’m sure the statistic would be different.

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    I had a VERY close call against a cow once. Never seen a coyote, so I can’t really compare.

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      Coyotes aren’t super big and alone are pretty timid and rarely approach things bigger than it (like an adult human). Though when starving or other certain conditions drive them to approach larger animals or big open space (I.E. in a pack, or rabies), be mightily wairy.

      (This is anecdotal experience only, please take it and reference it as such only)

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      Where do you live that there are cows but not coyotes? I thought coyotes were more or less a worldwide nuisance anywhere rural enough to have cattle.

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    People shaking coconut trees are often crushed by falling people who don’t exist within the context of all in which they live and which came before them.

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    You exist in the context of all In which you live and that came before you

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    I always think about this when people say vending machines are more likely to kill you than sharks.

    Are they looking at vending machines only in beach cities or in the middle of like, Arizona too?

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      I also feel that vending machines don’t really suddenly strike you without warning and through no fault of your own

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        Tell me you live in a safe neighborhood without saying you live in a safe neighborhood…

        Your “feeling” are invalidating hundreds of peoples lived experience of the terror of vending machine gang violence

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    Cows are smarter than they look. Long ago I worked in a dairy operation and they would do things to fuck with you… like if you weren’t super careful in a milking stall they’d casually lean to one side (“oopsie! my bad”) to squish you. Or let the poop rip at just the right moment.

    I don’t blame them one bit.

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    And I heard you’ll more likely die on your way to collect your win than actually win the lottery.

    And I heard home is a very dangerous place, cos lots of people die because of it…or at it?

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      That’s something that always gets me with certain safety recalls.

      Like the Samsung Note 7’s second recall. Something like 1 out of 2 million phones caught fire. It just happened to do it on an airplane and got the phones banned by the FAA. Nobody was injured by the phones catching fire.

      How many people died in car wrecks going to the store to swap out their phones?

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        driving is an apt choice to compare because it’s fucking disgusting how many people it kills every day and no one seems to give a flying fuck about it.

        society is constantly actively choosing to let people die in horrible crashes simply because it is convenient.

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          Exactly. In general, our willingness to do stuff depends heavily on convenience.

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    Yeah this is incorrect because people that breed dogs almost never are killed by the dogs they breed.