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Cake day: August 4th, 2023

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  • Ok, I’ll be the first to ask.

    • Does your phobia of nudity extend to others being nude? If so, does that include people not in person? (People you’re on the phone with or texting with? Recordings or photographs of strangers in the nude like artistic nudes and such?)
    • Do you consider yourself to be on the asexual spectrum?
    • Do you bathe/shower regularly?

    You’re a wonderful, valid, entire person who can’t be well described by just this one thing. But it’s interesting to get a peek into what’s unique and different about folks’ internal experience of the world. Also, don’t feel like you have to answer anything you don’t want to.





  • So, Wikipedia says the Ford Pinto sold 3,173,491 units. This article says there were 27 Ford Pinto fatalities. The article also says the Cybertruck sold 34,000 units and there have been 5 fatalities.

    Your point 2 aside, you’re not trying to argue that (5/34,000) / (27/3,173,491) isn’t approximately 17, right?

    (Again, point 2 aside) is your point that 5 deaths (or rather 4 deaths if you don’t count the guy from point 2) out of 34,000 units isn’t a big enough sample size to draw conclusions and that you think it’s likely that as more units are sold, the rate won’t stay that high and over time the data will average out to a fatality rate less than that of the Ford Pinto?

    One more question if I may. Are you a fan of Tesla?


  • a fatality rate of 14.5 percent per 100,000 units.

    Tell me you don’t understand statistics without telling me you don’t understand statistics.

    It’s clear they meant “14.5 per 100,000 units” because later they call that “17 times” the Ford Pinto’s fatality rate of “0.85 per 100,000 units”. 14.5 divided by 0.85 is 17.06, so very close to “17 times.”

    But that “percent” is just randomly thrown in there and is largely meaningless.

    (Taking it as literally as it could possibly be taken, one could say it meant “0.145 per 100,000 units”. But again, from the context in the rest of the article, it’s clear that’s not what they meant as that’s not “17 times” 0.85.)





  • doesn’t stop the worry.

    As someone who makes a lot more money than I did previously, I’d say it largely does, at least for me.

    I don’t spend anywhere near as much time:

    • Budgeting
    • Looking at my bank account balance
    • Deciding what needful thing I’ll neglect this month

    In short, I spend less time thinking about money, which means I spend less time worrying about money.

    It’s not like I don’t worry at all about money, but I do worry a lot less of the time, and less intensely.

    At this point, honestly, I think having more income might make me more stressed than I am now. Though I would like to be able to quit my day job for a business I own myself, maybe. As long as the income was reliable.




  • Do we really think there’s a significant number of Trump voters out there who regret their vote? Really?

    It seems far more likely to me that most Trump voters are doubling down. “Prices are going to come down way lower than they were before Trump took office. This is actually Biden’s fault. Prices are going down, actually. Particularly eggs, depsite what the woke MSM would tell you. In fact, eggs are cheapest in states with the least restrictive gun regulations and highest deportation rates for illegals. Prices have never been this low. Trump is making Mexico pay our grocery bills.”

    Sure, you can find one or two people who will claim to be regretful Trump voters. (Just like you can find a very few microbiologists who swear the universe was created in six literal days around 6,000 years ago.) But I can’t imagine any significant number of Trump voters having that much self awareness and intellectual honesty.