tleb

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[–] tleb@lemmy.ca 17 points 3 weeks ago

It'll be interesting to see what China's true emissions are, as opposed to their reported number, given how they just lie about every metric (covid deaths, poverty, etc)

[–] tleb@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago

Why is Agent 47 trying to recruit us for war

[–] tleb@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's just flatout wrong to say it makes no sense because an acronym is pronounced as a word, not an abbreviation of its words. AIDS isn't pronounced "awh-ids", NASA isn't pronounced "N-eh-sa".

[–] tleb@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

That would be true if Half Life 3 was a game that existed and not just a dream

[–] tleb@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 months ago

This is strictly untrue for many climates. Where I live in Canada, 0F is average winter day, 100F is record-breaking "I might actually die" levels of heat.

-30C to 30C is not any more complicated or less intuitive than -22F to 86F

[–] tleb@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 months ago (5 children)

A degree Celsius is not coarse and does not require decimals in weather reports, and I suspect only a person who has never lived in a Celsius-using country could make such silly claims.

[–] tleb@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago

It's a (small, shitty) subset of markdown. Slack formatting just kind of sucks.

[–] tleb@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 months ago

Probably because they were raised in the post-Soviet mafia era.

[–] tleb@lemmy.ca 22 points 4 months ago

If it was about the content creators, then Bethesda wouldn't be making a cut from it

[–] tleb@lemmy.ca -3 points 4 months ago

It really isn't that much better, instead we should be periodically stretching or exercising

[–] tleb@lemmy.ca 17 points 4 months ago (22 children)

Standing desks - stationary standing is just as bad as stationary sitting.

Blue light filter stuff - it's my understanding that there's no evidence that blue light causes eye strain.

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