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[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 months ago

The Kremlin has denied any state involvement.

Of course they would.

Putin called Navalny's demise "sad"

Children being taken from their families and trafficked to Russia is also sad(and a war crime), and yet Putin does nothing about that. Somehow I don't think he's actually all that sad about Navalny.

said he had been ready to hand the jailed politician over to the West in a prisoner exchange provided Navalny never return to Russia. Navalny's allies said such talks had been under way.

It's an awful coincidence that the moment they decide to start considering releasing him, that he dies, isn't it? Nevermind the fact that he'd at this point been sentenced to over 20 years in Russian prison and a mere 2 months prior to his death was secretly sent to an arctic circle prison that is essentially a death camp, with none of his team knowing where he was for weeks. No no, forget ALL of those facts and trust Daddy Putin at his word that they were totally going to release him if he hadn't died when he did.

What a load of bullshit. At best, they knew Navalny wasn't doing good and were hoping to release him before he died so they could wipe their hands clean of it. Realistically though, what happened was always the plan.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Jokes on them, ublock origin still works just fine for me.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago (2 children)

If it takes over the video it would be. I pause YT videos all the time to read something that didn't stay on screen long enough.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Yep, nvidia's linux drivers are notoriously jank.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

There is some truth to it, but there's also just the fact that some people's eyes are bad enough that they need glasses to fully function in modern society, but not so bad that they couldn't survive in the wild without them.

Me for example. I need glasses to drive, I can't read street signs otherwise, and I need them at work, but I otherwise usually don't wear them. The only thing better eyesight would meaningfully help me with in the wild is navigation and spotting hidden animals quicker, and even then it'd really only help with snakes. Any other ambush predator I'd be likely to encounter in my region is big enough that spotting it a few seconds sooner wouldn't really help.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

That is NOT the definition of an outlier. There IS no set mathematical definition of an outlier, in fact. What is considered an outlier is greatly determined by what the dataset actually is. Please do more research on what an outlier actually is, even the wikipedia page on outliers is surprisingly high quality(aka has good sources, read those), so it's not hard.

That all being said, let's use your rigid definition. There have been approximately 100 billion humans to have ever lived, from now until all the way back 200,000-300,000 years ago when homo sapiens first emerged. The absolute oldest humans to ever live(ignoring Mr.Immortal) made it to about 120. Mr.Immortal has to be human to be factored into the calculations of human lifespan, so they are at the absolute MOST 300,000 years old.

Now, let's go ahead and say that all 100 billion humans lived to that maximum age of 120. Obviously not even remotely the case, but this is best case scenario here. The mean of a dataset is found by adding all of the numbers in the dataset together and then dividing by the number of data points within the set. So in this case it would be "(120(100,000,000,000) + 300,000) ÷ 100,000,000,001)"

Now if you do the math on that, you find that even with Mr.Immortal included and every human living the absolute longest life possible, the mean is... 120.0000029988.

Now tell me, what is closer to that number, 300,000 or the actual average lifespan of humans(70 something)? It's not even close, and since the rate of population expansion keeps increasing, Mr.Immortal would have to wait for humanity to die out before the mean could ever increase enough to make US the outliers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

Uhhhh..... no? The immortal guy would be the outlier, and even then only if they've been around for a long time already. They could be in their 30's, in which case they won't become an outlier for like 80-90+ more years.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Piracy? The game is free?!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Kissinger died a few days ago

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Bullshit it doesn't happen in the west. 12.8% of US households were considered food insecure in 2022, with 5.1% of that being considered to have VERY low food security(Source). Over 20,000 Americans died of malnutrition in 2022, more than double the number in 2018(Source).

There's also nearly 30 vacant homes for every 1 homeless person in the US, so there's plenty of room, too. Nobody needs a 2nd home when over half a million people don't even have one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

So your whole point is a slippery slope fallacy. Gotcha.

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