Don Piano

To be clear: the direction I’d like to see isn’t ignoring larger-scale changes but embracing that these things are linked. Companies don’t burn fuel for fun, but for profit (or non-capitalist modes of resource allocation - if the central party committee decides to satiate the people’s hunger for meat and cars, that’s also a problem). And the profit there comes from all of us, individually as well as collectively. So action against that probably should also happen on both levels.

I’m being a bit annoying about it because the companies don’t burn all that crap for fun but, as you laid out, for our collective consumption patterns. I developed the impression that the whole “x companies do y% of emissions!” thing, similar to “no ethical consumption” reminders tends to fulfill a function not aimed at motivating larger-scale changes (e.g. banning animal agriculture wholly instead of making an individual choice to not consume em; banning ICE cars from being produced/sold while creating comprehensive public transport instead of merely biking to work yourself) but at detaching oneself from the role we do actually play in society. (Also, smaller/individual scale weirdoes are a good source of activists that can radiate social structures out into general society)

No, why do they produce all the emissions?

Huh, odd, why do they do this?

Horrible news tbh

Just sing Gwar - Sick of You, unchanged

Or you could pour river water down your socks, it’s quick, it’s easy, and it’s free!

See also: Skoptsy

Correct, some contracts cannot be done. Depending on the specifics, the illegal parts of the contract are unenforceable, or the entire thing is null and void. Employers often hate this, because it limits the exploitation they can enact upon employees.

No, it’s not. Standard error of the mean estimate is SD/sqrt(n-1), so it depends on the signal/effect to noise ratio how much you can learn from it. SE of the mean difference for a between subjects design is slightly different but not miles off from that. You can squeeze even more info out of it by using within subjects designs.

What makes you think a sample size of 50 is irrelevant?

Lovecraft was especially racist by the standards of his time, though. https://www.reddit.com/r/writing/comments/1897rk2/was_lovecraft_racist_even_by_the_standards_of_his/

Antiemetics prevent you from puking. It’s the antimemetics division which doesn’t exist.

Good author, too, iirc. I think this story’s also by them: https://qntm.org/mmacevedo

Ah, a game of Unknown Arnies.

If you want I can try to put half a minute into an attempt so you can check the box. I can throw in a pitch for flattening eastern germany (bavaria to Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) for good measure, if you like.

Hey now, let’s not reduce him to his being a self-proclaimed “biological determinist” on gender.

He also quoted/referenced racists for his stances. (E.g. “Nits make lice” from Chivington, who killed Cheyenne people indiscriminately, gygaxed as a justification for why its lawfully good to kill orc babies https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/dtpgim/gygax_on_lawful_good/ )

Oop, a repeat comment, sorry

Werther’s is a German candy and at least popular in Europe and the US

Root beer would be cool to be more popular in Europe, I’d like more selection here…

Great song!

How’s the weather in Tyrol these days, Anton?

Could also be interesting what shape the change took. Is it a change in the proportion of people who select 1 and 10? Is is basically normally distributed but the mean shifts? Or both the mean and the variance go down?

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41582-025-01106-6

Abstract: “Aspects of modern society, such as artificial lighting and rigid schedules, create ‘social jetlag’ — a mismatch between biological chronotypes and societal demands. This circadian misalignment particularly affects evening chronotypes, leading to sleep deprivation, mental health issues and physical disorders. Flexible schedules and environmental modifications could restore natural sleep patterns and improve well-being.”