Is it ironic that all the survivors also happen to be the ones who don’t understand survivorship bias?
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usualsuspect191@lemmy.cato
World News@lemmy.world•'It doesn’t catch fire': Why China’s "fireproof" sodium battery could be the breakthrough that makes EVs safer than ICE carsEnglish
1·6 hours agoAgain, talking about safety, not fires. Not only does number of fires not necessarily mean more dangerous: the fires could be on average smaller and/or easier to escape from, or maybe they tend to happen while unoccupied (block heater fires for example) etc. but also EVs could be more dangerous in other ways (they are heavier so maybe harder to avoid certain types of incidents?) so it’d be a wash even though they’re less likely to burn.
Additionally, rates are a better way of looking at these things I agree, but ignoring sample size and use case can miss part off the story. That might not be free case here, it’s just worth keeping in mind.
‘Man’ is often used in the same way as ‘mankind’
Yes, which is why without the “a” it doesn’t work. “A small step for mankind, one giant leap for mankind” is nonsensical.
He was saying he (a man) was literally taking a step with his leg, but it was a figuratively large step for the species because of where/how he was taking that step.
The beauty of a time machine though is even if you take a really long time to build it, you can just go back and build it faster.
It “works” in that we know what he meant, but it literally doesn’t work without the “a”.
Didn’t NASA confirm a little while back that it was likely a transmission issue?
Edit: hmmm, maybe not

Didn’t NASA confirm a little while back that it was likely a transmission issue?
usualsuspect191@lemmy.cato
World News@lemmy.world•'It doesn’t catch fire': Why China’s "fireproof" sodium battery could be the breakthrough that makes EVs safer than ICE carsEnglish
1·12 hours agoOf course, but we’re talking safety here. The claim is that ICE vehicles are less safe than EVs. I’m wondering how that is since all of the safety features will be essentially the same.
If you’re saying one has a higher risk of fire injury I’d love to see the stats on that as fires for either type are pretty rare.
usualsuspect191@lemmy.cato
World News@lemmy.world•'It doesn’t catch fire': Why China’s "fireproof" sodium battery could be the breakthrough that makes EVs safer than ICE carsEnglish
21·1 day agoWait, how? Aren’t they essentially the same except heavier?
Better than before the call
usualsuspect191@lemmy.cato
History Memes@piefed.social•One more invasive species bro just one moreEnglish
8·4 days agoPerhaps she’ll die
usualsuspect191@lemmy.cato
Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Strange things are afoot at the Walter Reed
3·4 days agoI’m not saying it’s completely correct but just suspiciously better than usual. Like, a student that always gets Ds and Fs getting a B-
usualsuspect191@lemmy.cato
Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Strange things are afoot at the Walter Reed
74·5 days agoPunctuation and spelling is suspiciously correct to be from the actual president…
Well now I just look unhinged
You could? K, well then I’ll be the weird fan pressure and expectations
Twenty-thousand years of this, seven more to go
Ohhhhh. Needed to use the ramen-head pic so I knew what era it was. Thought it was something about ruining the world tour

Poor Guy, that was his retirement bird seed