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  • This comment could go on any Calvin and Hobbes strip, but I just got a memory of getting the 1996 Collection as a family at Christmas and reading them all, when I was a kid. I felt immersed in a world like my own but slightly more adventurous - I would imagine that I could go and ford the river down in the woods, or ride a red cart down hills, even though I never did, and we hardly ever got enough snow to go sledding.

  • I mean literally noone is born lactose intolerant. You'd just starve.

    Genetic lactose intolerance develops some time later through a variation in gene expression. But the effects of lactose intolerance also vary more than that, because if you continue to consume milk your gut biome changes to reflect the abundance of nutrients.

  • Yeah that is important context.

    Looking at UK government stats the difference is starker here - over 100 deaths per billion passenger miles for motorcyclists, only 3 for car occupants, and 27 for pedestrians.

    The note of panic in my mum's voice when talking about the possibility of my getting a motorbike is still out of proportion though.

  • I checked the stats in my country, where 55% of contributing factors are assigned to motorcyclists in collisions involving them. Due to how this data is produced, that doesn't mean 55% of accidents involving them were found to be the fault of motorcyclists, but it means that a significant number of motorbike accidents are the fault of the rider, whichever way you slice it.

    Rates of serious injury/death are about 2000 per billion passenger miles for motorbikes, of which 100 are deaths. Haven't been able to find the same stats for GA though.

    There are arguments that comparing passenger-miles isn't reasonable for activities like GA and motorbiking which are done for pleasure as well as for transport, in which case flying looks worse.

  • If American ranchers are struggling to produce competitive beef, why is that a problem? It's not a critical good; just import it and let the industry shrink.

    If as you say it's domestic producers maintaining the price high by restricting supply, imports will encourage them to increase supply.

  • It's easier to just refer to "multiple round simultaneous impact" than to try to explain succinctly, especially since I already got the term kinda wrong (time on target is more of an umbrella category/earlier version)