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  • It’s interesting you bring up pascal’s wager, because the first time was introduced to me it was basically a clear-cut example of a logical fallacy.

    Probably because it is a clear cut example of a logical fallacy. The whole thing was an exercise in question begging via it's unstated assumptions.

  • does drinking sparkling water like clear American or something count as drinking actual water?
  • The idea that soda and similar sugary beverages aren't hydrating is just plain wrong. They are, it's just that it's not healthy to drink them in anywhere near the quantities you would need to maintain hydration using them.

  • Tesla exaggerated EV range so much that drivers thought cars were broken
  • The other manufacturers the range is actually achievable if you drive efficiently.

    I know Ford was conservative enough that I can come close to the official rating on my Mach-E despite not driving at all efficiently.

  • [image] Cars are an incredibly inefficient way to move people
  • Ironically, in some ways it's actually a lot better place to live now than it was back then purely because of ecommerce, but the jobs issue is even worse now that it was back then, because all the farm work is now controlled by megacorps instead of individual families.

  • Reddit undeleting comments and hiding them
  • Any script or service you used can only access the most recent 1000 comments in your history.

    This isn't quite 100% true. Shreddit supports getting its comment list from a GDPR request, and if you do that, then it CAN access the older comments and delete them, it just doesn't have any other way than that data request file to know about their existence.

  • Reddit undeleting comments and hiding them
  • The fact that they are too old to show up in your profile is WHY it can't delete them. The only way to delete those automatically is to feed in a GDPR data request into a tool like Shreddit that supports getting its comment list from that source rather than the profile.

  • [image] Cars are an incredibly inefficient way to move people
  • How large is large? How are people getting goods at all living hundreds of miles away from a population center?

    Usually you consolidate all your errands into one trip every week or two where you buy everything you need at the larger town of a few tens of thousands of people.

    My grandmother lived in rural Kansas, and her town had a grocery store and a gas station. Anything else was a 3 hour drive to buy.

  • [image] Cars are an incredibly inefficient way to move people
  • The larger city area will often be hundreds of miles away with not enough population in between to have more than one or two people at most in any given bus even stopping at multiple small towns. Mass transit it great in cities, but it desperately needs population density to be efficient.

  • My Father In Law’s Deathbed confession – what can I do to help?
  • Not in this chain, but it can likely be determined from your comment history by anyone who cares enough to put effort into it. A quick, less than a minute scan through that was enough to figure out that you live in the UK, and that you lived in Edinburgh during the first decade of this century.

  • Mozilla officially opposes Web Enviroment Integrity API (DRM for web pages proposal from Google)
  • If they can get it on iPhone, it's game over.

    While this is true, I struggle to understand how Apple would stand to gain from implementing this unless it had already become a widespread standard. It's also an opportunity for more privacy focused marketing if they oppose it, just like they do with government attempts to force them to implement backdoors into iOS.

  • Stanford researchers find Mastodon has a massive child abuse material problem
  • THEN, after calling them up and explaining the situation, they apologized and said they'd dismiss the charge--which they failed to do

    That sounds about right. When I was in college I got a speeding ticket halfway in between the college town and the city my parents lived in. Couldn't afford the fine due to being a poor college student, and called the court and asked if an extension was possible. They told me absolutely, how long do you need, and then I started saving up. Shortly before I had enough, I got a call from my Mom that she had received a letter saying there was a bench warrant for my arrest over the fine

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