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Organza Quiz posted:People are super weird about Australia's wildlife given that other countries have bears and mountain lions and poo poo. Mammals are more relatable than reptiles and sea beasts.
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Roger_Mudd posted:Mammals are more relatable than reptiles and sea beasts. We've also developed the ability and strategy to shoot bears in their bear faces, and/or drive them to extinction, which hasn't really happened with terrifying 1-inch jellyfish of doom.
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Feb 14, 2020 16:57
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Organza Quiz posted:People are super weird about Australia's wildlife given that other countries have bears and mountain lions and poo poo.
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Feb 14, 2020 17:44
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 It's about the number of venomous animals compared to the US. Also Cassowaries.
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Feb 14, 2020 18:01
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Organza Quiz posted:Similarly if anyone seriously wants to move to Australia I can help... but I will have to charge you as it is my actual job. Yeah I looked at that. I'm not sure I want to live in the outback though and it looked like that was the recruiting area. I think I would die from a platypus stabbing or something. Hieronymous Alloy fucked around with this message at 18:15 on Feb 14, 2020 |
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Feb 14, 2020 18:13
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Roger_Mudd posted:Mammals are more relatable than reptiles and sea beasts. Remember when I got in trouble in this thread for posting about killing a snake
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Feb 14, 2020 19:45
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They found that from 2008-2015, there were 1,610 animal-related fatalities in the US, with the majority of deaths the result of encounters with nonvenomous animals (57 percent). 1,600/325 million = .000004% https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180228112528.htm 4 people per million. 2008 and 2017 in Australia, 266 people died from an animal of some sort... 77 people - from horses, cows and other 'animal transport', 60 people, is just mammals (other). Next come hornets, wasps, and bees, at 27 deaths in the last 10 years. 266/24 million = .000011% https://www.sciencealert.com/what-s-the-deadliest-animal-in-australia-2018 11 people per million. Austraila is deadlier. Almost 3 times as deadly! (edit: somebody check my math)
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Feb 14, 2020 19:53
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blarzgh posted:Remember when I got in trouble in this thread for posting about killing a snake A rare show of lawyers protecting their own
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Feb 14, 2020 19:56
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blarzgh posted:They found that from 2008-2015, there were 1,610 animal-related fatalities in the US, with the majority of deaths the result of encounters with nonvenomous animals (57 percent). 2.25x as deadly, I love seeing lawyers try to do math it's the best
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Feb 14, 2020 19:57
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Also when you convert a number to a percent you take off two decimal places, and .00049% should probably be rounded up instead of down
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Feb 14, 2020 19:57
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I asked for help for a reason
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Feb 14, 2020 20:08
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You did really well for a lawyer and you should be proud E: substantively the rounding was your only error, your hiccup with the percentage conversation got cancelled out E2: in the future consider converting to basis points instead; it's easier for people to understand 0.049bps/0.11bps Hoshi fucked around with this message at 20:15 on Feb 14, 2020 |
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Feb 14, 2020 20:10
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 What's the American analog?
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blarzgh posted:They found that from 2008-2015, there were 1,610 animal-related fatalities in the US, with the majority of deaths the result of encounters with nonvenomous animals (57 percent). By not controlling for the human element, you're libelously skewing your data against AUS animals. You need to use Florida's numbers, instead of all of the US's numbers, to help factor the human element out of your calculations. e: and you're counting an 8 year span for the US, vs. a 10 year span for AUS. joat mon fucked around with this message at 21:33 on Feb 14, 2020 |
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Feb 14, 2020 21:16
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Look Sir Droids posted:
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Feb 14, 2020 21:58
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Hoshi posted:2.25x as deadly, I love seeing lawyers try to do math it's the best In law school I had an exam worth 60% of my final grade, and the points for the exam's three sections were 10, 20, 20. They gave us all 10 points to get to 60.
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Feb 14, 2020 22:07
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Hoshi posted:2.25x as deadly, I love seeing lawyers try to do math it's the best Wait, not 2.75x, 11/4? I'm a lawyer who is bad at math I just need to know how bad. Edit: gently caress me I suck at math AND reading now. Fuzzie Dunlop fucked around with this message at 01:24 on Feb 15, 2020 |
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Feb 15, 2020 01:21
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terrorist ambulance posted:Pardon power is basically king's prerogative which seems fitting honestly https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1228666350635290624?s=20
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EwokEntourage posted:overweight white person on a mobility assistance device with an ar-15 and a confederate flag yelling that foreigners are ruining this country.gif That's also Australia. Remember that it's Rupert Murdoch's home turf- imagine a political setting where the spectrum of media starts at Fox and goes right from there. Johnny Walker posted:Andertoons
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Discendo Vox posted:That's also Australia. Remember that it's Rupert Murdoch's home turf- imagine a political setting where the spectrum of media starts at Fox and goes right from there. Ehh. Our media is definitely dogwhistling trash, but if the implication is that Fox would basically be considered the most left media here and everything else just gets more right from there, that's... not really accurate. It helps that we don't have the American obsession with free speech, so we have actual defamation and hate speech laws.
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Feb 16, 2020 13:01
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"You might not think of the knitting world as a particularly political community, but you’d be wrong."
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Feb 17, 2020 02:52
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blarzgh posted:"We're REALLY going to get him this time, boys!!" Also, I forgot to quote post this after the impeachment trial vote get hosed
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Feb 17, 2020 02:57
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blarzgh posted:Also, I forgot to quote post this after the impeachment trial vote get hosed You, uh, know that no one who voted to impeach expected the conviction vote to succeed, right?
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nm posted:Will loving the poo poo out of Troika bars help or hurt my application? Yes. My Rhythmic Crotch posted:
Slightly misleading when it comes to Norway. We have a grand total of three venomous animals, of which none are even remotely lethal. Wasp, common adder and the Greater weever (which is a fish and not a great one at all). You're unlikely to ever even see the last two. I looked up statistics because I was bored, and we don't track deaths by animals. There's a huge "other" category which encompasses these and other freak stuff and it's five people... since 2014. At least one of those is by polar bear? Yeah, polar bear will kill you if it gets a chance. There. That's the most dangerous thing here. Nice piece of fish fucked around with this message at 19:29 on Feb 17, 2020 |
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Feb 17, 2020 19:14
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I'm considering buying a house, and they sent through a contract. In addition to the General Conditions (standard terms), there are a bunch of Special Conditions, two of which are: "The purchaser acknowledges that: 3.1 The Purchaser will be liable for all costs associated with connection and installation of [internet] and telecommunication; 3.2 The Purchaser must not raise any objections on account of any matter in this Special Condition" Showed a friend working in property and she just laughed.
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Feb 18, 2020 12:06
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blarzgh posted:
gently caress you for linking this
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Feb 18, 2020 14:31
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Vox Nihili posted:gently caress you for linking this Don't be such a knitwit
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Feb 18, 2020 14:37
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Everyone getting cross up in here.
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Feb 18, 2020 14:50
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You could do more to contribute than just needling everyone, Phil.
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Feb 18, 2020 14:52
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Darn. Usually this thread has me in stitches. But not today.
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Feb 18, 2020 14:54
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Phil Moscowitz posted:Everyone getting cross up in here. It's probably part of a pattern
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Feb 18, 2020 14:54
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Phil Moscowitz posted:Darn. Usually this thread has me in stitches. But not today. Now you're just spinning a whole bunch of yarn
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Feb 18, 2020 14:56
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Vox Nihili posted:gently caress you for linking this Somebody's crochety this morning... Surely in one knitting article there'd be a purl or two of wisdom. joat mon fucked around with this message at 16:05 on Feb 18, 2020 |
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Feb 18, 2020 15:57
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Whitlam posted:I'm considering buying a house, and they sent through a contract. In addition to the General Conditions (standard terms), there are a bunch of Special Conditions, two of which are: betcha that means that the last time they asked the local ISP for high-speed internet the isp asked for $50k to run fiber to their block so have fun with your dsl
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Feb 18, 2020 16:01
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evilweasel posted:betcha that means that the last time they asked the local ISP for high-speed internet the isp asked for $50k to run fiber to their block so have fun with your dsl That was my thought as well.
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Feb 18, 2020 16:11
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Nationalize ISPs and treat internet access as a utility. Nationalize the phone companies while we're at it.
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Feb 18, 2020 16:11
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joat mon posted:Surely in one knitting article there'd be a purl or two of wisdom. Well, that wool stand to reason, but all it contains is what the knitting community felt.
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Mr. Nice! posted:Nationalize ISPs and treat internet access as a utility. Nationalize the phone companies while we're at it. Alternatively, shut down the internet forever
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Kawasaki Nun posted:Alternatively, shut down the internet forever It had its chance and we're all worse for it
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Not joking when I say that I believe in 50 years people will look back on the ubiquity and indulgence of the internet in the first third of the 21st century in much the way we look back at things like leaded gasoline, tobacco use, etc. "How did they not know how bad it was for them??"
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