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Long term lemmy dot world user, left after their anti communism and created accounts at lemmygrad as well as dot ee

Lemmy world admins are doing a disservice with creating a firewall for hundred thousand users to the idea of and work done by the lemmy developers.

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Cake day: August 2nd, 2023
  • VolatileExhaustPipe@lemmygrad.mltoFuck Cars@lemmy.ml•You’re 17 times more likely to die traveling the same distance in a car than on a trainEʋegbe
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    1 year ago

    and they’re still really unlikely

    1 in 1000 is not really unlikely if it is in regards to your life ending.

    However even taking your number it would lead to devastating pictures.

    2 married people with 4 grandparents 1 aunt 3 friends and 3 kids means every year 22±5 out of a small 1000 family neighbourhood will be affected by car deaths.

    Assuming that a relevant time period is from the birth of a child till it is 30 and therefore might have had a child of their own, so 30 years we get that around 66%±10% of families will be affected. Instead of only 1-3 families during that time.

    You did not lift the veil of ignorance, you created a new veil of diffusion.

    It would mean that two out of three families would lose a close person within a 30 year generation due to cars, instead of only a small percentage. This is the power of the 17 times!

    The alternative of train rides would mean that within a generation virtually no family is affected by car deaths.

  • VolatileExhaustPipe@lemmygrad.mltoFuck Cars@lemmy.ml•You’re 17 times more likely to die traveling the same distance in a car than on a train
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    1 year ago

    There is quite a bit wrong with your comment. The odds don’t change whether you give them in km or billion kms. However “the odds of dying on each of these” is wrong: Those are not the odds.

    As you wrote what you wrote it would mean that only 2 people in the whole US population of 300 million would die on a car.

    (annualized) death rate was 1.66 per 10,000 vehicles

    The 17times more likely is telling the truth. Of course you could do look at miles consumed per mode of transport, but the point will remain that trains are much more safer (and some people die on them rather by old age, than accidents).

    In addition the way you present the numbers with leading zeroes means you have no academic experience in the field of data presentation. Which shows.

  • VolatileExhaustPipe@lemmygrad.mltoUnpopular Opinion@lemmy.world•Voting only for people from [insert political party] for local positions is idiotic.
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    1 year ago

    Wow, a lot to unpack here. I will ignore the US centricity.

    The idea that people and parties don’t somehow interact and in part align is absurd. Besides that parties have working groups and experts for various topics, it is only a special brand of persons who think they can alone in their chamber create better outcome than if they would speak to affected people and experts.

    Besides that being in a party means that you are part of a multi faction battle within the party, this means you can asses how a person acts and who they align with (same is true in regards to not being part of opponent parties).

    Then plenty of city councils and mayors are quite relevant, even in the small a lot of decision can fuck some people over quite a bit. To further my point you have to deliver some data though, which region are you living in / which region are you talking about when you mean city councils / majors etc. don’t matter.

    Finally especially in the small big economic issues matter. However in many local elections the two parties lead to results that are bad for workers, marginalized etc. since the parties are right centrists and don’t really care how to better the lives for those and how to keep our planet alive. Which would need a switch from the capitalist imperial hegemony we got now.

    For more inspiration do go and talk with people from Rojava and read up on Jineology as example.