I use Firefox with ad blockers to watch YouTube. Chrome seems to be allowing them to block my ad blocker

Except the casino can refuse to pay out for any reason at all

Now its just the kids aging into mario kart abilities, like my niece who just asked for this for her bday

I also got into disc golf over the pandemic. I hope the sport sees a lot of growth. I like that courses don’t require much upkeep or forest clearing

same, I assume you have heard of / watched the train wreck that was Action Park?

If I add in the 85+ to the disney calculations it only makes your case worse (drives the # higher). I left it out to be nice.

Would you seriously take your family to disney as long as less than 10 people a day died there? Like get your head out of the #s for a second think with your common sense.

Lets do another really simple one. Imagine a playground near you serving kids 5-14. Are you taking your kids as long as less than 13 kids died there last year? Or are you maybe thinking its unsafe after 1 death? WHY?

You seriously are not understanding the importance of comparing representative groups and this ‘compare any slice of the country to the entire country 1:1’ method is ludicrous, nothing to do with burning man

edit: hmm the park example is complicated by the fact we don’t know how many citizens the park servers. Im finding numbers ranging all over, from 2k to 10k to much higher in cities. For this example we can use a city park with 10k annual visitors, so we would expect 1-2 deaths a year at this park and not bat an eye yes? Either way I think you get my point. Good luck

fucking hell mate, do you think selection bias is a fictional concept inapplicable to your calculations or are you going to continue to pretend that taking an entire countries population and comparing it to any sliver of the country 1:1 doesn’t fail basic representativeness analysis?

I like how you chose casino, establishments known to especially attract the 85+ cohort, which I didn’t even include in my 10 a day disney # to be nice. How many 85+ you think they got at burning man?

Do you think 10 people a day die at a single disney park behind the scenes? You’re dying on this hill?

Haha I don’t care so much about burning man as much as this method you have.

So by your math, Somewhere like disney with 50k visitors a day is still remarkably safe as long as less than 10 people a day die there?

Do you have any hospitalized people there? Because the USA has 919,649 hospital beds. Anyone needing assisted living? Because the US has 810,000 people in assisted living. Now the 70,000 number doesn’t seem so big eh?

My point is that ‘people capable of going to an event’ is already a helluva selection, especially when you compare it to the population that includes all those sick people.

Something ‘middle class’ Americans may want to notice:

When people are living in abject poverty, you are comparatively ‘rich’.

Anger at the ‘rich’ is at an all time high.

The ‘true rich’ are out of reach of the poor.

As income inequality grows, this will get worse.

check again it was up to $575 this year

Ive never been to burning man. I went to Coachella a LLOOONNGG time ago when it was hippies rolling around in the dust. Coachella ain’t that anymore, it’s instagram rich kids and tech bros. I assume the same thing has happened to burning man.

LOL you’re really running with this line of thinking. Might people who plan to go to a week-long strenuous event in the desert lead to a sample that has some selection bias? For instance, selecting out the entirety of the demographic that is currently hospitalized, currently debilitatingly ill?

In which cause you should compare mortality rates with another group like that. Not the entire rest of the age demographic (which has all those sick people you selected out).

I don’t really care either way, just found this argument kind of hilarious.

same I attribute some of my success to the fact that our computer lab teacher provided cracked versions of adobe and 3dsmax. Well over 10K in software and this is in the 90’s

Meh, how is surgery a thing? You let people just open you up and dig around your insides?

it’s a mix of need and belief in a proper vetting process. For computers there’s the additional layer that any one machine is probably low stakes. In early internet days most software was prohibitively expensive but gave you the equivalent of super powers - as a teenager / young adult with ability to take that risk you’re not going to do it?

> we also have the capability to save not only ourselves but literally every other species

yet to be shown. We assume we can turn this around

okay why doesnt the oral histories of other species count? They seem to pass down tradition and behavior for just as long, and we cannot observe their inner beliefs about more than that. So why are you assuming only humans do it?

Cetaceans have a structure in their brain that we don’t have that MIGHT allow them to experience life as a group. That is different than internet but not WORSE just because it doesnt require an external tool. Why are you obesssed with a way of being that ‘CHANGES THE WORLD’ so that you go extinct?

We’ll agree that our ‘tool intelligence’ doesn’t make us wise at least

oh okay, I’d disagree with that take but fair. I think most humans are generally unaware they are getting dumber though, and possibly from the pollution of all that ‘amazing tool creation’. A lot of the progress man made as before, we’ve been resting on our laurels lately and offloading mental tasks to technology and our species may be dumbing down

I just want to pick you peoples brains at this point.

• Humans have had internet for less than 100 years, whales have had sonar and whale song for millions of years, allowing communication and thought sharing over spaces humans weren’t capable of.
• So then, were whales smarter than humans up until the moment we gained internet?
• Internet can easily be taken away from you leaving you weak and helpless, whales can’t be separated from their internet.

Human survival strategy is very min/max glass cannon right now - we are dependent on complex, unsustainable, rapidly degrading systems for survival yet feel superior to other animals for those very same systems. Seems profoundly dumb to me in a way we fail to see because we are so obsessed with our intellect.

As I said in another comment, maybe it can be said ‘we are most intellectual’ species but its in a kind of rain man way where we lose other necessary wisdom about how to survive long term on the planet.

>Maybe content was the wrong word, animals just don’t care about advancing technology or growing.

My last point is that you literally can’t know what animals care about, and its weird you keep asserting you do. I think you mean that evolution selects based on reproduction, and thats true for humans as well. So do humans only care about reproduction? If so, then we can say they are exactly equal to animals.