Pretty much anything related to statistics and probability. People have gut feelings because our minds are really good at finding patterns, but we’re also really good at making up patterns that don’t exist.
The one people probably have most experience with is the gambler’s fallacy. After losing more than expected, people think they’ll now be more likely to win.
I also like the Monty Hall problem and the birthday problem.
The prime minister also made a series of new commitments to Trump, including a promise to appoint a new fentanyl “czar.” And he promised to list Mexican cartels, one of the top purveyors of fentanyl and other drugs in Canada and the U.S., as terrorists under Canadian law.
I can almost hear how that conversation went.
“YOU HAVE TO APPOINT A FENTANYL CZAR”
“uhhh alright”
“AND DECLARE MEXICAN CARTELS TERRORISTS”
“sure thing, Donald, can you remove the tariffs now?”
“ONLY UNTIL I COME UP WITH SOMETHING ELSE”
Tim Hortons isn’t Canadian but New York Fries is. What a country!
The government has also put out a press release on their website.
The first phase of our response will include tariffs on $30 billion in goods imported from the U.S., effective February 4, 2025, when the U.S tariffs are applied. The list includes products such as orange juice, peanut butter, wine, spirits, beer, coffee, appliances, apparel, footwear, motorcycles, cosmetics, and pulp and paper. A detailed list of these goods will be made available shortly.
Minister LeBlanc also announced that the government intends to impose tariffs on an additional list of imported U.S. goods worth $125 billion. A full list of these goods will be made available for a 21-day public comment period prior to implementation, and will include products such as passenger vehicles and trucks, including electric vehicles, steel and aluminum products, certain fruits and vegetables, aerospace products, beef, pork, dairy, trucks and buses, recreational vehicles, and recreational boats.
Classified info can’t be shared on Twitter?? What is even the point!?
Apparently putting all your eggs into the “Fuck Trudeau” basket fails when Trudeau is no longer your opponent.
Yes. The graphics card in particular is one of the best on the market and the same one I have. It’s also a decent price when converted to Canadian Dollars.
Pens for $100. Reminds me of the Mitch Hedberg joke. “I bought an expensive pen because I was tired of not caring when I lost it.”
Poilievre figured out that you don’t need to pass laws to be a successful politician. All you have to do is go viral on social media for hot takes and owning the libs.
They have rules (PDF) posted on their site. You’re not allowed to be a registered member for another party. You also have to follow the rules of their constitution (PDF) which says you can be kicked out for not supporting the party.
Unfortunately, Pierre Poilievre just said in an interview that he doesn’t see anything wrong with Trump’s executive order because there are only two genders.
Lemmy.world has a lot of users and more users means more downvotes. It also happens to have a lot of news and political communities which attracts a lot of strong opinions.
Personally, I find the only function of downvotes is to discourage contributing and discourse, and that seems antithetical to what this platform is supposed to be about.
It’s what we in the biz would refer to as a “grower”, which is in contrast to a “shower”.
I’m not entirely familiar with the controversy, but from your link it appears that the Lemmy.world admin team announced a moderation policy that didn’t go over too well and now they’re reconsidering.
When someone runs a Lemmy instance, they are the administrators of the instance and have full control over everything that happens on it. By default, users can create accounts and communities on the instance. The user that creates a community is the moderator of that community and can control what gets posted within it. There’s an overlap of authority between the instance admin and the community mod, as they both have the ability to decide what content gets posted, and sometimes that creates issues.
The issue here seems to be that the Lemmy.world admin team doesn’t want community mods “creating narratives” by removing posts they do not agree with. In their rescinded announcement, they give an example that if a user makes a post in a community about how the Earth is flat, the community mod shouldn’t be allowed to remove it. Instead, the community must respond to the post with debate or downvotes. Mods who remove these posts, instead of allowing debate, would be in violation of the instance admin policy and would be stripped of their moderation powers by the admins. The moderator of !unpopularopinion@lemmy.world (and some other community mods) blocked new posts to their community as a protest to the admin decision (which is now on hold).
I know you weren’t sure about this comment but I took the time to read it and I just wanted to let you know that after doing so I’d say you definitely made the wrong choice in posting it. I used to think any contribution is fine since Lemmy and its communities are small and they need active users in order to grow but your comment is really making me reconsider. I guess what I’m trying to say is thank you.
In functional programming, everything is an expression (of frustration).
Damn, really sucks that Canadians have pride in their country.