there is perhaps no context in which Dunning–Kruger is more common or more deadly than driving
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there is perhaps no context in which Dunning–Kruger is more common or more deadly than driving
Yeah, I mean individual people are nuts and have always been, and Covid related damage to visual processing may be real. But when you *deprofessionalize all of the driving jobs* it turns out all the of the drivers are inexperienced. Taxi-> Uber as well as the truckers.
Somebody desperately needs to collect writings of people saying this kind of thing for the last 2000 years and make a tiktok of it
It's actually a decline of union jobs -> 94% turnover in long haul truck driver jobs. The inflation adjusted pay of truck driving has been declining since the 70s. It used to be a good job, and now they are literally all amateurs.
HOT TAKE but these aren't even see saws worth being nostalgic over. There's no murder in that spring!
My brother, we had to explain a 1/3 pound burger was bigger than a quarter pound burger and still failed
EVEN IF Americans imagine meddling in South American governments to be in the background noise of foreign policy, we ALL KNOW THAT GETTING INVOLVED IN A LAND WAR IN ASIA IS A CLASSIC BLUNDER
Today I Will Look The Burrito Man In The Eye and other stories of manifesting success
PSA: the popular pressure and widespread support was
A) the result of a massive post 9/11 propaganda campaign
and
B) AFTER W and Karl Rove had hatched their plots
Can the modern media ecosystem can brainwash people into supporting murdering brown kids in the Middle East as quickly now?
Even at a few days old, these sea anemone planulae are already covered in stinging cells! The stingers of these young Nematostella are marked with a fluorescent green.
@stowersinstitute.bsky.social
#StunningStella
That company is a delight
Theranos was a legitimate fraud and got in trouble for lying to investors about innovative tech while quietly using established tech (badly). Similar to... every AI company right now. Artificial wombs are an important step on our journey to full human parthenogenesis.
Foggy First Friday. March morning today in Chicago at sunrise as the fog rolled across the skyline.
the hot dog will be a dollar fifty until the heat death of the universe
Yellow mimic chest
IKEA is selling Mimics!
1/ What’s the price of a 1% drop in MMR vaccination rates?
According to a new report by the Common Health Coalition, it’s 17,000+ measles cases, 4,000 hospitalizations, 36 preventable deaths… and a $1.5 billion annual price tag.
Time to play another round of, "Dear Internet Friends please help Susan figure out a book she read and loved as a child but cannot for the life of her recall the title!"
1920s/30s era, British quite likely, anthropomorphic animals, a squirrel with a waistcoat lives in a tree (cozily).
Important to remember: a supermajority (67%) have confidence in career scientists at federal agencies
86% have confidence in their primary care provider
Me: "man its annoying how sensitive cells are. I mean you can *swirl their dish* and activate ERK1/2 phosphorylation! The nerve!!"
Smarter scientists: "hold my coffee, I'm gonna see if we can use that as an antiviral therapeutic strategy!"
Woke up on the wrong side of the bed and the herp gods decided to bless me. This cutie was trapped in a building so of course I had to get them back outside. Southern alligator lizard, Elgaria multicarinata.
I'd like to control for optimism bias. It seems to me Canadians might just be more ethical as well.
Hearing Chris Wright talk about coal always reminds me of The Pigeon
Clean tech, and many others, are trying to figure out whether progress on good goals can be made under this regime. I don't care for the current rhetorical strategy, but there's a long tradition of marketing investments in energy technology for whatever party is in charge.
But what about social media?
Today the 12yo decided it’s Tripod Fish Awareness Day!
He says I’m not to call it the “fish on stilts” but it really does ‘stand’ like that on its three
extended rigid fin rays.
“…the version of McCarthyism we offer our students should restore the powerful and inspiring stories of the activists and organizations who were its victims.”
Things like "the number of people dying in a war" has always been something where people have massive motivations to lie. Its not knowable in real time, and AI algorithms convincing you to watch carnage unfold are going to rip your brain to shreds after your soul is consumed.
