shello @shello@octodon.social

Please, if you share any random statistics like “this percentage of #Covid19 patients belong to this group of people”, make sure that you know what the base rate is.

Example: “70% of British people in ICU are overweight or obese”. To understand this piece of information, you need to include the context: 64% of all people in the UK are overweight or obese.

Another example: “20% of American people who contracted the #coronavirus are between the age of 20 and 44”. But 38% of the whole US population are in that range.

The urgency we all feel makes us forget that all these statistics have their own context, and we need it if we want to understand what’s going on.

And just because you read it somewhere, it doesn’t mean that your source has already checked it.

The gang is here to encourage good habits. ​

Well, mostly good habits. Tuffy is drinking the emergency beer.

On a leftist radio show there was a nurse talking about the dangers of people policing each other and following acritically any order to the letter without thinking if it actually made sense to do that. Then they discussed media treatment of people breaking quarantine and mentioned how "we are not presented with people we can emphatise with", right after talking about some people busted while setting an orgy up.

For them, examples of people to emphatise with were along the lines of people riding their bikes, going for longer walks alone, or breaking isolation "sensibly" to go assist others when no one of them is a risk group or will be exposed to risk groups.

I wonder why an hypotetical group taking lots of caution to do an orgy without exposing anyone else (each one of them isolating for 14 days after, etc) couldn't be "people to emphatise with".

Please keep in mind that I'm not endorsing any of those things, neither were them, but the wording was "emphatising" not "approving".

We still have lots to work on as leftists if we are still unconsciously buying into considering sexual behaviours or sex drive as less noble than many other human motivations. That's nothing more than sex negativity and internalised repressive moral.

Those who say that Tom Nook is a landlord must have some pretty awesome landlords. I'd love to stroll around in nature, pick up some weeds and branches and whatnot for a living, for as many hours as I feel like, never have to worry about missing a payment, and always have food and shelter.

The news about Zoom these past couple of weeks just keeps getting worse and worse 🤦

"Ex-NSA hacker finds new Zoom flaws to takeover Macs again, including webcam, mic, and root access"
https://9to5mac.com/2020/04/01/new-zoom-bugs-takeover-macs-cam-mic-root

And a Windows one too:
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/04/unpatched-zoom-bug-lets-attackers-steal-windows-credentials-with-no-warning/

@pupy gotta tell him to hippety hoppety right off your property

someone make a patch to just remove the detestable bunny man from my game

reminder that a lot of anti-autism groups, curebies, and "experts" have recently started appropriating ideas from neurodiversity paradigm

don't fall for that, for their pretty words or updated logos, they're still a for-profit industry aiming to eradicate us or sell traumagenic snake oil therapies to confused parents

listen to what the autistic community (ie autistic people) has to say, we have figured out a lot, decades before the "experts"