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substill, in What's a true fact that is so misleading it's borderline misinformation?

There is a greater than 5% chance that your death will be someone’s fault.

chtk,
@chtk@feddit.nl avatar

What about the other 5% though?!

substill,

Non-preventable deaths are about 95%.

JackGreenEarth,

If you believe in God, it’s a 100% chance

allan, in Can someone still viewing Reddit explain how it is doing as of right now in terms of content quality and engagement?

Nice try u/spez

nothacking, in What's a true fact that is so misleading it's borderline misinformation?

This is minor one, but annoys me how comnmon this is: light is made out of litle packets of energy called photons.

Here is a good video on the topic: youtube.com/watch?v=SDtAh9IwG-I (Too lazy didn’t watch: Light is an electromagnetc wave and is is not quantized. Only the interactions between atoms and light are quantized)

JoelJ,

I was under the impression that electromagnetic radiation is both a wave and a particle, and it’s known as the “wave particle duality”.

antim0ny,

Similarly, when people talk about electrons “moving through wires” or other conductors. The electrons are not moving, they are passing energy from one atom to the next but the electrons themselves are not moving.

Spandex_Nightmare,

Well they do move, but just incredibly slowly.

…stackexchange.com/…/speed-of-electrons-in-a-wire

davidgro,

In DC they actually are moving, but it’s something like a few millimeters per hour on average

6mementomori,

huh, I thought quantization of light(or energy really) came from Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle

minorsecond, in If you could satisfy your daily nutrition and caloric needs with one food in particular, what food would you happily eat for the rest of your life?

Chicken fried steak

Resistentialism,

Chicken fried steak? How’d he manage that, then?

minorsecond,

Ha!

If you aren’t American and haven’t tried it, give it a shot! It’s so good.

foodnetwork.com/…/chicken-fried-steak-with-gravy-…

Resistentialism,

I do actually have a cookbook that contains a load of recipes. And I’m 99% sure it’s in there. It’s one that I really want to try, but, money has been quite tight and I wanted to buy something so I’ve saved for that. It’s definitely in my list for when I can afford it.

Steak is like my favourite meat. And I don’t mind friend chicken, not my favourite. But I do believe it has potential. Thank you for the link, and I’ll compare them both.

j4k3, in What's a true fact that is so misleading it's borderline misinformation?
@j4k3@lemmy.world avatar

If you have a complicated health issue or emergency, the legislative branch of government dictates your potential treatment.

(Most reputable practitioners will temper their recommendations based upon the professional risk involved.)

lotanis,

This is maybe true in the US. Don’t forget that people from all over the world are on here.

j4k3,
@j4k3@lemmy.world avatar

Still holds true either way. If the doctor is or is not at great risk of legal consequences, it will greatly impact your care. I have a complicated case with lots of small spinal damage that all adds up to partial disability. All reputable neurosurgeons here spend five minutes reading the radiology summary from a MRI and walk away from anything that is not easy like my case. It is just too much legal liability to take on hard cases. If you live in a region where it is safer for the doctor to treat difficult cases with impunity, you will likely get better, or at least more, care. In the real world, the legal system plays a major role in medical treatments. No one is throwing away or risking their entire career on your case. Skipping context, your healthcare really is determined by Judges either way. Learning this the hard way sucks.

breadsmasher, in What's the best ChatGPT app?
@breadsmasher@lemmy.world avatar

Either the chatgpt website on desktop, or the official chatgpt iOS app

PeepinGoodArgs, in What's the best ChatGPT app?

App? Uh…idk about app, per se.

Perplexity.ai is a search engine, it’s like Google on steroids. I’m researching online graduate programs, and I like how I can ask for tables to compare different programs side by side easily. With Google, I’d have to manually create that.

Perplexity.ai has an app, if that counts…

RetroEvolute, in What's a true fact that is so misleading it's borderline misinformation?
@RetroEvolute@lemmy.world avatar

Light roasted coffee has more caffeine than dark roasted coffee.

Technically, per bean, more of the caffeine is cooked out of the dark roast. However, other things are also roasted out of a dark roast to the point that the individual beans are also lighter and smaller. When brewing coffee, usually you either weigh your dose of beans out, or you use a scoop for some consistency. Either method will result in more dark roast beans ultimately making it into the brew than would with a (larger, heavier) light roast.

Typically, this more than cancels out the reduced caffeine content per bean, so a brew of dark roast coffee still typically has more caffeine in it.

match,
@match@pawb.social avatar

This is actually very interesting and I had no idea. Thanks!

appstore_tester,

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Acetamide,
@Acetamide@lemmy.world avatar

If I remember correctly, dark roast was also originally devised to hide bad-quality coffee beans. Nowadays it is often implied that darker roasts are better, which actually isn’t necessarily the case.

Fenzik,

Implied where? All the coffee snobs ik ow drink lighter roasts and derogatorily call dark roasts “supermarket coffee”

suspicious_dog,

Can confirm. Source: am coffee snob.

jayknight,

Dark roasts have a more consistent taste/flavor and it has a longer shelf life, so it’s easier to know what you’re getting. If you want to taste the variety of flavors coffee can have, you’ll go for fresher lighter roasts.

sajran,

This is actually very interesting and I had no idea. Thanks!

Badass_panda,

This is actually very interesting and I had no idea. Thanks!

danielton,
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Yup, I had to explain this to so many people when I sold coffee. Nobody believed me at all. I explained that dark roast had more of the caffeine cooked out of it.

sajran,

This is actually very interesting and I had no idea. Thanks!

sajran,

This is actually very interesting and I had no idea. Thanks!

sajran,

This is actually very interesting and I had no idea. Thanks!

RegalPotoo,
@RegalPotoo@lemmy.world avatar

James Hoffman did a great video on this, and yes, kinda. It’s complicated.

youtu.be/etnMr8oUSDo

count_borrell, in What's a true fact that is so misleading it's borderline misinformation?

I’ve never lost a professional MMA match

davidgro,

The Seattle Mariners are the only team in the league to have never lost a World Series game

substill,

Neither have the Seattle SuperSonics.

heartlessevil, in What's a true fact that is so misleading it's borderline misinformation?

The introduction of seatbelt legislation lead to an increase in nonfatal vehicular injuries

animist, in What's a true fact that is so misleading it's borderline misinformation?
@animist@lemmy.one avatar

When people say a politician “raised taxes.” More often than not it’s a tax that does not apply to 99.99% of the population and they raised it from 0.000001% to 0.000002%

But boy do those campaign ads look good

SgtSilverLining, in Where are some good places online to reliably find a job?
@SgtSilverLining@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

See if your area has staffing agencies. They’re totally free, you can sign up for as many as you want, and the recruiter does all the legwork for you. Most offer permanent positions and health insurance.

Someonelol, in Do Japanese toilets live up to the hype?

I was in Japan for two weeks and at first I thought I really liked them. The ones I used had heated seats, ran speakers with the sound of water to cover up any uncomfortable sounds others may hear, and had the all-important bidet. The one downside that made me get tired of them though was the small toilet hole. The toilet seat itself had most of those gadgets embedded in it and thus took up quite a bit of room and I’m used to the long type of seat with an opening at the front. I didn’t have a comfortable position for both by butt and penis to fit comfortably without a bit of an ab workout so they got old for me pretty quickly. I recommend just sticking to an installed bidet if you’re larger than the average Japanese man.

Illecors, in If you could satisfy your daily nutrition and caloric needs with one food in particular, what food would you happily eat for the rest of your life?

Omlette du fromage, probably. Although nothing tastes good for eternity.

executive_chicken,

“Say it again, Dexter”

mizu6079, in I need to survive for 3 days without pooping, and eating as little as possible. I can pee, but not very often. It can't take up too much space. What food do I pack?
@mizu6079@vlemmy.net avatar

Update because I still get one or two comments in my inbox daily asking me about this thing.

Yes, I did succeed.

No, I’m not telling anyone what all of this was about.

I got constipated after the thing was over and made a post asking for help.

The promised picture of my porcelain throne: https://vlemmy.net/pictrs/image/a4c98c35-2653-4af6-921e-ffd7cae33035.webp

codyofficial,

You’re a lemmy legend.

Albinoss,

Lemgend.

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