animist,
@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

heartlessevil,

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

count_borrell,

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.

RetroEvolute,
@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,
@danielton@outpost.zeuslink.net avatar

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

j4k3,
@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.

nothacking,

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

substill,

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

socsa,

The infamous FBI crime statistics are probably the big one

CompN12,

Newer cars are designed to crush more and easier than older cars.

Gangreless,

I feel like crumple is a more accurate word here

Firefly7,
@Firefly7@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Dihydrogen Monoxide, commonly used in laundry detergent and other cleaning supplies, is also present in Subway sandwiches

Dirk,
@Dirk@lemmy.ml avatar

It can even be found in unborn babies!

madmaurice,
@madmaurice@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

They even put it into the water supply.

frap129,

FACT: 100% of people that consume Dihydrogen Monoxide die.

__forward__,

Wrong, a mortality of 94.5% has been shown not even close to 100%.

pancakes,
@pancakes@sh.itjust.works avatar

One could say that people who haven’t died yet don’t have a cause of death yet so they can’t be counted.

Firefly7,
@Firefly7@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

People on HRT have a significantly higher mortality rate than people not on HRT

davidgro,

This one is great, I absolutely believe that conservatives would (and I’m sure do) pass it around like some profound statement.

suspicious_dog,

I don’t get it… I dumb.

Firefly7,
@Firefly7@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

HRT is short for Hormone Replacement Therapy, a treatment many transgender people use to feel more aligned with their gender identity. It’s been proven to increase mental health, and has a low regret rate. However, it is correlated with higher mortality because trans people overall have a higher mortality rate and HRT is primarily used by trans people.

A more extreme example of the same thing would be “People on chemotherapy have a higher chance of dying from cancer than people not on chemotherapy.” It’s true, but only because people without cancer don’t tend to enter chemotherapy.

wumpus,

HRT was originally used to treat menopausal women at risk for osteoporosis, who are at higher risk due to being old.

I'm aware that transgenders also have a higher than otherwise expected mortality (whether taking hormones or not), but they may not be numerous enough to move the needle against millions of old women.

dQw4w9WgXcQ,

You can see the moon from The Great Wall of China.

JackGreenEarth,

But the opposite is not true! At least, not with the naked eye.

RIPSync,

Wearing your seatbelt increases your chances of dying from cancer.

pizza_pineapple,

How?

CmdrShepard,

You’ll live longer.

GiantRobotTRex,

If you die from cancer you can’t die from a car wreck.

Kingofthezyx,

Other way around, for the purposes of this joke, but yes.

owenfromcanada,
@owenfromcanada@lemmy.world avatar

It increases your chance of drowning, but not for the reason people usually think.

Holli25,

This one is great! Made me think way too much

Lubricate7931,

human and chimp DNA is 98.8 percent the same

unknowing8343,

I don’t know the exact number, but, come on! Look at those guys! They are basically hairy humans with a slightly less complex system of communication.

Lubricate7931,

Yep but the point is the 1.2% represent millions of gene pairs and the ones we share are not always present or expressed in the same way. So just sharing genes doesn’t necessarily mean were the same or they do the same thing.

www.amnh.org/…/dna-comparing-humans-and-chimps

Yeah chimps are one of our very few (very very) distant cousins left. But i think they rip more faces off than us

news.com.au/…/1bf74adbd1cf2c9b072577a2abd80253

blakeashleyjr,

You are much more likely to die in a hospital than anywhere else.

Gangreless,

I don’t think this one is true, unless you mean it a different way than I’m interpreting it.

www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmc1911892#:~:tex…)%20to%20534%2C714%20(20.8%25).

(This is the US)

atheos,
@atheos@lemmy.atheos.org avatar

Wait until you hear the fatality rate for hospice residents

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