it’s about time we replace PE with pro wrestling

how do i apply bed

if your sample size needs to be small in order to apply the theorem, maybe it is not the best tool for understanding the behavior of the entire population. especially not if the underlying math requires the possibility of growing your sample size to infinity. (this is the “limit” part of the central limit theorem.)

central limit theorem also requires the random variables to be independent, which in this case would mean that people’s voting habits are not affected by the voting habits of other people in the sample population. this would start to cause problems for big sample sizes.

this is absolutely the kind of company that would be using the word “content” when referring to images and videos.

no better way to eliminate bureaucracy than by making new rules that everybody has to follow

how long until they come up with a reality tv show about the daily lives of everyone in trumps orbit? there’s already enough drama for at least a few seasons

what’s insane was that these could have been released earlier, but the house ethics committee has rules that stop negative reports from being released too close to an election. (source)

as if it might be a bad thing that someone doesn’t get re-elected because they were found to have done seriously unethical things.

i’ve only ever seen tankies complain about the word “tankie” being over used. i guess us non-tankies just don’t hear it very often.

there’s also this false dichotomy i’ve seen many tankies present where they try to argue that people are either liberals or tankies. it is possible to be a leftist and not support authoritarian governments.

for some reason, the article does not provide a link to the study it is describing. but i believe this is the study they are referring to.

one of the things i was most curious about is how the study defines “influencer”. the article does not mention this, but the study does:

In this study, we use the term “news influencers” to refer to individuals who regularly post about current events and civic issues on social media and have at least 100,000 followers on any of Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X (formerly Twitter) or YouTube. News influencers can be journalists who are or were affiliated with a news organization or independent content creators, but they must be people and not organizations.

so, the 20% figure does includes people who obtain their news by following journalists on youtube. however, the “key findings” section does explicitly mention that 77% of the examined news influencers have “no affiliation or background with a news organization.”

honestly, i thought all of the key findings were very interesting and that section was very accessible. here’s another highlight: the percentage is higher for adults under 30: 37% of adults under 30 get their news from an influencer.

no, that’s an influencer reading an associated press article. however, they will likely be reading it out loud on social media. and then some questions arise:

• why this article?
• are they reading the full article? if not, what parts are they omitting?
• are they adding any kind of commentary to the article? if so, is that being properly backed up with citations?

any guesses on what the hidden word is?

personally, my money is on nerevarine

i hope that one day people stop caring about what david brooks has to say

what ever happened to jd vance? rarely see that guy these days

they could be zionist antisemites

americans will do anything they can to innovate away walking

it’s not too late to get a sad lamp. they really help me out when the sun starts to set at 4.

what’s the color like at 16?

this is why i never go to amusement parks. it’s not because im too scared to get on the roller coasters. it is a completely logical and level headed decision.

do we really even need to do a background check on gaetz to know that he’s a bad idea? i’m pretty sure they’d find even more skeletons if they background checked him, but there should already be more than enough information to know he’s a bad candidate.