RustyEarthfire

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[–] RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago (4 children)

Perhaps not every disability benefit is, but Social Security Disability Insurance and State Disability Insurance certainly are.

[–] RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

I think the "correct" usage of acronym is only when it is spoken as a word. But language evolves and all that.

You can see the tension in the way MW defines it (including the extended description). Like: here's the definition of the word, but some people use it when they actually mean initialism. This is in contrast to your more concise and cohesive definition of "[abbreviations] that take the first letter from each word". https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/acronym

[–] RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

It hard to see this as anything other than a bad faith comparison.

  1. It compares trans-oceanic LNG vs. US domestic coal
  2. It makes a lot of assumptions about inefficient and leaky extraction, processing, and transport approaches
  3. It only considers CO2 and methane ignoring other ways that LNG is far cleaner than coal

It is important to consider the entire life cycle of LNG, but a more even-handed author would conclude we should address these inefficiencies (e.g. via regulation), rather than fixating on promoting coal.

Direct link to paper: https://scijournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ese3.1934

[–] RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Ha, I love the backsplanation that they are small and yellow like corn.

[–] RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

That assumes "you" are just the conscious part. If you accept the rest of your brain (and body) as part of "you", then it's a less dramatic divide.

[–] RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world 17 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Based on what I know of Imposter Syndrome and the Dunning-Kruger effect, it seems you’re at your most competent when you feel like you’re at your least.

I'm not sure how you come to that conclusion, even with the internet meme version of the Dunning-Kruger effect. In the meme version, the incompetent think they are most competent, but I don't think it follows that the most competent would think they are least competent.

I would summarize the actual Dunning-Kruger effect as: people tend to think they are a bit above average, and actual skill factors in only slightly. Worth emphasizing that these results are over groups of people, and individuals have extreme variation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

Dunning-Kruger percentile chart

Dunning-Kruger raw score chart

[–] RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world 39 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

That's like 30 people in line. It takes half a block and a lane of the stroad to fit 30 people.

[–] RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Lemmy without politics is kinda a ghost board. There is maybe 3 or 4 new posts a day.

I think your approach of blocking any user who posts about politics is eliminating the most prolific posters when 95% of their stuff is non-political. This is not to say your approach is bad, just that it doesn't actually represent "Lemmy without politics".

[–] RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world 10 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Once you start showing formatting you will also be able to see and delete "Section Breaks" more easily, which brings in another bit of Word deep magic:

Settings for sections are at the end of the section. If you delete a section break, the previous section will start using the settings of the next section.

This is especially fun for the last section of the document. If you want it to use the settings from the previous section, you have to manually "copy" the settings by editing the good section and then Redo in the bad section.

[–] RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world 103 points 2 months ago (9 children)

For anyone wondering, this doesn't actually work, because the bananas will realize they are upside-down.

[–] RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

That's tough buddy

[–] RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

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