Pretty sure the staff are just giving guests the figurines and then management are surprised that guests thought they were gifts.

They’re completely irrelevant to the average person.

If you want absolute perfection then sure, stick with Chrome but implying Firefox on GrapheneOS is insecure is misinformation.

A ghost community doesn’t really affect anyone.

But if people do want bustling communities they just need to give them broader appeal and only splinter into niches when the demand arises.

For example rather than creating a community for a specific British 1960s sci-fi TV show. An existing retro TV community is probably sufficient, or failing that a general TV community.

OP wants to store all of their porn collection in RAM

24.83 fatalities in 2019 and 25.95 in 2018 per 100 million miles ridden on motorcycle according to the source of the other article: https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/812979.pdf

If we take the value for personal flights:

21.1 fatal accidents per million flight hours

I’m going to assume 125 mph as I’m skeptical of your 145 mph figure.

= 21.1 fatal per 125 million miles

= 16.88 fatal per 100 million miles of personal flights

I’d basically conclude that personal flights and motorbike are in the same ballpark whether you’re looking at hours or miles.

Motorcycle:

16 to 18 fatal motorcycle accidents per million hours ridden

Personal flights:

21.1 fatal accidents per million flight hours

I’m really surprised at that.

Thinking about it though most bikers I know are young, have good reflexes and are mostly using a motorbike for commuting or travelling which is probably lower risk than the cliche teenage fool on a superbike my mind jumped to.

By contrast, the vast majority of light aircraft pilots I know are 60+, many 70+ with extensive health issues, heart problems and likely comparatively poor reflexes.

corporate aviation – the world of bizjets – is relatively safe. This sector only saw 0.48 fatal accidents per million flight hours from 2012 to 2021

General aviation overall:

9.5 fatal crashes per million flight hours

No, I would agree that comparing by hour is reasonable. Most light aircraft use (in my area at least) is generally recreational. People are flying because they enjoy the hobby rather than because they have a destination in mind, therefore they’ll fly for a long duration but the distance travelled might not be far

Plus planes are checked before every use, and very few people are flying light aircraft in a reckless manner.

I’d be very surprised if there were any stats to backup a claim that light aircraft are as dangerous as motorcycles.

I’m honestly surprised it hasn’t already become rampant.

If you don’t want to maintain your own library why does it matter whether it has DRM?

That’s basically what OP said isn’t it?

You see a white dude smoking a joint so you wink at them and move on.

You see a black dude in a car so you put your hand on your holster, immediately your training tells you that you should sense the smell of weed, you approach aggressively make multiple conflicting demands in rapid succession, draw your weapon etc etc.

Later that day you see a white dude smoking a joint so you wink at them and move on.

Stop discriminating on pointless metrics that may actually be harmful

• people from minority backgrounds are less likely to have had access to libraries and reading resources growing up. Thus less likely to read for pleasure.
• Men are more likely to favour Sci fi than women.

Your employer doesn’t give a fuck about you. You only exist to make them profit. Just pick the most talented individual and stop discriminating based on bullshit.

If everyone puts wind turbines on the balconies they might end up blowing the building over

It’s easy to gamble if money isn’t yours.

To my knowledge Musk is gambling with his own money, not hedge fund capital or something.

If your day to day survival depends on every dollar, then you don’t have the freedom to dick around with investments.

But, yes, this is correct. If you’re extremely wealthy then you can keep gambling. If you fail you still have a million other chances. So you’re kind of guaranteed to succeed eventually.

Whereas the common person has one chance. If they fail that’s it.

In fairness he was able to recognise which companies to buy

I think this is just survivorship bias. There are millions of wealthy individuals investing in companies every single day. Occasionally these gambles pay off and make people extremely wealthy.

Most of the time the people who succeed just spend their incredibe wealth and live a quiet happy life.

But there are others who crave attention. These individuals bully their way into prestigious positions and pretend that they’re leading the company.

Elon is that kind of person. He started wealthy, bet his money on companies that succeeded. Then took the CEO role so he would get credit for the companys’ successes.

If ever people dare stop paying attention to him he’ll do something drastic to recapture the spotlight on.

He’s the kind of person who will stand on stage and do a nazi salute just because he wants you to look at him.

operational issue

Why be so vague? That’s only ever going to frustrate people.

Is it definitely the MP3 format at fault here? Was your MP3 from an official source or could it have been from a faulty source or improperly transcoded?

I guess. I don’t get it.

This sums it up exactly!

You aren’t just downvoting comments you disagree with, you’re downvoting comments because you don’t understand them.

By downvoting instead of commenting you never open that discussion to learn about somebody’s view.

And by downvoting you’re reducing the chance that somebody else might see the comment. Who either does understand it, or responds to continue the discussion.

I completely agree, you’ve summed up my view far better than I could.

There’s also a controversial approach that if you’re debating with someone and you believe in the points you’re making then you should upvote even the comments you disagree.

By doing so the full thread of comments is ranked higher so more people see the incredibly clever points you’re articulating.

This isn’t so relevant on Lemmy right now because it’s still small so you might read all comments on ba post. But it made a massive difference on reddit where there were thousands of comments. So the algorithm becomes very selective.