[-] joostjakob@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

I used to follow the Gallup polls for this, because of the long time series and general reputability. But then it turned out they do not have a spine. Since then I always look at the aggregated results at https://www.natesilver.net/p/trump-approval-ratings-nate-silver-bulletin . Every poll has a significant margin of error (depending on sample size) and bias (depending on methodology), so aggregating them is generally a good idea.

[-] joostjakob@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

It's a gift that keeps giving because each minute the clocks are refreshed with new madness

[-] joostjakob@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

What the other one said. Keep the page open for a minute, and a new set of clocks from the same models appear. Sometimes, a perfectly good clock will be replaced by nonsense.

[-] joostjakob@lemmy.world 34 points 4 days ago

Whenever I feel overwhelmed with pro AI stuff, I go to https://clocks.brianmoore.com/ and feel a little better

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High Fens, Belgium, 16 August (Brussles Morning Newspaper) Hundreds of people have been forced to leave their homes as a Belgium wildfire sweeps across the High Fens, burning around 3,000 hectares of the protected landscape and stretching emergency services close to the German border.

This is huge compared to what little nature we have in Belgium... Appears to be the largest wildfire ever recorded here.

[-] joostjakob@lemmy.world 40 points 2 months ago

Most of Southern Europe is significantly poorer than most of Northern Europe...

[-] joostjakob@lemmy.world 29 points 8 months ago

Interesting comparison to Germany. As you may be aware, there was quite a significant change in government structure right around 1945. While yes - if new evidence from that period were to be released, it would indeed reflect poorly on Germany. But everyone would know it's news from basically another country. Whereas in China nothing has changed when it comes to the structure of the nation. And they sure as hell did not go through a period of national mourning or apology to reflect on past mistakes.

[-] joostjakob@lemmy.world 68 points 1 year ago

How anyone that lives in a country that has HOAs can unironically call it "land of the free" is beyond me

[-] joostjakob@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago

As I said in the other place this article was posted: the source seems to be an online reader survey from t-online.be. That means the scientific value of this is pretty low. For decent surveys, you need a random sample. In this case, you need to be a visitor of t-online, and you decide for yourself that you want to participate. That's already enough to skew results. Add to that that there's a lot of online activism against Tesla (for obvious reasons), so the poll could have been partly hijacked. Such a low number of people who don't care or haven't heard about Tesla going rogue is not realistic anyway. There's a lot of people who are weird, contrarian or simply avoid all news.

[-] joostjakob@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago

Not tobrain on the parade, but the source seems to be an online reader survey from t-online.be. That means the scientific value of this is pretty low. For decent surveys, you need a random sample. In this case, you need to be a visitor of t-online, and you decide for yourself that you want to participate. That's already enough to skew results. Add to that that there's a lot of online activism against Tesla (for obvious reasons), so the poll could have been partly hijacked. Such a low number of people who don't care or haven't heard about Tesla going rogue is not realistic anyway. There's a lot of people who are weird, contrarian or simply avoid all news.

[-] joostjakob@lemmy.world 30 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

So now that is in the hands of the folks who use the OSM data. It's in a somewhat exotic tag, so by default any map that uses OSM will still show Gulf of Mexico, unless they actively intervene to show Gulf of America. So if you see an OSM based map showing the latter, you know they made that choice consciously.

[-] joostjakob@lemmy.world 42 points 2 years ago

You do have direct control over fisheries as much as you do over straws. But indeed, don't invalidate. Say "if you like X, you might also want to do Y which has an even greater impact"

[-] joostjakob@lemmy.world 33 points 2 years ago

No matter how much we fuck it up, this rock will always be more liveable than anything we can realistically find elsewhere. This planet is our spaceship, we better start treating it like one.

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