oyashirochama (u/oyashirochama)

oyashirochama commented on A lot of population numbers are fake davidoks.blog/p/a-lot-of-... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

Braxton1980 · 14 days ago

>If you pick any country and look at proxies that have significant cost associated with them, at relative population levels of verified locations, the population of the world differs pretty radically from the claims most countries put out.

Can you provide an example that shows a radically different population count?

>If you don't have independent verification free from censorial pressures and legal repercussions, then you get propaganda

Always?

How would you perform a census without massive amounts of money and cooperation from the government?

oyashirochama · 14 days ago

China is the best example, its estimated that their population is off by entire countries in some statisitics, either through disppeared girls, hidden covid deaths, local economic fraud. There is also no independently verifiable group in China and is actually explicitly banned to use non-government methods.

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UltraSane · 6 months ago

There is nothing you can do about someone ramming you from behind though.

oyashirochama · 6 months ago

And is one of the primary reasons lane splitting should be legal everywhere, it keeps bikers in the safe no man or car land of the dotted white and lets them not take a full car spot on the red light.

oyashirochama commented on The Gruen Transfer is consuming the internet sebs.website/blog/the%20g... · Posted by u/Incerto

ChrisMarshallNY · 10 months ago

> I've bought two wrong things accidentally on Amazon as a result: After searching for a surge protector, i bought a power strip that lacked a surge protector because it was among the search results and i didn't notice it.

I have done exactly that. Some of the "mixins" are really strange, and have nothing at all to with what I'm looking for, so I have to assume that are paid keyword poisoning.

oyashirochama · 10 months ago

There's also the well known, name change that happens. Where the product used to be a different item/SKU tied to the product on Amazon. Used to poison ratings a LOT.

oyashirochama commented on The Gruen Transfer is consuming the internet sebs.website/blog/the%20g... · Posted by u/Incerto

0_____0 · 10 months ago

Caveat - I haven't gone to primary sources, but all indications are that they're doing pretty well. Increase of 1.8~% in number of store locations in the last 5 years.

Inflation adjusted, revenue is up 38% since late 2009.

Wal-Mart is similarly doing very well.

If you thought HD and WMT were dying, this may be a moment to reevaluate the heuristics you're using to gauge the health of retail businesses.

https://ycharts.com/indicators/home_depot_inc_hd_total_store...https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/HD/home-depot/reve...

oyashirochama · 10 months ago

They are dying as what their namesakes suggest and instead become slop factories.

oyashirochama commented on FTC takes action against Uber for deceptive billing and cancellation practices ftc.gov/news-events/news/... · Posted by u/pinewurst

ProfessorLayton · 10 months ago

Similar to CA's requirement for online cancellations if a subscription is purchased online, there should be a rule that requires the same amount of steps to cancel as it takes to subscribe.

Yes it could still be gamed, but anyone who's worked on user funnels knows that every added step reduces conversion, so it would be self-balancing.

oyashirochama · 10 months ago

God I wish OnStar held that standard.

oyashirochama commented on FTC takes action against Uber for deceptive billing and cancellation practices ftc.gov/news-events/news/... · Posted by u/pinewurst

zeroonetwothree · 10 months ago

Still better than having to call

oyashirochama · 10 months ago

Fuck onstar to hell for their shit, you HAVE to call and theres no way to digitally cancel.

oyashirochama commented on Fossil fuels fall below 50% of US electricity for the first month on record ember-energy.org/latest-u... · Posted by u/xnx

filmor · 10 months ago

Both of them can be trivially downregulated.

oyashirochama · 10 months ago

Theres a upper limit though and they don't provide a great baseload, which is nuclear's specialty even among non-renewable resources nuclear is a clear winner in baseload management.

Also nuclear is a non-renewable just a long, nearly impossible to empty one, especially with the longer isotopes of thorium and uranium.

oyashirochama commented on CT scans could cause 5% of cancers, study finds; experts note uncertainty arstechnica.com/health/20... · Posted by u/pseudolus

odyssey7 · 10 months ago

X-ray radiation causes cancer.

CT scanners don’t use magic non-carcinogenic x-rays.

Socrates is a man, men are mortal, Socrates is mortal.

We have the technology. We should have moved on to MRIs for nearly all scans years ago.

oyashirochama · 10 months ago

I mean you can't when a non-insignificant amount of people have magnetic metal in their body.

oyashirochama commented on Doge using AI to snoop on U.S. federal workers, sources say reuters.com/technology/ar... · Posted by u/gpi

bko · 10 months ago

As of April 1, 2025, approximately 60,000 federal employees have been forcibly terminated or laid off as part of the Trump administration's workforce reduction efforts. These terminations primarily targeted probationary employees—those hired, promoted, or transferred within the last year—who lack full civil service protections.

There are about 3m employees so this is about 2%.

This is pretty normal course of business for most organizations. Meta laid off 13% of workers in 2022-2023 and an additional 5% in 2025. Other tech companies did similar numbers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_United_States_federal_mas...

oyashirochama · 10 months ago

The issue is, probationary in Gov doesn't mean what it means in Corporate speak. They do actually have most of the same protections which he ignored illegally.

oyashirochama commented on Doge using AI to snoop on U.S. federal workers, sources say reuters.com/technology/ar... · Posted by u/gpi

sham1 · 10 months ago

Sure (although Trump's legitimacy to be in the position to do this kind of stuff is also suspect, but that's just me looking from across the Atlantic) but that doesn't make things necessarily legitimate.

Musk being in a position to do this due to Trump appointment doesn't imply that this ought to be a case, or that this is proper. Thus critique.

oyashirochama · 10 months ago

Why is Trump suspect? This is the same argument made last time by Trumps side. He's legitimate, since there are no rules not allowing him (he's a natural citizen and well old enough), thus meeting all requirements. Is he a proper choice? No, but neither side offered any proper choice in a meaningful time and thus failed our nation.

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