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I know two things. I really like to be right about stuff and if we’re going by the usual tests a majority of people are going to be near average intelligence.
So I’m most likely average and real smug about it.
I know two things. I really like to be right about stuff and if we’re going by the usual tests a majority of people are going to be near average intelligence.
So I’m most likely average and real smug about it.
I’m going door to door trying to gather pledges from all technology subscribers.
Will YOU downvote all Musk posts in this community until people post them in their proper place (c/enoughmuskspam)?
The “old idea” is actually baked into one of the parameters of the new model. It’s why I said the old hypothesis “was not in line with observation” rather than being “wrong”. It predicted some trends correctly, but failed to predict many others. Like all science, it needed to update as we gathered more info.
The “new” hypothesis also isn’t perfectly predictive of viral evolution, but it’s more accurate with the observed spread of other diseases. Like all models, it’ll get replaced eventually by something more powerful. Likely sooner rather than later specifically because COVID put a spotlight on a lot of holes in the idea.
Just a very small correction- as with all biology, natural selection will drive a virus to replicate more effectively, that’s it. This does NOT mean a virus will automatically become less lethal over time. That’s an older hypothesis that scientists found was not in line with observation.
The newer hypothesis is known as “virulence-transmission trade-off”. The oversimplification of the idea is that if a mutation increases both transmission and virulence, it will also tend to be selected for. COVID is inconsistent with both hypotheses in certain ways though, so really predicting its virulence in the short or long term has proven difficult. Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10066022/
Funny…. But I don’t see this as a good use of advertising.
You’re not swaying anyone visiting the site, and may instead be invigorating R voters.
Oh no thanks, with the release of Ahsoka I’m filled up on fantasy for a while
Is every vaguely prominent leader in Russia dumb as rocks? How did he think he’d get away with an attempted coup while leaving the dictator in power?
Did he expect to get points for being bad at a coup?
We should really have another name other than “think tank” because I’m not convinced there’s a lot of thinking going on here.
Suggestions?
Could you link to said reputable polls? Just for the sake of being thorough
Good. Here’s hoping for a swift trial.
Now this is unpopular.
May god have mercy on your soul. LotR memes was one of the first communities to migrate over.
Seeing this image on my feed is like stumbling on a cave painting
When you’re losing to a friend in a video game so you call him a racial slur 😎
When you think about it, the difference between curling 5 lbs and 40 lbs is only 35 lbs.
You’re only one slightly malnourished toddler’s weight away.
Can someone convert the measurement to bratwurst for the Europeans?
God I love these stupid balls of fluff
Don’t forget making a dating profile where I took six pictures in different corners of my house wearing the same outfit.
Think your links might be broken?
God I would kill for 2 real friends