Martin Jambon 🌍🌎🌏 @mjambon@social.cleverlibre.org

What does the little "40" mean in the Yahoo weather app?

I used to think it was a 40% probability of "getting rained on" but seeing it next to a sunshine forecast is confusing.

#weather #numbers #sunshine #rain #random

@ZaneSelvans I'd look into ways to encourage the mixing of people from different cultures. It doesn't necessarily require mixing the poor and the rich but maybe that's the practical solution. How to do that? I don't know. Ideas that crossed my mind include: excellent public transportation, mixed residential/business areas, free basic services like healthcare and education, high taxes on the private versions of these public services, making all neighborhoods funded evenly by nationwide budget rather than local taxes, forcing elected officials to live in the poorer neighborhoods, ...

@CptSuperlative by "symbol overloading" I mean the reuse of the same symbol with another similar but different meaning determined by the context, just like operator overloading in some programming languages where the actual function to run is determined by the number and type of its arguments.

@CptSuperlative it's more like symbol overloading. The first and second occurrences of "people" evoke different things. Same as in "candy is not food" vs. "candy is food" which are both true in their own context.

@freemo ok, but this is so short-sighted and will obviously fail.

I mean I don't care that much about this particular conflict because I have no ties there. I'm more worried about the inability of so many people to do what's best for them. I blame some implementations of democracy.

@freemo yes. Why is it not obvious from their perspective, especially since they're in the thick of it? Don't they learn this in military school, that whatever is being destroyed is a net loss, that it's not paying back for anything? Don't they realize that their thirst for revenge is a mental illness? It's one thing that the leaders are incompetent, but the people who vote for them? Is the majority of the people really like that?

Frank's toe knife set

#knives #tv #itsalwayssunny #philadelphia

@wayne_williams thank you!

Those who've made an effort to learn don't have a duty to teach those who haven't.

#expertise #teaching #laziness #curiosity #exploration

@lowqualityfacts getting rid of bed bugs is easier: burn the house.

@tero fact: the OCaml folks saw that coming, that's why they introduced a typo in their animal name.

@df0aed92dff00d4ffeda2f4cd88d967dc576b5549400b92afb98a419aa06e6f5 @1c9dcd8fd2d2fb879d6f02d6cc56aeefd74a9678ae48434b0f0de7a21852f704 the box knows.

Here's a better headline: "Climate change could make your d*ck smaller"

#journalism #globalwarming #clickbait #beer #bullshit #alcohol #bbcnews #fear

@nasamuffin I'm also in the Bay Area (Palo Alto). Waiting impatiently for mushroom season, mostly on the Pacific side of the mountains + special finds in irrigated landscaped areas.

@nasamuffin mycelium of most large wild mushrooms lives several years, it probably came with the soil and/or associated with the tree (I don't know what type of interactions they have with the tree, it could be none, beneficial, or parasitic).

@nasamuffin fun fact: I have never seen a real one of these. They get reported on California mushroom forums now and then, and they don't appear to have lookalikes in north America. Oyster mushrooms may be the closest lookalike but they don't make this crowded "petaloid" arrangement.

@nasamuffin compare with Hohenbuehelia petaloides.