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  • Not as much as you think.

    It wasn’t until graduate level statistics until we got into how to tear down bad stats as part of understanding how to make good stats.

    Like, even for people who took regular college level statistical analysis, the hardest part of it is still keeping you bias out.

    Teach a bunch of high schoolers stats, and they’re gonna think they’re smarter than a gambling app. That leads to more people trying it, and naturally more people getting hooked.

    You’re thinking of it as innoculation when it’s more like the first hit for free…

    Quick edit:

    It’s like how med students think they know more than every doctor they’ve ever seen and diagnosis themselves with a bunch of shit

    A little bit of knowledge mixed with teenage confidence and an undeveloped brain doesn’t always result in a positive.

    So with something as addictive as gambling, the best way to decrease it is to limit or avoid exposure to gambling until mid 20s when the brain is more likely to be developed.









  • because it’s such a broad brush that has only become broader with time.

    The real problem is boomers are trying to force their personal brush when every other generation had their own…

    Silent was 17 years.

    Boomers were 18 years

    But their lines were drawn based on localized trends.

    After that they just started making it every 15 years no matter what. Standardizing it broke the system. Modern generations should be divided by tech. The kids who grew up before computers, Oregano Trail generation that did, then smartphone/social media kids, then tablet babies.

    That would make generations meaningful again. Right now we might as well just be talking birth years, because that’s all they’ve meant for 60 years.


  • Silver Lining:

    Even if renewables are more expensive for small countries, this is going to make them prioritize it over fossil fuels.

    Every country on the planet is going to be incentizied to be energy independent, and renewables are the only way small countries can do that.

    Which is going to crash the price of fossil fuel exports, which is the only way to actually cut production down globally.

    Exports down means domestic prices rise, so even producer countries would start moving more to renewables.

    Gonna absolutely blow for gas prices though. But that means if the next president yanks gas subsidies at the pump, it could be the final blow to gas powered American vehicles.

    If it’s $5 at the pump, no one is buying new gas cars.



  • Try “random start” mods.

    Instead of taking you thru the opening scenes of a big RPG like Skyrim, it just punts you to some random area so you can immediately start messing around

    A lot of games have big scripted events the first couple hours, being able to skip those helps it from feeling repetitive, because that’s the stuff you’ve done ever playthrough you’ve ever started.