BBC News and the case of the "why the fuck is this news?"
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Not so much in the "why is this news?" category as the "Remember when news had editors? Those were good times" category, but this is from a recent TIME article on suicide:
Suicide is a growing public-health problem that doesn't discriminate on the basis of demographics.
Wait, aren't there some pretty well-established differences in --
Federal data shows that suicide rates have increased steadily across nearly every demographic over the past two decades, rising by 28% from 1999 to 2016.
Oh, so you mean the increase isn't preferential to specific demographics. OK, that makes --
Young women appear to be disproportionately affected by the overall increase. The suicide rate among girls ages 10 to 19 rose by 70% from 2010 to '16
Um.
The increase has been substantial enough to narrow the well-established gender gap between the number of boys and girls who die by suicide.
So. Suicide "doesn't discriminate on the basis of demographics". Except that there are specific demographics with significantly higher rates of suicide, and specific demographics with much higher recent increases in the rate of suicide. But, you know, apart from those it doesn't discriminate.
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@blakeyrat said in BBC News and the case of the "why the fuck is this news?":
Ok today was the last straw, I've stopped following BBC World News. Fuck it.
Shit. This was good entertainment.
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@tsaukpaetra said in BBC News and the case of the "why the fuck is this news?":
The current color of space is #000000.
Only due to rounding errors.
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@dkf said in BBC News and the case of the "why the fuck is this news?":
@tsaukpaetra said in BBC News and the case of the "why the fuck is this news?":
The current color of space is #000000.
Only due to rounding errors.
Space isn't round! :P
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@tsaukpaetra said in BBC News and the case of the "why the fuck is this news?":
@dkf said in BBC News and the case of the "why the fuck is this news?":
@tsaukpaetra said in BBC News and the case of the "why the fuck is this news?":
The current color of space is #000000.
Only due to rounding errors.
Space isn't round! :P
...but yo' momma is!
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@doctorjones said in BBC News and the case of the "why the fuck is this news?":
yo' momma is
as big and black as space?
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@tsaukpaetra said in BBC News and the case of the "why the fuck is this news?":
Space isn't round!
'For this experiment only consider a perfectly spherical Space in a vacuum'
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@cursorkeys But my vacuum isn't spherical at all.
https://www.miele.com.au/pmedia/30/Z11/20000109820-000-00_20000109820.png
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@scarlet_manuka said in BBC News and the case of the "why the fuck is this news?":
@cursorkeys But my vacuum isn't spherical at all.
That's the wrong model for cosmological physics, that's why. Whoever heard of a Miele-Sphere, it's a Dyson-Sphere!
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@cursorkeys
For one time I'm glad Elon decided to make cars and not vacuums.
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@luhmann said in BBC News and the case of the "why the fuck is this news?":
@cursorkeys
For one time I'm glad Elon decided to make cars and not vacuums.I think he'd do well. After all, they'd certainty suck, if the past is any predictor.
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@benjamin-hall
Then again he all ready got a company who does something with tubes, vacuum and sucking ..
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@luhmann Pfft, that's such a boring company.
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@twelvebaud
To give them credit, they tried to shake that image of by creating a flamethrower
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Another editing screwup by TIME. Sheesh.
Antarctic ice loss tripled in past decade
Antarctica is losing ice at a staggering rate, dumping about 2 billion tons of ice into the ocean every year, scientists found in a study published in the journal Nature on June 13. And it's getting worse: of the nearly 3 trillion tons of ice loss since 1992, 40% occurred over the past five years.3 trillion * 40% / five years = 240 billion tons per year. But what's a couple of orders of magnitude between friends?
Looks like the 2 billion figure is the wrong one.
NASA's writeupPrior to 2012, ice was lost at a steady rate of about 83.8 billion tons (76 billion metric tons) per year, contributing about 0.008 inches (0.2 millimeters) a year to sea level rise. Since 2012, the amount of ice loss per year has tripled to 241.4 billion tons (219 billion metric tonnes) -- equivalent to about 0.02 inches per year (0.6 millimeters) of sea level rise.
Before 2012, the continent shed ice at a rate of 76 billion tons each year on average, but from 2012 to 2017, the rate increased to 219 billion tons annually.
it lost 2,720βΒ±β1,390 billion tonnes of ice between 1992 and 2017, which corresponds to an increase in mean sea level of 7.6βΒ±β3.9 millimetres (errors are one standard deviation). Over this period, ocean-driven melting has caused rates of ice loss from West Antarctica to increase from 53βΒ±β29 billion to 159βΒ±β26 billion tonnes per year; ice-shelf collapse has increased the rate of ice loss from the Antarctic Peninsula from 7βΒ±β13 billion to 33βΒ±β16 billion tonnes per year. [...]
The abstract doesn't have a total annual ice loss figure, just highlights from a few regions. I particularly like the East Antarctica one of a gain of 5Β±46 billion tonnes per year, aka "nobody really knows "
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@scarlet_manuka said in BBC News and the case of the "why the fuck is this news?":
I particularly like the East Antarctica one of a gain of 5Β±46 billion tonnes per year, aka "nobody really knows "
Is that really "5 billion tonnes, give or take 46 billion tonnes"?
I don't...what?
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@e4tmyl33t said in BBC News and the case of the "why the fuck is this news?":
@scarlet_manuka said in BBC News and the case of the "why the fuck is this news?":
I particularly like the East Antarctica one of a gain of 5Β±46 billion tonnes per year, aka "nobody really knows "
Is that really "5 billion tonnes, give or take 46 billion tonnes"?
I don't...what?
Yep. Best guess is 5 billion tonnes gain, but the 1-SD confidence interval is "somewhere between a loss of 41 billion and a gain of 51 billion".
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@scarlet_manuka And that's only 1SD, so there's a 32% chance that it's even more extreme than that.
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@e4tmyl33t said in BBC News and the case of the "why the fuck is this news?":
Is that really "5 billion tonnes, give or take 46 billion tonnes"?
No, 5 tonnes give or take 46 billion
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Grab your telescope and look at the moon for this incredible celestial event called the "Strawberry Moon" in which the moon looks completely normal but it's somehow special because it's June!
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@twelvebaud said in BBC News and the case of the "why the fuck is this news?":
@scarlet_manuka And that's only 1SD, so there's a 32% chance that it's even more extreme than that.
I doubt it follows a normal distribution exactly, but probably somewhere in the general vicinity of that figure, yes.
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