I do the 20km/h, no matter how much it pisses other people off.
But that 5km/h MUST be there as a liability waiver for the ferry; no car’s going to go less than 8km/h up one of those ramps. But if anyone tries to sue them they can just argue that the person was speeding so they’re not liable.
What you’re interested in is actuarial science. It’s an interesting and complex field. Pretty much every insurance company is built on the backs of a few talented actuaries.
We’ve had two whole generations of people using acetaminophen during pregnancy. Why have we not seen a massive uptick in autism to match? After accounting for increased screening and changes in definition and attribution, there’s a slight rise in autism rates that doesn’t align at all with acetaminophen use.
And where are the J&J studies showing that the supposed link was known to that particular company?
They’d do much better targeting plastic and PFAS manufacturers, as their products are known to cause the cellular mutations that can lead to cancer and autism.
And one of the biggest departments that expanded massively at many companies during the pandemic? HR. So now there’s a LOT of HR and hiring staff being made redundant in the tech industry.
So… to answer the first question: as I said in a different response recently, questions are just questions. They might be asked out of ignorance, curiosity or malice, but the question itself should never be considered stupid.
As for what lemmy.world is: it’s an online service managed by a small group of people that enables users, and users of other lemmy servers that have an agreement with it, to post information in sub-forums, which can be up and downvoted by the users of the forum community; those votes and their effects can be managed based on the rules of the specific community.
Nostupidquestions@lemmy.world is one community; I’m part of it, even though I’m not a member of lemmy.world, but of lemmy.ca, which is federated with lemmy.world. This means that when I access/post content on lemmy.ca, that gets shared across to the other lemmy servers like yours that hosts or carries the communities I’m involved in.
So… single platform, multiple instances, which have different peering agreements with each other to federate content.
To complicate things further, Lemmy is part of the Fediverse, a larger group of online services that share the same federation structure and much of the same network code, but are designed for different purposes. Lemmy is similar to Reddit, Mastodon is similar to Twitter (ability to broadcast short messages that go into subscriber’s feeds and get aggregated), there’s one specifically for sharing video with others, etc.
This only tangentially answers your questions, but I felt like it was a good idea to get the foundation concepts out of the way first, after which others can reply to the particular bullet points.
What about a weather balloon?
Ah; by “improvements” they mean cutting down stuff to build more parking.
Maybe, maybe not; Republicans have already made it next to impossible for the poor to vote, and have done a bang up job at distracting everyone else from paying any attention to the poor and needy.
Questions are just questions. How they’re framed can be inappropriate or unwelcome, but the question itself is just a question.
Asking a question that’s already answered isn’t asking a stupid question, just inappropriate. Same goes for asking a question where the intent appears to be to demean someone else or push an unwelcome viewpoint.
US tariffs are on Canadian goods sold in the US. So, Canola, softwood lumber, auto parts, potash, etc.
Just start deporting ICE and ICE candidates instead?
You get them delivering value to the customers.