crossmr

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I think it depends a lot on how you say ‘aunts’

jerky, granola, lots of vegetables are fairly stable and can be eaten raw. Carrots, garden peas, green beans, lettuce (you can eat that in the first day or two before it wilts), apples,

It depends on the fruit. Look at a banana funny and it’ll go rotten. Apples are pretty stable.

He’s sharing data, that his company collected, but there remains the question of what the data exactly is. I mean, I don’t think any of us were born yesterday, and we’ve seen ‘science’ and ‘studies’ in journalism and how they’ll massage statistics and use vague terms to make specific claims. My favourite of this was years ago a study about cosmetics, which includes things like sun cream, was used to paint the narrative that all Korean men were walking around with make-up. While make-up was a subset of cosmetics, when you actually looked at it, it didn’t really support the claims they were making in the articles about it. For the most part I rarely trust anything like this being shared unless I can have a look at the whole package.

There are real studies and real science behind all these stories, but the journalists and middle men can rarely be trusted to present them in an unbiased manner that can be verified.

so I’d think it’s likely that he’s reporting it accurately

That’s not really a safe assumption to make. Even though they shared their methodology they don’t seem to have shared the questions or the data. Misleading survey questions aren’t uncommon.

No Kotaku is acting like this. There was a distinct lack of evidence in their article

Some suggested the data is wrong or that the owner stats are skewed by moms buying consoles for boys

This isn’t acting poorly, this is just questioning the methodology, which is a good idea, because a lot of these surveys are very poorly done or have obvious holes in them like that one. .

They later shared the methodology, but it still isn’t clear what the exact questions were.

The rest of the article is the Kotaku writer speaking very vaguely about people. Was it 2? 200? 2000? who responded like this? You certainly wouldn’t know from that article, but Kotaku isn’t shy about painting all gamers with the same brush in the headline.

To some extent, this reminds me of the old BBS system. Local BBS had their own discussion boards, but they could join a larger one called ‘fidonet’ which allowed them to share global discussion groups between other BBS. So you could have a local news section, but there might be a news section on fido which would include more global topics. They were fully independent.

That made sense in the context of early the early 90s though, now it’s a bit different. social media which is too far splintered ends up not being that social. Good to have alternatives, but yes, if you have 250 different cat groups, it’s almost overload. There needs to be some kind of a happy medium there.

It’s really quite bad. This time around the system has gone through banned the throwaway I used last time, so now I have to make yet another throwaway to get a message through to them. On top of that, they’ve really dropped the ball in Modsupport. Used to get response within a day, maybe 2 at the most. I’ve been weeks without a clear reply there lately. Other than ‘oh we see you were unbanned that time, so no worries bye’ even though I’d put several questions to them about why they hadn’t cleared the suspensions and bans from my account history and a few other mod related questions.

They need to fix everything. I can barely report anything on the site without being banned for it. The admin come around later and fix it and apology, but because that’s happened so many times, safety’s first response is permanent ban which means I have to use an alt to contact them and get them to fix it. Despite the fact that they told me several times all the suspensions and warnings would be removed, they aren’t. I reported something for being a duplicate a couple weeks ago (it was there was another copy on the front page of the sub, and it was one of their report reasons) and came back an hour later to both a permanent ban notice for ‘report abuse’ for that, and also the fact that my account wasn’t actually banned because someone had come through and unbanned me. The site is bordering on being beyond repair at this point.