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  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orgtoScience Memes@mander.xyz2 Faced
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    2 hours ago

    The “adult for comparison” (light blue) seems quite different in each, even for 1960s hand-drawn diagrams (see source attribution; they would use transparencies, grid paper or pencil guides). Maybe vector “compression” (keeping only every 𝑛ᵗʰ vertex, perhaps fitting path in between to best resemble original) took place? I do that with potraced paths often but always check how the result looks.



  • More precisely: for the US, they only checked if the “cause of death” field on the certificate mentions heat but EU statistics compare to a model of how many deaths would have occurred without a heatwave. Of course heat makes lots of indirect deadly circumastances more likely. We don’t have recent studies on heat deaths with similar methodology to compare both regions but at least the gun death statistics are more clear-cut.

    Also, this is a bit cynical but people who die to heat usually had preexisting conditions and were statistically likely to die in 10 years anyway. Meanwhile most gun deaths are young adults whose productive careers were cut short.







  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orgtomemes@lemmy.worldBru... That's a fact
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    18 hours ago

    As a Czech, you already know that but the brief democratic Czecho—Slovak Federation (1989-1992) also had a “Hyphen war” (actually just an argument) where Slovakia was not content with the longest dash available and wanted an “and” in the middle, breaking grammatical rules. Greater disagreements later resulted in the countries’ peaceful dissolution on New Year’s Eve 1992.

    But the languages are different enough to be distinct despite being largely mutually understandable (you can use Slovak in Czech courts to this day). This means there is no embarrassing doubling or tripling of legally required text like with Slovenian & Not Slovenian & Legally Distinct Not Slovenian.