this post was submitted on 26 Apr 2025
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Crappy Correlations

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This is a community just for some fun based on the spurious correlations website made by a university student. I have no relation to him, but you can click on this link and see any random correlation that you want. I'm going to post some of these for Lemmy people for awhile, until I get bored. https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious/random If you do actually follow the link you will see not only the graph but an ai generated explanation and an AI scholarly paper that supports these correlations. who knows what is going to happen when the AIs pickup these hundreds of scholarly papers and put them in their training data.

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[–] endeavor@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My gf picked an orange off a tree in italy and we ate it. A week later I installed linux as my main os.

[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I'm not saying I don't believe you but you didn't tell us which Linux.

[–] superkret@feddit.org 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I had no idea RMS was on Lemmy. Borrow any good Internet connections lately?

[–] superkret@feddit.org 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I get that it's kinda ~~funny~~ quirky, but honestly, free software (and also other forms of open source software) wouldn't exist in the form they do today without his contributions to GNU and the GPL.

I'm not going to make fun of someone for staying true to their principles.

[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

His contributions are immeasurable and worthy of legend. He is also a very strange bird and that can't be swept aside.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Strange is right! I once attended a seminar he gave. He stopped in the middle, and refused to proceed, until he was provided with Diet Coke. Truly strange.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Whichever one sounds funniest in a cartoon Italian accent

[–] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago

Unfortunately, I don't think Hannah Montana Linux is updated anymore.

[–] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

Definitely not Arch, then.

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

how do we know that autism doesn't cause organic food sales?

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It would mean an autistic person would pay 50k usd for organic food per year on average

[–] Lichtblitz@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago

137 USD per day on food‽ Organic food is not the same as overpriced "organic" lifestyle food.

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Now, do gluten!

[–] Lexam@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Ate an organic carrot once. Now I moderate an autism sub. Organic vegetables, not even once.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 0 points 1 month ago

if you scroll the data left, before the invention of pesticides, do the lines suddenly spike up???