the examples line up with the appropriate data regarding risk. What do you want him to do, fudge the numbers?
i just thought it was an interesting frame to try to show people the risk they're taking by being idiots setting aside he's using risk tiers to decide so not sure what else in those tiers you could know are scarier
Wasn’t an attack on you, I just kinda shrugged at those examples. Between the three of them, millions of people undergo those same risks every day. Further enforced the idea that it’s risky, but within risk tolerance. That was my takeaway from the examples
I listened to the NYT book review interview w Michael Lewis talking about his book, The Fifth Risk. He maintains that US govt. is the biggest manager of risk in the world. He posits that Americans don't feel an increase in risk until it gets very personal. If the risk is 1/1000000 and you increase it to 1/10000, ppl don't generally notice or care. I think he talks about the Hanford site in WA in both interviews (below). Massive plume of nuclear waste sitting in the soil moving toward the Columbia River. https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aH...QzsICahcKEwjogtWJgtLpAhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ&hl=en NPR interview
No bro i do not want him to fudge the numbers but everyone probably has someone in their community who went to Afghanistan and came back. Rides a motorcycle and is fine, etc.... I like Ezra but if his goal was deterrence I don’t think it was particularly effective
his goal was explanatory as in "would you go cram yourself in a bar to eat a burger if there was a risk you would be deployed to an active war zone?"
i also know people who died in afghanistan/iraq and people who have died in motorcycle wrecks not sky diving though, so sure
Jumping out of plane only to land on a moving motorcycle that's in Afghanistan. Also the year is 2010
I hear ya, and I got the intent. I think Klein underestimates the number of Americans who would wrongly think “I’d ride a motorcycle over a fucking mountain every day to back to normal.” Just an observation
working in hospice for a while and the number of folks who were my patients or in long term care facilities that were quadriplegics and/or had traumatic brain injuries that made them non-functional was eye opening like I knew theoretically how dangerous it was, but seeing the results kind of changed the dynamic in my brain
Gotta love states without mandatory helmet laws too VUMC used to spend like $500 million a year treating idiotic bikers from KY
I ride but biker culture is so toxic. Here in Denver the FB page is basically a combination of 1) LOL look at me doing wheelies at 120mph in a 45 zone while running from the cops while wearing shorts and a t-shirt and 2) why so many bikers die?!
Aren’t you more likely to die skydiving if you do it every now and again as opposed to everyday? Or was I being lied to about such important information?
This is also a good read https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/07/department-of-energy-risks-michael-lewis
I just take Alex Jones’ Survival Shield X-2 and rub essential oils on my penis. 100% effective against Covid and Chlamydia, so far.
Fifth Risk falls into the category of book I buy, but can never bring myself to open. Like I'll read it in a decade after all the acute stuff has passed. Easier to read historical or theoretical writing. I read enough in the moment stuff in essays/news to fill my rage meter.
Any Lewis book is an auto buy for me. Bought it as a fan of his more than the content. Also learned a lot about the logistics of our bureaucracy that I didn’t previously know, or even bothered to think about. Then there’s all the stuff the Trump admin has done to damage it.