Greg Issac

Advocate for the Dark Side of the Force. Investment professional.

[Greg Issac @gregthis]

And 11 months later... :)

[Greg Issac @gregthis]

How was the Fellowship of the Ring formed? Well... Read on 😅

[Jubal Hardin @Jubal_Hardin]

If you think that you were surprised, imagine how surprised the observer in the next layer up was watching you create your sim the exact same way they created theirs.

Now they have to cope with the probability that their reality is also just a projection on a 2D screen boundary emerging from organized quantum data.

Unreal all the way down.

Things just get weirder from now on. Very quickly.

e/acc ai/acc

[Sinister in the Presidency @AmandaBRinquest]

salary increases

[City of Cape Town @CityofCT]

Cape Town's dam levels have dropped to 50.4% due to high water usage and the heatwave. Remember, water is essential only for necessary purposes. Let's work together to save water and delay restrictions. Every drop counts!

[Our World in Data @OurWorldInData]

The number of cancer deaths worldwide has more than doubled since the 1980s. Does that mean we're losing the fight against cancer? Not necessarily, because it depends on how you measure it. On this chart, you can see three ways to look at the same data.

The red line shows the total number of cancer deaths. It has increased by about 120%, but this measure doesn't account for the fact that the world's population has also grown enormously over this period.

Another approach is to look at the death rate: the number of cancer deaths divided by the total population. That's the brown line, called the crude cancer death rate. It has increased too, but much less — around 20%.

But there's still a problem: the world's population has been getting older. Cancer is mostly a disease of old age, so even per capita, we'd expect more cancer deaths simply because there are more older people than before.

That's where the method of “age standardization” comes in. It's a way of asking: what would the cancer death rate look like if the age structure of the population hadn't changed?

The blue line shows this age-standardized rate: it's fallen by about 25%. At any given age, people are now less likely to die of cancer than they were in the 1980s.

The same underlying data gives us three different pictures. The absolute number of deaths is up; the crude rate is up slightly; the age-standardized rate is down. None of these are inaccurate, but they answer different questions.

Age standardization is one of the most important statistical methods for making sense of health data. Without it, population aging can hide progress or mask problems.

[marie 🪐 @mmxrie63]

what a masterpiece

[Morgan Housel @morganhousel]

The most valuable personal finance asset is not needing to impress anyone.

[BOOP @Pettyyyboop]

I like to throw soy sauce at sad people. Kikkoman while he’s down.

[John Attridge @John_Attridge]

"Why don't you read the books you already own before buying new books" why don't you eat all the food in the house before going shopping? That's what you sound like. That's how crazy you sound right now

[alli @sonofalli]

hey dude we’re thinking from first principles later if you wanna pull up

[Calgie @christiancalgie]

You're telling me a cis teen built this chapel?

[jennyfromthebloc @notfoxroyale]

Louis Theroux’s style of documentary demonstrates perfectly, that the best way to make a person anti-Zionist, is simply by letting Zionists speak.

[Assaf @_assaf_ps]

Louis Theroux's "The Settlers" (2025)

[Greg Issac @gregthis]

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[Barchart @Barchart]

Warren Buffett is sitting on enough cash to buy 476 companies in the S&P 500 👀

[gianmarco @GianmarcoSoresi]

Imagine how long it took to put them all on airplane mode

[Cooper Lawrence @CooperLawrence]

Just went to the Oreo website and hit “accept all cookies” … and now we wait

[Scuderia Ferrari HP @ScuderiaFerrari]

Benvenuto, Lewis!

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

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[garfieldbot @robertlasagna1]

Look man i "get it", I "get" the idea of coasters, I'm not a fucking moron, you don't want to damage your nice table you spent a lot of money on. I'm just saying, what is the table in the first place if not a coaster for the floor. I'm just saying, where does it end