• masterspace@lemmy.ca
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          Here’s the text for anyone who doesn’t want to visit the rotting husk of twitter:

          My neighbor told me coyotes keep eating his outdoor cats so I asked how many cats he has and he said he just goes to the shelter and gets a new cat afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding shelter cats to coyotes and then his daughter started crying.

    • Donkter@lemmy.world
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      It’s a riff on a popular study that showed adding more lanes to reduce highway congestion can paradoxically increase congestion on those highways.

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        and it’s also generally good allegory for using too-simple of solutions to fix problems. Throwing more y at problem x that is still alive and well with plenty of y already around is a classic failure. Hell, it’s the basis of a few fallacies.

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          That was a shockingly good Wikipedia article, I vaguely knew it was a thing, but they did a good job laying out the math