Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/07/27/red-lobster-saves-blue-lobster.html
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Here I was ready for an inspiring tail of sea-bug kindness, but it was just a restaurant being decent. Still, good on them
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And I thought the spawn rate for shiny Pokemon was low
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The restaurant reached out to the Akron Zoo on Friday to place a take-out order to donate the rare find.
This sentence is a little puzzling.
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Well, this story came right out of the blue…
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This reminds me of the conditions that lead to the story “The Golden Spruce” by John Vaillant where a one in a million tree revered by the local population was “saved” by the logging company Macmillan Bloedel in the 80’s only to become one mans symbol of protest against deforestation.
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The University of Maine Lobster Institute says the likelihood of catching a blue lobster is one in 200 million.
As with most statistical statements, the more I think about this, the less I understand it. Are we saying just that one lobster in 200 million is blue? Or do the blue ones, on top of being rare to begin with, have a different likelihood of being caught from that of other lobsters? Are my chances of catching one affected by the fact that I never go anywhere near the sea, or into Red Lobster?
This BoingBoing piece misquotes the odds at “one in 2 million”, but I don’t see any problem with a hundredfold error in a statistic that’s meaningless anyway.
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How did this guy make it to Ohio in the first place? Typically when lobster fishermen catch a blue one, they take a picture to send to the news, and toss the lobster back. I wonder who the unscrupulous fisherman was that left this guy in with the rest of the day’s catch.
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