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Correlation implies causation (thelemmy.club)

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[-] REDACTED@infosec.pub 69 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

The chances of this actually being connected is probably near zero (since rising dizziness is global, but datacenters are mostly in few countries), but still felt funny enough to post.

Randomly stumbled upon this while researching why are so many people around lately feeling dizzy.

[-] RamenJunkie@midwest.social 20 points 5 hours ago

You ever spin in a circle? You do it a few times you don't really notoce, you do it a lot, younget dizzy.

The earth has been spinning in a lot of cirxles, and we are starting to cross into the "do it a lot" range of spins.

-- Calvin's Dad

[-] craftrabbit@lemmy.zip 42 points 10 hours ago

I didn't even know dizziness was on the rise! What did you find?

[-] Contramuffin@lemmy.world 39 points 8 hours ago

If I were to guess, probably heat stroke due to rising temperatures. Which, if true, would also be worsened by having more data centers

[-] Osprey@lemmy.world 19 points 7 hours ago

Stress or anxiety can also cause dizziness.

[-] REDACTED@infosec.pub 10 points 7 hours ago

Nothing solid. Imma about to put on my tinfoil hat and start looking at the Russian satellites. Realistically I'm way over my head here and I hope someone else notices the weird trend. The only reason I started looking around is because I feel slightly dizzy for the past 3 months and decided to ask around. Surprisingly alot of people are experiencing the same thing. I'm from Baltics. All health checkups return perfectly fine.

[-] snw@feddit.nl 3 points 2 hours ago

it's interesting, in dutch Google trends, "dizziness" has a similar graph but "duizeligheid", the Dutch translation for it, is a flat line

[-] REDACTED@infosec.pub 3 points 2 hours ago

Interestingly enough, in my language (Latvian), medical term is "Vertigo". Out of 5 years, the term had most searches (100) on April 2026.

[-] CannonFodder@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago

'Over my head' haha

[-] ladicius@lemmy.world 7 points 8 hours ago

Maybe rising CO2 levels? Just guessing.

[-] Zwiebel@feddit.org 9 points 8 hours ago

Post covid effects? I've been dizzy often since then

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