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"The problem with freedom of speech is that people think it means freedom from consequence" ~ Roxane Gay youtu.be/Z5J0_-dqB_0?...
Thank you for so fully embodying the stereotype of the BSky user. It's nice to see that some things never change.
The buddy system is inviolate and that scout is out of uniform. If hazing was still allowed that kid would be singing "I'm a little teapot" until lunchtime tomorrow.
Why are they praising Sam Seder?
Possibly this but likely because she said something horrible about Charlie Kirk and Bsky knows that it's core user base is going to embarrass the fuck out of them for the next few days.
Same! I’m really looking forward to playing that next year.
All good, sir. When I got home from NoVa yesterday afternoon, I passed out in my painting desk chair for almost two hours.
Nice! I’m guessing since you are en route now no stream tonight?
Is she doing okay?
As a school psychologist, should a school counselor ignore the first two times the child of a know gang member reports she is being abused? Because that seems to go against the mandated reporter role.
If @evandorkin.bsky.social ever unblocks me, I hope he sees this very serious photo that shows how much his work has influenced my life.
Nice! I’ve used this tactic myself. But thanks for confirming that you don’t regret your choices.
Maybe you can teach him not to bully nerds who wear shirts he doesn't like. Just a thought.
It took over 10 years but this douche is finally getting canned for bullying a scientist who landed a probe on a comet for the horrific crime of ... wearing a shirt a friend had made for him. If there is justice in this world (there isn't) he will never work in media again.
Understood. Please keep us updated on how she’s doing!
Did cats kill the stream?
The part where it should’ve been in a smaller font to fit on the shirt better. Otherwise perfect, no additional notes.
Why are you putting Owen and Beru Lars on blast? They are just trying to raise that power converter obsessed kid in a nice neighborhood!
This AI image is a war crime.
@drivethrurpg.com Is everything okay with the site this morning? Seems slow and when I tried to make a purchase it hung up on the final step for multiple minutes.
Based on the Forbes 2024 list of British billionaires, if you were to confiscate the entirety of their wealth, with no resulting economic upheaval, you could fund the UK government at current spending levels for approximately 2 months.
Who’s ring you planning to steal Boro…er I mean…Joy?
Probably a stupid question... where are the stats for the Necronauts?
Or I'll just do what I planned on doing, buying a shit ton of wargaming miniatures, groceries and whatever else strikes my fancy, and continue to mock vapid, meaningless slacktivism like this.
Random Rappers Better Than Kendrick Lamar, Installment 1: Norman Sann
What a ridiculous nontroversy! Someone who hasn’t agreed to be part of a contest is made part of the contest only to have a code of conduct created expressly to remove him from the contest. You all are certainly doing an excellent job at recreating Hugo level tomfoolery within the indie space.
Here’s the reality: If Musk put every dollar he had into a fund that was distributed evenly to each US citizen, we’d all get one check for a little less than $1500.
That’s not an answer. Describe the process by which he brings that policy into reality.
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Not minimizing anything. What the Vegas asshole did was horrific. I had two friends get locked down within hearing range of that incident. Murder is already against the law. I’m not sure why you think simply making more laws will make folks less murderous.
You are aware that mass shootings as CNN defines them includes drive bys and other gang related murders as long as it meets minimum 4 injured, right? Are you under the impression that gang violence and organized crime are uniquely American phenomena?
It’s a little known fact that Jesus freaking loved laser shows. He couldn’t talk about it at the time on account of lasers not being invented yet but he knew what was coming.
Weird question: Has D&D with Reason staffers ever been offered as part of a fundraiser? I don’t have the ready cash to make it worthwhile but I cannot help but think that there’s someone who would drop several grand to roll dice with you, Heaton, and Remy.
Do you think I was excusing the tactics? Because I’m not. I’m merely pointing out that the narrative we were sold was incorrect.
“Only steel speaks in the 513” is such an amazing phrase. Thank you for that gift.
It’s what Blooski posts are called.
True luxury is found in the simplest moments.
I see you didn’t keep up with the developments on the Lafayette Park story. That one fooled me too. www.npr.org/2021/06/09/1...
I appreciate your level of self awareness. Shame that you can’t have discussions about serious topics without insults and insinuations. I’m well acquainted with the events following the Port Arthur massacre and their lack of effect on the Australian murder rate.
You pay for The Irish Times?
The double reply block is just as chickenshit a maneuver here as it ever was on Xwitter. This person has no interest in conversation they want to argue and insult. The culture of BSky is just Twitter from a decade ago.
Pro wrestling fans.
What precisely did I do to warrant that type of response?
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If you know of an alternate data set please share. The only thing worse than be wrong is being wrong longer than is necessary.
I don’t often rely on Lott’s work because of his pronounced biases, but this isn’t analysis. It’s data gathering and basic math. If someone found this work to be so lacking I’d expect to have run across a rebuttal sometime in the last 4 years.
1. Nothing. It was never the NRA’s job to reduce mass shootings. That is for law enforcement, legislators, security experts and mental health professionals. 2. Nothing because campaigning on an unsolved problem is more effective than remind folks that you solved something in the past.
I’m sorry that you haven’t experienced the absolute joy that is the Fifth Column podcast. It was a joke from Michael Moynihan.
I'm not seeing a refutation of the article I posted anywhere in The New Yorker piece. This isn't analysis or causation this is just math and data. If he is using fallacious data, please provide the correct data.
Cool beans. Provide the correct numbers then. I'm certain someone has done the work necessary to refute this particular article. I have yet to find anything to contradict it.
Except that it isn’t. At all. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
So just the imaginary one in your head. Coolsville.
Indeed. The evil spirits that are bound into every firearm manufactured totally override the innocent baby angel shooters and utterly remove their agency.
What "gun culture" do you think is in favor of school shootings? Please name specific publications and organizations.
What a surprise. Another local government uses its land use regulations to harass a local church trying to help the homeless.
If a judge who sold kids to prisons gets commutation, you'll have to excuse that I'm not particularly upset about anything regarding January 6th.
Standard tactic. Moved rapidly to condescension after being shown to be incorrect. Do you wish to engage further without insults or shall I be muting you?
We aren’t even in the top 50 for mass public shootings if you account for population size. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Oh, and just in case someone wants to counter with “You’re just some rando! Why should we listen to your ideas?” You shouldn’t. Thankfully none of these are my ideas. People waaay more knowledgeable than me came up with them. I’m just a low rent hype man.
8. Allow for legal transfers of all firearms to friends or family in the event of an MH crisis. 9. Repeal the NFA and take firearms out of the ATF's purview. SBRs, AOWs, suppressors, and the like do not require regulation beyond that of more common firearms.
7. Improve NICS by further incentivizing/requiring reporting agencies to provide accurate information and explore options for opening up the system to private sellers on a limited basis.
5. Increase access to mental health resources for middle class and lower income folks WITHOUT unnecessarily stigmatizing folks with mental illness. 6. Increase penalties for persons who commit violent crimes or knowingly sell weapons to prohibited persons.
1. End the Drug War 2. Fix schools (likely through school choice initiatives or alternate funding mechanisms) 3. Reform/remove onerous occupational licensing regs. 4. Address the malincentives that led to the US leading the world in children being raised in single adult homes.
Since gun crime talk has started happening here on the hecksite, it seems an appropriate time to move my pinned thread over here. I've posted this message numerous times on a bunch of platforms and really I'm just tired of repeating myself so here's the recipe to address "gun violence".
Should Ford be liable if you kill someone while driving your Explorer under the influence?
The 2nd Amendment isn’t about hunting.
We have never interacted before. You are imagining things.
How am I downplaying it by saying that starting a specific greeting card section for mass shootings doesn’t make particularly good business sense?
I’m not exactly sure what your question is. What exactly would constitute “pulling my head out of the sand” in your opinion?
Remember kids, there are literally no cultural differences between these randomly chosen other countries and the US, so therefore it must be guns. Please ignore the fact that Vermont, a state with extremely permissive gun laws, had the same murder rate as Canada in 2019.
Was reduced consumption the entire goal? I was under the impression that it was about the downstream social effects of alcohol consumption (violence, poverty, etc). Because poisoning citizens and turbo charging organized crime seem like bad things.
What's your problem with Brandon? He's just out here building guns, making videos, and running for Congress. How is that disrespectful?
I’m sorry that Australian public schools failed to teach you basic reading comprehension.
How many birthdays or anniversaries or weddings or holidays have occurred in the last few decades? My dude, if you want to start a mass shootings condolences company literally no one is stopping you.
I’m not advocating for such a measure because they don’t tend to work and are rife for abuse.
That’s the most asinine reply I’ve gotten in quite a while. That takes talent.
You should smoke more or less because the current dosage isn’t working for you.
Why does it need to be federal? Who can trigger them? When does the owner get an opportunity to dispute the action? What is the duration of the seizure? How are the seized items returned? What are the penalties for malicious unfounded reports?
Do you wear a seatbelt? Do you own a fire extinguisher? Furthermore firearms can prevent crime without being fired and such cases don’t tend to make the news. Add in all the restrictions on where one can carry firearms and it’s no wonder that you don’t see folks defending themselves all that often
How is pointing out that an event is too rare to support a specific product in the greeting card industry minimizing the problem?
That would ultimately depend on the specifics of the proposed legislation.
“Rare” and “problem” aren’t mutually exclusive. Almost all school shootings represent a failure of some sort by a person or organization beyond the shooter themselves and those failures should examined and learned from.
Nothing in that file contradicts my assertion.
I see that you are choosing to ignore the vanishingly small probability of that happening and instead are going for an appeal to emotion. That won’t get you anywhere.
“Affected” is a super vague term. This could just mean that they had to clear the building and no one was actually injured.
Because public mass shootings are exceedingly rare and there isn’t a market large enough for card companies to make specific cards for such events.
Apparently Bill S. Preston finds me highly objectionable.
Further down his timeline this user adds evidence in support of Musk’s assertion.
Notice the disconnect between the original statement and the narrative being created.
Please explain how Elon Musk could single handedly implement UBI. I’m genuinely intrigued how you came to this conclusion.
Are hockey players ignorant of the existence of Duluth Trading Company?
The proportion of pro-murder responses in your replies isn't real life but it is a real example of what a shit lib echo chamber this hecksite is right now.
I’m near certain Trump term 2 pardons are going to be a crony filled shit show but I have trouble believing he’ll be freeing corrupt judges who sell kids to prisons or doctors who actually make your cancer worse.
Nonsense. A random prison abolitionist lawyer from Virginia says it’s good so it clearly is. Do 👏 better 👏
You are the main character of the replies! These people are utterly insane but the good news is that you have thousands of heads to live rent free in for the foreseeable future.
Can’t report because I follow you and am therefore blocked. It’s almost like the new transparent block feature on Xwitter is actually the superior implementation.
I lost a half inch at my 50 year check up. You are right to be concerned at their blasé attitude.
