Yeah, just think - we could not only protect more lives, we could be having doctors suit better purposes if we started treating guns like, y’know, abortion in Texas. A bit depressing.

Malcolm Gladwell’s podcast series on guns sheds some light on the phenomenon: despite the increase in guns and gun violence, doctors in the U.S. have become increasingly specialized in saving gunshot victims, which essentially turns a homicide into an assault (and police don’t categorize gun violence separately from assault). There’s also some progress being made to build more trauma centers closer to high risk areas of the U.S., which has been a big problem in more violent cities.

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He looks like a less jolly whoville character

Well see, capitalism isn’t about productivity. It’s about maximizing capital. More consumers means more spending, and more money moving to people maximizing capital. So… Capitalism hates the death of consumers and loves procreation even more.

Malcolm Gladwell talks on his podcast about how U.S. hospitals have made huge strides in preventing gun-related deaths in recent years (except in minority cases where hospitals are too far). We also have very little data on non-death gun-related injuries, making it impossible to say whether crime rates are improving when it comes to guns. The last two episodes in the series explain the crime perception pretty well.

In fact, this post alludes the fact that the number of assaults in the US has been on an increase since 2013. https://www.statista.com/statistics/191231/reported-aggravated-assault-rate-in-the-us-since-1990/

For people who are already extremely religious, the experience of losing a child will only strengthen their spirituality. “Part of God’s plan” is their coping mechanism.

Only after they burn out in their 60hr jobs paying for their medical debt and kids will the lessons start to be learned. But it sounds like they lucked out with wealthy families who were able to step in and help.

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When Elon realizes nobody wants to pay to listen to Elon, will he rollback the changes or start posting on Threads?

Looks like they’ll have to stall the courts until the next election to use those gerrymandered maps. Until the punishment is more than “you have to redraw the map again”, the cheaters will continue to do this.

If a group of people can’t do a simple thing like draw districts to be compliant with already very loose requirements, they should be relieved from that duty or someone else given a turn.

Plus the obvious hiding behind a VPN, which you would be out of your mind not to use if you were doing something this terrible. Or can VPNs snitch in these situations? Anyone know?

Net neutrality and reddit’s API changes are pretty different situations.

Losing net neutrality could have raised prices on the entire internet, but the important thing is ISPs have too much of a monopoly on internet infrastructure. Many consumers across America only have one or two options for their ISP.

Reddit and twitter’s decisions to privatize their APIs isn’t a new phenomenon. Other companies already do this for a variety of reasons. Reddit’s worry about AI driving up their cost is valid, but instead of tackling the problem as a bot problem, they took an easier way out and damaged the user experience.

Where the situations are different is: it’s accessible, cheap, and profitable to rebuild a site like Reddit and create competition. It’s not any of those things to compete against an ISP.

The wording on your post makes it sound like supporting net neutrality is supporting the API changes, but that’s not true. I can help give some clarification if you want.