Posts by qqmrichter@mastodon.world
(DIR) Post #AQLovBltYE63gtRwzw by qqmrichter@mastodon.world
2022-12-07T03:36:52Z
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@ruud Use a Fediverse-activated one like WriteFreely?
(DIR) Post #AVQgYlhZqIYgpaco4G by qqmrichter@mastodon.world
2023-05-08T01:02:05Z
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@realcaseyrollins @feld @Sundae_Gurl @Jgmeadows Jesus fuck! Not this old chestnut again!Join me in the wayback machine, OK?On December 14, 2012, a man suffering from untreated mental illness attacked an elderly woman with a weapon before entering the grounds of a nearby primary school. Using that same weapon he started attacking children with abandon. Before he was finally stopped and taken into custody 24 people (all but one children) were wounded.(...cont...)
(DIR) Post #AVQgYmTmx37hF7BJDM by qqmrichter@mastodon.world
2023-05-08T01:03:34Z
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@realcaseyrollins @feld @Sundae_Gurl @Jgmeadows Now at this point the date and the events are likely not matching in your mind. That's because the date is the date of **two** primary school attacks. One was the one you're thinking of: Sandy Hook Elementary. The other was the one you likely didn't hear about because the shocking slaughter of children in your own country concealed it: Chenpeng Village Primary School.(...cont...)
(DIR) Post #AVQgYn4IlIKX4MGT7w by qqmrichter@mastodon.world
2023-05-08T01:06:42Z
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@realcaseyrollins @feld @Sundae_Gurl @Jgmeadows It is instructive, however, to compare these two attacks, their impacts, and what happened subsequently.Instructive to the USA. Which is the part that likely galls the Manifest Destiny country.The main difference between these attacks is that the attacker in one had access to a gun. The other attacker had to steal a knife. Because of this *all of the victims survived* (though the elderly woman later died of a heart attack).(...cont...)
(DIR) Post #AVQgYnfsVaO6wtqThI by qqmrichter@mastodon.world
2023-05-08T01:08:36Z
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@realcaseyrollins @feld @Sundae_Gurl @Jgmeadows So psycho attacks a primary school with a gun and kills 26, injures 2. Psycho attacks a primary school with a knife and kills 0 (or 1, maybe, depending on how you want to count it) and injures 24 (or 23).So FUCK YES I'll GLADLY switch out gun attacks for knife attacks! Jesus fucking CHRIST do you have to be stupid to think that this is even remotely similar in impact!But ... the lesson doesn't even end there.(...cont...)
(DIR) Post #AVQgYs5C7P10cZikiG by qqmrichter@mastodon.world
2023-05-08T01:10:15Z
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@realcaseyrollins @feld @Sundae_Gurl @Jgmeadows There had been a spate of psychos attacking children in China beginning in 2010. 2012's was the biggest and most shocking one. And unlike the USA, the Chinese government took action.They didn't do something stupid and impractical like banning knives, though, because knives, unlike guns, are actually needed in day-to-day society. (The weapon used was a kitchen knife, after all!)(...cont...)
(DIR) Post #AVQgYtqjY8dW6IyES0 by qqmrichter@mastodon.world
2023-05-08T01:12:16Z
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@realcaseyrollins @feld @Sundae_Gurl @Jgmeadows What they did was ordered a review of all schools' security nationwide, then the implementation of enhanced security measures. And again this didn't mean X-raying children's backpacks. It meant providing security gates, security guards, and mancatchers (NOT GUNS!) in the security room and/or classrooms.It took about a year for all schools to be brought up to code, and the cops did extra work around schools in the mean time.(...cont...)
(DIR) Post #AVQgYvYjC3QDP2YsfA by qqmrichter@mastodon.world
2023-05-08T01:15:02Z
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@realcaseyrollins @feld @Sundae_Gurl @Jgmeadows After a year the cops stood down from the extra duty (Chinese cops are incredibly fucking lazy and prone to being absentee) as schools brought their security measures up to par. And since then there hasn't been a school attack of note.Total period of increasing risk: 3 years; effectiveness of implemented solution: 11 years and counting without a major attack.And note: the solution involved arming security guards and teachers ... with polearms.
(DIR) Post #AVQgwV3lMxLcANJnNI by qqmrichter@mastodon.world
2023-05-08T01:20:34Z
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@feld @Sundae_Gurl @Jgmeadows @realcaseyrollins Absolutely. And it's easier to flee a knifeman than a bullet. And you can control a knifeman with a mancatcher, but a gunman ... not so easily. And knives are nowhere near as lethal as guns. And ...Anybody who thinks that you'll just be "trading" gun deaths for knife deaths if you ban guns is ignorant, stupid, or both.Or is selling something that goes "BANG!"...
(DIR) Post #AVRuBjn4NNJOl74A7s by qqmrichter@mastodon.world
2023-05-08T13:05:44Z
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@SlicerDicer @feld @Sundae_Gurl @Jgmeadows So is the never-ending stream of butchered children apparently the American way.You can keep it. It's yours. Just stop trying to EXPORT that shit.
(DIR) Post #AVVcbU8sdpYFmOWabw by qqmrichter@mastodon.world
2023-05-10T04:47:44Z
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@SlicerDicer @Sundae_Gurl @Jgmeadows The world we live in ... if you narrowly put a circle around your little parochial neck of the woods.The overwhelming majority of the world seems to get by just fine without ammosexuality.
(DIR) Post #AVoKaNsiT6TIDne4um by qqmrichter@mastodon.world
2023-05-19T11:04:02Z
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@grammargirl save
(DIR) Post #AYZLBZ59owm48D9xpo by qqmrichter@mastodon.world
2023-08-09T03:07:24Z
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@killedincars @mayonesa @Popehat The bio should clear up any confusion: "Not a contrarian but a naturalist realist."Translation from bullshit to English: A "contrarian" (which is itself a reskinning of the word "asshole").
(DIR) Post #AYZRBV4nJWKfQsLHnc by qqmrichter@mastodon.world
2023-08-10T00:13:41Z
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@mayonesa @killedincars @Popehat Discussion? The only discussion I took part in was one explaining your idiot, off-topic rant via your bio.I have no opinion on the NYT that's worth expressing given a) I don't read it and b) I don't give a flying fuck about American politics. (Especially when "not a contrarian" types like you dominate it.)
(DIR) Post #AcDNgPCgZPQfcxOH9U by qqmrichter@mastodon.world
2023-11-27T00:19:02Z
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@todayilearned This should never have been rescinded.
(DIR) Post #An1JYfl9R3MQBZyHLs by qqmrichter@mastodon.world
2024-10-15T01:03:31Z
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@report_press Well, if nothing else responses to this post are giving me a decent list of people to block.
(DIR) Post #AnHNDwDKZTALU0sZyS by qqmrichter@mastodon.world
2024-10-22T23:04:42Z
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@clacke I stole that. 😁 Another good one is Grand Theft Autocorrect.
(DIR) Post #ApVSxK77DReIJkNkSu by qqmrichter@mastodon.world
2024-12-28T14:00:08Z
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@feliks I've only got the white one there.
(DIR) Post #AxizVnwfw4Wkb3XHVo by qqmrichter@mastodon.world
2025-08-31T09:31:45Z
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@aral @codinghorror Are we sure that Jeff Atwood isn't an early LLM experiment? The straight-up overconfidence as he spouts completely incorrect and ignorant shit feels an awful lot like ChatGPT and its coterie of concussed digital parrots.Oh, wait. The "voice" of these is modelled after what techbrodudes think sounds smart. I may have put the teleological cart before the horse.
(DIR) Post #Ayh3eGkriJaXD9Nc3s by qqmrichter@mastodon.world
2025-09-29T09:02:12Z
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@futurebird I largely agree, but I can't help but remember the virus age in the '80s.I worked at a company where a business VP (not a techie) wanted to introduce unnecessarily convoluted rules to protect the company from viruses. His justification was that he'd been infected five times in the past month and KNEW how these things worked.I pointed out that I'd not ever suffered a virus infection and that perhaps we should be listening to the people who didn't get infected for policy.🧵 (1/n)