Posts by strawd@qoto.org
(DIR) Post #AU3QAYWNXlK61uNHIu by strawd@qoto.org
2023-03-27T22:03:09Z
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@freemo what about the chance of a child being traumatized by a school shooting? Surely that's far higher.
(DIR) Post #AU3UikH4keto8zm6VM by strawd@qoto.org
2023-03-27T22:54:08Z
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@freemo if this number from WaPo can be believed, then there have been 348,000 students who have experienced gun violence at school since 1999. Divide by the number of US school-aged people since then (I got 147 million from quick addition of census data), and you get about 1 in 400.https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/interactive/school-shootings-database/
(DIR) Post #AU3Xh7OQ7tsH807sTQ by strawd@qoto.org
2023-03-27T23:27:28Z
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@freemo fair enough, the 1/400 number isn't directly comparable to the daily risk numbers you used for the original stats.On the other hand, when considering lightning strikes, the risk assessment question one might ask is "is it worth the risk to go outside today?", whereas the question one might ask (and I have asked myself many times) w.r.t. gun violence in schools is "is it worth the risk to raise my kids in the US?". In my opinion it's worth the risk to go outside regularly despite the 1/15,300 (https://www.weather.gov/safety/lightning-odds) chance of being struck by lightning in a lifetime, but it's seriously debatable whether or not it's worth a 1/400 chance per kid (ack: not entirely independent variables) to have them exposed to school gun violence.
(DIR) Post #AU3ZJWaizHVEEol6Om by strawd@qoto.org
2023-03-27T23:45:37Z
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@freemo yeah my risk assessment compares where the US is to where other countries are, not to where the US could be with changes in laws. It may be that there is no good way to come back from where we are in the US, but I hope not. I don't know what specific actions can reduce gun violence, and I'm not advocating for trying to ban all guns.
(DIR) Post #AU3amWozJLI1Isp9w8 by strawd@qoto.org
2023-03-28T00:02:04Z
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@freemo your original post here asked whether or not it was a common enough occurrence to be a huge concern, and I think the answer is yes
(DIR) Post #AUYOMJlYSX1i3N4lea by strawd@qoto.org
2023-04-11T20:38:55Z
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@freemo is there anything to what the media talks about when they say that assault rifles create far more damage to a body due to cavitation? Couldn't this, in addition to large and easily swappable magazines, be a reason to consider only allowing weapons with less lethality?
(DIR) Post #AWtRlGoNErxnQlJ8ng by strawd@qoto.org
2023-06-20T20:10:10Z
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@freemo @georgetakei seems fair to me, if he was willing to plead guilty. But he didn't, at least not in the indictments so far.
(DIR) Post #AWtUAVDR1NO1FiBnMW by strawd@qoto.org
2023-06-20T20:37:08Z
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@freemo @georgetakei no idea. It's hard to picture Trump admitting guilt even if the offer was there, but I guess it's possible.Here's what I could find about his pubic stance on the matter:> Trump predicted he would not be convicted and said he did not anticipate taking a plea deal, though he left open the possibility of doing so “where they pay me some damages.”https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/10/trump-vows-to-stay-in-the-race-even-if-convicted-00101403So I guess he would plead guilty if DOJ paid him money, which sounds like a ridiculous stipulation to me. Anyway I don't see any immediate evidence of unfairness.
(DIR) Post #AXbEgjl0ZZLXkTBJDM by strawd@qoto.org
2023-07-11T23:10:59Z
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@freemo you support LGBTQ rights, correct? His track record there is awful
(DIR) Post #AXbmzWi4hfUzE6wN2O by strawd@qoto.org
2023-07-12T05:35:22Z
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@freemo makes sense. Something that starts small but grows at a high order may be smaller than another effect for some take, but it'll eventually overtake it
(DIR) Post #AYjV8ihgXB4IE23uoy by strawd@qoto.org
2023-08-14T20:45:07Z
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@freemo that would have to be a Republican then I suppose. I'm all for that party to find its way back to sanity so I can think about maybe voting for them again someday. But they have a long way to come back imho.It's hard to imagine a Republican winning the 2024 primary who doesn't at least signal that they want to ban abortion and trans health care and increase preferential treatment of the Christian majority. I hope I'm wrong. Not to mention any critical thinking about the harms of capitalism (not that Biden is any better on that front though).
(DIR) Post #AYjYJzofY96KLaOhIO by strawd@qoto.org
2023-08-14T21:20:46Z
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@freemo Why would you think that? There are at least 4 choices for president in every election, and some states have quite a few more choices.I know that me treating it like a two-party system contributes to that being true, but it’s hard to believe that voting for any other party has any chance of actually selecting a winner without some big shake-up. Who knows though, maybe a Trump arrest could be just such a shake-up. if anything we’ve seen the opposite that communism is harmful and capitalism far preferableI’m somewhat convinced of this, but I’m not ready to write off communism completely based on the few implementations so far. I guess I just hope that a system that includes massive exploitation isn’t the very best that humanity can do. Maybe there’s a better choice than both out there. Most of the communist countries have long since failed.Often with some significant “help” from the US, I think. But it does seem like several have imploded mostly on their own. The problem with america isnt capitalism (free markets) its the lack of capitalism (monopolies making the market not free)I’m pretty sure both are a problem. Capitalism because it incentivises greed and funnels power to those willing to exploit others. Monopolies because they lock up that power in very few hands.Both can have upsides too - capitalism seems pretty good at producing innovation and increasing quality of life, at least for many people. I won’t defend monopolies but I can imagine potential for making big moves that wouldn’t otherwise be possible.
(DIR) Post #AZvv3aOZ8gC8KePgsC by strawd@qoto.org
2023-09-19T18:24:09Z
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@freemo no, consuming and participating in it (consenting adults only) is not wrong according to my moral framework. That said I'm pretty sure there is a lot of exploitation in the porn industry, so I wouldn't give the whole operation a pass.
(DIR) Post #AZxjJRzlKNEXmNWv5s by strawd@qoto.org
2023-09-20T15:22:00Z
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@freemo in my experience as a former Evangelical, that culture has the belief that pornography is against the will of God and is thus immoral, since morality comes from God. They believe it is destructive to marriages and that it corrupts God's perfect plan for humanity.I suspect that several other Christian sects believe similar things, so at least in the US I think that 1/3 is probably lower than the rate in the general population.
(DIR) Post #AZzweN8i445DRG0UTY by strawd@qoto.org
2023-09-21T17:00:51Z
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@freemo I would say that pathologizing the way a minority of human brains work is the wrong way to go about it, so if that's what you mean by incorrectly diagnosed, then I agree.I do think it can be useful to explore how an individual's brain works, and whether they for instance tend to pay a lot more attention to rationality than they do to social norms. Or something along those lines. I'm far from any kind of expert in this area, but I'm learning.
(DIR) Post #Aa02VEvpoJhb6N0sue by strawd@qoto.org
2023-09-21T18:06:20Z
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@freemo I totally agree that we shouldn't call it a disease. I'm hesitant to call for reversing the descriptors, but getting rid of the pathology language and stigma seems like the right direction to go.
(DIR) Post #AadcNzaryKSrNibx4a by strawd@qoto.org
2023-10-10T20:22:15Z
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@freemo a ruler tattoo seems to be common in the knitting community, or sometimes a design that subtly functions as a ruler
(DIR) Post #AbgOjkMWn6LUDj1Ci0 by strawd@qoto.org
2023-11-11T02:25:32Z
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@freemo I went with Colemak after trying Dvorak for a little bit. I found Colemak to be a good compromise of keeping your shortcuts working / not changing too much, while also moving common stuff to the home row. No regrets!