jeremy_sylvis
@jeremy_sylvis@midwest.social
- Comment on We have had guns for 200 years but mass shootings only became common in the last 30. So what changed? 7 months ago:
Actually, the data shows that the assault weapons ban of 1994 was associated with a decrease in mass shooting deaths and the number of incidents
Correlation from causation aside, for this to have any real significance, there would need to be a drop in mass shooting counts.
That aside, your own citation shows any change in deaths is questionable at best - it looks as if the average may have even increased, by the included graph.
It also seems to pretend that _merely banning the sales of more “assault weapons” would have nullified the impact of existing assault weapons.
However, after the ban expired in 2004, there was an almost immediate and steep rise in mass shooting deaths.
Again, correlation from causation aside, for this to have any real meaning there would have to be only one changing factor… and the trend would have had to been consistent with a near-elimination of the count of events.
Can you truly think of no other changes? No, say, incredible spike in the media glorifying and sensationalizing such events, inadvertently promoting them as a means of getting violent retribution as one commits suicide?
It boils down to this: was there any direct scaling of such values with the actual count of owned “assault weapons”? Of course not.
It is important to note that many additional factors may contribute to the shifting frequency of these shootings, such as changes in domestic violence rates, political extremism, psychiatric illness, firearm availability and a surge in sales, and the recent rise in hate groups
Wow. So, you dilute the value of your own correlation by highlighting factors known to be common underlying issues, yet double-down on “suggest” and “decrease”.
- Comment on We have had guns for 200 years but mass shootings only became common in the last 30. So what changed? 7 months ago:
It’s almost entirely that.
When you have nearly no-one who wishes to commit such atrocities as a violent suicide, it doesn’t matter what tools are available for the job.
- Comment on We have had guns for 200 years but mass shootings only became common in the last 30. So what changed? 7 months ago:
Have you considered any of the underlying factors to such and how Canada might differ?
- Comment on We have had guns for 200 years but mass shootings only became common in the last 30. So what changed? 7 months ago:
It’s also unlikely the US Military, being citizens of the United States themselves, would have a high degree of adherence to such orders to bomb and destroy their fellow man.
That anyone thinks such is realistic is indicative of the depth of delusion.
- Comment on We have had guns for 200 years but mass shootings only became common in the last 30. So what changed? 7 months ago:
“decent” seems to be doing some heavy lifting here. A linguistic analysis of writings of the Framers cross-referenced against era culture and stats highlights the depth of your misunderstanding.
right there in the text
Ah - I see we’re not only cherry-picking, but we’re depending on a preamble e.g. a preparatory or introductory statement as somehow limiting of scope or indicative of audience to which a right was granted.
- Comment on We have had guns for 200 years but mass shootings only became common in the last 30. So what changed? 7 months ago:
That, and obviously the proliferation of weapons has made mass murder accessible, and in the minds of some people as described above.
Are you under the impression such things were ever not accessible?
At what point did we start regularly testing and proving out water? When did we start ensuring school bake sale food must be store-bought? You seem incredibly short-sighted.
- Comment on We have had guns for 200 years but mass shootings only became common in the last 30. So what changed? 7 months ago:
I’m not sure what you’re referring to as a “fetish” or an “unregulated” lobby. If you were referring to nonsense like the NRA and their fundraising efforts, you’d be obligated to highlight Everytown etc. and their blue-aligned fundraising. You can’t point out a wedge issue and one side without recognizing the other side and its equivalent benefit.
If one has a clean criminal history, is a legal adult, and - in most states - has undergone some additional scrutiny or proof of proficiency, then sure - they can buy a firearm.
Given how Afghanistan turned out, I’m not sure how you think the concept of resisting the armed forces of a government as a distributed and well-armed populace is somehow unthinkable.
It’s fair to say we’ve a cesspool of stupidity - but only due to our politicians continued neglect of actual underlying issues in favor of partisan wedge-driving and profiteering of the ad revenue of sensationalized violence.
- Comment on We have had guns for 200 years but mass shootings only became common in the last 30. So what changed? 7 months ago:
Hyper-sensationalism of the violence and its impact gave those seeking revenge and suicide a convenient two-in-one option.
- Comment on Meta is promoting Threads posts on Facebook and there’s no way to opt out 8 months ago:
Sure there is… stop using Facebook.
- Comment on Most of the world's biggest advertisers have stopped buying ads on Elon Musk's X, exclusive new data shows 8 months ago:
“Most” seems to be doing some incredibly generous work here.
- Comment on Here comes another Netflix price hike 8 months ago:
Yarr intensifies
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
I wonder how long we’ve got until mortgage defaults start piling up again. I seem to recall we’re already at absurd levels of default on consumer credit - adding corporate bankruptcy to the mix seems like we’ve seen another of the four horsemen.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
What’s most concerning about China’s apparent slowdown isn’t simply that its economic growth is stalling. According to analysts, the current downturn suggests China’s former glory days were never really sustainable to begin with.
In fact, some economists and experts had been sounding alarm bells for well over a decade.
This includes Yu Yongding, a former member of the People’s Bank of China’s monetary policy committee, who in a 2010 opinion piece for China Daily suggested that the country’s rapid growth had been achieved at “an extremely high cost.”
“[China’s] growth pattern has now almost exhausted its potential. So China has reached a crucial juncture: without painful structural adjustments the momentum of its economic growth could suddenly be lost,” Yu wrote.
It’ll be interesting to see how China’s economy adapts here - if this really is the emergence of a pattern of collapse due to growth never having really been sustainable, I’m not sure what could really be done.
- Comment on Cisco buying cybersecurity company Splunk for $28B 9 months ago:
I’ll have to look into it - thanks for the suggestion.
- Comment on Cisco buying cybersecurity company Splunk for $28B 9 months ago:
Poor Splunk - such a useful tool does not deserve the upcoming enshittification.
- Comment on Why We’re Pulling Our Recommendation of Wyze Security Cameras 9 months ago:
Hikvision has a decent line of chinesium local-only PoE cameras. I’ve used a few of them with Frigate and Home Assistant with great success.
- Comment on How Much Does It Cost to Charge an Electric Vehicle? (A comparison at home and on the road, with gasoline) 9 months ago:
an EV charged from fossil electricity saves only 33% on emissions compared to a fossil car
Or, stated more honestly, an EV deriving electricity from even fossil-based grid-scale generation uses roughly half the raw combustables as an ICE with the added benefit of emission scrubbing.
if i am paying 40k$ for an EV i am expecting my purchase to act as a contribution to safeguard the environement
We are fortunate, then, that this is already the case.
EVs are a pass for me for now but thats my opinion.
I’m not sure how you’ve determined they should be a pass - if you’re comparing like to like and comparing to new ICE vehicles of similar capability, there’s no reason not to go EV for most people.
But sure, it is a matter of preference.
- Comment on How Much Does It Cost to Charge an Electric Vehicle? (A comparison at home and on the road, with gasoline) 9 months ago:
You are aware that internal combustion engines also use non-renewables at a much lower efficiency than grid-scale use of non-renewables, right?
Were you aware that only ~1/3 the energy from combustion is harnessed for propulsion in a traditional ICE?
- Comment on Unity deleted these terms, don't let them get out 9 months ago:
In the software side of IT, this is usually when you start seeing layoffs and a mass replacement of talented developers with bottom-of-the-barrel offshore contractors. Beware the following fail cascade.
- Comment on Unity deleted these terms, don't let them get out 9 months ago:
I wonder if they realize the extent to which this disincentivizes upgrades to any newer form of Unity - and the newer license - even outside the rest of the recent drama.
It would take amazing changes to even consider giving this up - and at that point, it’s a hop and a skip to a platform shift.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
It’s not just that Reddit migrants tend to bring shitty content but also shitty behavior - dogpiling, partisan circle jerking/navel gazing, etc. all make for a terrible discussion experience.