• FuckyWucky [none/use name]
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    9 months ago

    At least four people were wounded, none critically, in a shooting at Morgan State University in Baltimore on Tuesday, according to authorities, who urged students to take shelter on the campus of the historically Black college.

    No one dead, Americans won't care.

    • deezbutts@lemm.ee
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      9 months ago

      ✅ hbcu

      ✅ no casualties

      ✅ Dispute "between two groups"

      Had to Ctrl+f to even find it as a bullet point on the CNN front page...

    • designatedhacker@lemm.ee
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      9 months ago

      There are far fewer hurricanes. You also get a couple days warning on most weather events. I take your point though, between waking up to seeing a related push message and seeing this meme I had forgotten about it.

      At least it appears nobody died, only 5 injured.

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    9 months ago

    For those that don't know the reference, this is traditionally posted each and every time a mass shooting happens in FreedomLand.

    https://www.theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-nation-where-this-r-1848971668

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        9 months ago

        It's weirder that there's a phenomenon that happens particularly in one nation that claims nothing can be done about the phenomenon.

        • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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          9 months ago

          well everything about american politics makes sense when you consider that the US constitution is just a bad basis for a country

          the government just shutting down on a semi-regular basis for example. That's very disfunctional and not normal

  • lnee@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    I hear a bunch of N thing needs to happen, but the question is will that N solution help. The question to ask is, has someone run a study on N solution, and if so what's the next best solution. Gather data like where are the things of interest happening e.g. region of city. Make shore that N solution does not try to fix a symptom and disregard a source problem. Is N thing is symptom there can be many sources which have different solutions.

    • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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      9 months ago

      Like climate change, this mostly is not an intellectual question. Good answers in theory don't matter if you have a reactionary political establishment that refuses to implement it.

      • lnee@lemm.ee
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        9 months ago

        Like for climate change bad solutions exist and if people are pushing back you should listen, a solution maby it's not good anoth maby we are spending time getting bad solutions to work when we should work on find new solutions.

        • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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          9 months ago

          Like for climate change, waiting and doing nothing when we already have a wealth of research on the subject will do much more damage than even the worse solutions that the data still supports [rather than moronic, unsupported solutions like giant ice machines].

          Like for climate change, the pushback is mainly based on people being paid to push back and the astroturfing funded by the same people in a litany of campaigns that have gone on for decades. People disagreeing do not, by the very fact of being "people disagreeing", have a valid point, and usually they do not in the context of these subjects.

                • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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                  9 months ago

                  Why ten? How many does "lithium batteries are made with a substantial amount lithium" count for?

                  Beyond that, I'm not just some bullshit technocrat, I don't believe that "innovating your way out of the apocalypse" is almost ever possible. Yeah, we should move away from car-centric infrastructure, which could be conflated for arguing for "green tech" because, compared to cars, trains, bikes, scooters, etc. are green tech, but overwhelmingly my suggestions are policy-side because stopping the destruction of the earth is not a sci-fi pipe dream, it is a materially feasible goal and has been for as long as capitalists have been destroying it.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      9 months ago

      "‘No Way To Improve This Somewhat Without Excessive Studies And Data Gathering,’ Says Apologist For The Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens"