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I ended up with Nudist Cabins

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 20:00:00 +0000

In reply to just ran across this tweet

I ended up with Nudist Cabins, oddly - different bear backs in the wilderness guess... (no, i didn't watch the hole thing)

https://youtu.be/jLGWb5tD1qA

Rick N. Roll

just ran across this tweet

artappraiser — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 19:16:38 +0000

In reply to We need the equiv of these

just ran across this tweet that reminded me to tell you: YOU HOOKED ME INTO WATCHING THAT WHOLE DAMN VIDEO!!! Damn you (and the director-once you start, it's hard to turn it off), I really did.

so here's the tweet that goes with that, it really does go with it

Join @mary_roach as she discusses the wild moments when animals have broken the law. In the past, they were put on trial; what can we do going forward? Can new technology create a compassionate coexistence?

Fri 22 Apr
8pm
https://t.co/AWHQhxKIg7

Supported by @USAinUK pic.twitter.com/D2avfMaNhH
— Edinburgh Science (@EdSciFest) March 15, 2022

I was actually struck by quite a few memes in the video that one could apply to humans as well, i.e. the trouble caused by babies having babies, etc.

We need the equiv of these

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 13 Mar 2022 21:06:41 +0000

In reply to Very interesting, especially

We need the equiv of these social workers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07uy6vqD0Vo

Obama has COVID: https:/

Orion — Sun, 13 Mar 2022 21:01:23 +0000

In reply to More Black Americans are buying guns. Is it driving up Black suicide rates?

Obama has COVID: https://youtu.be/1b8WC2bkqto

Also, I think this article

Orion — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 01:17:48 +0000

In reply to More Black Americans are buying guns. Is it driving up Black suicide rates?

Also, I think this article should amend with more African Americans are buying guns legitimately, above board as commercial items. That is a marker that more of them are progressing in to the middle class. There was and still is a network for firearms and that's how they were distributed in the inner city. That's how firearms are distributed throughout most of the world.

Getting guns as commercial items is going to make it a whole lot more likely that they could be used by a crazy person, suicide, etc. than if they're distributed through an informal network. That's why gun crime in the US is a much higher problem than anywhere else, even if America isn't the only place with guns.

In other words, American gun violence, just like American pharmaceutical abuse, is a direct result of an unregulated marketplace. If the market were regulated, you'd hear about crimes involving various household items and the whole thing would seem a lot less apocalyptic. That's not to say a terrorist with the right connections wouldn't show up to create hell but, again, the situation would be more controllable.

Very interesting, especially

artappraiser — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 02:25:16 +0000

In reply to So, an aside on this one, I

Very interesting, especially as these stats say different. (They must be stats created by the systemic oppressor?) Overall I find the "black people" stereotypes that are most interesting are the ones bought into by many "black people". (Where you think" "wow that's really racist", assigning a sub-culture to a skin color like that, but as a person with another color of skin, you aren't allowed to say.)

I actually hope some day those kind of black people will let MLK Jr.'s dream commence, and we'll just study the suicide rate among Americans. with maybe demographic divides of age groups and income levels...

So, an aside on this one, I

Orion — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 01:25:32 +0000

In reply to More Black Americans are buying guns. Is it driving up Black suicide rates?

So, an aside on this one, I worked as a security guard during Covid and I overheard two seperate patients provide juxtaposing scenarios: one black woman was being questioned by an assigned psychiatrist with standard questions during a crisis scenario - "any thoughts of harming yourself?"

She replied very promptly "Black people don't commit suicide." This is something I'm sure you have heard before, for whatever reason.

Later on, there was a black female patient who intentionally took so much medication that she blew out one of her legs. She was upset that she woke up and told the doctor so. She was crying during most of the time at her hospital, saying she wished she had someone to show her love and empathy.

also:

artappraiser — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 06:51:06 +0000

In reply to More Black Americans are buying guns. Is it driving up Black suicide rates?

also:

The correlation between annual mass shootings and annual gun sales is very strong:
Sources:
FBI: https://t.co/98FsUi6bmh
MST: https://t.co/rCVZ8UtPce
GVA: https://t.co/Hy9ANQXgp4 pic.twitter.com/DJmr422wrA
— MassShootingTracker (@massshootingtrk) March 7, 2022

Comparison of U.S. annual mass shootings & annual gun sales from 2013 to 2021 (see comments for details):
Sources:
FBI: https://t.co/98FsUi6bmh
MST: https://t.co/rCVZ8UtPce
GVA: https://t.co/Hy9ANQXgp4 pic.twitter.com/xQ5HFBqzqf
— MassShootingTracker (@massshootingtrk) March 7, 2022

There are alternatives.

Orion — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 23:48:27 +0000

In reply to Yglesias returns for a minute

There are alternatives.

^ Two sentences are really

artappraiser — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 17:08:23 +0000

In reply to Yglesias returns for a minute

^ Two sentences are really all Afro-Americans need to know:

It's also worth underscoring that while police violence against civilians disproportionately impacts Afro-Americans, so does murder. Indeed, the racial gap in murder victimization rates is larger than the racial gap in police violence.

from

Joe Biden is right about police funding It's good and Democrats should do it, 6 hrs ago

And that is why police (competent, not competent and inbetween) more often end shooting in poor minority neighborhoods: because they end up where the gun-related crime is, go figure.

Edit to add: Yglesias basically speaks to that point here:

If we don't want cops with a record of misconduct hanging around or bouncing from department to department (and we shouldn't), that's going raise the cost of policing not cut the budget — it's worth making the investment in quality. https://t.co/vlu77F3NqM pic.twitter.com/W9P58IDzqu
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) March 7, 2022

If you absolutely have to cut something, cut some of the paper shuffling social work jobs torturing poor people by making them spend all their time on paperwork, and waiting on both virtual and real lines.

It's probably not even more expensive in the end to spend more on vetting and training and having an adequate sized force on the streets because taxpayers save in the end not having to spend on lawsuits against police and trials of them. Yes, let's have so many standing around that they're bored with nothing to do, that's the point.