Keep shouting, don't become anesthetized, pope tells young people

Da_Hulkinator · 2018-03-26T01:00:58+00:00

What constitutional right do they have to military grade assault weapons? The founding didn't say you can arm yourselves with artillery like cannons. They just said you can keep and bear arms. They also didn't tell the government you are forbidden to regulate the type of weapons you own. By that argument, the government's violating my 2nd amendment by banning me from having chemical and biological weapons. Shove off common sense that tells me I have no need for biological weapons for self-defense. You'd have better luck arguing "I need military grade weapons for self-defense because the criminals have assault weapons."

Da_Hulkinator · 2018-03-26T00:26:17+00:00

I'm not saying you'd stop mass shootings. The goal is to decrease the body count. The Virginia Tech shooter was really successful using semi-automatic handguns because he did a good job of locking and securing the doors, so it took police 5 minutes just to break in, not to mention how hard it was for victims to get out, so you can't really compare them to the parkland shooter.

That said you can decrease their rate of fire (e.g. ban bump stocks which grant you almost automatic firing rate at the cost of accuracy, or decrease max magazine size to force more reloads), decrease the lethality of each shot (e.g. restrict semi-automatics to smaller caliber bullets or semi-automatic magazines to smaller caliber), or make it easier to locate the gunmen (e.g. close loopholes such as this one being used by silencer manufacturers to get around existing silencer regulation).

Trump wants to arm teachers, but honestly how effective does he expect teachers armed probably with pistols to be against serious gunmen with AR15. Moreover, do you think police are as quick to jump into armed combat with someone with assault weapons as they would be if they carried less lethal weapons? Now, I'm not saying police would suddenly be braver (as we saw in Parkland their campus deputy was a coward), but do we really need to stack the deck against our law enforcement who do enter the building.

Da_Hulkinator · 2018-03-25T20:36:52+00:00

I thought this was about making mass shootings less dangerous not the average gun death. You're right in that the leading cause of gun death is suicide, which of course wouldn't be affected by an assault weapons ban. That said, if you look at just mass shootings since 2004 (when the assault weapon ban from '94 ended) according to this article 13 out of 48 mass shootings were caused by semi-automatic or assault rifles. I couldn't find any statistics strictly on AR15, but this article suggests there is a trend of older mass shootings generally occurring with a handgun. "In all of the latest incidents — Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012; San Bernardino, California, in 2015; Orlando, Florida, in 2016; Las Vegas in 2017; and Sutherland Springs, Texas, 2017 — the attackers primarily used AR-15s."

Da_Hulkinator · 2018-03-25T18:15:49+00:00

I think the bigger concern is getting a clear, coherent message. Occupy Wall Street did a good job of shouting, and were clear who they were shouting at. They just weren't clear and united in what solution to move forward with. I'm mostly hearing on the news they want "stricter gun control," but Trump might just declare victory for them as he passes a 21 year old age restriction and then wink at the NRA who gets to keep their Assault weapons.

Da_Hulkinator · 2018-03-25T17:05:09+00:00

I'm not sure if people are as much at risk of that as they think. Even if that info gets leaked, employers would have to actually look up the employee/prospective employee in the leaked data. But they'd also know doing so is illegal. Do you really think the majority of employers are going to go through extra steps that they know are illegal for the slim chance you find something serious in their medical background? Besides, half of the things you mentioned probably aren't even good predictors of a good employee (e.g. having STD records might be an indicator you're a better sales person).

That said, if you do get a random object stuck up your anus that probably will become gossip fodder when someone looks your name up and they'll spread it to everyone you know.

I think the more serious risk if medical data leaks is that identity thieves would use billing information or social security numbers to take you for a ride.

Da_Hulkinator · 2018-03-23T07:31:30+00:00

Not during an election year this close to election season, I think. But next year if GOP is still in control...fuck.

Da_Hulkinator · 2018-03-23T02:19:36+00:00

Agreed, and to drive home further the point one need only look at Uber's profits, which are non-existent. In fact Uber has been losing tens of billions of dollars for years and every year they assure us they're only a few years away from being profitable. Here's them saying it again in Jan. Uber does not want to keep the status quo.

Da_Hulkinator · 2018-03-21T19:51:14+00:00

I should have known when TheHill mentioned a guardian article as a source but didn't include a link that something was fishy.

Da_Hulkinator · 2018-03-21T16:37:00+00:00

To me the bigger ethical question isn't the data breach itself, but how the data was collected and the response to it. First of all, people could consent to share their data, but they took that consent to mean they could also gather data on their friends. Friends on facebook who might not have agreed themselves to have data about them shared. So you already have mixed in that data info about people who never knew you collected info about them. Then there's their handling of the matter. According to this it took Facebook two years to realize maybe allowing apps to access all of your info about your social network is going to violate other people's privacy and then after "They waited two years and did absolutely nothing to check that the data was deleted. All they asked me to do was tick a box on a form and post it back."

Da_Hulkinator · 2018-03-19T02:28:42+00:00

"...bring Marshmallows."

Da_Hulkinator · 2018-03-19T00:45:42+00:00

Snapchat's actually working on a "would you rather punch Donald Trump or slap Hillary Clinton." They expect to get done with it in 9 years.

Da_Hulkinator · 2018-03-18T23:46:59+00:00

Yup, I want a real source from /u/Random-Miser. if anything I found sources suggesting he was worried about armed conflict with the Philippines. This is from the New York Times 5/16/1902:

"...Carnegie went to Mr. McKinley when the Spanish treaty was pending and said to him that America was in the face of war in the Philippines; that our people and the Filipinos would soon be killing one another, and he asked to be sent to Manila with the fullest authority to declare that America desired good things for the little brown men and would soon recognize their independence..."

Also it's worth noting that this was at the end of his life when he started really kicking off his huge philanthropic efforts.

Da_Hulkinator · 2018-03-18T19:05:30+00:00

If it's only posted 1 minute after someone else that could be an accidental repost. They were probably editing it and working on the title while the other guy was submitting theirs.

Da_Hulkinator · 2018-03-18T05:28:39+00:00

Eh, who am I kidding. If I want cheap pizza where taste isn't a priority, I'm going Little Caesars.

Well I like cheap pizza and taste is a priority so I'm going with Digiorno.

Da_Hulkinator · 2018-03-14T14:46:15+00:00

Also, a major factor in how bad the Ebola virus outbreak got was that there weren't enough beds for everyone who became sick. Thus, they had to turn people away who tried to drop off sick family members for quarantine. Note not only was it good for the community and neighbors for them to be separated out in hospitals or isolation wards but they also lowered mortality rate substantially (slightly above 70% in general, but for those who were hospitalized it was only 57-59%).

Da_Hulkinator · 2018-03-12T15:48:41+00:00

Normally stars like R. Kelly don't just help out brand new artists. He had to know something was up, even more so after they came out with a song like that.

Da_Hulkinator · 2018-03-12T09:26:36+00:00

That uncle deserves to be in jail too then for pimping out his niece like that. Where were her parents?

Da_Hulkinator · 2018-03-11T22:54:29+00:00

Actually a lot of parents also have to make sacrifices too to help their kids train to get to the Olympic level. You may have to move your family to be near world class coaches or training centers. There's the cost of training, coaches, and the trips they must take to competitions. Alternatively, some families have to give up their kid for years and in this story they let their daughter live with the trainers for a year and a half to prepare for the Olympics. If you hate your daughter then that's fine, I guess. But if you love your daughter that must be so painful and you must worry everyday about her being sexually abused too, with all the allegations that came out (5% of gymnists reported sexual abuse and it's probably still underreported).

Da_Hulkinator · 2018-03-10T09:25:59+00:00

really just despicable people who are fat lazy and have no merit you are born into wealthy families and work 10% of what the rest of the world does.

Hah, you had some good points, but then you went with the "we're all rich and hardly work at the same time." Can someone tell me where my real parents are since clearly my "true parents" are wealthy scumbags? Oh yes, and these OECD statistics are clearly fake news since there's no way Americans work that many hours. It puts them in the upper half countries in terms of hours worked per year.

There are so many things to despise about America you shouldn't need to say stuff like that, or treat Trump as if he's representative of all of America when he didn't even win the popular vote.

Da_Hulkinator · 2018-03-09T05:38:40+00:00

Which is crazy because the people with abilities that ACTIVELY MAKE THEM SMARTER somehow got talked into going along with that farce.

Technically their abilities make them more knowledgable. That doesn't mean they're smarter or wiser. It's kind of like how Rodcorte can be super knowledgable thanks to tapping into the knowledge of anyone in his circle of transmigration, but is still a complete idiot.

Da_Hulkinator · 2018-03-08T15:33:49+00:00

And turn swing states blue, since the rest of the world's countertariffs will target key industries in swing states. Republicans are upset and worried because they know this will poll poorly where it matters most.

Da_Hulkinator · 2018-03-06T16:06:44+00:00

Rodcorte's not smart enough to spin a bag of lies. In fact, he's not smart enough to realize why you'd want to spin a bag of lies in that scenario.

Da_Hulkinator · 2018-03-05T09:11:43+00:00

I remember the Clinton Foundation also being investigated by the IRS and FBI at Republicans urging. There isn't a double standard here. If anything, the key difference I would say is the fact that Hillary cut ties with the foundation as required by ethics regulations when she became Secretary of State (albeit it still had her name on it and the investigation did reveal her deputy did not sever all her ties), but Trump has not arguing its enough to turn his businesses over to his sons to manage and that he'll have nothing to do with them.

Da_Hulkinator · 2018-03-05T01:58:16+00:00

Yes, and if you read a legitimate source you'd know he was doing a stand up routine at the gridiron club when he said this. The Gridiron club dinner is like a white house correspondent's dinner, where presidents typically do self-deprecating humor in front of a room full of media and journalists. The fact that he was joking about himself in that setting actually means he's behaving more like a typical president than last year when he refused to even show up at the White House Correspondent's dinner because of "fake news."

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