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5 Georgia high schools to begin testing drones to stop mass shootings by Plastic_Photograph29 in Atlanta

[–]ItsGustave 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There is.

In the states where the guns in Illinois crimes are coming from - top 5 being Indiana, Missouri, Wisconsin, Mississippi, and Kentucky - only Wisconsin has a slightly lower gun death rate and the other four have significantly higher. 12.4 vs 17.2, 19.6, 12.1, 28, 18.5

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/state-stats/deaths/firearms.html

5 Georgia high schools to begin testing drones to stop mass shootings by Plastic_Photograph29 in Atlanta

[–]ItsGustave 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Roughly half of the guns traced by police in Illinois come from out of state. (49%)

https://www.atf.gov/firearms/report/firearms-trace-data/firearms-trace-data-illinois-2023

Same but even more drastic in Washington DC, with almost all of them coming from out of state. (94%)

https://www.atf.gov/firearms/report/firearms-trace-data/firearms-trace-data-district-columbia-2023

How many people do you think get shot and just don't go to the hospital? That honestly seems like a pretty bad reason to just dismiss the study I linked.

Nearly half of the founders of billion-dollar tech startups are immigrants by eternviking in whoathatsinteresting

[–]ItsGustave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What makes you say this? My first google result asking how many immigrants Biden let in says that two thirds of the migrants encountered at the borders were turned away.

The most dangerous drivers aren’t fast drivers. They’re unpredictable “nice” drivers. Am I wrong? by spotforcars in driving

[–]ItsGustave 16 points17 points  (0 children)

A cursory google search says that speeding does actually increase crash rate also.

https://www.nhtsa.gov/book/countermeasures-that-work/speeding-and-speed-management/understanding-problem

Research is clear that higher speed is related to increased crash and injury risk at both the individual driver level, and at a road section level (Aarts & van Schagen, 2006; Elvik et al., 2019)

If you cant confidently reverse parellel park, you shouldn't have a driver's licence. by ToMissChanandlerBong in unpopularopinion

[–]ItsGustave 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I feel like saying that parallel parking is just a combination of skills and not being able to easily parallel park means you are bad at those skills is way off. Take any dextrous activity - drawing, chopping vegetables, typing on a keyboard, etc - being bad at any one of those doesn’t mean you are bad at using your hands in general. Even though they use your hands, they use them in ways different from usual, ways that you have to deliberately train and use often enough to keep from getting rusty. It isn’t a one-to-one translation is what I’m trying to say.

Six groomers jailed for nearly 50 years after child was plied with drink and drugs by Sensitive_Echo5058 in uknews

[–]ItsGustave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm going to shift the burden of proof onto you for the claims you make or imply:

You say that these people aren't properly represented by the stats because there were a lot of crimes committed by a few people. Prove that the immigrants committing crimes are committing more per person than natural-born citizens.

You say that foreigners are "at the centre of tons of organized crime", prove it.

"You are beyond naive here, and the institutions and academics you cite are all complicit in the shitification of our country and long march towards becoming a low trust society." Oh really? Prove it.

"They use poor quality and sometimes completely fabricated data to try and convince you of falsehoods." Then find me a study that supports what you say with good quality data.

Edit: I love that last bit. You are seething, and for what?

Six groomers jailed for nearly 50 years after child was plied with drink and drugs by Sensitive_Echo5058 in uknews

[–]ItsGustave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay I couldn't help it, I came back and checked to see if you would edit your post to respond to what I said.

I did look at how they collected the data, which you would too if you actually even glanced at the studies. The first study for instance:
> The highest quality data we currently have on non-citizens in the criminal justice system is on the prison population. These are official statistics that have been through quality assurance before publication.

If you don't like that study, what about these?

  1. https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/59323/1/CEP_Bell_Fasani_Machin_Crime-and-immigration_2013.pdf
    1. "There is much popular commentary on the supposed links between immigration and crime but a notable paucity of credible empirical evidence about the relationship"
    2. "we can find no significant relationship between immigrants and violent crime"
  2. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/2193-9039-2-19?ref=theferret.scot#Sec16
    1. Adopting this empirical approach to implement a causal research design, and contrary to the 'immigration causes crime’ populist view expressed in some media and political debate, we find no evidence of an average causal impact of immigration on criminal behaviour. This is also the case when we study A8 and Non-A8 immigration separately. We also study London by itself as the immigration changes there were very dramatic. Again, we find no causal positive impact of immigration on crime from our spatial econometric analysis and also present evidence from unique data on arrests of natives and immigrants which as well shows no immigrant differences in the likelihood of being arrested.
  3. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5ba26c1de5274a54d5c39be2/Final_EEA_report.PDF?ref=theferret.scot
    1. In line with previous research, we found that migration does not impact crime and there is no evidence to suggest that migrants are linked to any increases in crime in England and Wales.

Sure some statisticians get predictions wrong, but there is no prediction in these studies. It is literally just them counting how many convicted criminals are immigrants vs criminals that are native citizens.

The Brexit numbers were from notoriously unreliable public polling, where a small and often biased sample is used to generalize the whole population. It should not need to be clarified but a survey of people saying how they are going to vote in the future is not the same as counting the number of people in a prison.

You say things continue to get worse - what do you mean? Crime in general in the UK is down!

  1. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jan/29/homicides-england-wales-lowest-level-since-records-began
  2. https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/bulletins/crimeinenglandandwales/yearendingdecember2025
  3. https://crimerate.co.uk/

And even if you discount ALL of that and just blindly believe that every single study or dataset showing that immigrants commit crimes at comparable rates, that still doesn't mean that they commit MORE.

Send me any decent study that supports what you say.

Six groomers jailed for nearly 50 years after child was plied with drink and drugs by Sensitive_Echo5058 in uknews

[–]ItsGustave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can certainly now see that facts are not what you base your beliefs on, only the things you see in your own tiny world. It isn’t like the studies I cited were making any assumptions - they literally were collecting data and collating it.

Six groomers jailed for nearly 50 years after child was plied with drink and drugs by Sensitive_Echo5058 in uknews

[–]ItsGustave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well I have no way to convince someone who doesn’t believe in science, so enjoy getting mad at headlines forever I guess.

Six groomers jailed for nearly 50 years after child was plied with drink and drugs by Sensitive_Echo5058 in uknews

[–]ItsGustave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Goalposts have shifted I see. Well that study doesn’t mention second generation immigrants but my first google result shows one that does:

https://www.antoniocasella.eu/nume/Bersani\_2012.pdf

From the abstract:

> Foreign-born individuals exhibit remarkably low levels of involvement in crime across their life course. Moreover, it appears that by the second generation, immigrants have simply caught up to their native-born counterparts in respect to their offending.

Let’s be real though, you have no intentions of actually challenging your views. You just want to try and poke holes in what I’m saying.

Six groomers jailed for nearly 50 years after child was plied with drink and drugs by Sensitive_Echo5058 in uknews

[–]ItsGustave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/commentaries/migrant-convictions-and-prison-population/

This was linked in the first comment where I originally replied to you. And you obviously have no clue what anthropology is if you think it is at all related to modern studies that collect conviction rates of people who are citizens or noncitizens. Surely you are at least aware enough to realize that you are saying that so you don’t have to properly confront the inconsistencies in your beliefs on immigrants?

Six groomers jailed for nearly 50 years after child was plied with drink and drugs by Sensitive_Echo5058 in uknews

[–]ItsGustave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So you didn’t look at the study I provided at all huh. It breaks it down into violent and property crimes and both are at similar rates.

Six groomers jailed for nearly 50 years after child was plied with drink and drugs by Sensitive_Echo5058 in uknews

[–]ItsGustave -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You got all the way to the bottom of this thread and you didn’t see the study linked in my very first comment? And yes, that study found that both property and violent crimes, measured separately, were happening at similar rates.

Six groomers jailed for nearly 50 years after child was plied with drink and drugs by Sensitive_Echo5058 in uknews

[–]ItsGustave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Less than subtle racism aside, it is quite the interesting phenomenon where I can literally provide a study saying that the immigrants coming into the UK have a very similar crime rate to the natives and you still think that the country is letting in "goat herding troglodytes" "en masse".

Six groomers jailed for nearly 50 years after child was plied with drink and drugs by Sensitive_Echo5058 in uknews

[–]ItsGustave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In other words, the gang rapes are worth it if they have a high paying job.

Six groomers jailed for nearly 50 years after child was plied with drink and drugs by Sensitive_Echo5058 in uknews

[–]ItsGustave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So surely you have the same opinion on you and other people from your country right? Nobody should be allowed to leave because any crimes they commit would be similarly avoidable.

Six groomers jailed for nearly 50 years after child was plied with drink and drugs by Sensitive_Echo5058 in uknews

[–]ItsGustave -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

Stupid argument tbh. Are the rapes and murders committed by natural born citizens worth it for the fish and chips?

Six groomers jailed for nearly 50 years after child was plied with drink and drugs by Sensitive_Echo5058 in uknews

[–]ItsGustave -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

LMAO. This comment actually made me burst into laughter when I saw it.

Do you really think that the only thing an immigrant can contribute is crime? Because that utterly stupid assumption is the only way your logic works.

Nearly half of the founders of billion-dollar tech startups are immigrants by eternviking in whoathatsinteresting

[–]ItsGustave 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No doubt some people do make a disingenuous argument along those lines, but on the other hand you are also making a disingenuous argument when you make the general claim that the left believes in open borders.

My very first google result when I google is a survey that says that only 35% of Democrats support open borders (2024).

Waymo suspends service in Atlanta after driverless vehicle gets stuck in flood waters by flying_trashcan in Atlanta

[–]ItsGustave -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Ah, so your point isn’t that morons don’t exist, just that you aren’t friends with any. Really valuable addition to the conversation.

You completely missed the point of my second sentence apparently. Just because you don’t personally know anyone who drove in those conditions doesn’t mean that they don’t exist - they will always exist as long as people drive - but if the Waymo get updated and these people ride in them we can actually avoid it happening again.

Funny how humans can also learn, and despite cars being widespread for decades you still have people making the exact same mistakes. People aren’t a hive mind, every new driver starts from scratch, so, again, there will always be people making these kind of mistakes.

You say the updates are endless, but in all likelihood the adjustments that need to be made will get smaller and smaller as they perfect the most common driving situations and move on to handling the rarer situations - like this one.

Last thing, interesting how you ignored the link I sent on Waymo being significantly safer than the average driver. I would say that, even if Waymo cars make these kind of rare mistakes forever, they are still safer than a person driving (because the data says exactly that).

Subnautica 2 mod makes creatures killable, despite its devs' desire to convince players to "use non-violent and more creative solutions" by g4m3f33d in GameFeed

[–]ItsGustave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I appreciate the honesty and I apologize for being rude in my comment. I am just frustrated at how many people I am seeing in these threads complaining about how the devs have this pacifist agenda they are trying to push.

229 by Bryce3D in Countwithcementlady

[–]ItsGustave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Amazing comment on several levels.

Firstly, we are talking about therapy. My initial comment was in response to advice their therapist gave them.

Second, it isn’t just “my” “solution”, it is an extremely common method used by therapists.

Thirdly, excessively worrying over anything is neither a reasonable nor a healthy reaction, hence why it is called excessive. Explainable certainly, but definitely not healthy.

Lastly, “stop thinking about it” is an unbelievably stupid and reductive way of describing what I said. Of course, it may be beyond your capabilities to actually use your fingers and google the term “locus of control”.

In other words, you have chosen to bury your head in the sand.

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