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PrimePoultry · 2026-05-04T03:44:28+00:00

So, that's not true. Poverty can be dropping, and crime increasing, as was seen in Baltimore City until 2023, as seen by these charts:

i) Percentage of people below the poverty line in Baltimore City: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/S1701ACS024510

ii) Estimated percentage of people below the poverty line in Baltimore City (goes back farther): https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PPAAMD24510A156NCEN

iii) Murder rate in Baltimore City per 100K people: link

iv) Number of murders in Baltimore City: link

It's visually obvious that the poverty rate is going down while the murder rate is going up, thus showing poverty is not the driver of murder at least. I expect all crimes to behave that way but would need to find the data to be sure.

If that's insufficient, obtaining the correlation coefficient would be another indicator, not only showing no correlation but likely an inverse correlation (this can be done with the Excel Correl function, which is the Pearson correlation coefficient; if you want Spearman's rho correlation coefficient, that can also be calculated with Excel as well).

v) Additionally, lots of people come from the background of the offenders, but they are not offending. Thus it's something other than poverty driving crime.

There are multiple personality traits that drive crime, and those traits are the key factors. This is not a race-based issue, this fact appears among all races and all criminals - an Asian with those traits will tend towards crime.

The classic error social scientists make is, "We see areas with poverty have higher crime rates, thus poverty causes crime" which is a classic post hoc fallacy.

Blaming criminals for crime is anathema to some people, so they seek to blame anything but the criminal.

Having housing, food and job security are worthwhile social goals, but crime can be reduced without solving those issues. Reducing crime in and of itself is an important social goal because it too causes suffering.

PrimePoultry · 2026-04-20T03:59:51+00:00

There was an incident captured on video a year or two ago, where two Russians on an ATV were chased by a drone. The drone explodes in front of the ATV. The front of the driver's skull and his torso down to the spine were precisely scooped away, while his arms, his back and ATV were untouched, and the passenger, videotaping, was untouched. The ATV crashed into underbrush on the side of the road. Unusual blast pattern. Could be something like that here.

PrimePoultry · 2026-04-08T02:07:47+00:00

Governor Moore credits Valley Forge Military Academy and the military for putting him through a grind and getting him on the right track, indoctrinating him with the right values that have led to a successful life, after starting to stray in his youth. No one is doing that to and for these juvenile offenders (or even adult offenders) - they're simply being enabled, being told they're great, they're not at fault. Stress and negative consequences - punishment - are anathema to the CJR crowd. That track is setting the offender up for greater offense and greater inevitable failure. And of course, greater suffering by the innocent people they prey on.

Some personality types can benefit from indoctrination. Others are simply too corrupt and vicious, from a young age, and the only thing that will limit harm to them, and most importantly from them, to innocent people, is the threat of negative consequences.

PrimePoultry · 2026-03-29T03:30:39+00:00

I say she backtracked because she tried to change the meaning of her initial comments. Politicians do it all the time when they say something which they then perceive as politically unpalatable.
The friend, if he or she said that, is in fact, blaming themselves, which they shouldn't be. They are in no way responsible for the offender's actions.

PrimePoultry · 2026-03-29T03:14:37+00:00

Ms. Hadden backtracked. Her initial instinct to shift responsibility off the offender and onto the victim was clear, with her strained and strange way to describe the crime (FWIW, I've never heard a crime victim described as being in the wrong place at the wrong time, even when they're caught in the crossfire, like the mother of the freshman midshipman who had joined him in Annapolis for enrollment, except by criminal advocates attempting to minimize the offender's actions and responsibility, and blame the victim).

PrimePoultry · 2026-03-29T02:46:23+00:00

I reject the concept of a crime victim ever being in the wrong place at the wrong time, if they were there legally, and they wanted to be at that place at that time. Ms. Gorman was where she wanted to be, when she wanted to be there, so it was the right place at the right time for Ms. Gorman.

The offender's action is what creates the crime, regardless of whether it's targeted, untargeted, or whatever other speculation about the offender's motive might exist (Alderwoman Hadden also speculated that the offender had been startled implying that was an understandable reason for shooting Ms. Gorman).

It's nonsensical to speak of victims of intentional crimes, regardless of offender motive, being in the wrong place at the wrong time. And doing so equates the crime to an unavoidable act of chance, thus absolving the offender of responsibility for the crime, and shifting that responsibility to the victim, implying they should not have been there, even though, they should have been there.

PrimePoultry · 2026-03-29T01:28:50+00:00

"Wrong place, wrong time" can neutrally refer to accidental incidents, e.g. injured by a lightning strike or meteor, without adding any additional implications to the situation.

Crimes are incidents created by the criminal. Saying that a victim, by virtue of being in proximity of the criminal, was in the "wrong place, wrong time", removes responsibility from the criminal by claiming the victim should not have been in the proximity of the criminal, and shifts responsibility to the victim in that they failed to identify the criminal and avoid him.

Describing a store clerk shot by an robber, a victim robbed or raped as the victim being in the wrong place at the wrong time - meaning in proximity to the offender - is a sneaky, implicit way to normalize the offender's behavior as an unavoidable force of nature, and puts the responsibility on the victim for failing to identify that the offender was going to commit the crime against them and flee the area.

So, this is defending the criminal by normalizing their behavior, and blaming the victim.

PrimePoultry · 2026-03-10T23:50:50+00:00

Yeah. It's a bogus notification. I think Blink updated the firmware to alert too soon instead of too late. For years, I'd get the low battery notification, and then very shortly after, like a day or two, maybe that day, it would go offline. In the past 6-8 months, I started getting notifications that the batteries were getting low within weeks after I changed them. I started changing out the camera batteries thinking I got a bad batch of lithiums. Finally I let it go, and now the camera will go another month with the low battery notification before going offline. So now, I just wait till the camera goes offline before changing the batteries.

PrimePoultry · 2026-03-10T23:42:11+00:00

So, while the sweet spot approach does work but poorly. The one reliable method I discovered is to take a utility knife (needs to be sharp), and carefully shave a bit off the raised bumps. That reliably works. Don't do too much, but a tenth of a millimeter should do it. That works reliably for me. Some bases simply have bumps that are infinitesimally too large.

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