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> erodes my faith in humanity Opposite for me. Maybe people still care about freedom and agency after all.

wing-_-nuts 3y ago
Or maybe our inability to collectively act and sacrifice to save over a million people is damning. It absolutely gutted my faith that we'll successfully tackle climate change.
- MrMan 3y ago
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- bugglebeetle 3y ago
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  - wing-_-nuts 3y ago
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      - r2_pilot 3y ago
        If you are going to call bullshit on something, feel free to cite your source. However, regardless of what you think you're talking to, this source suggests that your claim of bullshit is bullshit. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmc2201761 https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmc2201761
        sickofparadox 3y ago
        This "scientific article" isn't worth the bits on the hard drive its written on. It uses simple propaganda techniques to manipulate CDC data to give the desired answer. Firstly it only measures up through 2020, even though well before the time of publishing more data was available, why is that? It is to do the number crunching as close to the bottom of the Covid lockdown curve for car accidents (more WFH/distance learning = less car accidents). Except, that alone doesn't give the desired result, so they have to change what the definition of what a child is to include 18 and 19 year old adults, but that STILL isn't enough, so they need to exclude 0 - 1 year old children. I would be ashamed to have that attached to my name, let alone have it published in a journal of medicine.
        r2_pilot 3y ago
        https://usafacts.org/data-projects/child-death https://usafacts.org/data-projects/child-death I don't have children so the statistics don't matter to me, but these casual armchair dismissals do a disservice to the institutions we try to hold to standards. Sorry that you (and apparently many others) don't feel that their work is adequate to meet your criteria.
        sickofparadox 3y ago
        Linking another website using the same tricks really doesn't really dismiss my point, and referring to my criticisms of the definition-gaming and timeline chopping as "casual armchair dismissals" amounts to nothing more than name calling. I'm sorry that you have misplaced your morality when it comes to telling the truth.
        r2_pilot 3y ago
        I'm just a lost epistemologist seeking truth in whatever dirty alleyway I find myself in.
        Racing0461 3y ago
        > and teens You (and cnn/everytown/giffords) use the word kids to imply toddlers are getting shot with glocks when a majority of those are "teen" gangbangers in chicago/baltimore/detroit/LA killing each other. I wouldn't call the thing you are seeking truth. Why do you have to lie? Just say you want to ban guns.
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    - ImJamal 3y ago
      According to the CDC[1] Heart disease accounts for 695,547 deaths. Gun deaths [2] are at 48,830 and that includes suicides and accidents. [1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm [2] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/injury.htm https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/injury.htm
  - mjmsmith 3y ago
    The small silver lining in NYC was that it convinced some of our worst cops to move to Florida.

Or maybe our inability to collectively act and sacrifice to save over a million people is damning. It absolutely gutted my faith that we'll successfully tackle climate change.

MrMan 3y ago
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bugglebeetle 3y ago
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- wing-_-nuts 3y ago
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    - r2_pilot 3y ago
      If you are going to call bullshit on something, feel free to cite your source. However, regardless of what you think you're talking to, this source suggests that your claim of bullshit is bullshit. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmc2201761 https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmc2201761
      - sickofparadox 3y ago
        This "scientific article" isn't worth the bits on the hard drive its written on. It uses simple propaganda techniques to manipulate CDC data to give the desired answer. Firstly it only measures up through 2020, even though well before the time of publishing more data was available, why is that? It is to do the number crunching as close to the bottom of the Covid lockdown curve for car accidents (more WFH/distance learning = less car accidents). Except, that alone doesn't give the desired result, so they have to change what the definition of what a child is to include 18 and 19 year old adults, but that STILL isn't enough, so they need to exclude 0 - 1 year old children. I would be ashamed to have that attached to my name, let alone have it published in a journal of medicine.
        r2_pilot 3y ago
        https://usafacts.org/data-projects/child-death https://usafacts.org/data-projects/child-death I don't have children so the statistics don't matter to me, but these casual armchair dismissals do a disservice to the institutions we try to hold to standards. Sorry that you (and apparently many others) don't feel that their work is adequate to meet your criteria.
        sickofparadox 3y ago
        Linking another website using the same tricks really doesn't really dismiss my point, and referring to my criticisms of the definition-gaming and timeline chopping as "casual armchair dismissals" amounts to nothing more than name calling. I'm sorry that you have misplaced your morality when it comes to telling the truth.
        r2_pilot 3y ago
        I'm just a lost epistemologist seeking truth in whatever dirty alleyway I find myself in.
        Racing0461 3y ago
        > and teens You (and cnn/everytown/giffords) use the word kids to imply toddlers are getting shot with glocks when a majority of those are "teen" gangbangers in chicago/baltimore/detroit/LA killing each other. I wouldn't call the thing you are seeking truth. Why do you have to lie? Just say you want to ban guns.
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  - ImJamal 3y ago
    According to the CDC[1] Heart disease accounts for 695,547 deaths. Gun deaths [2] are at 48,830 and that includes suicides and accidents. [1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm [2] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/injury.htm https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/injury.htm
- mjmsmith 3y ago
  The small silver lining in NYC was that it convinced some of our worst cops to move to Florida.