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by wolverine876 2y ago
> “Why are they not jailed for breaking and entering?” Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on X. On non-engineering issues, at least, Musk isn't an original thinker. He just follows the instructions of the people constructing reactionary campa
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by wolverine876 2y ago
That's what reactionaries have used in their continuing war to deligitimize everyone and everything left of center. But nobody has demonstrated a reliably cost-effective way to run nuclear power plants, and renewables are the future.
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by wolverine876 2y ago
I've seen some of their work. Like the others, I wonder what they'd do if set free on Tolkien's work? Can they evoke terror?
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by wolverine876 2y ago
That looks very interesting. An essential feature for me is data, including my notes and annotations, that will remain usable in the long run - many decades into the future. Otherwise, my work of today is lost. What happens if you stop maki
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by wolverine876 2y ago
If I had a few billion dollars to spare, I'd buy the rights to Tolkien's work. I'd then spend a bit more collecting all copies of 21st century video versions - and incinerate them in a volcano. I'd end all current licens
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by wolverine876 2y ago
You need a source that says fewer crimes are reported than before. Maybe more are reported now.
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by wolverine876 2y ago
> There is an ongoing campaign to show Western cities as collapsing/decaying. There is also another ongoing campaign to show that China is collapsing any minute now. Welcome to the new cold war. The campaign about Western cities is
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by wolverine876 2y ago
Yes, people don't understand the real danger in cities like NYC - gentrification! :)
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by wolverine876 2y ago
As I said elsewhere, people in cities know that having more people around is safer. Deserted alleys are more dangerous than busy streets.
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by wolverine876 2y ago
> a bigger scale freaks people out even if the coefficients are the same. It freaks out people who live elsewhere and all they know of cities is what they see on cable news, especially a certain channel. > There’s a psychological reas
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by wolverine876 2y ago
> If you measure crime by the person, in a dense place you're more likely to be near a crime when it happens than a place with more crime per person, but much less people per space. Yes, agreed (of course). I'm not sure what th
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by wolverine876 2y ago
> This is a problem that everyone who has lived in the developed world knows very well. As the police is able to solve less and less crimes, and less criminals are convicted, people stop thinking it is worth their time to report every cr
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by wolverine876 2y ago
Why is it important to assert that or believe it? Lots of people - I'd say almost everyone - from NY will tell you otherwise.
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by wolverine876 2y ago
A policing tactic back in the 1990s was 'Broken Windows', which did what you said - fix the little stuff and the big issues will improve. It was controversial, as you say, because at least in some places the strategy became '
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by wolverine876 2y ago
> NY feel 50% more unsafe than in 2017 You have actual data - why kill your argument by exaggerating it? The stats you posted are about perception, not actual events. If people read other people constantly badgering them about safety, of
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by wolverine876 2y ago
Thanks for the data. I think the first number is especially meaningful. You don't need all caps or exaggeration - you have data!
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by wolverine876 2y ago
> NYC was famously crime ridden for at least a century. Where does that come from? All of the US had high crime rates from ~1970s to 2000 (as a rough guess). NYC doesn't stand out, afaik; some other cities had higher crime rates. &g
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by wolverine876 2y ago
> It’s clear to me: NYC doesn’t feel safe. What is that based on? Is there a survey? When I've been in NYC, people seem to feel very safe and relaxed, 24/7 (of course, in the city that never sleeps).
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by wolverine876 2y ago
Instead of the same old talking point, what solution do you propose? Should the executive branch agency make decisions by fiat, without due process? The use of due process doesn't make them a judiciary; it's just a more fair way t
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by wolverine876 2y ago
You still don't have any data supporting your claims that crime is high. All you say is that it's not always reported - which is well known and has been for generations, if not forever. What shows that it's high? It's ci
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by wolverine876 2y ago
I don't mean this in the usual snarky way, but read the OP. It goes into detail with a developer about these issues.
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by wolverine876 2y ago
But that's been true for generations. It wouldn't explain some perceived surge now. What does explain it is what explains many other things that don't match facts, about the economy, vaccines, climate change, election legitim
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by wolverine876 2y ago
You don't need to gather your own. Researchers and journalists do it, and you can find them pretty easily ...
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by wolverine876 2y ago
What do you conclude from that? Maybe the other crime is even lower.
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by wolverine876 2y ago
Protestors (whatever those charges are). Disobeying a police officer. Lots of things. The DA's resources are limited (unless all the Republican critics want to pay more taxes!). Arrest is enough of a deterrent for minor crimes.
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by wolverine876 2y ago
So how do you know the truth? Maybe crime is even lower. I'm not sure how the no-snitch culture lowers the crime rate; it would seem to lower the conviction rate.
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by wolverine876 2y ago
As any person who lives in a city knows, more people means more safety. It's the empty, dark street - especially non-residential - that you want to avoid. Also, the NYPD is always nearby if that suits you (I've never needed them
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by wolverine876 2y ago
> you might be way more likely to witness a crime. That matters. People are just reaching for possible straws. Do you have any factual basis to say that? We can make up anything and put the word 'might' or 'maybe' in
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by wolverine876 2y ago
You can look up the answers to some of the questions. Do you have any factual basis for your claims? > Not all crime is reported and not all threats are crimes yet threats will certainly cause someone to feel unsafe. What does that mean?
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by wolverine876 2y ago
I'm talking about objective facts. You can make up reasons, but so can anyone about anything - they don't mean anything without a factual basis. Where in NY are these stores closing?

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