Schadrach

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Because English is a Germanic language that has half of it's vocabulary as borrowed words from a Romance language (French) that then got chewed up and mangled for a few centuries.

Not like Gaelic, which has to own the fact that most of it's words are pronounced in the least sensible way one might think that series of letters is said.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago

I mean all child mortality stats are shotty, because they're about kids dying.

But the short version of it is that the largest segment of kids dying to guns is them being accidentally shot in the same demographics whose adults make up the largest slice of shooting homicides (in both perps and victims) - minority (especially black) inner city communities.

The reasons are likely related - if you're in a demographic where you're more likely to shoot or be shot you're more likely to have a gun around that's not well secured, which means you're more likely to have accidental shootings too.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 days ago (1 children)

To be fair, she probably gets weirdos with variants of "have my babies" more often than you'd think, just not usually from billionaires who own social media companies.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 days ago (2 children)

They literally believe that. Like, I've kind of fallen into a hole watching this one right wing cartoonist just to see how crazy the crazy gets, and he leans hard on Harris having a somewhat annoying sounding laugh that he turns up to 11.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

No, but it's what we get. Reality and what is wise do not often go hand in hand.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 days ago (1 children)

He couldn't talk about his plan, because then someone might look it up in Project 2025 and ask some...unfortunate questions about why all his plans look like that document he once described as a detailed plan for "our movement" but has definitely never read and knows nothing about.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Because she has a ridiculous number of fans and this may spur some of them to vote that might not have otherwise.

Hopefully she reiterates it shortly before election day to stir people into action.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

...if fresh. Vitamin C is relatively fragile.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

To be fair, his incoherent rambling is the least worrying thing about him.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

I knew such a right wing fucker had to exist, so I found him for you: https://youtu.be/lNgqNE78N1g

Guy runs two channels, both ranimated ight wing propaganda. That's the more serious of the two, the other has shit like this: https://youtu.be/X6Xe3SGUH6A

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You know that AR doesn't stand for assault rifle, right? The AR is for Armalite, the inventors of the design. It's just a semiautomatic rifle with a detachable magazine, it's pretty common to use as a hunting rifle.

And yeah, you see AR-15 and it's workalikes all over the place because they're flexible. Literally the most common rifle in the US. That's why they're so common in public mass shootings - those shooters generally aren't buying a gun specifically for that sort of shooting, they're using a gun they already have access to or what they can readily purchase off the shelf.

It's not the best gun for any scenario, but it's a good enough gun for most and that's because it's modular and the guns and parts are both commonly available.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The only times I've had it be remotely helpful is when you want something specific that's going to appear near the top of search results and is also likely to be buried in a bunch of irrelevant faff. Which is to say that occasionally "search for X and summarize the top result" is a useful tool but not often enough for them to front and center it like they do.

For example recipes. You can't copyright a recipe, so recipes tend to be buried in a lot of crap that isn't the actual recipe.

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