The beef this has generated đ
to be honest americans laughing at europe atop their 1.5-2x per capita gdp, multiple times higher carbon emissions, and genocide-cleared land as thousands die of heat exhaustion is fairly uncool imo— joolsd (@joolsd) July 18, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 20 July 2022 15:48 (one year ago) link
What "laughing" is that referring to?
P sure Europe has some genocide cleared land here and there as well fwiw.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 20 July 2022 16:13 (one year ago) link
love to compare genocides but it's really no contest
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Wednesday, 20 July 2022 16:19 (one year ago) link
I've seen a post or two making fun of the air conditioning disparity. xp
― peace, man, Wednesday, 20 July 2022 16:20 (one year ago) link
If you include European colonial genocide I'm pretty sure Europe comes out ahead. And technically that includes any genocide in the Americas at least through the Revolutionary War.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 20 July 2022 16:21 (one year ago) link
the thing with (territorial) european genocides is that there were so many, overlapping the same bits of land, over so many centuries, that itâs kind of hard to keep track
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 20 July 2022 16:22 (one year ago) link
looks like chancery⌠bold
this is a truly dismal debate, lads
― rob, Wednesday, 20 July 2022 16:23 (one year ago) link
xpostIf weâre really going to do the Oppression Olympics, on numbers alone the Holocaust would seem to be the record holder.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Wednesday, 20 July 2022 16:23 (one year ago) link
lol sorry wrong thread for my lame mac font joke
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 20 July 2022 16:25 (one year ago) link
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europe and america are co-constitutive so the entire debate is moot there's plenty of blood to go around
― Left, Wednesday, 20 July 2022 16:51 (one year ago) link
iirc the Hitler picked up a lot of his tactics from the good ol USA, praising our racial conception of citizenship (not to mention the horrors meted out on native americans, etc). so yeah, seems like itâs been a fairly symbiotic exchange of ideas anyway itâs real fucked up whatâs happening in LA County!
― no one wants to twerk anymore (will), Wednesday, 20 July 2022 17:04 (one year ago) link
left otm
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Wednesday, 20 July 2022 17:09 (one year ago) link
re LA county â I wonder if thereâs anything the president or the governor could do? like, thatâs a genuine question. maybe LASD pulls rank? idk. both are likely contenders to run in 2024. seems like a place to really show some leadership
― no one wants to twerk anymore (will), Wednesday, 20 July 2022 17:21 (one year ago) link
this is the future though, unfortunately. all the people in charge seem to agree. speaking of genocide.
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Wednesday, 20 July 2022 17:28 (one year ago) link
if it's poor people though it isn't genocide, it's their fault. much tidier.
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Wednesday, 20 July 2022 17:29 (one year ago) link
love to compare genocides but it's really no contestSo this was just bait to stir up some drama, subject to goalpost shifting at a momentâs notice? More fool me.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Wednesday, 20 July 2022 17:36 (one year ago) link
u.s. settlers literally eradicated hundreds of distinct peoples.
1) i already said "left otm" so do keep up. 2) you've demonstrated that you aren't worth engaging with so this is definitely the last time.
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Wednesday, 20 July 2022 17:52 (one year ago) link
I wonder if thereâs anything the president or the governor could do
Newsom vetoed a bill decriminalizing jaywalking, whatever he could do he wouldn't.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 20 July 2022 17:58 (one year ago) link
âI wonder if thereâs anything the president could doâ is a gift to usilx, you donât need to go looking for cute titles for the next 27 threads
― Wiggum Dorma (wins), Wednesday, 20 July 2022 18:33 (one year ago) link
â peace, man, Wednesday, 20 July 2022 bookmarkflaglink
Massively weird posting.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 20 July 2022 19:58 (one year ago) link
Lol what a dick
Feel like Spain got a little too good at building trains and started going for some routes to places where nobody lives. pic.twitter.com/7RLP5idJ6f— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) August 2, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 4 August 2022 09:15 (one year ago) link
That's what happens when your life is run by a spreadsheet.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 4 August 2022 09:16 (one year ago) link
interesting use of the concept of "nobody"
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 4 August 2022 14:52 (one year ago) link
âWhen I saw a 6.6 year decline over two years, my jaw dropped. ⌠I made my staff re-run the numbers to make sure.â https://t.co/JR4rXLRWc3 by @sheridan_kate pic.twitter.com/nqHbXrP398— J Emory Parker đłď¸âđ Subscribe to STAT+ (@jaspar) August 31, 2022
― (grim) pump track (wales) (map), Thursday, 1 September 2022 02:03 (one year ago) link
American Indian and Alaskan Native people have experienced a particularly precipitous drop in life expectancy since 2019, going from 71.8 to 65.2 years. This kind of loss is similar to the plunge seen for all Americans after the Spanish Flu, said Robert Anderson, the chief of the mortality statistics branch of the National Center for Health Statistics, a division of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention....This yearâs life expectancy figure is 0.9 years lower than last yearâs. Covid-19 accounted for about half of the decline, and a category encompassing accidents and unintentional injuries is responsible for another 16%. That category includes overdoses; in fact, about half of the unintentional injury deaths in this analysis were due to overdoses.âWe think that the increase in drug overdoses during the pandemic is partly due to the pandemic, but probably not wholly due to the pandemic,â he said. âIt'll be interesting to see [what happens] as the pandemic abates â assuming that it does, hopefully it will.â
...This yearâs life expectancy figure is 0.9 years lower than last yearâs. Covid-19 accounted for about half of the decline, and a category encompassing accidents and unintentional injuries is responsible for another 16%. That category includes overdoses; in fact, about half of the unintentional injury deaths in this analysis were due to overdoses.
âWe think that the increase in drug overdoses during the pandemic is partly due to the pandemic, but probably not wholly due to the pandemic,â he said. âIt'll be interesting to see [what happens] as the pandemic abates â assuming that it does, hopefully it will.â
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 1 September 2022 02:09 (one year ago) link
Weird thing is pandemic didn't hit us until 2020, but there's a massive decline between 2019-2020. Maybe I'm misreading the graph?
― Nhex, Thursday, 1 September 2022 02:50 (one year ago) link
drug overdose deaths were already having negative effects on life expectancy iirc
― terence trent d'ilfer (m bison), Thursday, 1 September 2022 03:01 (one year ago) link
if it ain't one thing it's another
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 1 September 2022 03:01 (one year ago) link
It'd be interesting to see the gender breakdown
Gen X men are particularly prone to booze, drugs, suicide... I'm enjoying some booze right now
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 1 September 2022 03:22 (one year ago) link
â Andy the Grasshopper
also completely coincidentally gen x is demographically the most transphobic age cohort, with the number of out trans people in gen x dwarfed by even the number of trans millennials, let alone trans zoomers.
see the gender breakdown? yeah, gen x is a good place to go to see the gender breakdown
― Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 1 September 2022 04:53 (one year ago) link
I saw someone point out that any significant rise in infant mortality brings the figures way down because you throw a bunch of 0's into the math.
― âšâĄ. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 1 September 2022 04:56 (one year ago) link
Police in Columbus, Ohio shot and killed an unarmed black man who was laying in bed today. They shot him within one second of opening the bedroom door. His name Donovan Lewis.— Erick Bellomy đłď¸âđ (@erickbellomy) August 31, 2022
yes yes it is a dystopia
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 1 September 2022 05:09 (one year ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/13/us/pieper-lewis-sex-trafficking-iowa.html
On Tuesday, Judge David M. Porter, of the Polk County District Court, sentenced Ms. Lewis, now 17, to five years of probation without early release, and ordered her to be placed at the Fresh Start Womenâs Center in Des Moines, a residential facility, where she will wear a GPS tracking device, which the judge said was done out of concern that she might fall âback into the lifestyle that you thus far left.âJudge Porter also ordered her to pay $150,000 in restitution to the family of the man she killed, and required her to perform 200 hours of community service each year for three years.
Judge Porter also ordered her to pay $150,000 in restitution to the family of the man she killed, and required her to perform 200 hours of community service each year for three years.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 14 September 2022 06:56 (one year ago) link
fuckin hell
― Nhex, Wednesday, 14 September 2022 12:46 (one year ago) link
this looks legit - https://www.gofundme.com/f/vxgt7q
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 14 September 2022 12:54 (one year ago) link
fyi from the gofundme, it sounds like the judge's ruling was close to as sympathetic and lenient as possible. the $150K is required by state law:
Today, my former student, Pieper Lewis bravely took the microphone during her sentencing hearing and told the courtroom that her voice mattered. I was incredibly proud of her. She was powerful, and she brought me to tears. The judge then studied all the evidence in Pieper Lewisâ case carefully and decided that she did not deserve to spend time in an adult prison. Instead, he gave her five years of probation. He decided that 834 days she spent in juvenile detention awaiting her sentencing was enough âpunishmentâ for a then fifteen-year-old girl who had been kicked out of her home and found herself sleeping in the stairwell of one of the most dangerous apartment complexes in Des Moines; a girl that was ultimately preyed upon by men twice her age who traded her body for drugs. These men physically asualted, raped, and sex trafficked Pieper on multiple occasions. On June 1st, 2020, Pieper snapped and killed one of the men who exploited and raped her, stabbing him to death.Today, the judge recognized that Pieper was a victim and a child. He, like almost everyone who knows the details of Pieperâs case, empathized with a girl with no violent history before or after this incident, who saw killing a man as the only way out of a truly horrific situation. He granted her probation and a deferred judgementâmeaning if she meets the conditions of her parole, she will have the felony removed from her record. This is a compassionate outcome.Yet, Pieper only found herself in this situation because she was initially charged as an adult with 1st degree murder. DMPD and the Polk County prosecutorâs office saw Pieper immediately as a grown, violent, adult, murderer, and they charged her as such. Only because a team of amazing people came to Pieperâs side, was her story truly heard and understood. However, with the risk of life in prison looming, Pieper pled guilty to charges of manslaughter and willful injury. This was to avoid a risky trial where her team feared an Iowa jury may implicitly struggle to see a young black girl as the victim of sex trafficking that she was.Today, it appears that the decision to put Pieperâs fate in the hands of a judge, as opposed to a jury, was a good one. Pieper will avoid prison, and she will have access to some of the services she needs to continue healing. However, in Iowa, there is a law that states that anyone who is convicted of killing a person, regardless of circumstances, must pay that individualâs family 150,000 dollars. This law is intended to provide justice to families who lost their loved ones. However, in the case of Pieper, it will require her to pay 150,000 dollars to the family of a man who purchased Pieperâs fifteen-year-old body from a sex trafficker, gave her drugs and alcohol, and then raped her repeatedly.Pieper does not owe that manâs family justice. Pieper does not deserve to be finically burdened for the rest of her life because the state of Iowa wrote a law that fails to give judges any discretion as to how it is applied. This law doesnât make sense in many cases, but in this case, itâs morally unjustifiable. A child who was raped, under no circumstances, should owe the rapistâs family money.Pieper has five years of probation ahead of her; five years that she will be required to be nearly perfect to avoid facing 20 years in prison. She will do hundreds of hours of community service each year. She will be subject to drug testing, required to take classes, and attend therapy. Pieperâs path to true freedom will not be easy, and she is still a teenager that has experienced a lot of trauma.Pieper wants to go to college, she wants to create art, and she wants to advocate for other girls who find themselves in situations like she endured. She does not deserve a massive debt looming over her, holding her back from pursuing her ambitions.Our system if broken. It will take decades of advocacy and electing people committed to rethinking and reimagining our criminal justice system, especially our juvenile one, to fix the system. In the meantime, Pieper needs us now. If you are able, please donate to help Pieper!
Today, the judge recognized that Pieper was a victim and a child. He, like almost everyone who knows the details of Pieperâs case, empathized with a girl with no violent history before or after this incident, who saw killing a man as the only way out of a truly horrific situation. He granted her probation and a deferred judgementâmeaning if she meets the conditions of her parole, she will have the felony removed from her record. This is a compassionate outcome.
Yet, Pieper only found herself in this situation because she was initially charged as an adult with 1st degree murder. DMPD and the Polk County prosecutorâs office saw Pieper immediately as a grown, violent, adult, murderer, and they charged her as such. Only because a team of amazing people came to Pieperâs side, was her story truly heard and understood. However, with the risk of life in prison looming, Pieper pled guilty to charges of manslaughter and willful injury. This was to avoid a risky trial where her team feared an Iowa jury may implicitly struggle to see a young black girl as the victim of sex trafficking that she was.
Today, it appears that the decision to put Pieperâs fate in the hands of a judge, as opposed to a jury, was a good one. Pieper will avoid prison, and she will have access to some of the services she needs to continue healing. However, in Iowa, there is a law that states that anyone who is convicted of killing a person, regardless of circumstances, must pay that individualâs family 150,000 dollars. This law is intended to provide justice to families who lost their loved ones. However, in the case of Pieper, it will require her to pay 150,000 dollars to the family of a man who purchased Pieperâs fifteen-year-old body from a sex trafficker, gave her drugs and alcohol, and then raped her repeatedly.
Pieper does not owe that manâs family justice. Pieper does not deserve to be finically burdened for the rest of her life because the state of Iowa wrote a law that fails to give judges any discretion as to how it is applied. This law doesnât make sense in many cases, but in this case, itâs morally unjustifiable. A child who was raped, under no circumstances, should owe the rapistâs family money.
Pieper has five years of probation ahead of her; five years that she will be required to be nearly perfect to avoid facing 20 years in prison. She will do hundreds of hours of community service each year. She will be subject to drug testing, required to take classes, and attend therapy. Pieperâs path to true freedom will not be easy, and she is still a teenager that has experienced a lot of trauma.
Pieper wants to go to college, she wants to create art, and she wants to advocate for other girls who find themselves in situations like she endured. She does not deserve a massive debt looming over her, holding her back from pursuing her ambitions.Our system if broken. It will take decades of advocacy and electing people committed to rethinking and reimagining our criminal justice system, especially our juvenile one, to fix the system. In the meantime, Pieper needs us now. If you are able, please donate to help Pieper!
so... a little less dystopic? :/
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Wednesday, 14 September 2022 15:47 (one year ago) link
sorry to be that guy, but if this is actually the best outcome given a tough situation, and this is the tough situation:
then no, that's a little less dystopic, that is actually the heart of dystopia
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 14 September 2022 15:53 (one year ago) link
the word "implicitly" is doing some fine dystopic work in that sentence.
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Wednesday, 14 September 2022 16:40 (one year ago) link
This is the LAPD officer who shot and killed Daniel Hernandez. She not only still has a job but she also has handgun sponsorships. https://t.co/AtRBRmDagm— Ashley Brim (@apb_710) September 14, 2022
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 15 September 2022 22:32 (one year ago) link
jfc that âsaint gatesâ embroidered patch
― brimstead, Friday, 16 September 2022 01:28 (one year ago) link
https://interactives.dallasnews.com/2022/social-sentinel/
THREAD: The biggest story of my life is finally out. Since 2019, Iâve been investigating a monitoring tool called Social Sentinel. They bill it as a way to help save studentsâ lives. I found it had another purpose â surveilling campus protests. https://t.co/I0okAqeRen— Ari Sen (@ArijitDSen) September 20, 2022
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 20 September 2022 18:59 (one year ago) link
New Investigation: Nonprofit hospitals avoid billions of dollars in taxes. But are they living up to their charitable missions? @jbsgreenberg and I have spent months investigating this question. Today, we're publishing the first two stories in our series. https://t.co/bG0mdCEDYv— Katie Thomas (@katie_thomas) September 24, 2022
paywall evasion linkhttps://archive.ph/mwDQK
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 24 September 2022 21:54 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FeAgfmSXoAY0HdF?format=jpg&name=medium
― calzino, Sunday, 2 October 2022 08:50 (one year ago) link
^ngl what usually happens is bodies end up used for plastic surgery practice so if you don't want to think about your dead dad being used for breast enhancement surgery don't do this
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Sunday, 2 October 2022 10:42 (one year ago) link
Donât donate what you should be selling.
― Jeff, Sunday, 2 October 2022 12:19 (one year ago) link
I'm kinda surprised selling cadavers is even legal?
― Nhex, Sunday, 2 October 2022 16:34 (one year ago) link
Submitting to evidence for
A town in Connecticut voted on and approved a resolution asking their local Starbucks workers to work faster because people didn't like waiting in the drive thru line. We live in an irredeemably stupid and selfish country. pic.twitter.com/aclk3X47F0— Microplastics Enjoyer (@EclecticHams) November 6, 2022
― after several days on âthe milk,â (gyac), Sunday, 6 November 2022 19:21 (one year ago) link
Interesting that this story was on this thread, as there was an update today: Pieper Lewis, who killed her rapist, has escaped custody.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/06/us/iowa-teen-killed-alleged-rapist-escape/index.html
― akm, Sunday, 6 November 2022 20:48 (one year ago) link
xp https://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Move-people-quicker-Trumbull-seeks-action-16149765.php
It's stupid but it's not quite as stupid as that Tiktok says, basically a letter asking Starbucks to hire more people.
âWhat I would like to recommend is that we write them a formal letter saying that we feel they are not adequately moving people through the line, and during peak hours they should develop a plan to allow people to put an order in and move head in the line to deliver to relieve the backup on White Plains Road and in the parking lot,â he said. âI think they could do that. It doesnât have to be a redesign of the parking lot. I could be just having extra people, during peak hours, figuring out a way to move people quicker.âTony Silber, who was acting chairman at the meeting, was supportive of Choryâs idea.
Tony Silber, who was acting chairman at the meeting, was supportive of Choryâs idea.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 6 November 2022 20:58 (one year ago) link