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[-] Captain_Jimmy_T_Kirk@lemmy.ml 14 points 9 months ago

It's horrible, don't get me wrong. I worry about my own little one, but the distinction is an order of magnitude of a difference in my head. Like the distinction between a troublemaker throwing a lit match in a trash can vs some maniac dousing a building in gasoline.

[-] Captain_Jimmy_T_Kirk@lemmy.ml 21 points 9 months ago

This is depressing, but it also bothers me that there's such a large distinction between how the average person would picture a "school shooting" and what these articles are talking about. Is there a name for that in journalism?

Like, if someone told me "there was a school shooting at school X today", like most people I would immediately picture someone walking into the building and firing indiscriminately at everyone. Not, "a couple of teens got in a fight in the parking lot, and one pulled out a gun", or "someone shot at the school's sign". (Which are also horrible, but I feel like we need separate terms)

From the article:

According to the report, the most commonly known situations associated with such incidents included "escalation of dispute," "drive-by," "illegal activity," "accidental firing of a weapon" and "intentional property damage."

[-] Captain_Jimmy_T_Kirk@lemmy.ml 50 points 9 months ago

Who is influencing all these tech companies to be this greedy lately?

[-] Captain_Jimmy_T_Kirk@lemmy.ml 43 points 9 months ago

They took the pepe frogs for a while too, but I've been seeing them come back. Nature is healing.

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[-] Captain_Jimmy_T_Kirk@lemmy.ml 75 points 10 months ago

"Mannanafnanefnd"

Who watches the watchers?

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[-] Captain_Jimmy_T_Kirk@lemmy.ml 11 points 10 months ago

What an irredeemable monster.

[-] Captain_Jimmy_T_Kirk@lemmy.ml 29 points 10 months ago

Is it my app or Lemmy that doesn't like ampersands?

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[-] Captain_Jimmy_T_Kirk@lemmy.ml 19 points 11 months ago

I'm having much more fun here too

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[-] Captain_Jimmy_T_Kirk@lemmy.ml 43 points 11 months ago

The best Palm Pilot that money can buy.

[-] Captain_Jimmy_T_Kirk@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

That's a big name to drop out.

[-] Captain_Jimmy_T_Kirk@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 year ago

Lots of individual game subs

[-] Captain_Jimmy_T_Kirk@lemmy.ml 43 points 1 year ago

Have you considered defederating everyone for the dopamine hit?

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