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Yeah, not proud of the snarky finish, but I think we're definitely talking past each other a bit either way.

Side note: even without guns, China has a surprisingly high incidence of mass attacks at primary schools -- with weapons other than guns. Knives are the most common, ppl on a rampage don't mind putting in the extra work if they have to I guess... But yeah. Primary schools.

Its cool to be a contrarian on the internet, but I've got two young children too, and tbf any violence in schools is too much. Honestly don't give a shit if even 99% of "shootings" were just that (they're not, but still), that 1% is no less serious of a problem than if it was 99%.

Especially since, again, we're somehow the only country in the world that has such a problem keeping kids from getting murdered at school.

DEI exercises in other kids of businesses often seem like performative BS, if we're being honest -- IMHO, this is a really legitimate and simple question. Especially considering the impact bloated admin "costs" (salaries, etc) have on students & society (e.g. student loan debt).

Not reading all the way down, but just wanted to say I think it sucks that you got downvoted for this comment. You've got one less from me, anyways.

But also yeah, they do try and do things that really make a difference. Among other things, they make cross-campus connections to develop initiatives aimed at supporting students from under- represented groups -- not just race or ethnicity, but also things like low-income, first generation in your family to attend, etc.

Things like this can strongly correlate with more distractions, difficulties, and obstacles in students' lives, compared to observations of students from so-called "privileged" backgrounds. Not providing anything that those students from other backgrounds don't have access to -- quite the opposite actually.

That's a solid intro! Nice.

Depends on where you go; some places its easy to end up finding yourself in the wrong place, especially if you are unfamiliar with the area...

But yeah, school shootings?? it's not just some d-bags having target practice at night on the football field (unfortunately, rather than a pitch -- different story tho), kids die in school shootings here like every other week bud. It really does happen, like a lot, which is actually a pretty uniquely shitty thing in the world today (outside of e.g. the Congo, Chinese elementary schools, ...)

Pretty well thought-out hot take, though, cheers for the high-brow write-up.

What if its not streaming? What if its just cached for future access, e.g. next time the user opens the app (and network traffic spikes anyways) maybe?

It's exaggerated to make a point, not a bad-faith argument. Try reading the rest of the comment, boss...

Your position appears to rest on the idea that people who need protection somehow don't have the right to hold positions of principle against murdering police that in theory might also protect them in some scenario. Idk, it sounds either fascist, or like you really haven't thought things through enough..

You'd think at some point they'd adapt to the stress of such a situation (especially since they literally signed up for it, and ostensibly trained for it), so that they can handle it effectively without murdering others, though...

Soldiers fighting wars in hostile countries are (in theory) held to higher standards in this way.

What if I'm physically disabled? Which literally everyone is, in relation to a stronger individual or group (and there's literally always someone/something bigger than you)... Does that mean I don't have the "right" to be anti-murder, even if the murderer is someone with a badge?

Or maybe there's a sliding scale, with how much of a position of principle that I'm allowed hold correlating proportionally to how much I can bench or how quickly I can subdue an opponent?

That sounds pretty fascist.

Thats weird, it almost feels like a misalignment between our general needs for computing resource development, and the incentive structures produced by using capitalist economic markets to distribute even basic goods for survival...

... Doesn't "limited resources" basically just mean here ones ability to consider more than one thought at a time? Surely a species capable of collaborative efforts like space travel can handle the complexity of generalizing to say "no, sorry, none of the human-bulldozer designs are okay actually"?