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djsmiley2k

2:00 PM

Also don't watch plane crash videos

I did after Hello Internet podcast mentioned one

(cargo plane where the cargo shifted during take off.)

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@Sterno I think they should just not make each mass shooting into a media circus

Kevin van der Velden

@Sterno I like the general idea but the used terms need work

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Don't plaster the guy's face all over the media for a few weeks

Kevin van der Velden

@twobugs "each"? Most of them are ignored

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Well, the major ones.

Kevin van der Velden

2:01 PM

As in:

Unionhawk

@Sterno part of me wants to vote to undelete. This is another stupid case of "a comment can end up being a super close vote" which is stupid. But part of me doesn't care.

Kevin van der Velden

3 hours ago, by Wipqozn

USA now averaging more than one mass shooting per day in 2015

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murica.

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Anything with a high enough death toll is talked about for months, sometimes years.

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2:04 PM

There are lots of mass shooting incidents that aren't talked about, but if we made the big ones into less of a media event, I think that would probably help. I imagine the infamy those shooters attract inspires at least some of the others.

It's a complex issue though, with no easy solution.

I definitely didn't realize there are THAT many mass shootings, re:@Wipqozn

Sterno

@KevinvanderVelden Ideally, it would be tailor-crafted to maximally diminish the target.

So yeah, it could use work

@twobugs The way it's using the term "mass shootings" isn't what people generally mean when they talk about it, though.

Not to say that it's not still a problem.

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I mean, a lot of the things other countries have done with some degree of success I don't think would be applicable to the USA.

Kevin van der Velden

@Sterno well it's also the (unintended, I know!) misogyny

Sterno

But in people's minds, there is a definitely a difference between criminal-types shooting the shit out of each other and random people going about their day getting shot.

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Example: Australia implemented a gun buyback program, and then gun control

@Sterno True, but it's still disturbingly high.

I've seen varying estimates, but some posited that there are already like 300 million guns in circulation in the US (that's on the extreme high end of estimates, from what I remember)

Kevin van der Velden

2:08 PM

@Sterno well, one problem is that for some reason a lot of people confuse "mass shootings" with "mass murders with a gun"

Because apparently the FBI defined them as such or something (hint, they didn't)

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Even if you stopped the sale of every new gun AND prevented all illegal gun sales, that's still a gun for every person in the USA.

Sterno

Even then, the article even states that cities with stricter gun control laws aren't actually seeing a benefit to it (or, if they are, they're still terrible, terrible areas)

I mean, the fundamental problem is that America is full of people who hate each other. And themselves.

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Yeah. Gun control alone (that is, laws prohibiting or restricting the legal sales of guns) is not enough to solve the problem.

I appreciate when APIs have tutorials showing off their basic features with comments. I really do. But please, provide accurate code for these tutorials.

Sterno

@KevinvanderVelden I've never known a woman who expressed that she felt insulted by me calling a man dickless (not that it is typically an insult I would sling). I suspect that one feeling insulted by that is probably looking for a reason to feel insulted, as they're not taking an insult to a completely different person literally, then dissecting it and applying logic (if they don't have a dick, and I don't have a dick, is he insulting me too?). They're working pretty hard to get offended.

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This case was really minor, guy just references a library that has had it's path change slightly, but it's still very confusing.

Kevin van der Velden

2:15 PM

@Sterno it is still insulting by saying they don't have a penis

Sterno

I don't know. I can apologize for using the word in here, because it's not a polite thing to say, but I'm not willing enough to go down the PC rabbit hole to feel misogynist for saying it.

(yes, I realize I might be misogynist even if I don't think so in this case)

Sepia Lazers

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I think we can do better than "dickless coward" for denigrating mass shooters.

Kevin van der Velden

@Sterno my point wasn't to get to you too feel bad! However, let's not put into law that you must be insulted by saying you aren't a man

djsmiley2k

I want/need to parse some json.... in bash

fredley

2:16 PM

Meanwhile, in the 80's

Kevin van der Velden

@djsmiley2k just shell out to python

Sterno

@KevinvanderVelden Very well.

Arperum

@Sterno Being Dickless is not an issue for ~50% of the world population.

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what

GodEmperorDune

guys, remember, it's a generational thing. he is @sternold

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2:17 PM

@fredley also, what.

fredley

@Rapitor It's so radical

Arperum

I just noticed that @KevinvanderVelden was busy poking at the same issue I decide to poke at. I should read everything before I post.

djsmiley2k

@KevinvanderVelden that infers I know how to do this in python...

and that python is installed.

php is, I'm tempted to use that as I know it well enough, but oh the hate you'll give me (and everyone else will join in)

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Arperum

@djsmiley2k I'm not going to give you hate, I need all the hate I have for the former employee who fucked stuff up. ALso, some leftover for past-me from two years ago. That guy was dumb.

djsmiley2k

2:21 PM

All past us's are dumb

but not quite as dumb as that guy

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@djsmiley2k This is a comforting thing to remember when you're feeling down.

djsmiley2k

:)

There is always a that guy

Now in two jobs I've replaced him

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