🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

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> For one, lightning 'just happens'. Best you can do is to educate people not to stand below trees during lightning storms and other good advice.

Not true, lightening is absolutely preventable. First, you will "feel" lightening about to strike minutes before hand, if people are taught this they can run to shelter or take other relevant steps, like lying down. They can also avoid tall objects.,

We can also take preventative measures in the form of lightening rods and even invest money in improving lightening rod technology.

If I had to guess it is probably cheaper and easier to prvent people getting struck by lightening than it would be to prevent school shootings.

> For two, shootings can and should be preventable. There are many ways possible towards that goal, and not much action's been taken so far if I have to believe the media. Just endless debates.

Well both are preventable (and i listed some ways above).. both being preventable we should invest in the infrastructure that is most common first.

> Just because it happens less than lightning strikes, you shouldn't do much effort against it? While it could possibly be prevented to begin with?

No one said you shouldnt do anything about it. The point is we should put much less **priority** on addressing it than we do other more common forms of injury.

Also there is a point where an event is so rare that its statistical noise. You can never eliminate something to 0, but you can reduce it. At a certain point it is redued enough that its not a concern. There is probably one person every hundred years that dies in a bird attack, do we bother trying to prevent bird attacks or do we just accept it is rare enough that it isnt really common enough to be a priority.

@TheOldGuy Ahhh thought you were in kyiv... good man, thanks.

@J12t Can we have a "I hate socializing" event before th meet and greet where all the introverts sit miserably alone at a table in preperation for the meet and greet please?

@stevesilberman Slaughter houses? Kids are more than twice as likely to get struck by lightening than to die in a school shooting in any given day... slaughterhouse is a bit overdramatic.

Look we should be mourning this, we should be sad, and we should recognize the tragedy..

But we also need to recognize these tragedies are very rare, more rare than getting struck by lightening. Lets not paint isomething that isso vanishingly rare as if its some slughterhouse.. that doesnt do anything justice and makes it very hard to find solutions if we cant be honest about the problems.

@realcaseyrollins

I mean, its your taste buds fault for not tasting harder really... you are the victim here!

@Hyolobrika@berserker.town @thatguyoverthere

@rbreich One of the few times you arent wrong... congress being bought off by lobbiests is a legit concern for sure.

I just want to say two important things..

First the recent school shooting is a tragedy and we should all be sad about the death of any children, especially as a victim of muder.

Second, we have to realize, for the sake ofperspective, how unfathomably rare it is for a child to die in a school shooting in america. It seems common because america is huge and the news makes this stuff public. But the numbers are more telling.

To put some numbers to it the chance of a child dyingin a school shooting in a public shool on any given day is 1 in 614 million. For comparison the chance of a person getting struck by lightening on any given day is **less** than 1 in 370 million.

In other words a child is more than **twice** as likely in the USA to get struck by lightening as they are to die in a school shooting.

Should we still mourne and be outraged by it... sure.. does that mean it is a problem that is common enough to be a huge concern... not really. We should probably put more effort into addressing the "lightening problem" than we should be about addressing school shootings.

#gun #guns #GunReform #2A

@SpockResists I am very sorry for your loss :(

@1iceloops123 haha.. there is, as with most lies, a bit of truth.. dogs are dichromatic, humans are trichromatic. So humans can distinguish colors dogs cant... likewise animals that are greater than trichromatic (like matntis shrimp) will see two things that look like the same color to us as different colors (even when those colors are not in IR or UV and are well within our color range).

@1iceloops123 Ummm, dogs absolutely can see color actually.

It is also kinda funny this dude who lied about me, and got called out by random people screams harassment...

mind you I never asked anyone to call them out or contact them. They lied, I posted screenshots showing they lied.

But then in the same breath this person posts directly at me, knowing I silenced him, and asked people explicitly to circumvent my silence of them and copy and paste his message to me.

Hmm.. I am harassing you for random people pointing out you are a liar when i provide proof.. but totally cool if you actively tell people to send me messages on your behalf when your silenced.

Thats not how this works, thats not how any of this works....

@TheOldGuy You safe?

@stux You are a good kitty dad

@stux Probably coincidence but still fricking adorable :)

@thor I thought that was still the standard test? Well this explains why women arent impressed!

@naciketas Yes, if there is one thing they are clearly quite scared of it is white people whipping out their penises... and well.. with good cause I suppose :)

I literally just saw this from 2022... While I was busy not caring apparently this dude was posting shit online, and calls it "harassment" when a bunch of people with no association with me, many from his own server, called him out for lying about me... really weird definition of harassment.

Ogh and for hte record a quote-toot is simply a link that gets inserted into a toot.. If you think its harassment to link to things you say about me **pubblicly**, particularly when your busy lying about me and I've posted the reciepts to proof it.... well.. yea weird definition of harassment.