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Hieronymous Alloy posted:He better pull the coin from behind McCarthy 's ear Got a good lol thinking about ol' Cornpop doing this and giving McCarthy this look
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According to the finalized census results, the U.S. became older much faster than predicted. Additionally, fewer children were born than estimated. - The median age of an American is now close to 40. - Median age varies wildly by race. The median white American is 44.5 years old and the median Hispanic American was 30 years old. - North Dakota was the only state that got younger in the last 10 years. - Utah remains the youngest state thanks to unusually high levels of children. The youngest county in the country is Utah where the median age is 25.5 years old. - The oldest county in the U.S. is in Florida, where the median age is 68.5 years old. - The number of people over 100 years old increased by nearly 50%. - People aged 65 or older made up nearly 1/5th of the U.S. population. - The population age balance is too high to make up for via births alone for the next 20-40 years and increasing the amount of young immigrants in conjunction with a higher birth rate will be needed to balance out the population in the coming decades. Otherwise, it will take approximately 40 years for the baby boomers to fully die off and for birth rates of Gen Z and the following generations to either stay steady or increase. - Currently, the median American is projected to be around 52 years old by 2060. https://twitter.com/AP/status/1661764118833971201 quote:The United States grew older, faster, last decade.
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# ? May 25, 2023 17:24 |
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We actively discourage people from having kids thanks to no paid family leave at a national level, and just the general culture of 'work comes first'. That and increasing immigration crackdowns are going to gently caress us.
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FlamingLiberal posted:We actively discourage people from having kids thanks to no paid family leave at a national level, and just the general culture of 'work comes first'. That and increasing immigration crackdowns are going to gently caress us. What they want to do is thread the needle between "Can't afford to have kids" and "Has kids anyways" in order to perpetuate a well-stocked labor caste.
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# ? May 25, 2023 18:00 |
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I'm pretty sure they are dumber than that and are just happy that the filthy poors aren't outbreeding them anymore.
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https://www.npr.org/2023/05/25/1178150234/supreme-court-epa-clean-water-act Hope you don't like and or need to drink water as the unelected law priests continue to tear down the country for billionaires and corporations
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Also get ready for more floods
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Clarste posted:I'm pretty sure they are dumber than that and are just happy that the filthy poors aren't outbreeding them anymore. Who is "they" and what is your supporting evidence for "them"? eta: I ask because the_steve was talking about our country's politicians not supporting a strong social safety net, and the root cause of that seems to be capital opposing social programs & our donor-driven politics allowing capital to call the shots. Willa Rogers fucked around with this message at 18:22 on May 25, 2023 |
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Stewart Rhodes got eighteen years for Jan 6. https://twitter.com/AP/status/1661781196588630016 SLPC had an interesting interview with his estranged kids which really exposes how much of a freak he, and the people in his movement are.
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FlamingLiberal posted:We actively discourage people from having kids thanks to no paid family leave at a national level, and just the general culture of 'work comes first'. That and increasing immigration crackdowns are going to gently caress us. The lower birth rate thing is tricky. The U.S. isn't actually even in the top 10 for major countries with this problem. Part of it seems like social mores and the ease and availability of birth control. Every country from China to Italy to Japan to the U.S. to France is seeing a significant decline in birth rates. The economic circumstances also don't help at all. It looks like the baby boom was somewhat of an aberration and countries aren't equipped to handle that one disproportionate generation without flying in the face of social trends or massively increasing immigration for younger people. The problem is that there has been a huge surge of anti-immigrant sentiment (or in Japan/China's case, just a continuation of a long trend of limited immigration) and increasing birth rates means you have to somehow reverse major social and economic trends. That's why France has been in chaos over what to do with its pension system and why Japan is teetering towards a society where half the population has to support twice as many elderly. The U.S. is still in a relatively good (but, objectively not great) position here because you could theoretically still reverse it and the percentage isn't as bad as some other countries. We can also wait it out and have a very uncomfortable adjustment period for 40 years until things even out. I personally think this is a bad idea because statistically 40 years is going to be most or all of the rest of my life. Silver linings: Houses are probably going to get moderately cheaper around 2048 and there will be less traffic for 10-15 years.* *Assuming the population decline isn't concentrated in smaller towns that effectively kills and drives ever increasing demand for living in urban areas.
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WebDO posted:https://www.npr.org/2023/05/25/1178150234/supreme-court-epa-clean-water-act Kavanaugh and the liberals in the minority is a rare combo. I am not a water/environmental engineering expert, but from a legal standpoint, this is going to have 0 impact on a lot of areas and potentially huge impacts on others. It is not going to be evenly spread out because the new definition doesn't change anything for bodies of water with continuous surface connections, but completely exempts not continuous bodies. I do not know what the practical impact of that will be for those areas, though. I guess it will depend on whoever is in charge of the EPA, what state it is in, and who owns the water ways. Some places that are now exempt may not see much change, but it could be much easier to develop land in certain places without having to factor in downstream effects in other places.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Silver linings: Houses are probably going to get moderately cheaper around 2048 and there will be less traffic for 10-15 years.* Is this necessarily true though? In my (relatively limited) experience as a potential home-buyer, it seems like there is still a strong incentive for investment firms to buy up existing houses or older rental properties and rent them out or demolish them to build luxury apartments. The last two open houses I went to sold for $30k and $65k over asking price both within a week of showing. I do live in a popular metro area in my state so I'm sure that is a big contributor to this, but I keep seeing more and more single family homes for rent for ~2x what the estimated mortgage/property taxes would be. Do fed rate increases actually have an impact on investment firms that buy properties and rent them out?
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zoux posted:SLPC had an interesting interview with his estranged kids which really exposes how much of a freak he, and the people in his movement are.
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Why are New Yorkers suddenly pushing people into the subway tracks at historic levels in the past year? This particular person who shoved her was a homeless man and likely mentally ill, but there have been almost a dozen other cases of this happening and most of them were not mentally ill or homeless. This is America. You're supposed to use guns for your senseless public violence (there was a mass shooting in the NYC subway not too long ago, so I guess they have that covered). And why aren't any other cities throwing people onto the tracks besides New York? A quick google says that nobody has been killed by being pushed into the subway by another person in Boston, LA, or Atlanta in the last year. It's still less than a dozen people, but going from 0 for decades to multiple in a year (and it not happening anywhere else in the country) is weird. https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1661780448706535424 quote:For days after Emine Yilmaz Ozsoy was shoved against a speeding subway train on her way to work, she lay in intensive care at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center. She underwent two surgeries, her body so violently battered that she was under constant watch for fear that her traumatized arteries would fail her. Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 18:58 on May 25, 2023 |
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Why are New Yorkers suddenly pushing people into the subway tracks at historic levels in the past year? A lot of things like this are explicable by suicide cluster mechanics. Dramatic violent event hits the news, gets covered, inspires copycats. One good way to stop school shootings would probably be to stop news coverage of school shootings.
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It doesn't help that the MTA refuses to install barriers and doors down there, half because they don't have the funding, and half because a good number of the stations would need major overhauls to be able to fit them while remaining ADA-compliant
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It could also be due entirely to random variation. These attacks happen elsewhere too. One guy got killed in Baltimore last year in another incident.
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# ? May 25, 2023 19:10 |
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Willa Rogers posted:Thanks, Kalli. It's actually way more insidious than any polling can show you. For example, even though I can afford it, I was thinking about not going to a follow-up with my ENT because it would cost like $300. It should not even be a consideration - the ENT thought I should follow up, so I should. Everyone is affected by the fact that we have deductibles, copays, etc., and obviously those without any healthcare have it the worst.
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# ? May 25, 2023 19:10 |
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As I mentioned earlier, the trains in Boston are nowhere near reliable enough to commit murder by pushing someone in front of them. They will, however, drag you to a horrible death if you get caught in the door by accident.
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The Special Counsel's office is nearing the end of its investigation into Trump's handling of classified information following his presidency. He is likely to indicted for at least obstruction after it was discovered that he had boxes moved out of Mar-a-lago the day before the FBI were scheduled to come search for them as part of a subpoena. Additionally, staff at Mar-a-lago who were brought in for questioning reported that they witnessed him showing off classified documents to guests. The classified documents included information on Iran's missile program, information on an unnamed country's nuclear program, and The DOJ says it has ample evidence that "obstructive conduct" took place in order to impede an investigation. Trump also staged a "dress rehearsal" where he asked his staff to move the documents out, where they should be taken, and how they should bring them back after the FBI left. Staff were also allegedly instructed to remove documents from a government storage facility and move them an office building in West Palm Beach and Trump said he considered the documents his property. https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1661796957789061120 quote:Trump workers moved Mar-a-Lago boxes a day before Justice Dept. came for documents Trump's legal and campaign teams are bracing for an indictment and plan to fundraise off of his prosecution. https://twitter.com/sgurman/status/1661010422567436289
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:
Sadly, Son of Sam laws are not pre-emptive.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:I am not a water/environmental engineering expert, but from a legal standpoint, this is going to have 0 impact on a lot of areas and potentially huge impacts on others. It is not going to be evenly spread out because the new definition doesn't change anything for bodies of water with continuous surface connections, but completely exempts not continuous bodies. A lot of states have more stringent regulations on the books so this won’t affect anything in those states, but obviously many don’t. So that’s a problem, in that we all share the same water system, but there’s also a concern that eliminating the federal standards could lead to a “race to the bottom” scenario if companies flee responsibly run states for ones that give them a green light to pollute. (The silver lining is that this is less of a problem than it was 20 years ago, because low-regulation Republican-dominated states have so hosed themselves up that they are in shambles in terms of infrastructure and human capital, and therefore not an attractive destination for a lot of firms.) * maybe I shouldn’t have used this word because as Kagan points out in her partial concurrence the definition of “adjacent” is getting jostled around a lot in this decision. Mellow Seas fucked around with this message at 20:03 on May 25, 2023 |
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:One good way to stop school shootings would probably be to stop news coverage of school shootings. I wish news outlets would identify the suspect once by name per piece and thereafter refer to them as the shooter, the gunman, the perpetrator, etc. Furthermore they should never show a picture of them, a physical description is all we need. These assholes want notoriety and infamy, don't give it to them.
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The press already has and has continued to change its coverage of shooters based on internal discussions along similar lines.
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Discendo Vox posted:The press already has and has continued to change its coverage of shooters based on internal discussions along similar lines. If you mean more restrictive coverage can you please provide some links about this? Because it's usually the press that advocates freer flow of information, as when the AP & other media sued SFPD for access to the videocams of Paul Pelosi & the man who broke into his home, and at least one newspaper (The Tennessean) filing a public-records lawsuit to obtain the content of the manifesto left behind by Audrey Hale, the Nashville school shooter.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Why are New Yorkers suddenly pushing people into the subway tracks at historic levels in the past year? Is it actually at historic levels? I didn't see that in the article. I'm not finding any stats on subway track pushings, but I'm also not finding any reporting about a rash of NYC track-pushings. I just see one other one in January, someone arrested in NYC for a track-pushing in Baltimore, and a bunch of articles complaining about homeless people hanging out on or near the tracks. I'm inclined to be wary here, because our perceptions of extremely rare problems like this are very heavily influenced by media coverage. And not only does the NYC media have an outsized presence in our national media industry, but it also absolutely loving loves crime reporting that portrays public spaces as far more unsafe than they actually are. And this story clearly falls right into that category. Just look at that tweet. It frames the attack as "embod[ying] New Yorkers' persistent fear of such violence underground" - implying not only that New Yorkers are widely terrified of subway attackers, but also that they're right to be so afraid. On top of that, even though that NYT story is about subway shovings in general, it's noticeably selective about the cases it chooses. They chose to focus exclusively on cases of women being pushed by non-white homeless men. There aren't even any mentions of cases of men being pushed by homeless men, let alone cases where men got into fights that ended up with one of them on the tracks. It almost looks to me like the NYT (along with right-wing media like the NY Post) is encouraging readers to fear homeless people on the subway. It's portraying them as dangerous and prone to sudden unprovoked assaults on the vulnerable, and portraying the subway as a dangerous place where New Yorkers ought to live in constant fear of random attacks. And in my opinion, that's a really loving irresponsible thing to be doing less than a month after non-white homeless man Jordan Neely was murdered on the subway for being loud and unruly.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:- Utah remains the youngest state thanks to unusually high levels of children. The youngest county in the country is Utah where the median age is 25.5 years old. Traditionally, Mormons have large families. I would guess other states with large Mormon populations like Idaho or Arizona have high levels of children.
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small butter posted:It's actually way more insidious than any polling can show you. Yes, it's a horrible situation that keeps getting worse, and likely one of the reasons healthcare as an issue keeps cropping up in the top-5 issues of concern among voters in polling. It's particularly egregious as people age, bc of the ACA's allowing insurers to charge up to three times the cost to pre-Medicare elders, which then forces them to carry bronze plans that are accompanied by stratospheric deductibles & other out-of-pocket costs. And that's leaving aside the current cost of dental care, which even the olds don't get under Medicare unless they're in a "Medicare" "Advantage" plan for which some dental care is covered.
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god bless i am going to have to dust off the loving photoshop for this poo poo. i can't even with Four DeSantis Total Landscaping right now
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Willa Rogers posted:If you mean more restrictive coverage can you please provide some links about this? e.g. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/05/news-media-considers-breaking-grimly-routine-coverage-of-mass-shootings https://nonotoriety.com/ https://www.cjr.org/analysis/rethinking-gun-violence-coverage-inevitable-news.php https://www.poynter.org/ethics-trust/2023/covenant-school-shooting-nashville-trans-manifesto-gender-identity/
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Thanks, DV. Those links provide suggestions for media coverage of shootings, but I don't see anything about the media having actually changed its coverage to date. I skimmed them, though, so I may have missed it. The CJR link talks about an upcoming "summit" that was to be held on April 6, but the link to the video is broken & I don't want to watch an entire video to see the conclusions of the participants anyway. Is there a link to a transcript of the summit, do you know? I disagree with the notion that the Vanity Fair piece presented that we need to view murdered 7 year olds, though I don't imagine that any media outlets will provide that, say, on their front pages or websites without heavily warning viewers. Then again, that's a personal preference. I agree with the Poynter piece that media should refrain from politicizing shooters/shootings & rely more on fact-based narratives, though.
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What would politicizing a school shooting look like in that context?
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I AM GRANDO posted:What would politicizing a school shooting look like in that context? In that article, for example, it seems to mean publicizing a shooter's identity and statements to paint them as a member of the political groups you think are destroying the country. When a shooter posted Trumpist memes or campaigned for Bernie or was trans or an immigrant or whatever else, it's gonna be tempting for enemies of those groups to use it to show who the real dangerous extremists are. But it's also worth asking if highlighting that is worth doing plastering the news with deep dives on their history and beliefs. Even negative coverage of notorious criminals by nature turns into hagiography in the same way that even anti-war movies tend to turn out as pro-war movies.
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On the other hand, almost literally every single mass shooter since Columbine at least being clearly a Nazi continues to be mysteriously left out of coverage, in favour of blaming popular entertainment media or niche fashion trends the shooters didn't even participate in.
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Yeah, but most Americans literally can’t understand that. It’s not a conscious choice by reporters to ignore what remains invisible to them.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:On the other hand, almost literally every single mass shooter since Columbine at least being clearly a Nazi continues to be mysteriously left out of coverage, in favour of blaming popular entertainment media or niche fashion trends the shooters didn't even participate in. That's a great example since the extensive coverage of that with Breivik, for example, arguably did less to draw attention to stopping Nazi violence than it did to create a crop of Nazi violence by people quietly or proudly praising his writings.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:On the other hand, almost literally every single mass shooter since Columbine at least being clearly a Nazi continues to be mysteriously left out of coverage, in favour of blaming popular entertainment media or niche fashion trends the shooters didn't even participate in. I think, at least wrt the not wanting to call a Nazi a Nazi issue, is that culturally speaking, it's seen as more of a hyperbolic attack. When someone says "That guy is a Nazi", the general populace isn't hearing "That guy literally subscribes to Nazi ideology and legitimately siegs heil." , they just hear someone pushing the button to try to score a cheap point.
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# ? May 26, 2023 02:51 |
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Rogers being outed as an incel on mass media didn't really put a damper on the incel movement either. If anything it made him a celebrated figure in that toxic culture.
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Main Paineframe posted:And this story clearly falls right into that category. Just look at that tweet. It frames the attack as "embod[ying] New Yorkers' persistent fear of such violence underground" - implying not only that New Yorkers are widely terrified of subway attackers, but also that they're right to be so afraid. Yeah it pisses me off because it should be news that this happened, but the idea that there's a people getting shoved in front of trains wave in NYC or that "New Yorkers" in general are terrified of the subway is some real horseshit. Main Paineframe posted:It almost looks to me like the NYT (along with right-wing media like the NY Post) is encouraging readers to fear homeless people on the subway. It's portraying them as dangerous and prone to sudden unprovoked assaults on the vulnerable, and portraying the subway as a dangerous place where New Yorkers ought to live in constant fear of random attacks. And in my opinion, that's a really loving irresponsible thing to be doing less than a month after non-white homeless man Jordan Neely was murdered on the subway for being loud and unruly. And this is why, the weather's getting nicer so, sorry folks, you have to see more homeless people around later into the evening. And you'll see this little extra encouragement in the news every year about NYC as we go from spring to summer.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:On the other hand, almost literally every single mass shooter since Columbine at least being clearly a Nazi continues to be mysteriously left out of coverage, in favour of blaming popular entertainment media or niche fashion trends the shooters didn't even participate in. What are you talking about? Do you honestly believe this? There was mass coverage over one from just earlier this month: https://apnews.com/article/texas-mall-shooting-mauricio-garcia-424607c69a5df0adab64f236924ae4e2 Kalit fucked around with this message at 03:44 on May 26, 2023 |
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