What came first, the chicken or the egg? Meaningless semantics; both are at play when it comes to someone that is suicidal. But I can assure you, suicide rates would be positively (downward trend) impacted by any sort of gun ban. I am speaking as person who has been suicidal. If I had had access to guns at certain points in my past, I likely wouldn’t be here today.
And those shouldn’t count? Do you have any idea how much easy access to guns increases suicides? Many, many suicidal people would still be alive without the easy access to guns in the US. It’s one of the easiest and painless ways to kill yourself.
I really like Apple Music. Actually supports lossless, unlike Spotify, and it just feels much more music focused. Spotify has become too bloated, and I view it more as a “sound” app than a music app.
Just noticed this. Honestly a bit worried that it’s going to be nerfed to an unreasonable degree once it comes back.
I love this channel! There’s just something about going very in-depth on random appliances and things like that that’s just so entertaining to me lol
Do you have any idea how influential media is? When you have MSNBC and CNN plus various others talking about how Biden is the only viable option again and again and again, you can’t ignore the influence of that. He won South Carolina after the endorsement of a very popular and influential corporate Democrat there. The media along with the DNC saw that as the opportunity to rally around Biden. Everyone drops out and endorses him, and there you go. I’m oversimplifying a bit for the sake of brevity, obviously, but bottom line, Biden was chosen and supported to defeat Bernie because they couldn’t accept the possibility of a politician like Bernie winning. He was a threat to capital and he was extinguished from the race.
Because Democrats love losing. This is literally something that has been seen time and time again. They make more money through fundraising when they’re in the minority. They care about nothing but capital.
I disagree with this line of thinking. I see humans as generally good, but sometimes far too easily swayed and influenced, as well as very vulnerable to mental illness. It’s easy to have a pessimistic and nihilistic view, but it’s important to keep in mind that the vast, vast majority of people, if not all people, are victims of circumstance.
Agreed, we need to move beyond Reddit. I personally want to see this (and honestly the Fediverse as a whole) shepherd the internet and social media into a new era more akin to the old internet. Reddit as a platform was destined to fail, imo.
Those are/were the best!
As someone that wasn’t ever particularly active on Reddit, I didn’t even know that was a general attitude there. I’ve generally never understood the hate that some people have for emojis, though. They have their place in certain circumstances and can make communication easier in general sometimes, especially in private, more personal conversations. Tone can be so hard to decipher through text.
No smile for Apple, unfortunately. :(
There has seemingly been a big upswing in labor action in the last few years in the United States, and not much makes me happier than seeing more of it.
iOS 17 seems great for me so far. Haven’t tried iPadOS yet, but I will soon. Sonoma is good so far as well, aside from a couple small issues that are essentially just nitpicks.