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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 hour ago

Dumb question: which one draws more media attention in Chicago?

In my own experience (not Chicago), the local news is dominated by where the rush-hour crash is today, while national news talks way more about gun deaths.

I'm going to go with the general vibe of Lemmy here and assume you mean that auto deaths need to get more attention in America. To that I would say there is a general cultural attitude that cars are a necessary evil (even among most people who don't outright love them, which is a huge demographic), and fixing the zoning and infrastructure would take decades and many tens of billions of dollars to restructure a large city around public transit. Besides bumper-sticker-slogan politics ("more public transit!") there are precious few real, concrete plans for getting from the current situation to the car-free utopia.

Even then, you'd not eliminate cars entirely. Among the more developed western European nations that are known for good public transit, Ireland seems (at a quick glance) to have the fewest cars per person at 536 per 1,000, while the car-happy US has 850/1,000. So best case, you reduce cars by ~35%.

Gun deaths, on the other hand, are easier to imagine as a problem that can be solved relatively quickly and with less disruption. From an advocacy point of view, it's the lower-hanging fruit.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Ok, Agent Smith.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago

Win10 EOL is surely driving some people away, but it's difficult to put a number on that. Measuring by market share is tricky and can be misleading. Steam Deck popularity may be driving increased usage, but those users aren't necessarily migrating their main OS, just adding a new machine to the mix. But maybe "migrating" their time spent in a given OS counts? It's messy.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 days ago

I don't remember who said it (so I'm likely butchering the phrase), but I've heard that any creative work exists in three forms: The mind of the author, the physical copy, and the mind of the audience.

For example, a book/story exists as the author intends, as the author writes, and as the reader interprets.

No one of the three is more "correct" than the other.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I mean its not even too late for this to happen starting like right now 2025, right?

No, it's not. The US, and increasingly the rest of the western world, is infected by a bunch of politicians who think '1984' is an instruction manual rather than a cautionary tale.

IT being used to weaponize surveillance against the people is happening right now.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 days ago

Yep. "1" is 12:00am on 1-Jan-1900

Numbers less than zero just give a weird error. Between zero and less than one give a nonsense date-formatted non-date.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 days ago

The "late, great" Hannibal Lector.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

That's not an argument, that's somebody who only looked at the cover of the cliff notes on presidential terms but didn't read it.

Right, but he can't read, so it can still be his position.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

One is a perfect foil to a fat fascist politician and the other is the same.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

And of course, anything passed by the normal legislative processes can just as easily be repealed that way.

Lasting change is going to require constitutional amendment(s) to harden the democracy against bad actors.

 

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Just because a 3060ti is technically capable of ray tracing doesn't mean I want you to keep turning it on every time the driver gets an update.

 

More people were killed by U.S. law enforcement in 2023 than any other year in the past decade, outpacing population growth eightfold.

 

"Don't make a wrong move," the officer said as he pinned the struggling subject to the ground. "Period."

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