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BrickHorn

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  1. Uh… I have some bad news for you.
  2. Sark has always been a terrible game manager. One of the worst I’ve seen. It’s why we have a bad habit of giving up massive leads.
  3. Yeah, yeah. I get it. Fuck off, Da Fino.
  4. Those “usual suspects” are in fact propagandists shitbags.
  5. Not Trump’s style. He doesn’t play defense, only offense. The Mike Leach of politicians. If Trump wants to talk his way into heaven, it will be more like this: ”Jesus is low energy. Really. What God just sits there and lets a couple of Romans nail him to a cross? You have all this power, lightning bolts and floods and all that. Why not use it and save yourself? It’s not very pleasant, having your hands nailed to a cross. Maybe use your God powers to smite those Romans. I’m kidding. But many people are saying maybe I should have been Jesus. ‘Sir, you would never let the Romans nail you to a cross.’ Maybe they’re right about that. We’re looking into it. We have lots of very smart people who are looking at the Bible to see if I can be Jesus. Maybe I can. Maybe I can. We’ll see what they find out, but I think that maybe I can be Jesus.”
  6. It’s not just dumb. It’s dangerous. Heartless. Sadistic. I personally know people whose lives have been saved by SSRI treatment. These fucking jackals are going to get innocent people killed with a witch hunt that makes no sense. But they don’t care because as long as they’re blaming life-saving medication, they can distract from the real issues (the insane prevalence of guns in our society and the lack of social safety nets). Can’t have gun control, so it’s better to fire off an epidemic of suicide and depression. And of course it won’t make a dent in mass shootings. But by the time the world figures that out, these maniacs will be scapegoating some other innocent group.
  7. Guess again.
  8. It’s also not helpful. All that chart could possibly demonstrate is the relative Bayesian probability that a given individual will commit a mass shooting, based on a single measure. And even the highest probably (0.7 out of 1 million, or 0.00007%) is so fucking low that it’s essentially 0%. It literally gives you no actionable information. At most, it says “The chance that any individual regardless of demographic category will commit a mass shooting is vanishingly small, although it’s slightly less vanishingly small for Category X.” You may retort that this chart tells us where to focus our efforts to prevent mass shootings. Maybe you think based on this chart that locking up the trans population (or worse) would be an effective strategy to prevent mass shootings. Well, if that’s what you are thinking, you’re incredibly wrong. Set aside the injustice of punishing over a million innocent people for every one potential criminal. Trans people account for only a tiny amount of all mass shootings (analyses range from 0.1% to 1.3%). So any policy targeting trans people would have almost zero impact on the overall number of deaths due to mass shootings. I hesitate to ask this on the DT board, but anyone care to guess which demographic group is responsible for more than 95% of mass shootings?
  9. Holy shit. He got charged with asspelting?
  10. @Zeus is one of those posters who will retreat to the DT or football board to whine about how “unhinged” the meanies are in the “cesspool” of the CR. But only after he tried to score points here and fell on his face, not smart enough to come to the correct conclusions in the first place and too insecure to admit he may have been wrong and to adjust his perspective accordingly. It’s a tale as old as time.
  11. Start by engaging with the data, moron.
  12. Hahaha. You’re even dumber than I thought. “Yup. Only been five mass shootings in Murca since 2023.” Case closed, Inspector Smoothbrain! I don’t have time to do the math for you, but in the decade preceding and including the Hale incident, only 4 mass shooters identified as trans or nonbinary. That represented less than a tenth of a percent of all mass shooters during the period. A researcher at Columbia had a higher figure: a massive 1.3%! This incident is one more. Even assuming no mass shootings occurred between the Hale event and this one (surely not accurate, but the assumption favors your case), that one additional data point wouldn’t move the needle. Now, let’s talk about men generally. According to the Rockefeller Institute, 95% of mass shooters are male. Considering men represent slightly less than half of the US population, this is astounding. Men are nearly 20x more likely to perpetrate a mass shooting compared to women. So tell me: if you wanted to most effectively reduce mass shootings by eliminating just one demographic category, which one would you pick?
  13. Good lord, you are dangerously stupid. I know several people who struggled with suicidal ideation and are only still with us (and not only that, but flourishing) because of SSRIs. So you and your weird RFK-sycophant pseudoscientific bullshit can fuck right off. It’s assholes like you who will be responsible when good people spiral into depression and suicide because weird make-believe doctors decided that life-saving medications are evil.
  14. Who are all the other ones? Please (1) list them. And then (2) list ALL mass shooters over the same period. Then (3) divide (1) by (2) and tell us how big that number is. Then do the same, except for part (1) count up the number of male mass shooters. We’ll be waiting to read your findings.
  15. What a fucking bitch.
  16. Semiconductors was that class for me. We all bombed the first exam (including the grad students in the class). So without telling us to expect it, the professor completely changed the format for Exam #2. We all bombed that one, too. Then she did it again for Exam #3 and by that time all hope was lost. I didn’t end up learning shit in that class. Something about holes and electrons or some shit? The text was worthless (it was Dean Streetman’s book) and our poor professor didn’t know what to do with us. I don’t think I scored above a 79 on any test but ended up with an A.
  17. I would be shocked if there’s more than a handful of current white UT football or baseball players who don’t support Trump. It’s a cultural thing in that set. If you’re white and play baseball or football these days, you listen to shitty pop country, pretend to give a shit about Christian values, and wear MAGA or Trump gear like it was any other suburban country boy-wannabe brand like Salt Life or Calvin pissing on things.
  18. Uh… I think you forget that it was the Democrats who destroyed everything Americans hold sacred about The Cracker Barrel.
  19. I tell people this and they look at me like I’m fucking crazy. Which… I am. But not about this. It’s clear as day what’s coming. We aren’t having free and fair midterms next year. Gerrymandering is only one part of it. At the very least, I expect rigged processes and machines, limited polling times and locations, and an armed (and probably masked) military / LEO presence at the polls. Trump may even nullify Democrat victories.
  20. Agreed. But I’d be surprised if most Americans on the center or left even recognize this as a possibility. Normalcy bias is a helluva drug. Most of us have lived in a rule-of-law bubble our entire lives and have no conception of just how shitty things can be. So when you suggest that even a basic fascist phenomenon might happen here, you might as well propose traveling through the extra 6 dimensions of string theory.
  21. This is a rather clumsy instance of something that worries me: the incentive to rat out neighbors or competitors and scoop up their property at a massive discount. Right now, it’s immigrants. But they’ll eventually start jailing leftists, homosexuals, atheists, etc. And all it will take is one phone call from a shady realtor who’s had their eye on your house. I fear this is coming. The administration will keep their cult happy by redistributing private property from enemies to allies. Because that’s essentially what fascism is: an opportunity for We to take power and wealth from Them.
  22. Sometimes it feels like America is on the brink of a civil war against Branson, Missouri.
  23. Imagine being so fucking stupid that you think “I know who will stand up to the injustice of predatory real estate development: Donald Trump.” It’s amazing these fuckers have survived this long without drinking bleach or licking a power outlet.
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