have been on-and-off working on something similar...

Good to go looking for data for a strong hunch, but it's a rather sour reversal from your staked position earlier today, when the data didn't confirm the belief.

You should not pick and choose like this. "I was right all along" doesn't excuse bad epistemology.

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See y'all in 2026

now accepting suggestions about how to apolitically get society to stop doing the thing

fuck it, sure

If gun control is not related to the specifics of this event, then why would this event inspire us to think about gun control?

"we haven't mapped out the bottom of the ocean, no one knows what evil there lurks" energy

learning a lotta new words today

Preserving Invariances Is All You Need

do you have anything better than just vague statements?

how do the specifics of this event in particular lend themselves to any concrete call-to-action around gun control?

or is this a "let's attempt to fabricate a new social norm de novo and hope for the best" kinda thread

sublime, if non-sequential

wait where's /5??

Prompt is I’m convinced that. Reply is: getting caramelized probably feels so good for the onions.

unhinged things i see on hinge /4

Daft Punk - Get Lucky (Miracles of Modern Science cover) YouTube video by Miracles of Modern Science

maybe I'm a philistine for mixing up baroque pop and chamber pop but every chance to bring up MOMS is worth it

even Australia, after whose gun control laws even the most feverish leftist might slaver, permits the possession of licensed hunting rifles

Gun control - Wikipedia

kiiiiindasorta yes? but also, when people say "gun control," they are 99.9989% of the time talking about the policy aspect, _specifically_.

It even leads the wikipedia article:

> Gun control, or firearms regulation...

This line from jamelle's recent piece was pretty metal

Wonder if Kevin Mitnick was practicing capitalism "the right way" by not robbing banks at gunpoint

Do you mean to say GUN control is about culture?

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That line was immaculate

Wait til you see the article on triphalia

This is one event that's strangely outside of the gun control debate.

The assailant was over 21, no priors, and used a bolt-action hunting rifle, not a weapon of war.

Any of the gun control I would most want to see re: ARs and background checks would not have prevented this.

Pure culture issue.

...yeah, ok. Still on guard but you've changed my frame on this one.

Hoping this statement is followed by actual reformative action or accountability from this community.

I felt cool as shit with my unbalanced left-heavy gait

Reckoning with the terrorgenic nature of one's ideology with "aw shucks" energy

Isn't it more true to say that that culture is the engine of violence? The same literal signifier across different cultures may be harmful or innocent. A brick isn't an inherently violent object, it's the act of throwing it that adds that meaning. A word is a brick.

It's kind of fair to say dictionaries go out of date as language evolves and new concepts get culturally developed and litigated

I agree with this. I think words are the exertion of "force" (or the attempted exertion) moreso than violence. The fact that culture determines what the harm of a word is, even when it's a clear signifier, writes it out as violence to me.

it is insane that gretchen felker-martin got permabanned for one of her few utterances which was not an actual death threat