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2015

[oublieloulou]

[freddieardley]

Golden Hour meets Purple - The Quantock Hills, Somerset

Photographed by Freddie Ardley

[gahdamnpunk]

This is exactly why the electoral college system is useless and needs to be replaced

[disclaymore-deactivated20230920]

“Los Angeles county should have a bigger say on issues than states that have entirely different problems, mostly agriculture and poverty induced as they’re flyover country, simply because there’s more people crammed into a county than there are people growing food.”

Sounds like classism to me but okay.

[amaranthineanomie]

YES.

Because that’s what democracy is! Omfg it’s like Americans have Stockholm syndrome for every horrible facet of the country! Perhaps the “solution” to people having different problems (?!?!?) isn’t a small segment of the population having complete power over all other parts? Just a thought?

[disclaymore-deactivated20230920]

im never going to get over “yes, classism is what democracy is” for as long as i live.

okay. let me put this in a european analogy. let’s say that, for every country that is a member of the european union, they get one vote per citizen on issues that affect the union and that the countries need union help to handle.

and we’ll say that there’s a random amount of countries in the european union are all experiencing a problem. let’s say that these are the countries and these are their populations,

now, we’ll say that germany, france, italy, and spain (not uk bc they’ve left),

they don’t have this problem. and, quite frankly, they don’t want to put the money towards this issue, because that’s expensive and it doesn’t effect them.

and for the sake of the argument, let’s say everyone votes in favor of their country, as it’s a direct democracy and whatnot. germany, france, italy, and spain get 257 million votes in their favor, while the other 23 countries only got 169 million votes.

that means 23 countries in need of help from the union were ignored and left to fend for themselves simply because the issues of the majority of the union didn’t effect four countries.

and because we are the UNITED states of america, we need everyone to have a voice in their issues, even if that means that some people get megaphones to be heard. Because otherwise, we’d have the vast majority of states being silenced on their issues, simply because three states with high density disagree.

i’d also like to point out that my state? higher population than finland. an entire country’s worth of people, one that fended off a soviet invasion 80 years back, in one little state of farmers and fishers, and it would be ignored because a county the size of sweden on the oceanic coast doesn’t understand or care about the issues that are faced by farmers in the midwest.

we are the united states. not the united people. and we have shit like this in place so that millions of people aren’t ruled by people who will not and will never try to understand the issues they face. that’s why we need the electoral college.

[untrustyou]

[naivan]

[cerebralzero]

Free car though

[tendie-defender]

[avtomatkalashnikova]

Exploring the Northeast

[avtomatkalashnikova]

[tomorrowitrainsatroval]

[that-catholic-shinobi]

tag yourself i’m Ford Unfocused

[coffeeandspentbrass-deactivated]

Dodge Challenged

[thisbibliomaniac]

Fact Checkers: Hey Wayfair, are you, uh, selling kids?

Wayfair: Nope!

Fact Checkers: Okay, carry on :)

[thisbibliomaniac]

WHOOPS

[senpatriarch]

This Wayfair shit seemed sketch at first but like, it keeps getting weirder and weirder

[r---jm]

[redbloodedamerica]

Fatality Rate is a Better Measure Than “Cases” for Comparing State Pandemic Responses

by Kevin Ryan Using “cases” as a headline number, which the media has done lately, gives very little information about how well or poorly those cases are being handled. A better metric is the Case Fatality Rate (CFR), which is deaths divided by confirmed cases. CFR measures the percentage of people in a state who’ve tested positive for COVID that actually end up dying from it. A high fatality rate can be caused by several factors. • Failing to protect older populations. States with a high percentage of older residents are at greater risk of deaths. How well a state protects its older population is a key to keeping the death rate down. • Not enough testing. States that don’t have enough testing not only reduce the denominator in the Case Fatality Rate calculation, they also leave more people uncertain about whether they are infected. People unknowingly infected may be at a greater risk of infecting at-risk populations like the elderly. While infinitely better than using “cases” to judge how a state is handling the coronavirus outbreak, CFR is still not a perfect measure. CFR can be skewed if deaths are undercounted or overcounted. For example, if a death is counted as a COVID death just because the person tested positive for it, despite the fact that the person’s primary cause of death was something else, it’s not an accurate count. But, since so many elderly patients have comorbidities such as diabetes and hypertension, determining the cause of death can be difficult. Also, the Case Fatality Rate only counts cases that have been confirmed through testing. A different measure, the Infection Fatality Rate (IFR), calculates the fatality rate based on estimates of the TOTAL number of infected people, not just those who have been tested. Antibody testing has found that the actual number of infected people is as much as ten times higher than the confirmed cases, meaning the IFR may be ten times lower than the CFR numbers listed here. Still, disparities between states will exist no matter the measure used. Probably the most important factor that has led to disparities in death rates is whether states were able to “flatten the curve” by protecting the vulnerable in the early months of the outbreak. Most of the states with the worst Case Fatality Rates had bad outbreaks among the elderly early on. States that kept fatalities low during the spring, meanwhile, are benefiting from several factors keeping their fatality rates down. As recent research from JP Morgan says, “.. we do not see cases in southern/western states resulting in mortality rates similar to those observed in the Northeast during March and April. … likely due to a larger % of mild and asymptomatic cases, a younger average age, better treatment, and more testing.” While deaths and rates will likely rise in states that have not developed much in the way of herd immunity, the above factors will hopefully keep the CFR significantly lower. SOURCES: https://covidtracking.com/api/v1/states/daily.csv https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/ https://www.prb.org/which-us-states-are-the-oldest/ https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/DC https://www.jpmorgan.com/jpmpdf/1320748738953.pdf https://twitter.com/carlquintanilla/status/1280913426878009345 

[rhade-zapan]

[whiskey-gunpowder]

i wonder which soros appointed DA was behind it

[antelopian]

imagine seeing someone defend themselves and your first reaction being “take those away they can’t do that”

and that’s why slug rounds are saved for when the feds try to take them

[bransrath]

Leftist politicians supported a literal mob during an alleged pandemic and now they are using cops to punish anyone who defends themselves against the mob.

The cops were “just following orders” of course.

[rtrixie]

Textbook anarcho-tyranny. Letting the mob go wild, but cracking down hard on those who defend themselves.

[evilbuildingsblog]

a dystopian rendition of the Vancouver House Tower.

[grupaok]

Statue of Christopher Columbus relocated from Byrd Park to Boat Lake, Richmond, Virginia, June 9, 2020. Photo: Marley Nichelle

[association-of-free-people]

[olderandhumbler]

The extremists are at it again

[association-of-free-people]

What’s fascinating is that they always think they’re not just right but righteous.

[theresistance2]

America’s Cultural Revolution has just begun.

[sirobvious]

Remember when the gun control debate was raging as usual and it was all about “why do you NEED a semi-automatic weapon” and this one poor guy was like “what if 30-50 feral hogs come into my yard and endanger my children” and all the closet authoritarians who want to restrict guns were like “holy shit, gun nuts are completely delusional, that completely unrealistic fantasy scenario would never happen.” and “30-50 feral hogs” became a big meme to make fun of those stupid inbred rednecks who actually think that they might be endangered by 30-50 feral hogs all at once, and even if they did, a hog is like a silly little hairy pig, right, how dangerous could it possibly be?

And not one of them ever bothered to just google it and find out that feral hogs can get as big as bears, actually do frequently move in packs of 30-50, and are a huge huge problem all across the rural South where they cause untold amounts of property damage and can be very very dangerous to humans if you find yourself too close

[aletheius]

They also kill people especially children (even “PoC” children!), but not like they care about kids anyway.

[violent-dharma-deactivated20210]

You basically think of women as walking wombs.

I have grown up in a very traditional family. Very old fashioned, on both the Eastern and Western sides of my family. Never once has anybody in my family, or anybody of a similar mindset, referred to women as walking wombs, or even implied anything of that nature. It was never once something I thought about myself, or any woman.

It is whenever anybody speaks about the importance and gravity and sanctity of motherhood that supposed "feminists" will come out and decry any veneration of motherhood as objectification. What about motherhood bothers them so much I may never know.

Perhaps it is part of the campaign to deconstruct the female and replace what biologically defines us as women with a feeling? Does the natural process of motherhood revile you so much that you seek to dehumanize her by referring to those of us who happily carry children as breeders or wombs or whomever?