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FireTower

@ FireTower @lemmy.world

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  • The Number of Murders Kept Falling This Year, But Fear of Crime Persists

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  • A) The National Crime Victimization Survey surveys victims and their surviving relatives.

    B) The economy ≠ the poverty rate. But towards the point, what does you even mean. The existence of a statistic doesn't deny the reality of those victimized. It simply expresses the commonality of an occurrence.

    People are living in a fantasy world perpetuated by a media that stands to gain by over reporting tragedies while being silent on any good news. Pointing out statistics may lead people to trust the unreliable sources less. But that is a good thing. And knowledge of statistics is critical in coming to policy conclusions.

  • Communism

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  • A stateless society is one with a power vacuum. Some one will claim the title of leader and often it'll be someone of little virtue.

  • 3D-printed guns, like the one Luigi Mangione allegedly used, are a growing threat

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  • (who knows why)

    The algorithm is foreshadowing /s

    This is accurate I'd add there's a distinction to be made between designs that use parts intended as firearms parts (e.g. Glock 19 barrel) and those that use only off the shelf repurposed hardware parts (e.g. ordinary pipe that has been given rifling via electro-chemical machining).

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  • No. 18 USC 924 also covers non violent offenses but the punishments for those are less.

  • Javier Milei’s first year: $3 billion surplus and tenfold lower inflation in 2024

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  • Their rate of inflation iis decreasing but they still experience inflation rather than deflation. INFLATION IS COMPOUNDING even if the rate of increase of inflation is slightly lower there is still a lot of inflation.

    If you owe $100 and inflation is stuck at 200% per year after one year you'll owe $300, after two years $900, three years $2,700.

    Now if you owe $100 and inflation starts at 200% per year then drops to 190% for year 2, and then falls again to 180% for year three you're looking at this: year 1 $300, year 2 $870, year 3 $2,436.

    It's better to owe someone $2,436 than it is to owe them $2,700. But owing someone $2,436 sucks a lot more than owing them $100.

    I don't know how this couldn't be clear to anyone who understands the concept of inflation.

    https://youtu.be/T8-85cZRI9o

    https://youtu.be/BHw4NStQsT8

  • Javier Milei’s first year: $3 billion surplus and tenfold lower inflation in 2024

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  • Because inflation is compounding in nature just like interest is. The longer you have a high inflation rate the worse the situation gets.

  • Javier Milei’s first year: $3 billion surplus and tenfold lower inflation in 2024

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  • Only if you believe there is no direct connection between the devaluation of people's savings paired with increased costs of goods and poverty.

    Hyper inflation in itself leads to poverty.

  • Javier Milei’s first year: $3 billion surplus and tenfold lower inflation in 2024

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  • It's not a good thing. No one here is arguing that poverty is good. It's that their current choice is 'still pretty high inflation w/ high poverty' is preferable to 'holy shit that's their monthly inflation w/ high poverty'.

    Low poverty is no longer in Argentina's deck for the foreseeable near future. Inflation will rob the working class people of any thing they are given or earn.

  • Javier Milei’s first year: $3 billion surplus and tenfold lower inflation in 2024

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  • Because inflation rate is decreasing. It's still triple digits but it's going down.

    Imagine a wildfire spreading rapidly. Remedial action is taken and then it continues to spread but notably slower. Obviously there's more to do but it is still good news for a place where that is in short supply.

  • Luigi Mangione defense fund raises more than $55,000 in donations

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  • What do you think DNA is? The thing outside a criminals's gloves? IRL isn't CSI Miami. Go swap a NYC sidewalk and see what you get. That'd be a needle in a haystack.

    Remember, they only have to prove "beyond a reasonable doubt".

    This is like saying remember marathon runners only need to run 26.2 miles.

    It's not having our "head [in our] asses" it's a decent respect for the freestanding system of laws. Social media vilianizing or martyrizing people alleged of cromes isn't beneficial for true justice.

  • Governor Lamont Announces Nearly 23,000 Connecticut Residents Will Have $30 Million in Medical Debt Erased Under First Round of State’s Newly Launched Partnership With Nonprofit

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  • ITT, people out themselves as never having been in CT or talked to anyone in CT (D or R).

    No one is going to sue over this. A CT Republican is differentiated from a CT Democrat by tie color.

  • TIL that in the US, you could get acquitted from state charges, but the federal government can still prosecute on the same offences, due to a doctine known as the Dual Sovereignty Doctrine.

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  • You don't have to serialize firearms you make* for your own personal use. You also don't need to register them either*. In fact there's restrictions on the federal government's ability to keep a registry of guns. 18 USC 926(a)(3). From a policy perspective it'd just be creating another possession based crime that's almost impossible to enforce. Because you could just pop a "1" on the side and claim that you sent in your registration paperwork but the government screwed up.

    *True for title 1 firearms (most handguns, shotguns, and rifles) not certain other classes like those that machineguns or silencers fall into.

    https://www.atf.gov/firearms/qa/how-does-person-register-firearm-or-remove-name-firearms-registration

  • Luigi Mangione defense fund raises more than $55,000 in donations

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  • Did he give a sperm sample or something at the crime seen? What DNA?

    And public defenders though they are as skilled as any attorney are very much overworked in many places. Private counsel can offer more attention to the details of a case and spend time researching potentially novel theories to defend their client.

  • Luigi Mangione defense fund raises more than $55,000 in donations

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  • Not till he's proven guilty in a court of law it isn't.

  • Should Democrats also gerrymander blue states to counterbalance any advantage that republicans have due to the gerrymandering in red states?

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  • The thing is that they've got teeth. E.g. redistricting, along with the plurality of powers granted to the countless offices across the nation that they hold.

  • Should Democrats also gerrymander blue states to counterbalance any advantage that republicans have due to the gerrymandering in red states?

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  • Q: Should (insert political party here) disenfranchise voters for the benefit of (insert political party here)'s political ends?

    A: No.

    If you have no principles you have nothing.

  • Supreme Court wants US input on whether ISPs should be liable for users’ piracy

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  • YSK: US Senate offices pay attention to how many constituents are calling them on a topic. Democracy doesn't end at the ballot box

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  • YSK call your house rep. They're more likely to answer. Also call your state reps first. Most issues are handled on a state level, not federal, and state house reps tend to be the most accessible.

  • “Every Choice Is Loss”: Voters on Their Decision Amid Genocide in Gaza

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  • In the US, a representative democracy, people typically want to vote for a representative (here the Pres.) who shares their views on issues. The US isn't going to have a national referendum on Gaza where the people can directly vote.

    What ever your view point(s) your time to vote on your issue(s) is during a presidential or midterm election.

  • TIL not everyone tells jokes on beggar's night

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  • Never heard of beggars night. People seem to find Halloween a satisfactory name where I've been.