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How do you suppose that glass was made, Watson?
"Europe stands alone" that's a pretty big crowd to be standing alone in...
Lies and deception - one on the right was clearly made in a mold and never had a proper skin in the first place.
This is widely known and is the reason we have so many (predictably very persecuted) Ride2Vote (ridesharing to the polls) organizations in this country. Very much skeptical of the presentation of their ideas if they consider "access to polls" as somehow an overlooked concept.
Duh? It's also true in the US every year. In fact looking around I can't find a single country where it's not true.
The headline is trying to convey that cars are a bigger real threat to the population than the perception of violent crime would have you believe, but the social interest in addressing car deaths vs. anti-crime measures are wildly out of alignment with the actual harm caused by the respective issues.
More black bars than New Orleans...
This is rocketry, forgetting to secure a maintenance platform is a big deal especially on a piece of equipment as complicated as the soyuz launch pad. Two consecutive failures wouldn't make for a dumpster fire in most cases, but these are both supposed to be some of the most reliable rocket platforms in the world, and so failures like this are very concerning.
Edit: Finally found a decent picture of the thing that wasn't secured:
Yeah, no. Fucking up the safety checks on a massive piece of infrastructure like "the enormous platform that you use to put the boosters together" is indicative of a huge systemic failure.
"IVE GOUT IT" also fits
Death toll in the jail article is ~1029 yearly, if its explicitly stated I didn't see it. That was calculated from the figures given (total pop 735k * death rate of 1.4/1000) (That number is wrong, as stated in the article the actual rate is likely to be slightly higher because they had to exclude a great many sources from their sample due to bad or questionable data).
It should be noted that those deaths aren't divided by cause: police muders, inmate violence, deaths from pre-existing conditions, lightning strikes, deaths from conditions exacerbated by the quality of care available in the prision, dying from old age, fatal infections from rusty stairs, deaths from food poisoning, fatal allergic reactions to bee-stings, suicides etc. are all lumped together because they're all relevant to the conclusions of the study, but aren't necessarily relevant here.
I split the tabs into multiple windows by category, personally (tho firefox's tab grouping is pretty great too). And it's more about it being present - bookmarks are fine, but if I am not actively reminded of something I likely will just forget about it entirely. Bookmarks aren't visible all the time, so they just get forgotten.
Those... look it's NOT hard to find data to show the death toll for the US, so why did you go with such horrible examples?
There is no widely agreed on figure for the number of people that have been killed so far in the war on terror as the Bush Administration has defined it to include the war in Afghanistan, the war in Iraq, and operations elsewhere. According to Joshua Goldstein, an international relations professor at the American University, the global war on terror has seen fewer war deaths than any other decade in the past century.
Like beyond how rough the numbers are: the wiki pages all include the total death counts, but those are both coalition wars and the total deaths are not broken down at all. This data exists, you can find it, but you can't find it there so why use it?
Similarly, the paper on jail deaths very much does not answer the question, as it is an analytical study on the impact of jail conditions on mortality and explicitly does not address the causal conditions of those deaths:
[...] health and mortality data for people who are incarcerated or in police custody have been shown to be “incomplete…incorrect… [and] anachronistic,”42 and jail data may underestimate deaths or contain inaccuracies related to causes of death. Finally, the associations found in the study do not suggest causality.
It is not hard to show what you want to show. By instead providing such poor quality sources, you undermine the credibility of your point to a spectacular degree. Like. Just use real numbers? Hell, it's not hard to find very reasonable estimates on death tolls from imperialism itself. But notoriously vague values from sources that explicitly clarify their own imprecision is just a terrible way to approach this.
Much like a horse; I like the symmetry...
I'm cryin' dude if you do this please share, thats absolutely hilarious.
I don't have the details of your sisters insurance plan (I dont think, at least. Maybe someone slipped them to me when I wasn't looking) so I can't say what happened. I can say that that is remarkably rapid, far faster than is required under the Newborns act, so I suspect there were either some complciating factors or an abnormal degree of urgency on the part of the hospital billing department that I cannot address. Unfortunately anecdotes that rely on PHI are difficult to diagnose while maintaining privacy of the person in question. They may simply have been forcing all the adminsitrative stress asap so she could focus on the whole "nicu baby" thing.
I really wish this was the first (or second) time that comparison had been made about my opinions on horses.
I was specifically referring to horse colic, which among the many many many causes are things like refusing to exercise after eating (because it is cold out and they don't wanna), eating at a time they don't normally eat, and the ever popular eating something they do not usually eat. Colic, even things like gas colic, can lead to death shockingly quickly. This is part of the reason that a break to the horse's leg at or below the cannon is fatal: because exercise is critical to a horse's digestion, the lack of any muscles to immobilize or support an injury means that a breakage will never be able to heal and a horse is faced with dying from colic or torturous pain as they die from an infection and internal injuries resulting from walking on a broken limb. It's a horrible way to die.
Riding a horse is a complex topic and there are studies for days about it's impact to a horse's overall health. I don't really wanna get into that because it's extremely complex, there is no one exact right answer and I'm generally of the opinion that there's absolutely no point to horses (let alone riding one of the damn things) so why spend more time than needed thinking about the fuckers... However I will point out that I think you're confusing horse anatomy with elephant anatomy - unless you're riding bareback, the force of a rider is not carried on the horse's spine (nor is the force of a harness) it is carried on their shoulders, and due to the shape of horse gaits their spines are much more able to support vertical loads than many other herbivores (horses just moving put absolutely insane dynamic loads on their bodies, the addition of a static load in the form of a rider is extremely small in comparison. This doesn't address jumping which... is it's own complex topic and I just flat don't think it's okay to do high jumps on a horse).
(The most common injury to a horse's back, Baastrup’s Disease ("Kissing Spines"), doesn't have a known definite cause but ill-fitting tack is known to exacerbate it (by shifting the weight off the shoulders and onto the mid/lower spine). An unridden horse can develop it, and it affects wild horses just as severely as domestic ones (though I cannot find a source on the rate, I suspect because studying the spines of a wild horse is a pretty tricky operation))
In general, exercise in horses is the same thing as in humans - we can carry weights, even uncomfortably large weights, and as long as we're not doing that all the time our bodies will not suffer unduely. Some of us flat shouldn't do that, some of us absolutely live for that (hikers, runners, gym nerds, Belgians) and when we do do it, the most important aspects are to make sure we do it with good ergonomics, don't exercise over an injury and don't spend all of our time doing it.
And also I hate horses.
I can't, for whatever reason the codec Truth Social uses does not work with my phone.
Maybe if they weren't such divas that they'll die because dinner was late and they were a bit cold, they'd be doing better in the ol' favoritism race...
It's a meme sure, but it's a dismissive meme about an issue that when poorly handled, kills people. That people have a heated reaction isn't entirely unexpected, nor strictly unreasonable.