Yeah, the numbers aren’t supposed to be accurate. The real numbers are going to vary wildly depending on location, and I don’t think you can ballpark it, so I went with obviously fake numbers to express a concept.

Wdym I don’t understand per capita? America has a murder rate of 5.67 per 100,000 people, is that not how you express per capita?

But the idiots don’t understand what “per capita” means. So they just cite the total volume of violent crime, and neglect to mention that there is a lesser chance of an individual being a victim of violent crime.

I get it. It’s not so much that they’re ignoring “per capita”, it’s that they’re seeing it from the angle of “what’s the chance of this happening in my neighborhood”. If the chances of getting murdered are, idk, 1/100 in the city, and 3/100 in the sticks, but my neighborhood in the sticks has 25 people in it versus a 300 person apartment complex, it’s more likely that one of my neighbors will get killed in the city, and while sure, you’re not the one that’s dead, survivor’s guilt fucking sucks.

This is also not taking into account that the crime rate isn’t homogeneous across an entire municipality, the likelihood of a rural person’s ability to afford a privileged neighborhood in the city, and how that impacts their perceptions.

My great-grandmother turned 20 during the Great Depression, and she helped raise me. I think that’s why I’m like this too.

I do cosplay, dollhouses, and dioramas, and peertube is pretty dead on that front.

Wendy’s does it like that, and Burger King has a little conveyor belt and the patty gets blasted with fire as it goes through.

They’re praying Trump will get assassinated so that Vance getting revenge can be the propaganda angle.

Edit: or Hegseth, I could see him trying to grab power too

I don’t know if it’s unique to the US, but there’s a perception that “progress” is a farce that never helps as much as politicians claim. I personally think it’s because we’ve got such a long history of means-testing welfare to such a ridiculous extent, like we kick people off disability if they have more than $2k in the bank, that “free bus for everybody” just sounds like a scam, too good to be true.

Alvin Bragg won the DA re-election too

“we” being this thread lol

Yeah, but none of that has anything to do with how she’s dressed. Like, she’s a horrible person, why are we focusing on her clothing?

Yeah, and that’s terrible. I don’t want the IRS going after everybody that failed to report the $2 in royalties they get from their self-published book before they go after Amazon.

I want them to prioritize high-value targets over easy marks, and I don’t think giving them a carte blanche is a way to achieve that.

While you’re not wrong, part of the problem is that we can’t just give the IRS money and cross our fingers that they’ll go after the billionaires. Without any legislative teeth backing it up, there is a sizeable chance they’ll keep going after the easy marks first.

I look forward to the meme translation of your thesis

I’m lowkey worried he’s shortsighted enough to want food riots, because he thinks he can declare martial law and never leave power that way.

Yeah, you’re supposed to prune them shorter so all the grow juice goes towards buds instead of stems.

ACKTCHU-ALLEE

This sounds like something a whale would say

Depends on strain and growing conditions, but they can get over 20ft/6m tall

No worries, everything’s super confusing right now.

I don’t know about Usha, but I’ve known a couple of atheist-Hindu-Christians that viewed the pantheon like a list of aspirational metaphorical figures, and they just added Jesus to the pantheon.

It stands for Magical Savory Goodness