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Cake day: December 28th, 2023

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  • I think we’re saying the same thing, just differently. You’re taking it from a ‘this is my life and it isn’t a statistic’ view, where I’m coming from a ‘your fear is not commensurate with reality’ view. In either case, people are choosing to disregard statistical reality because it doesn’t fit with their view of the world.


  • That’s not a fear you’re going to talk anyone out of any time soon with some napkin statistics, ‘bro’.

    Same energy as people saying crime is up despite statistical evidence

    Of the estimated 4,970 female victims of murder and nonnegligent manslaughter in 2021, data reported by law enforcement agencies indicate that 34% were killed by an intimate partner (figure 1). By comparison, about 6% of the 17,970 males murdered that year were victims of intimate partner homicide.

    Overall, 76% of female murders and 56% of male murders were perpetrated by someone known to the victim. About 16% of female murder victims were killed by a nonintimate family member—parent, grandparent, sibling, in-law, and other family member—compared to 10% of male murder victims.

    A larger percentage of males (21%) were murdered by a stranger than females (12%). For 1 out of every 3 male murder victims and 1 out of every 5 female murder victims, the relationship between the victim and the offender was unknown.









  • Technician Proximity Syndrome, happens in every field.

    I honestly love those calls, it makes for an easy win and an amused user (normally). My favorite was when I worked for a car dealership, as I’d routinely get called into the shop for a computer issue only to have the tech go to reproduce the issue and it worked fine.

    The number of times I heard “Man, now I know how my customers feel” was pretty damned funny.


  • 40% getting people to reboot, 40% getting people to reboot despite their lies that they already did,

    “Sir, I need you to reboot your computer”

    “Sure, let me juuuuust restart… Huh, doesn’t seem to have solved the problem”

    “Sir, I’m remoted into your computer and can see you didn’t actually reboot.”

    So many goddamned times while I was on first line…