So instead of putting your kids into a private school, homeschooling, or just understanding that it was a freak incident that almost certainly wouldn’t happen near them again you took them away from the best long-term economic prospects?

Parent of the fucking year, here.

That is the poorest decision making I’ve ever even heard of. You left the largest, most stable economy in human history - one that is insulated from any serious geopolitical threat by oceans - because you got spooked by scary news stories?

Great job hamstringing your kids.

Not ridiculous, the odds of either event injuring or killing any particular individual are vanishingly small. A person who worries about school shootings should be positively terrified of climbing ladders or crossing a busy road.

People are really bad at contextualizing risk. Just look at the “stranger danger” scare.

It isn’t OK, every single case is a crime.

There was a newsworthy incident where a cop managed to pull off a negligent discharge. Nobody got hurt, but guess what? Still a school shooting.

Oh no, you described cause and effect! It has nothing to do with what I said, but it’s truly devastating.

Lemmy is full of raving lunatics.

And that figure is inflated. The School Shootings That Weren’t https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/08/27/640323347/the-school-shootings-that-werent

When people hear “school shootings” they imagine events like Columbine, even when that’s not what’s being counted. Literally every time a gun is fired at a school regardless of circumstances, it’s a school shooting. This includes cases where nobody is injured, the event happens after hours, or the people involved are unaffiliated with the school. Seriously, the NPR article I linked mentions a case where a guy killed himself in the parking lot of a building owned by the school district (that had not had students in it for years). That counted as a school shooting.

The sort of event people imagine IS more common than tornadoes, and even stupid, unrelated incidents that result in injuries is ALSO more common than tornadoes. The fact remains that there are not 400 Columbines a year. The chances of a particular student dying of any violent means on school property is vanishingly small. People worried about their kids getting killed in a school shooting should also worry about meteor and lightning strikes.

And in that example, people would still be foolish to panic.

The US is a nation that covers half a continent and has a third of a billion people. The lifetime odds of getting murdered by a stranger versus literally any other way to die?

Any person who rides in an automobile runs a greater risk of death. If you’re not clutching at your sheets in terror at the thought of getting in a car, you shouldn’t worry about getting killed by a random person.

And when I was a kid we had tornado drills. Schools got hit by tornados, but it was a freak incident that was ultimately an overblown fear.

If only there was some parallel we could draw here…

Are you high? Is this your first day on Lemmy?

If somebody worries about serial killers they have an objectively bad grasp on reality.

Are you nuts? How could you possibly conclude that that’s what I’m saying?

And I’m saying most level-headed people don’t worry about school shootings.

While I’m sure other parents do worry about that, they’re also the kind of people who worry about serial killers.

I’m not arguing that, especially because that figure includes suicides.

I’ve noticed that (especially on Lemmy) people outside the US think we’re dodging bullets as we go about our days. Really, everybody is just doing their own thing and minding their own business.

Your perceptions about the experience of the average American are a long way from accurate. You might want to take a hard look at the media you’re consuming.

EDIT: I have now discovered that the fastest way to kick the Lemmy hornet’s nest is to say you aren’t living in constant terror of being mowed down at random. How do you people function out in public? Do you even go out in public? This place is a fucking hole.

Psh, that’s nothing! Todd Howard can give us sixteen times the detail!

Why is it too much to ask you to be honest and above board?

Why does me asking for people to actually mean what they say make me “autistic”?

Ok, so that explains keeping the original comment up.

That’s not what baffles me. You knew you were wrong, I called you out, and then you tried to justify it to me despite knowing you were wrong.

Why would you do that? You defended a statement you knew was wrong. Why would you defend a position you didn’t believe in?

I’ve noticed that when confronted regarding an error or mistake people on Lemmy double down about half the time.

Why? Why not just stay silent? Why not edit your comment? Why not admit you made a boo-boo? Why not delete your comment? Why not just ignore my comment and pretend nobody ever called you out?

All these choices and you went with doubling down. Makes no sense whatsoever.

“Soulframe, the new free-to-play multiplayer fantasy RPG in development at Digital Extremes…” (emphasis mine).

I get that there’s knock-on monetization, but - come on - it’s literally the first sentence of the article.

All it takes to be a CEO is to be the person in charge of running a company. There are a lot of companies that are a lot of different sizes doing a lot of different things. If you start your own company you’re the CEO, but you’re also the head of sales and the person who makes coffee runs.

The stereotypical CEO (who makes boilerplate, sanitized public statements) is stereotypical in the first place because they run big companies, reporters care what they have to say. If you read the news you hear their words a lot.

Smaller firms, self started firms, and a lot of the more unique operations that would have CEOs that go against the stereotype don’t make the news often, so the stereotype stays intact.

And are these propaganda deals in the room with us now?

Go figure, all it took was scripts that aren’t dog shit and directors not trying to “fix it in post” all the time.

Morgpie is stimulating … the economy.

Star Citizen is the game of tomorrow and it always will be.

Tack one more “A” on there and baby, you’ve got a stew going!

The Werner Herzog we have at home.