This is what I looked at before commenting

In 2024, firearms were the leading cause of death overall for young people ages 1 to 17 for the fifth consecutive year.

So we’re not including 18 and 19 year olds in the stat.

The picture in our heads is little, blonde, 8-yo Susie getting randomly gunned down. Little Susie is far more likely to drown.

No, I was including teenagers in my mental image. I actually imagine kids fooling around and accidentally shooting each other being far more common than drivebys hitting children. Also, woundings aren’t in the statistics I could find, only deaths.

Also, are you sure she is more likely to drown?

What about requiring either actual well regulated militia membership or liability insurance. Militias would have a collective liability and would have to self police, private insurers could implement whatever conditions they thought necessary.

No one said it was acceptable.

You didn’t say it explicitly, but lots of people do say it’s acceptable.

My point is that gun deaths are rarely the random event that people perceive them to be.

They’re the leading cause of death of kids.

You can opt to stay away from bad people and not murder yourself.

A bystander shot in a drive by is also a victim of a gang related shooting.

You cannot opt to force everyone on the road to drive safely.

Right but you can do things like driver’s licences, drivers abstract checks, mandatory insurance, vehicle inspections, and develop pedestrian friendly infrastructure. Too bad there’s nothing analogous for guns.

Americans and foreigners both think it’s common to get shot in the US. The CDC puts yearly vehicular fatalities at the same number, give or take, as gun fatalities (50,000).

That’s fucking wild. That’s way too many gun deaths. Vehicular traffic is the backbone of the economy, but the way people pilot these 2 ton bullets still enrages me. Americans think THAT level of harm from guns is acceptable? That’s wild. You guys need to sort your shit out.

…if they interfere with the ability of the driver to operate the vehicle safely

I wonder if the recent leftist sweep of the municipal election energized conservative voters.

Did ancient Greeks wear pants? Maybe he ripped them off a barbarian? Euripides actually mentions pants and mocks them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Chalmers

For anyone wondering

It could actually get us all the way to LEGOland, if it wasn’t so stubborn.

A Meade? A Grant?

Gas chamber scare quotes

My parents drove from Vancouver BC to Barrie ON (4000km) this spring in their new electric car. Their biggest complaint was that Tesla chargers are very difficult to use because the cable is only barely long enough to get to their charging port, they need to position the car within like 2cm to get it to reach.

Overall it was a great experience, they’re retired and aren’t really in a hurry. They liked the exploration and walking breaks.

They spent a lot more money in small towns than they did when they drove their Prius.

Biggest concern is if there were to be a road closure.

They will be driving back next week.

So sedition boils down to:

Actions and speech in support of the use of force as a means of accomplishing a governmental change within Canada.

The relevant law on treason I think boils down to:

Communicating military or scientific information or any sketch, plan, model, article, note or document of a military or scientific character that may be used by another state for a purpose prejudicial to the safety or defence of Canada.

Economic data is scientific in nature, Alberta separation is prejudicial to the safety and defence of Canada. I think there’s a case for treason charges.

Yeah I agree, but I don’t know how you can make the fine scale appropriately for different organizations. Maybe the government and union should get an ownership stake.

His quote about keeping his word to his constituents and voting the way he promised is how our democracy is supposed to work,

Yeah sorry I can definitely see that my convent was ambiguous. I was referring to the anti-democracy actions of the PMO or whoever.

I don’t know what you mean by both, it’s not a coverup story. It’s my attempt to understand how a politician so obsessed with virtue signaling could fuck it up so badly. It’s the only explanation I’ve seen that makes any sense.

Is there another explanation?

When it was instituted our Premier (Trudeau) was in British Columbia on the Holiday and rather than meet with the Indigenous leaders at a celebration observation, he went to his island home to chill out. To me this showed exactly how much Canada cared about Reconciliation.

It was a huge political blunder. The sort of mistake that doesn’t make sense at all until you remember that he spent the day with his wife, and got divorced not long after. He was trying to save his marriage. He shouldn’t’ve let his marriage get so precarious that he’d have to make a fuckup like that to try to save it, so I’m not excusing him, but I think it helps to understand it.

I’m pretty sure this is not how our democracy is supposed to work.

I imagine so

I get that this might feel like an extremely online take. So did Socrates’ takes to the people of Athens. It takes a distance from society to be able to see its structure and question its base assumptions.

I think your comment was an excellent articulation of what I was thinking, although I think you risk a significant distraction by using Afghanistan as an example when talking about sex and gender. I think comparing yourself to Socrates is overly aggrandising.

But yeah I agree. It’s not that men are better at sports, it’s that the patriarchy has defined “sports” as what realmen™ are better at.