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California's youth gun homicide rate dropped 50% between 2006-2022. Over the same period, Texas's rate rose 49% and Florida's rate rose 23%

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  • Damn, that 2020 spike really tells a whole other tragic story of its own.

    • I just erased my project

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  • I need a t-shirt that says this.

    This is a programmers mic drop.

    • The name "seagull" implies the existence of landgulls, airgulls, and firegulls.

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  • Long ago, the four gulls lived together in harmony. Then everything changed when the fire gulls attacked...

    • Strawbirbby

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  • Bold move claiming a finch can beat an owl on Lemmy...

    • Due to American politics I'm afraid of using high speed rail in Germany

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  • To add context for anyone who doesn't know: DB is notorious for being incredibly delayed. Lots of cancellations, 30-40 minutes late is no rarity, and if you have a connection to catch I can guarantee you that it'll be the ONE train running on time.

    So you are right to be concerned, but only because you'll never get to start your journey in the first place.

    • UK car crash expert says cars sold in Europe are so much safer than in the U.S.

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    • What do you think will the tech bros jump on next?

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  • Yeah, Sort of.

    Don't get me wrong, I'm not a huge fan of NFTs and do think there's easier ways, but I would agree that taking market control away from the companies owning it would kind of be the point (but I do think you can probably still do this concept without any NFTs).

    Sure, steam could allow game trading right now with no need for NFTs whatsoever, but the point would be that I can trade a game I bought through Xbox, to someone on Steam, and then go buy something on the Epic store with the money.

    And all of it without some crazy fee from the involved platforms.

    But that also would probably still require government intervention to force companies to accept this. Because, again, none of the companies would actually want this. NTF or not that doesn't change.

    • What do you think will the tech bros jump on next?

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  • NFTs could have been great, if they had been used FOR the consumer, and not to scam them.

    Best thing I can think of is to verify licenses for digital products/games. Buy a game, verify you own it like you would with a CD using an NFT, and then you can sell it again when you're done.

    Do this with serious stuff like AAA Games or Professional Software (think like borrowing a copy of Photoshop from an online library for a few days while you work on a project!) instead of monkey pictures and you could have the best of both worlds for buying physical vs buying online.

    However, that might make corporations less money and completely upend modern licencing models, so no one was willing to do it.