applejacks @ applejacks @lemmy.world

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Yes, how dare I look at the actual statistics over listening to people that "feel" a certain way.

Do you not realize how much lower those numbers are than what you originally posted?

You are undermining your own claim.

They also include deaths that never happened at schools.

Also from your own link:

The percentage of youth homicides occurring at school remained at less than 3 percent of the total number of youth homicides

From your own data, in 2018, there were 10 homicides of youths in schools.

https://www.census.gov/topics/education/school-enrollment.html

On average in America, there are 73.8 million students in school.

That's a percentage of .0000001%

Very close to your chances of dying from a lightning strike (.0000006%)

https://www.weather.gov/safety/lightning-victims

This, of course, excludes where the health of the mother is in danger, or in cases of rape and incest.

Yes, this is exactly what I was talking about.

But yes, don't let silly facts get in the way of your narrative.

https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/08/27/640323347/the-school-shootings-that-werent

This spring the U.S. Education Department reported that in the 2015-2016 school year, "nearly 240 schools ... reported at least 1 incident involving a school-related shooting." The number is far higher than most other estimates.

But NPR reached out to every one of those schools repeatedly over the course of three months and found that more than two-thirds of these reported incidents never happened. Child Trends, a nonpartisan nonprofit research organization, assisted NPR in analyzing data from the government's Civil Rights Data Collection.

We were able to confirm just 11 reported incidents, either directly with schools or through media reports.

Where is abortion banned in the US?

Do you think we should switch to the abortion laws that most european countries have?

Do you know they are typically stricter than what we have here?

Yes and no.

We do have mass shootings, but we also live in a country of 330 million (humongous population size), but every mass shooting makes national news, so it seems far worse than it is. Also, most mass shootings are gang violence that get lumped in with what we normally consider "random mass shootings" to pump up the numbers and scare people.

Healthcare could definitely be better, but 67% of Americans are satisfied with their insurance. I would still much prefer a universal healthcare system.

Overall, America definitely has its ups and downs, but a lot of the "AMERICA BAD" rhetoric is just part of a reddit-style circlejerk where people get socially rewarded for trashing it.

Expect this comment to be downvoted from the same crew.

I assume he is asking if he can say "hey google, we have eggs"

Then later, when shopping, he can ask "hey google, do we have eggs?"

no I won't.

that's the point.

oh no, how dare users voice their opinions

lmao you have to "apply"?

true, but moves like this is why this site will never take off.

be careful, soon they'll start banning you for using no no words

It's also advantageous to keep low agency and low quality users on reddit.

Lemmy has already started to decline in quality since average redditors started migrating here.

Like most AIs, it used to be good until they handicapped it for having the possibility of saying controversial things.

pls no quoting song lyrics on lemmy

veggies are incredibly cheap

and what do you think that reason is?

While true, 95% of the people saying BMI doesn't work well are coping fatties.

Iced tea.

both me and my wife has quit drinking and just have tea all day.

so much better.