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Look closer at the ranking of states. This isn't about weather or external causes. Wisconsin and Minnesota have much worse weather in the winter and are almost as dark in the winter as Washington with similar death rates, but their rates are much lower than Mississippi and Alabama who have no snow and more sunlight in winter. The three are lower even than Arizona, which is usually sunny and rarely has snow.

External things like how many miles are driven on average by the people in the state is huge. Also things like speeding culture, average car safety (poor states have shittier cars or old trucks), and road maintenance are all big impacts, too.

What does race mixing have to do with this story?

I grew up in the suburbs of a midwestern city, where we could run into the woods to play army or ride bikes in a closed neighborhood (not gated, just no through traffic) or walk from yard to yard with no fences except for houses with pools or walk to the next neighborhood over. We were free to explore as long as we didn't cross certain streets and came home by dark. We walked to the bus stop to go to school.

Contrast that to where I live now in a major metropolitan city where kids never see "the woods", can't safely ride bikes anywhere but bike paths, have tall privacy fences blocking both socializing but also blocking multi-yard sports areas, have no "neighborhoods," and have to be driven by parents in a car directly to school (where they have to wait in a line of 100 cars to pick up kids everyday). How can kids ever become self sufficient? They have to be parented every minute of their lives until they are 16. It's wild.

But that is in the US. When I visit Europe there are kids by themselves on the subway going wherever a 10 year old needs to go.

Congrats on missing the point completely.

This story is a hit piece to make Iran look bad. You think it's a human interest piece to make people feel sad for an awful thing that happened to a young girl. It's not. It's about making Islamic countries look bad for attacking a poor white girl who was just trying to get healthy. It conveniently ignores where and why Iran attacked and what Israel has been doing to get attacked. It completely ignores all relevant context behind the story. It completely ignores the dozens of kids that are getting killed by Israel on a daily basis. THAT is why people are bringing it up.

And two things in response to this particular post by you: 1) Nobody is blaming this kid. Do you not understand written English? Not one single person said it was the kid's fault for dying. 2) Nobody would bring up Gaza in a story about a school bus in China because China isn't out there murdering dozens of Gazans on a daily basis. This is a story about Israel being attacked, so it is relevant to bring up how Israel is attacking multiple countries.

We all feel sad that a little girl died. But this story was a political story masquerading as something else. You fell for it.

What the fuck are you smoking?

One person said a Ukrainian kid dying is just as sad as a Palestinian kid dying, and you think that is a sick and vile thing to say? How incredibly racist are you?

I did two full playthroughs plus a lot of restarts mid-way to try different endings or different side things. The only voice I can clearly hear in my head is the mage, whose name I can't even remember. I can't even remember what my own character's voice sounded like (the vampire).

What he meant was he was exiting conservative politics to return to pandering to the type of people who actually buy the products he's trying to sell. He thought sucking Trump's dick would get him lucrative government money, which it might have eventually, but it came at a cost he wasn't willing to pay. Now he's going the other direction to act like the good guy and fighting against Trump.

Farmers in CA are largely Trump voters. Just sayin.

I'm wondering if it is just following the downward trend of murders since the 90s, meaning if COVID didn't happen the murder rate would have also gone down to this level.

The writing in this story is not accurate. Iran isn't turning it off for the country. They are talking about switching government services to use receivers that use Beidou as primary source of timing and maybe selectively turn off using GPS on those devices.

They can't jam GPS in the entire country. That kind of jamming is very localized to strategic sites. Country-wide jamming would be wildly expensive. They could (and probably already do) jam it at military bases and nuclear facilities, though.

They can't shut down the satellites over Iran. That's not how GPS works. They aren't geostationary with tight beams like comm satellites. Every GPS satellite goes around the earth twice a day and has a beam that covers the entire earth plus something like 10 degrees on the sides out into space (circular, not actually side to side). While the US can turn off broadcasting while directly over very large swaths at a time (like, say, China and Russia), it isn't actually turned off on the ground because there will still be satellites over Europe or northern Africa that will be on and sending data at a higher angle to that large swath. It will be lower powered in that region because the signal power is lower at the edges, but it isn't off. Also, Iran is in the same region as US allies and US military bases: Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Israel, etc; so the US would be unlikely to want to lower GPS power in that region.

Starlink is very different in how it sends signals to the earth, which is why it can shut off services to areas.

"Have any of you realized how much money we spent on this?!"

This is the most important thing, in my opinion, that the fucked up Trump court has ruled on. Saying a president can't be prosecuted for crimes that were performed as part of his job was wild but unlikely to actually occur. This is both wild and already occurring on a daily basis. This is so unbelievably asinine.

To sum up: if a judge rules a law or action is obviously unconstitutional, the only person it is unconstitutional for is the person who brought the case to that specific judge.

Rather someone with a silver spoon than a golden dick in their mouth.

Yeah, let's parse that out in real terms:

Need to have completed trade school or 2 years of apprenticeship, neither of which they are willing to pay for.

12 hour days, including many weekends.

SAP experience for an electrician?

Extreme physical danger from being an electrician, especially in a commercial environment that is more likely to have high voltage work.

Pay tops out at $67k...

Let's repeat: pay tops out at $67k for an experienced person working a dangerous job with long hours and weekends. I'm shocked they are having trouble finding people!!

And employers cannot simply hire people right out of high school without providing specialized training programs to bring them up to speed.

It is 100% money. You are so close to seeing the point with this sentence. If the factory owners paid for specialized training programs for new hires, then they would have specialized employees who can do the job. They are neither willing to invest money in new people, stubbornly insisting that people already come fully trained, but also not willing to appropriately compensate those who are both trained and willing to put their bodies at risk on a factory floor.

There's not enough skilled talent because the jobs are not paying enough when considering the physical risk and pain involved compared to what the execs make. I grew up surrounded by factory workers who made an OK salary in Indiana, enough to have a small house and 2 cars, but who always seemed to be on the verge of a strike. Constantly fighting with management to get basic benefits and decent pay, then having their bodies wrecked after years of a hard job. It was a thankless, hard job that was only made palatable by the wages and benefits unions had to constantly fight for. It's no wonder young people look at that life and decide it isn't worth all the specialized training to spend your life being dehumanized by the corporations who are making so much more money than you. At least in the skilled trades like construction and electrical you can go it alone and get most of the money for yourself. Not much of an option for that for factory workers.

Without reading I can give a most likely answer: money. If the job is exhausting and dangerous but pays a tenth of what middle management makes, which is a tenth of what the CEO makes, then I think we might have the reason.

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