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  • In the long history of schools around the United States, of course school shootings had to start some time.

    The problem is that they're growing exponentially in number, especially in the last decade or so:

    https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article-abstract/153/4/e2023064311/196816/School-Shootings-in-the-United-States-1997-2022?redirectedFrom=fulltext

    • 15 in school year 2009-2010
    • 18 in 2010-2011
    • 16 in 2011-2012
    • 26 in 2012-2013
    • 46 in 2013-2014
    • 43 in 2014-2015
    • 38 in 2015-2016
    • 48 in 2016-2017
    • 89 in 2017-2018
    • 115 in 2018-2019
    • 116 in 2019-2020
    • 146 in 2020-2021
    • 328 in 2021-2022

    Absolutely fucking horrific.

  • I was bullied as a kid, and if it had been that easy for me to get guns back then I would have seriously looked into it.

    Yeah, it is that simple.

    The relatively recent accessibility of guns everywhere in some parts of the country makes gun tragedies a lot more likely.

    Whether it's bullying at school, domestic partner violence, or cops having to shoot first because a perp on the street is much more likely to have a gun than other countries.

  • There are some specialty content, such as British TV and Asian TV and movies, or complete archives of porn sites, that don't appear regularly on public torrent sites, or streaming sites for that matter.

    If you never watch that kind of thing, then you don't need to sign up for a private tracker.

  • That interesting bit about the M-38 highway being within Ukrainian FPV drone range.

    And unsaid but that must include the rail line that runs alongside the highway.

    Although that is likely from special ops teams for them to get that far.

  • It's downcycling into pavers and roofing tiles, which is pretty much the most you can hope for with soft plastics with today's technology.

    The resulting products cannot be used for anything else after they wear out.

    To say nothing of leaching chemical runoff, questionable longevity of the bricks/tiles, shedding microplastics, inconsistent mechanical properties limiting use as construction materials, etc.

    This process of shredding plastics, melting, adding sand, and shoveling into molds, has been known for a long time, and there are numerous videos showing entrepreneurs in 3rd world countries using it.

    Here's a video from 2015 about a downcycler in Cameroon, and it says the guy had been doing this for 15 years already back then.