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[-] Captain_Jimmy_T_Kirk@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 year ago

This is depressing, but it also bothers me that there's such a large distinction between how the average person would picture a "school shooting" and what these articles are talking about. Is there a name for that in journalism?

Like, if someone told me "there was a school shooting at school X today", like most people I would immediately picture someone walking into the building and firing indiscriminately at everyone. Not, "a couple of teens got in a fight in the parking lot, and one pulled out a gun", or "someone shot at the school's sign". (Which are also horrible, but I feel like we need separate terms)

From the article:

According to the report, the most commonly known situations associated with such incidents included "escalation of dispute," "drive-by," "illegal activity," "accidental firing of a weapon" and "intentional property damage."

[-] Captain_Jimmy_T_Kirk@lemmy.ml 36 points 1 year ago

Who is influencing all these tech companies to be this greedy lately?

[-] Captain_Jimmy_T_Kirk@lemmy.ml 38 points 1 year ago

They took the pepe frogs for a while too, but I've been seeing them come back. Nature is healing.

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[-] Captain_Jimmy_T_Kirk@lemmy.ml 76 points 1 year ago

"Mannanafnanefnd"

Who watches the watchers?

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[-] Captain_Jimmy_T_Kirk@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 year ago

Is it my app or Lemmy that doesn't like ampersands?

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[-] Captain_Jimmy_T_Kirk@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago

I'm having much more fun here too

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[-] Captain_Jimmy_T_Kirk@lemmy.ml 39 points 1 year ago

The best Palm Pilot that money can buy.

[-] Captain_Jimmy_T_Kirk@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago

This is what happens when we take transformers cartoons out of schools.

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I remember the early days of instant messaging where people would just jump in a chatroom and ask where others were from, then sit there in awe. "HONEY, I'm talking to someone from Ireland! HONEY! Come look!"

[-] Captain_Jimmy_T_Kirk@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago

Google is completely useless for finding anything organically now.

The last couple of times I've had to phone shop have been a nightmare of SEO-keyword articles and promoted junk.

If it keeps up this way, we're going to be completely dependent on AI to sift through the junk for us.

[-] Captain_Jimmy_T_Kirk@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 year ago

Lots of individual game subs

[-] Captain_Jimmy_T_Kirk@lemmy.ml 45 points 1 year ago

Have you considered defederating everyone for the dopamine hit?

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