Notices by Michael T. Richter (qqmrichter@mastodon.world)

@FrazzledBrynn @heatherhorns_lite That's because the world consists only of Americans and people who don't matter.

Or so it seems if you go by the behaviour of Americans on the Internet.

Or American tourists.

Or American politicians.

Or American businesses.

Or ...

@clacke I stole that. 😁 Another good one is Grand Theft Autocorrect.

@report_press Well, if nothing else responses to this post are giving me a decent list of people to block.

@dansup You might want to make your polling of upstream dynamically periodic. If a given upstream hits you too hard, lower the frequency of updates. If the upstream has a low volume, you can safely hit them more often.

Think of it like a PID for network backpressure.

@snarfed.org@snarfed.org @activitypubblueskybridge @fedidevs @fediversenews

> … we're very open to feedback.

Here's your feedback you fuckwit: get fucked.

@feld @Sundae_Gurl @Jgmeadows @realcaseyrollins Absolutely. And it's easier to flee a knifeman than a bullet. And you can control a knifeman with a mancatcher, but a gunman ... not so easily. And knives are nowhere near as lethal as guns. And ...

Anybody who thinks that you'll just be "trading" gun deaths for knife deaths if you ban guns is ignorant, stupid, or both.

Or is selling something that goes "BANG!"...

@realcaseyrollins @feld @Sundae_Gurl @Jgmeadows Jesus fuck! Not this old chestnut again!

Join me in the wayback machine, OK?

On December 14, 2012, a man suffering from untreated mental illness attacked an elderly woman with a weapon before entering the grounds of a nearby primary school. Using that same weapon he started attacking children with abandon. Before he was finally stopped and taken into custody 24 people (all but one children) were wounded.

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@realcaseyrollins @feld @Sundae_Gurl @Jgmeadows Now at this point the date and the events are likely not matching in your mind. That's because the date is the date of **two** primary school attacks. One was the one you're thinking of: Sandy Hook Elementary. The other was the one you likely didn't hear about because the shocking slaughter of children in your own country concealed it: Chenpeng Village Primary School.

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@realcaseyrollins @feld @Sundae_Gurl @Jgmeadows It is instructive, however, to compare these two attacks, their impacts, and what happened subsequently.

Instructive to the USA. Which is the part that likely galls the Manifest Destiny country.

The main difference between these attacks is that the attacker in one had access to a gun. The other attacker had to steal a knife. Because of this *all of the victims survived* (though the elderly woman later died of a heart attack).

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@realcaseyrollins @feld @Sundae_Gurl @Jgmeadows So psycho attacks a primary school with a gun and kills 26, injures 2. Psycho attacks a primary school with a knife and kills 0 (or 1, maybe, depending on how you want to count it) and injures 24 (or 23).

So FUCK YES I'll GLADLY switch out gun attacks for knife attacks! Jesus fucking CHRIST do you have to be stupid to think that this is even remotely similar in impact!

But ... the lesson doesn't even end there.

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@luke @Piousunyn @LadyDragonfly You're also clearly a Republican trying to persuade the world you're not a Republican, but hey, lying about this is also a completely healthy thing to do, just like saying that people should fly planes into buildings again!

I can't even begin to imagine why people might think Republicans are repugnant.

@ruud Use a Fediverse-activated one like WriteFreely?