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oldschoolskater OP t1_jdccd23 wrote

Reply to Body is 17-year-old accused of shooting 2 at Denver high school, Colorado coroner confirms - CNN by oldschoolskater

'The Park County, Colorado, coroner has confirmed that a body found in a wooded area Wednesday evening is 17-year-old Austin Lyle, who allegedly shot and wounded two staff members earlier that day at a Denver high school – a community already reeling from a fatal incident of gun violence last month."

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dittybopper_05H t1_jdc9npk wrote

Reply to comment by dfpw in Ecuadorian TV presenter wounded by bomb disguised as USB stick by AudibleNod

Remember this the next time you read an article about something with which you are not familiar.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/65213-briefly-stated-the-gell-mann-amnesia-effect-is-as-follows-you

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>Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.
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>In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.

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DaVisionary t1_jdc7rns wrote

Reply to comment by neverdoneneverready in 2 Illinois teens on spring break killed in a sledding accident at Colorado's Copper Mountain | CNN by Lampwickhu

Actually it does not make me feel good at all. It does seem like breaking the rules, taking life threatening risks, and acting foolishly are not behaviors that I want teenagers, whose brains are still developing, to model. So when a person does those things, I personally, would refrain from calling that person a “role model”. My comment is entirely about that single phrase being used for these two unfortunate children.

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Atlasatlastatleast t1_jdc55ba wrote

Reply to comment by kathodus in Alameda passes delivery fee cap even as Uber threatens exit by Xanthn

Is it exploitation if one willingly chooses to do Uber eats? I used to deliver on it and I chose to do so for extra income, if an order came in that I didn’t want to do, I declined it. That guy isn’t exploiting me at all. Uber is, but without that guy’s order I’d have no opportunity to make the extra income

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neverdoneneverready t1_jdc4ydd wrote

Reply to comment by DaVisionary in 2 Illinois teens on spring break killed in a sledding accident at Colorado's Copper Mountain | CNN by Lampwickhu

Does that make you feel good? To pass your shitty pompous judgement on two kids who just wanted to have fun and died? Have you never done something that could be filed under "seemed like a good idea at the time"? That's what teenagers do. Take risks, wild chances. Tresspassing is such a horrible crime. Had they lived, you'd want them in jail you smug bastard. Shame on you and the other people who seem to feel they got what they deserved.

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