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  • Serial killers skew white

    This is one of those times where racism strikes again. Serial killers also skew towards killing those like them, so guess what was ignored for a long time? Right, suspicious deaths of black individuals, meaning our ‘tracking’ of serial killers had some pretty large dearths.



  • Depends on where you are. I’m a stone’s throw from the ambulance. I can quite literally see it out my back window. Most people in the city I live in will see an ambulance within 10 minutes of the call. Contrast that with where I lived a couple of years ago, and 45 minutes might be the earliest, and up to 90 minutes at the most. We had one ambulance for ~20,000 people in a 1,000 square mile area. If ambulance one was called out, a second ambulance was rolled from the next area over to just the edge of ours. I’d say that situation was pretty typical for 5-10% of the people in my greater geographical area, i.e., if you lived outside of a big city.






  • Yeah, how is this “drawing outrage” from folks? I can see it as a dumbass using his position’s power to force his way inside an event, but the article didn’t seem to indicate that was the reason for the outrage. Do they care that it was ‘wasting taxpayer money’ on a business trip that clearly wasn’t?

    uh, oops. after realizing there was a jump in the text that my browser didn’t load: yes, the ‘outrage’ is about using money for personal reasons. I didn’t remember the sessions firing, so yay, we have precedent! (as if it would ever be used)



  • I once met the ronald mcdonald. He had done it for almost two decades, and was, according to him, the only one that would go around and be introduced as ronald mcdonald (he was apparently listed as a vp in the company, for reasons, but was obviously paid peanuts) in official mcdonald’s promotions. If I remember, he also did some of the voices for the astroworld batman show.

    Anyway. The reason that’s relevant? I met him because he was retired from the mcdonald thing and getting his police officer training, so… ronald mcdonald is probably out there now with a gun.











  • They’ve been trying. I occasionally glance through the nra’s magazine because a family member is lust-addicted to the stories of people shooting others to defend themselves, and there have been little articles in their ‘defending gun rights’ section about lead bullet bans for at least a decade now. The nra and other gun lobbies have a lot of money to throw at the issue, and have actually overturned some of the bans, I believe.