🎓 Doc Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@qoto.org

@anubis2814

Still confused on how to block me I see...

@obtener @m

@m @anubis2814 @obtener

> is really lax guns laws and nigh on no restrictions the correct route to take?

Absolutely, when you are surrounded with psychotic people trying to kill eachother and even the police force, if you call them, are more likely to shoot you or your dog than to fix any problems, then absolutely guns are needed, they are the only thing we have left for the mentally healthy people to protect themselves. Meanwhile with 3d printed guns being available to virtually anyone with a few extra bucks its not like making them illegal will keep them out of the hands of the bad people.

> It’s like saying “I know you are mentally ill, it isn’t really your fault. Here, would you like a gun?”

Its more like saying "I know these mentally ill people will disregard the laws no matter what, but we wont tie the hands of the few responsibile people to be able to protect themselves"..

> I mean, I don’t see how handing out guns to whoever wants one, including mentally ill people, isn’t part of the issue

Because mentally ill people have access to weaponry regardless, anyone can make a pipe bomb, people have made fully automatic guns on youtube out of a bed frame with just a welder... so you arent helping anything by restricting the law abiding people when the non-lawabiding people will have access (and the ability to make weaponry) regardless.

@anubis2814 @obtener

Usual response I expect to an actual published data scientist. My arguments stand up to peer review every day, I'm good

@anubis2814 @obtener

The reason and ts almost at zero end n the USA and at 0 in other countries is because America is riddled with massive mental health problems. It has nothing to do with guns.

That's why when you see in other countries they ban or restrict guns in almost every case homicide and violent crime rates skyrocket for decades (and rarely fully recover), because the issue was never the guns, violence is the issue and there is more of it in the USA than many places.

@anubis2814

Right, which is just a lot of words to say it is a very very rare event. Just like being struck by lightening which happens to people every day but only because there are 8 billion of them.

@obtener

@obtener

You have a 2x greater chance of being struck by lightening in your lifetime than to be killed in a school shooting... So all we have to do is wait around for lightening to do the job then ::rolls eyes::.

@randahl Oh I can garuntee you it will be worse.. gar-un-fucking-tee!

@Paulos_the_fog @randahl

Why would I have to explain to you a quote I never made and has no relationship to this thread or anything I said?

@raymondlesley The correct answer is 2.

@Paulos_the_fog

> Governments in civilized countries have imposed a statutory minimum salary to avoid exploitative employers from paying starvation wages but I suppose that offends your libertarian principles!

I am more offended by the loaded language to imply that anyone who doesnt agree with your approach to solving the problem isnt civilized.

You have only proven my point, it is /**the governments** responsibility to ensure the market is healthy, not the company. Applying a minimum wage is one way in which governments attempt to execute on their responsiblity to fix the markets, it is also a way in which they fail and make the markets worse.

Minimum wage has shown to increase the number of people who are jobless among the least skilled of the population (those without HS diplomas are most effected). Ergo minimum wage laws have caused more harm towards the groups they attempt to help, therefore, no I do not support it. Instead I support programs that are aimed at increasing the marketability of the population such as government paid education up to the PhD level and strong welfare programs.

> The problem with even the most generous statutory minimum wage is that it is seldom increased to keep up with inflation.

Thats not the problem, in fact, the more you increase it the more you harm the people most in poverty, those who are under-skilled. So no, doing that would just make it worse.

> Welfare is not and never has been what folk want;

A heroin addict wants nothing but heroin. Giving people what they want isnt what I care about. Giving people what they need is.

> What they want is decent work with pay that enables them to pay their rent or their mortgage and raise their families if they have one. It's the billionaires who run the world's largest corporations who are amongst the worst offenders for paying starvation wages with Bezos being a fine example!

Which is exactly why you need welfare and a generous paid education system up to PhD level. Welfare feeds the people and gives them a basic quality of life. That only buys them time. It is only from the education and training provided that a real solution comes, and that solution is exactly what you describe, the ability to make good money for reasonable work.

@randahl

@stux Absolutely, I mean its impressive engineering in its own right. Just pointing out that a low-heat high-temperature environment is quite unique and the heat is quite manageable once you block the IR.