In an emergency, you can also exit widdoutershins.

Firearms play a critical role in suicide deaths, being used in over 50% of all suicides in 2022. The availability and lethality of firearms contribute significantly to the high suicide rates, particularly among men. Recent data shows that increases in firearm suicides are driving the overall rise in suicide deaths, with 2022 recording the highest number of gun-related suicides on record. This underscores the importance of addressing firearm access as part of suicide prevention strategies.

Reminder that most suicide attempts are in response to an acute crisis, like an argument with a loved one, and go from initial idea to action in less than 30 minutes.

Survivors report perceived lethality of firearms being a primary factor in their decision.

Access to lethal means can make all the difference between a bad day and a last day.

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/means-matter

just sold you out

They been sellin us out since the start. And they never even paid for us!

I legit have a copy of this story somewhere that ends with a “the moral is…” statement along the lines of “that’s why you should work hard and not be lazy”.

Like, what? We did not cover the work ethic of the pigs at all here. As far as I can tell, they each built an entire goddamn house! What about the wolf?

“…” said an al Qaeda spokesperson, who remained anonymous out of fear of losing his life for speaking with Western media

“…” said one U.S. official who also asked to remain anonymous out of fear of losing his life for speaking with Western media

Okay that’s pretty good.

Do you condemn KHHAAMAS?

Fingernail Spiderhole

She had a brown-sounding name, dual citizenship, and attended a protest. “Unamerican” on three counts.

Manchurian gold?

Too early to say for sure, but artificial sweeteners might be bad for kids.

Their bodies are still calibrating on how sweetness translates to calories.

Diet sodas are very sweet but provide no calories.

So their bodies might take it as a general rule either that very sweet things are safe to consume in excess, or that their expected intake always falls short of their actual intake so they should overeat across the board.

Again, it’s too early to say for sure, but there are enough plausible concerns that I wouldn’t automatically assume it’s fine.

A two-state confederation seems good to me. Independent national governance, with bilateral laws for basic things like residency rights across the states and local voting rights based on residency.

As it was with standardized testing, so shall it be with personal behavior: the goal is not to inform the student why, but to enforce compliance.

I haven’t tried it yet, but GrayJay purports to be an aggregator along those lines: https://grayjay.app/

It’s wild that linear perspective was invented.

Like, for a long time, this was a completely reasonable way to depict the world.

But if I think about my mental model of what I’m seeing at this moment, it’s automatically in linear perspective. It doesn’t feel like I even need to try, it just is that way.

It makes me wonder what other concepts are shaping (or could shape) my perception in such comprehensive and indelible ways.

(Internet slang, derogatory, far-right)

“Women are the most vulnerable in the world and the most vulnerable are the most vulnerable”

https://www.mindful.org/why-crying-equals-thriving/

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/talking-apes/201910/the-secret-reason-why-we-cry

The specific question was “I support equal rights for the LGBTQ community”

• 2021: 79% said yes
• 2022: 81%
• 2023: 84%
• 2024: 80%

Seems early to assume an actual decline. 2023 might have been weird. Election years might be weird. Who knows? But it is worth keeping an eye on.

Side note: If your chart has two years, and an assigned color for each year… Don’t use both colors for both bars.

If not for this specific case being tied to some text about going down from 84 to 80, I would not have been able to understand the rest of the charts.

Crash reporting, probably.

No.