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  • An Illinois school completely lost a child, and AirTag found him

    linkmanlinkman
    This is inexcusable! The most precious things in our lives are our kids. We entrust the school system and its operators to take complete care of them. If a bank makes one error in a million transactions we get ticked off but it's fixable; essentially losing a kid in even one in a trillion transactions does not meet the minimum standard. 
    muthuk_vanalingam

  • X website reverts water pistol emoji to realistic gun

    linkmanlinkman
    avon b7 said:
    Gun control is the only way to reduce gun related crime, and with it, gun related culture. 
    Completely wrong. Several communities in the US reduced their homicide rate significantly (which went hand-in-hand with the reduction in gun-related homicide) without any changes to gun control laws. They largely used community-based "violence interruptors" which targeted habitual offenders; basically it's a "either you stop committing violent crime (and we will help you) or you are going to prison for a very long time. Boston's Operation Ceasefire achieved a 63% reduction in youth homicide.

    The US states with the highest percent gun ownership have the lowest homicide rates, and those rates are on par with the best European countries.
    JanNL

  • X website reverts water pistol emoji to realistic gun

    linkmanlinkman
    coolfactor said:

    A symbol is *not* the thing being symbolized. Why are people scared of a drawing of a pistol?

    Txitter may be "an irrelevance" to Xbit and others, but it is still used by millions. 
    Who is expressing fear of a drawing of a pistol?  Can you point to examples of this?

    Unfortunately, messaging can be harmful. Messages can create fear. If someone can easily send a picture of a real gun to someone else, it's an avenue of potential threat and harm. X is a conduit between two such people, and by reverting, they are letting their American 2nd-A mentality blind them to the larger harm that can be done with their platform. Sending an image of a water pistol does not have the same impact to a scared recipient as receiving a picture of a real gun. X is in control of this.
    So you are favor in censoring anything that someone could consider frightening, undesired, or triggering?
    thejbrotimpetus

  • Nearly every AT&T customer just had six months of call logs stolen

    linkmanlinkman
    Between hacks like this, massive password leaks, companies intruding into your personal info, and the government spying on its citizens the only way left to protect your privacy is to drop off the grid. I give up.
    watto_cobra

  • iPhone 15 Pro Max somehow fails to survive having a 90lb dumbbell dropped on it

    linkmanlinkman
    I see many phones on the floor in the free weight area of the gym every time I'm there. I also see a lot of them with smashed screens. Not smart.
    Bart Ywatto_cobra