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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • The Daily Caller is a right-wing news and opinion website based in Washington, D.C.[7] It was founded by former Fox News host Tucker Carlson and political pundit Neil Patel in 2010.

    OP blundered. Article shitty, definitely cherry picking here.

    The source is at least cited as this piece of research by some assistant professor at “Southern University of Oregon” — https://sou.edu/academics/economics/faculty/

    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094119023000578?via%3Dihub#preview-section-abstract

    Above is only an abstract. Looking to see if I can get the full paper with data. Something is definitely off.

    This research design has some crucial limitations. First, almost every major city in the United States had a protest during the Mike Brown era, implying that I am comparing large cities to relatively less populous cities. Second, the reasons for participating in BLM protests may be related to future police behavior. For example, protests are more likely to occur in cities where more Black people have previously been killed by the police (Williamson et al., 2018). Therefore, if BLM protests are precipitated by a police shooting, police misconduct, or strained community-police relations, then the course for future police behavior may have changed regardless of the protests.

    Author of paper even acknowledges the weaknesses in his methodology and seems to think those weaknesses are addressed by his “battery of robustness tests” performed on the data.

    My initial thoughts: if police are not doing their job because of “BLM protests”. Then isn’t that on the police? Because police can’t kill people without impunity, that means they can’t do their job?




  • 🚘 🧠 people, I guess. Most people are just born/live in areas where it’s nearly impossible to get around their area that’s not by a personal vehicle.

    Getting groceries? Hop in the truck/SUV, drive 5+ miles to grocery store

    Want to eat out? Hop into the SUV/truck, drive 10+ miles to restaurant

    Visit friends? Hop into the SUV/truck, drive 10+ mi to friends house in the exurbs (and they already live in the suburbs 💀)

    Going to work? Hop into the SUV/truck, drive 20+ mi to work.

    Going to the bars? Call a rideshare, pay $50+ for one ride, get drunk. Most people probably think they can still drive while under the influence and get home safe.

    Only describing 1-way travel, by the way.

    These people trying to imagine there’s a more scalable and safer way to transport people is a foreign concept in their mind — despite the rest of the planet figuring out how to properly move people.