zer00eyz8 hours ago
https://archive.is/Py9Mf
I can’t believe we’re _still_ allowing headlines like this in this day and age. I might even report it, because even though technically speaking the article content doesn’t spread misinformation, the title does.
It is getting SO outrageous that some creators shadow their own channels with the same videos but with normal titles saying they need the main channel with the stupid titles "for the algorithm".
This is the end of the race to the bottom to grab the scraps of our attention.
This requires effort, so it's not free, but I think it's a better way to engage with media.
During the Depression there were fewer cars for economic reasons, and during WW2 fewer for reasons of rationing and recycling, raw material went to the war effort.
The writing here goes from too much punctuation to grad students book review to quasi political rant. And the criticism might be valid but I simply can't get past the horrid delivery.
Prelapsarian... yay I learned a new word. It did not help with the delivery of the conclusion.
Crime has been dropping for a long time, and it isn’t because of increased professionalism and effectiveness of police or better governance.
Bundy also had traumatic childhood not knowing who his real father is and believing his mother is his older sister while being raised by his grandparents. He was violent sex addict always craving for more and more. Imo his genetics played the key part in his deviant violent behavior.
But maybe you underood that and think I'm arguing in bad faith. From your perspective, that may well appear to be the case, I don't think I can demonstrate otherwise.
Evolution uses variation so you can adapt and survive but variation is experimental meaning its results are nor perfect nor conclusive.
[0] https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250626-how-loud-a-cat-meows-might-be-down-to-their-genes
This article was on HN frontpage 2 days ago.
I think there a couple cases where that’s not true but rare exceptions.
After that he was granted parole and released from prison and in the following years he murdered more than 30 young boys. So yea, the system failed us all. Although it is hard to evaluate and predict who will turn out to be maniac killer out of thousands and thousands of psychiatric cases health system deals with.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wayne_Gacy#:~:text=Two%20doctors%20concluded,to%20stand%20trial.
We see that same pattern with Dahmer where the police literally released one of his victims into his custody and joked about the young teen being Dahmer’s “boyfriend”.
To be honest this felt like one of those “too poor for appeal’s court” things
But a ridiculous way of treating a defendant
Imagine if we could tell someone had a mental alteration
How could that even be relevant to a criminal case?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_evidence#Criminal_trial
https://salemwitchmuseum.com/2023/05/17/debunking-the-moldy-bread-theory/
We do not have the serial killers of the US level by far.
I think culture is key.
WTF did I just read?
Anyways, maybe have a look at this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_United_States_in_2024
It's still utter WTFery, but not on the basis of comparing mass shootings by civilians.
Second, even if we include governmental killings, it's not clear how to allocate blame. For example, how many people are responsible for the Holodomor [2]? Just Joseph Stalin himself? His deputies? Every employee of the Russian government? If we consider each instance of state-sanctioned murder as ultimately being ordered by the head of state, that would not greatly increase the number of murderers, and certainly not in comparison to the daily count of civilian-on-civilian murder in the US.
Third, if we are going to include governmental killings, we should definitely include the various illegal wars that the US has engaged in, and continues to engage in. I think that would nicely balance the tables. It's important to understand that fascism and Communism do not hold a monopoly on civilian deaths [3] [4] [5]. Let's also not forget the US's continued use of the death penalty.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_killer
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_genocide
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Freedom_Deal
EDIT: formatting
Look at current news from the USA law enforcement if you still think that.
Which is quite a thing to claim. It's nuts.
Anyways what we are all talking about is like a Ted Bundy or Jeffrey Dahmer. Not Nazi’s
Step 1: Commit horrific atrocities. Step 2: Declare that you are now a new country (with the same people), so you stop counting the atrocities against yourself.
See how it works? Germany tried to genocide half the population of Earth, the US stops them and builds a bunch of bases in Germany so they don't try that again, and now that is evidence of US abuse and aggression. It's not THAT Germany anymore, the one that did the crimes and has to be occupied to make sure they don't try to stuff every brown child on earth into a brick oven, it's Germany, the great country that is totally innocent. It's not the GB that kept half of the world's population under it's thumb to brutally extract resources and become rich, it's GB the cute country with the Queen. All the crimes have to be ignored and don't count anymore because you have free healthcare (or something).
Anyway, you completely miss the point. When the Gestapo was stuffing people into ovens, they were also running Joy Divisions. Guess what kind of guys were signing up to run these bases? In a real civilization these are the kinds of guys who show up in police statistics as serial killers.
It could be (and IMHO likely is) multi-causal, with several contributing factors, including lack of social welfare (leading to people with rough childhoods), gun availability and also lead exposure in childhood.
The question at hand is how to weight the last factor. IMHO it's not zero, but I don't know enough to say just how much.
The hard part is untangling how much each factor contributes.
https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/02/an-updated-lead-crime-roundup-for-2018/
https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/02/violent-crime-peaked-britain-2006-because/
Obviously. That's what we're discussing. I am simply presenting evidence to contradict the GP comment, which claims (falsely) that Europe did not see a drop in crime similar to the US's. The fact that Europe did see a drop a crime is not conclusive evidence of the lead-crime theory, but it leaves that possibility open.
If you have another theory, you are welcome to share it.
The decline in crime across both the US and Europe does align with the phaseout of lead.
Other things were happening at the same time such as changes in policing, incarceration, economic conditions, and access to mental health care.
It is hard to know how much each carries in weight.
https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/02/an-updated-lead-crime-roundup-for-2018/
And, addressing the meta-analysis the New Yorker author places so much weight on:
https://jabberwocking.com/yet-another-look-at-that-lead-crime-meta-study/
The clincher is that competing hypotheses are almost exclusively concerned with phenomena in the U.S. and fall apart as explanations for the same cresting and subsidence of the crime wave in other countries, or even simply in other cities in the U.S. One city does broken-windows policing. Another doesn't. Both experience the same decline in the murder rate.