So far this year in the US there have been 15,897 gun deaths from shootings other than suicide. (More people than that have killed themselves via guns, the #1 use of a gun in the US is to kill yourself.)

1,435 of those non-suicide gun deaths were children.

There has been more than one mass shooting per day this year ( Read more... )

My regression equation did a great job of predicting the outcome of this Presidential election -- it correctly picked which major party would win the major-party popular vote.

But crafting my regression equation taught me a few things about recent (1968-2024) US Presidential elections.

(1) Trump is the most popular Presidential candidate of my ( Read more... )

There may be more to it, but seems to be over Ukraine and a fight over arcane membership rules ( Read more... )

On 5 November 2024 the world will be watching to see whether Americans choose Kamala Harris or Donald Trump to be their next president. Ahead of these pivotal elections, European Greens have called upon US Green Party candidate Jill Stein to withdraw her Presidential candidacy, and endorse Kamala Harris ( Read more... )

I'm anti-genocide!

I've noticed that the only issue for which Jill Stein (the Green Presidential candidate) is getting any media coverage in the US this election season is the Hamas/Israel war, given her strident view that Israel is committing genocide. It also seems to be where Stein is putting most of her energy, in terms of the events she's ( Read more... )

As the protagonist tries to uncover why dissent has disappeared, they realize that people have been subtly conditioned to prioritize joy and comfort above all else. The government and corporations don't need to censor dissent because people are willingly numbing themselves with the endless distractions at their fingertips.

I could never have slept this late at the house, between T and Astrid making their noises ( Read more... )

It's cloudy and humid outside, but not raining. I'll go on a walk in a bit, and stretch later, and lift weights later, and then walk again in the evening. Then B is coming over to hang out with T ( Read more... )

Now is a good point within the four-year political cycle in the US for people to start arguing with each other over whether it is more effective to work within one of the two larger political parties, or to work within one of the smaller political parties, to effect change ( Read more... )

Although the Green Party website hasn't been updated for the new platform yet, https://anais-pf.livejournal.com/ provided me with a link to the approved updates, and I reviewed them for material updates to their climage change policies. The only one I spotted was the Green Party adding their ( Read more... )