Most die from natural causes (60%) - heart attacks, illness. Suicide is 43%

If you read the report, it actually indicates a mortality rate of a black person in a local jail as 89/100,000 and a white person as 206/100,000.

Yes, that is exactly what it says. A white person in a local jail cell is more than twice as likely to die as a black person.

I’ll tell you. You are overexposed to repetitive bad news. Whenever you are presented with a series of horrors, they appear to be an epidemic.

then we should ban roofs? Rooves? Top floor opens to the stars.

Here’s a rad idea - match the dose to the typical serving, or at least to a unit. Nobody breaks a damn cookie into 6 pieces and eats 1 piece.

On that note, I can’t wait to see the trains in Fallout 4.

I’m an Opera Guy. Chrome gets choppy too easily

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Exactly - the US media thrives on fear and hyperbole, because they have proven effective tactics to retain eyeballs on its content (leading to more ad revenue). It is the perfect amplifier for groups like isis and al qaeda.

Not sure it’s “all” about snobbery and bias. Two statements saying the same thing:

Let’s say I’m a career counselor, and I have a client who up-talks. Should I:

Also - don’t up-talk. I work with many brilliant women, and it pains me with they make excellent points / suggestions in meeting, but the declarative statementy ends up sounding like a question or a request.

“You gotta follow the white guys. Truly. They’ve got this thing wired,”

Right. Considering that we are all likely First World folks, any letter from anyone could be attacked for being inconsiderate of those less fortunate. It’s a boring, pointless exercise.

My daughter loves interesting NPC’s - she adores the fact that she can pause her quest for a moment and have a proper chat with some rando. And I stumbled into a pretty cool mini-quest thanks to one of the INPC’s.

I did manage to get it going, but found it a choppy experience:

I despise this movie, even though I could relate to it. The skating, the booze-n-weed lifestyle, the wandering around looking for something a bit more interesting. And sure, there were a couple of bad actors on the fringes of our group, but on the whole we were decent kids. We’re solid grownups, and even the bad…

Here’s my bs theory. The stuff is simply too potent to be enjoyable by most folks. There’s no more dipping your toes in, by passing a spliff of skunk. It’s all rocket fuel.

I go to all kinds of amazing places for work. And even if I am overwhelmed by how cool and beautiful it was to be there, I usually say, “I mean, it was cool to be in Singapore, but mostly I just worked. Felt like I spent more time on the plane than anywhere else, that is to say, it’s a very long flight.”