[-] ira@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago

Scratch a liberal...

[-] ira@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago

MBFC rating for The Telegraph:

Factual Reporting: MIXED

MBFC Credibility Rating: MEDIUM CREDIBILITY

Overall, we rate The Telegraph Right Biased based on story selection that strongly favors the right and Mixed for factual reporting due to poor sourcing of information and some failed fact checks.

[-] ira@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago

Mmm. And what's going to be the excuse after the New Hampshire primary next week?

[-] ira@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

From 2021 to 2022 looks like a wash to me: around 700 fewer homicides but 700 more suicides (the number you cropped out of the screenshot). And the numbers for 2023 aren't final yet.

[-] ira@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

How has the rate of U.S. gun deaths changed over time?

While 2021 saw the highest total number of gun deaths in the U.S., this statistic does not take into account the nation’s growing population. On a per capita basis, there were 14.6 gun deaths per 100,000 people in 2021 – the highest rate since the early 1990s, but still well below the peak of 16.3 gun deaths per 100,000 people in 1974.

The gun murder rate in the U.S. remains below its peak level despite rising sharply during the pandemic. There were 6.7 gun murders per 100,000 people in 2021, below the 7.2 recorded in 1974.

The gun suicide rate, on the other hand, is now on par with its historical peak. There were 7.5 gun suicides per 100,000 people in 2021, statistically similar to the 7.7 measured in 1977. (One caveat when considering the 1970s figures: In the CDC’s database, gun murders and gun suicides between 1968 and 1978 are classified as those caused by firearms and explosives. In subsequent years, they are classified as deaths involving firearms only.)

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/04/26/what-the-data-says-about-gun-deaths-in-the-u-s/

[-] ira@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Sure is. And Hitler is worse than Trump. Would you vote for Trump if he were running against Hitler? I wouldn't.

[-] ira@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Who gets the death penalty when it wrongly murders someone?

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A. The 1.5 million people have not "escaped" or been displaced "from Gaza", they've been forced to move to different places in the Gaza Strip: shelters predominantly. There's no ingress/egress from Gaza. It's basically a giant open-air prison.

Israel erected a giant cage around the land boundary of the whole strip in 1993. There's only 3 exits, all of which are closed: the Rafah crossing into Egypt, the Kerem Shalom crossing at the corner where Israel and Egypt touch, and the Erez crossing into Israel in the north.

Israel enforces a blockade of the shoreline, and a no fly zone. They destroyed Gaza's airport in 2001.

B. "More than half" is doing some pretty heavy lifting. 1.5 million is closer to 75%.

C. 10,022 / 2,048,000 = 0.489355%. Since the post yesterday, Israel has killed another 283 people which brings it up to 10,305 / 2,048,000 = 0.503%.

[-] ira@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

An AI can't be fined or imprisoned.

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A roll-call vote in the conference indicated that there were over 20 who opposed Emmer, far more than the four Republicans he could afford to lose on the House floor.

Candidates for round 4 must declare by 5:30 PM, with the next candidate forum starting at 6 PM tonight.

Byron Donalds, ~~Kevin Hern,~~ Mike Johnson, and ~~Roger Williams~~ are returning from the last round. ~~Mark Green~~ and ~~Chuck Fleischmann~~ are newly entering their hats into the ring. Next GOP vote will start at 8 PM tonight.

Kevin Hern has dropped out, endorsing Johnson.

Johnson leads by far after the first round of ballots with 85. The other candidates on the first ballot got 86 total, including Fleischmann who will be eliminated from the next round with only 10 votes. Other candidates not on the ballot got 30 votes.

Johnson still leading after the second ballot with 97 votes. Donalds 31, Green 21, Williams 20. Williams in last place gets eliminated, Green has dropped out, leaving just Johnson and Donalds. McCarthy got 33 votes despite not being on the ballot, another person not on the ballot got 1 vote, and 3 people voted present.

Johnson wins the nomination with 128 votes to Byron Donalds' 29. McCarthy also received 43 votes despite not being a candidate nor being on the ballot.

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Israel has continued bombarding Gaza’s south despite telling 1.1 million people in the north of the besieged enclave to relocate there ahead of an expected ground offensive.

“We were displaced from Tal al-Hawa to Rafah at the request of the Israeli army, and this is what happened to us. My son is a 3-month-old martyr,” the father of a child killed in an attack in Rafah told Al Jazeera.

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House GOP will meet again Monday evening to discuss candidates then start voting Tuesday morning on their next nominee.

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Round 1: 200 votes for Jordan

Round 2: 199 votes for Jordan

Round 3: 194 votes for Jordan

Additional detractors this round:

Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA): Jordan round 2, McHenry round 3

Tom Kean Jr. (R-NY): Jordan round 2, McCarthy round 3

Marc Molinaro (R-NY): Jordan round 2, Zeldin round 3

Other GOP changes:

Wesley Hunt (R-TX): Jordan round 2, absent round 3

Derrick Van Orden (R-WI): Jordan round 2, absent round 3

[-] ira@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago
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Nearly $100 per pill

Edit: nearly $50 per pill, thought a course was 15 pills instead of 30. Still outrageous.

[-] ira@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

This is a pretty optimistic view. Inflation is (mostly) a one way street. The rate at which prices are rising might have slowed down, but the prices themselves aren't going to go back down. That damage is already done. Come next year, I don't think people are going to be thinking "I'm paying an extra dollar for a big mac than I was 4 years ago, but at least it didn't go up another dollar this year too"

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Gun manufacturers have special protection, specific legislation at the federal level singling them out to not be liable.

Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act

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