Entirely unrelated to your point (with which I fully agree) but wouldn’t it make more sense to replace the first period in “et.c.” with just a space (if you’re not going to forego the period)? et isn’t short for anything so the period doesn’t quite make sense (and you wouldn’t be using any more letters than you already are).

No worries, either way (obviously); I was just thinking.

Since 6 whole paragraphs were too daunting to read, I’d be happy to summarize the sources I’d linked to for you in just one manageable paragraph.

The primary cause, in over 50% of cases was an individual undergoing an acute stressor. Trauma could also contribute but, as I mentioned previously, mental illness is rarely a primary cause, even in cases of trauma. But, primarily, it’s an acute stressor.

This also isn’t anything I’m saying; I’m just citing the conclusions drawn by studies on the matter.

Unless you’re expecting to communicate with someone with heavy brain damage who cannot retain information for 0.2 seconds, I guess?

I mean, that’s not an argument for a better system, though; if you’re saying, “Yeah; you won’t be able to contextualize this info. yet until the next bit of info. in 0.2 seconds,” a person can certainly do that but it’s still working-around the inefficiency by retaining the day – which means nothing in any context which requires knowing the month – until you find out which month the day in question is in 0.2 seconds later.

Given the vise, I suspect he wasn’t fucking much of anything.

Void, I wish

Most people

An appeal to general consensus and definition by crowdsourcing is inherently anti-scientific.

kill a bunch of random people and then themselves for no good reason is mentally ill

I mean, clearly the scientists and doctors who study these things didn’t draw that conclusion.

Being in a bad mental state is not, by any definition, an equivalent to being mentally ill. Mental illnesses are particular things, not a general blanket attribute for that person being “different from us” and non-standard.

And in this specific case, she was not a particularity stable individual.

Alright? I already said that some cases certainly involve mental illness. Your anecdotal pointing out won’t change the statistics and studies, though: those are a minority of cases and generally incidental.

But you have demonstrated for all of us scapegoating in action: your entire comment disregards science and evidence-based assessment for an anecdotal definition based on a sense of normalcy that allows us to say, “Fundamentally, those people are just different from us. Normal people wouldn’t do that.”

It isn’t helpful, though.

Of course.

Basically, any study of mass shootings within the last decade all always draw the same conclusion: they are not driven, as a rule, by mental illness. In general, mental illness accounts for 25% of cases (and that’s for mental illness, in general) but the mental illness itself is generally incidental. But, of course, most people have a particular mental illness in mind when they mention it in this context and that’s severe mental illness, generally psychosis. The previous link mentions this as only being present in 5% of cases though this other source mentions 10%.

Regardless, these are clearly minority level numbers and, even if we wanted to stretch things and pretend they were higher for the sake of argument, still well and beyond below 50% as to make saying that mental illness, primarily, is to blame – end of story – just inherently untrue.

But, moreover – and the far more important part! –, the thing that shouldn’t be lost here is that the claim that mental illness is the cause has caught on as such a popular talking point because it’s easier to scapegoat.

It’s a simple answer that, for those unfamiliar, is going to make, supposedly, intuitive sense. The politicians like it – for much the same reason they like blaming violent media – because it doesn’t force them to do anything about the actual root issues (the social conditions that drive people to this desperation or create the far right ideas that become so popular that people write entire political manifestos beforehand) and it works so well as a scapegoat because people with psychosis are foreign (and, therefore, hard to understand) for the generally (more) mentally abled population.

The fact is that schizophrenics are overwhelmingly more likely to be victimized with violence than to be committers of it; but framing violent events like these as being driven by mental illness helps to prop up the misconception and ensure that people with severe mental illness are misunderstood.

Anyway, they were close because the beginning of their comment is spot on only to settle so assuredly on incorrect information but, more over, an unquestioned stereotype that causes real harm due to it being based on erroneous information.

Fuck; you were so close…

Based solely on a Libertarian Linux group’s poster I saw one time, I suspect the unregulated nature of things: people provide and build their own software, no one telling you what you can and can’t build. I don’t quite know how to summarize it succinctly but do you kind of see what I’m getting at? Since a lot of FOSS is communities self-organizing and decentralized (by choice, not by edict, since right wing Libertarians clearly have no issues with heirarchies so long as it isn’t a gov. mandating them), I can see it being very appealing.

I suspect they absolutely insist on permissive copyright, though, so all the communal work can be easily exploited and stolen for the financial benefit of a few companies because something about the NAP and not restricting freedom including the freedom to be exploited.

Why is this in this comm.? That’s unironically just basic fact.

If you really want to immerse yourself, also use it as the config. language for your Linux distribution.

Write GTK app.s with it.

Stretch your project legs with writing a simple web app. with it.

Explore the sheer joy and consummate beauty of minimal syntax.

That’s fair. I took a class while getting my Masters that used Scheme (having learned Scheme on my own ahead of time) and, after getting past the parts I was already familiar with the language on, I found it really difficult to grasp what they were trying to teach me. I can’t say it’s what you experienced but I’ve tended to find that higher level education courses that utilize Scheme tend to operate on a level of abstraction that’s hard to grasp unless you already know the big picture they’re trying to impart.

Regardless, I hope it’s easier the second time (if you ever do give it another try).

Not if you’re a Dave Matthews’ band bus driver.

https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/08/08/21-years-later-dave-matthews-bus-poop-incident-makes-chicagoans-laugh-and-groan/

A chicken in a programming comm.‽

Please tell me you write in Scheme…

You joke but…

https://slate.com/life/2024/08/chicken-recipes-breast-thighs-wings-baked-raw-undercooked-temperature.html

My dad knew someone who survived a car crash because he went through the windshield because he wasn’t wearing a seatbelt and, if he had, he would’ve been trapped in the car and (in this particular crash) died; he refuses to wear a seatbelt since.

My father was, likewise, surprised.

I would massage all of his scalp wrinkles.

What a handsome boy.

This is perfect; really helps to get an idea of the tree.

I really appreciate the recommendation; I really didn’t want to buy something without an idea of how well it worked, again.

My cat when I won’t feed him for a third time that day.

Interesting; are they a good size? Every cat tree I’ve gotten has similar features but they always feel like they were designed to fit kittens. Our cats don’t like the hammocks, either (though they do seem to hold their weight), but I kind of can’t blame 'em: it doesn’t seem like they’d fit all that comfy.

Regardless, thanks so much for the link! I’ll need to measure the height of our ceilings…