None of it should be happening is right. I just get a skeezy feeling when articles use language they know will get people thinking one thing when they mean another.
None of it should be happening is right. I just get a skeezy feeling when articles use language they know will get people thinking one thing when they mean another.
It’s horrible, don’t get me wrong. I worry about my own little one, but the distinction is an order of magnitude of a difference in my head. Like the distinction between a troublemaker throwing a lit match in a trash can vs some maniac dousing a building in gasoline.
This is depressing, but it also bothers me that there’s such a large distinction between how the average person would picture a “school shooting” and what these articles are talking about. Is there a name for that in journalism?
Like, if someone told me “there was a school shooting at school X today”, like most people I would immediately picture someone walking into the building and firing indiscriminately at everyone. Not, “a couple of teens got in a fight in the parking lot, and one pulled out a gun”, or “someone shot at the school’s sign”. (Which are also horrible, but I feel like we need separate terms)
From the article:
According to the report, the most commonly known situations associated with such incidents included “escalation of dispute,” “drive-by,” “illegal activity,” “accidental firing of a weapon” and “intentional property damage.”
Who is influencing all these tech companies to be this greedy lately?
It’s been an internet thing for long before 2016 (at least mid 00s in my memory), so I don’t associate it with them.
They took the pepe frogs for a while too, but I’ve been seeing them come back. Nature is healing.
These are significantly higher than they used to be, but nowhere near some of the most out of touch numbers I’ve seen people claim online.
Having your posts stolen is an honor as old as the internet.
What an irredeemable monster.
The best Palm Pilot that money can buy.
This should be tagged NSFL
This is what happens when we take transformers cartoons out of schools.
Not to mention the less tangible costs too, like the company’s reputation and trust.
Or starting a gold rush for reddit competitors that didn’t exist previously.
That’s a big name to drop out.
I’d help post content if I knew how to make it, lol. I just subbed to lurk.
I figured it was just his name. He looks like a Lemmy to me.
It sort of feels like the old days of reddit. I had forgotten how nice it was.
Reddit used to be slowly to refresh a long time ago, before they tweaked how the front page worked. You would pretty much have the top posts all day, and maybe it would change by the evening.
It was slower paced and fostered more discussion before people would move on, but it wasnt as good at giving the novelty dopamine hit compared to a faster churn.
Because a columbine type of school shooting is different than property damage.
And people writing these articles know that “some destructive teens did donuts in the school parking lot at night and shot the stop sign” isn’t what people think when they say that a “school shooting” has happened.