Is there actual evidence it's dying? For a while it seemed like the momentum was there but now I don't hear much about mastodon or even bluesky from normies.

I think both metrics would tell you different things. Even unadjusted it gives you an idea about which thing you should be concerned about addressing and reducing your own risk or the risk of those you care about.

Plus, I don't have exposure data like that to make the comparison. If you do then it would certainly be interesting to see.

I'm sure most people are aware that the difference in danger is quite large but maybe not just how absurdly large.

Sharks kill about 10 people per year.

For cars the number is 1,670,000 deaths. Every year.

As a point of comparison, in 2025, about 250k people were killed in armed conflicts, which was the highest number in decades.

A lot of people think it's weird to hate cars as much as I do. But they are quantitatively in a similar category as the Holocaust in terms of how many people they kill. From the perspective, it seems a bit crazy not to hate them.

Sources: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0966692324000267 https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/shark-attacks/yearly-worldwide-summary/ https://www.npr.org/2026/06/09/nx-s1-5850355/data-highest-conflicts-iran-israel-ukraine-russia-world-war-ii

Get wrecked

Me, if I'm being honest.

I've always felt this way but that community has been huge for making me realize that a lot of other people feel the same way too!

lol whenever the national news covers wildfires in CA I get these texts. Like, guys I live in the Central Valley. It's literally dozens of miles to the nearest place a wildfire could realistically even be possible.

Great idea!

Are these actually dangerous? I touched one a few years ago but didn't think much of it.

Noooo I wanna be the idiot who makes someone's day :)

I'm bad at it though :(

But will that save him in the primary?

I think the people who like him are generally not primary voters. People joke he's a republican but modern republicans are so extreme he's still pretty far from the center of that party. I don't see him thriving against any primary challenger in either party.

Funny but I feel like the intended meaning is that "something" is the same thing it both cases. Although I can't think of what they could have both done.

Imagine if other professions were allowed to use the logic police can in court.

"Your honor, I acknowledge that I did run over that entire kindergarten class with my big rig, but if I had swerved there would have been a slightly elevated risk of me rolling over and crashing, so I had to. Truck driver safety has to come first, after all."

"Well, since no court has ruled that this exact situation is a violation of anyone's rights, you are legally immune!"

Oh good, I can't wait to be infected with flesh-eating parasites so beef eaters can save a penny or two.

And instead of replacing native labor with African slaves, we'll replaced by AI powered robotics.

If ICE played soccer

This is insane even for Trump. What would a military intervention in the bond market even mean?

My guess is this is just dementia related word salad.

Many political ideologies, including Christianity, were started as movements for liberation, then later co-opted by the ruling class and turned into tools of oppression. It's happened so many times I'm amazed there is not a name for this phenomenon.

"You came back! We've been saving this for you."