Citizens commit crimes at a higher rate than immigrants. Both legal and illegal.

https://www.migrationpolicy.org/content/immigrants-and-crime

It's worth noting that there used to be multiple .gov sites hosting information about this, but they are all dead links now.

Fuck this administration and anyone who thinks what's happening is remotely ok.

One of the worst things about being a firefighter is how many of my colleagues are republicans.

It makes no sense. You do a job providing services to people for the government and you vote for the folks who tell us that government is unable to do good...

This is what happens in societies that have increasing income inequality.

Why should workers feel compelled to bust their asses when it benefits their bosses, but not themselves?

The dems really need to appoint a shadow cabinet and hold press conferences with fact checks and useful advice about how to get vaccinated.

I'm glad that I am science literate and live close to the canadian border.

I worked in the analysis tool division of a company that built civilian and military jets when I was fresh out of engineering school.

I didn't feel too bad about it because I was making commercial aircraft quieter and more efficient with my work. Then, the Iraq war started up and they told me I had to work on the engine for the F22. I started looking for a new job that day.

Now I work in planetary defense and don't feel guilty about it...

@[email protected] is right. I hunt and track asteroids. If I'm offending on behalf of an empire with this work, the empire is humanity and the offense is against chunks of rocks in space

I haven't been banned from many reddit communities yet, but I've seen the news about them banning upvotes for comments about italian plumbers and I decided it was time to look elsewhere.

Hi! I started reading about Lemmy over the weekend and made my account today.

Better than it would have been if we were voting for the greater evil.

I'm a white dude, and this reads like you're just pissy, but I'm open to the idea I might be wrong or blinded due to my privilege.

Please explain what you're getting at? If I'm in the wrong about this, I would love to know and become better.

What happened around February 12?

I was a search and rescue mountaineer/EMT for a decade. I'm an engineer/analyst for my day job. I am good at math and interpreting data, interested in the mountains, and fascinated by risk/perceptions of risk.

The most dangerous part of most mountain trips is the drive to the trailhead. Driving is so much more dangerous than just about anything else in our society, but everyone does it all the time so most people never think about it.

Your attitude is only warranted for really high risk level activities, like wing suit base jumps. Rock climbing and mountaineering are generally quite safe compared to risks that most of Western society fully embraces.

He did. But by a smaller margin than he won white men.

So, the shortage of men who aren't nazis is actually there. And I suspect that the nazi women are having little trouble dating.

I was a search and rescue mountaineer EMT for a decade in a very busy county.

This is good advice, but most people don't do things risky enough to need one. The most important thing people who are less extreme can do is tell someone you trust where you're going (including your planned route) and when they should worry that you haven't returned (when to call for rescue). Do it for every hike. Stories like this one make headlines, but most rescues are for things like busted ankles.

Or pageant owners...

Imagine what WE could do if we taxed millionaires and billionaires.

We could build these in every city in the country.

It does make sense. But only if you accept certain facts about the morality of the Israeli administration.

I don't recognize this one. What's it from?

Unfortunately I've met a few.

I was a search and rescue mountaineer/EMT for a decade. There are bigots in the field. You get a lot of "conservatives" with military or law endorsement backgrounds.

Also, to take something like this down, you'd start from the top and rappel down to it. It's how they do most rescues on El Cap (or any cliff for that matter)

The GOP wants to have their babies and eat them too

Nothing in the built environment is, city or country... That's the nature is being an outlier