I can’t believe we’re _still_ allowing headlines like this in this day and age. I might even report it, because even though technically speaking the article content doesn’t spread misinformation, the title does.
It is getting SO outrageous that some creators shadow their own channels with the same videos but with normal titles saying they need the main channel with the stupid titles "for the algorithm".
This is the end of the race to the bottom to grab the scraps of our attention.
This requires effort, so it's not free, but I think it's a better way to engage with media.
During the Depression there were fewer cars for economic reasons, and during WW2 fewer for reasons of rationing and recycling, raw material went to the war effort.
The writing here goes from too much punctuation to grad students book review to quasi political rant. And the criticism might be valid but I simply can't get past the horrid delivery.
Prelapsarian... yay I learned a new word. It did not help with the delivery of the conclusion.
I thought you were joking. ... After a while, I started expecting a comma after each and every word.
Crime has been dropping for a long time, and it isn’t because of increased professionalism and effectiveness of police or better governance.
Bundy also had traumatic childhood not knowing who his real father is and believing his mother is his older sister while being raised by his grandparents. He was violent sex addict always craving for more and more. Imo his genetics played the key part in his deviant violent behavior.
But maybe you underood that and think I'm arguing in bad faith. From your perspective, that may well appear to be the case, I don't think I can demonstrate otherwise.
Evolution uses variation so you can adapt and survive but variation is experimental meaning its results are nor perfect nor conclusive.
[0] https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250626-how-loud-a-cat-m...
This article was on HN frontpage 2 days ago.
I think there a couple cases where that’s not true but rare exceptions.
After that he was granted parole and released from prison and in the following years he murdered more than 30 young boys. So yea, the system failed us all. Although it is hard to evaluate and predict who will turn out to be maniac killer out of thousands and thousands of psychiatric cases health system deals with.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wayne_Gacy#:~:text=Two%20...
We see that same pattern with Dahmer where the police literally released one of his victims into his custody and joked about the young teen being Dahmer’s “boyfriend”.
To be honest this felt like one of those “too poor for appeal’s court” things
But a ridiculous way of treating a defendant
Imagine if we could tell someone had a mental alteration
How could that even be relevant to a criminal case?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_evidence#Criminal_tr...
https://salemwitchmuseum.com/2023/05/17/debunking-the-moldy-...
Also, Romans were aware of the toxicity of lead, and we don’t really know if or how that knowledge was applied. Lead pipes aren’t necessarily a problem depending on the water chemistry. The Flint issue was a direct result of criminally negligent action.
We do not have the serial killers of the US level by far.
I think culture is key.
It could be (and IMHO likely is) multi-causal, with several contributing factors, including lack of social welfare (leading to people with rough childhoods), gun availability and also lead exposure in childhood.
The question at hand is how to weight the last factor. IMHO it's not zero, but I don't know enough to say just how much.
The hard part is untangling how much each factor contributes.
https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/02/an-updated-le...
https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/02/violent-crime...
Obviously. That's what we're discussing. I am simply presenting evidence to contradict the GP comment, which claims (falsely) that Europe did not see a drop in crime similar to the US's. The fact that Europe did see a drop a crime is not conclusive evidence of the lead-crime theory, but it leaves that possibility open.
If you have another theory, you are welcome to share it.
The decline in crime across both the US and Europe does align with the phaseout of lead.
Other things were happening at the same time such as changes in policing, incarceration, economic conditions, and access to mental health care.
It is hard to know how much each carries in weight.
Regardless, it’s a weird effect of articles where even a negative article can cause positive belief. I.e. an article debunking a myth can sometimes spread the misinformation of the myth, because some people will go from no opinion on it to disagreeing with the article’s conclusion. Common with articles debunking conspiracies.
I feel like I could be watching this in real time ;)
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/02/lead-exposur...
https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/02/an-updated-le...
And, addressing the meta-analysis the New Yorker author places so much weight on:
https://jabberwocking.com/yet-another-look-at-that-lead-crim...
The clincher is that competing hypotheses are almost exclusively concerned with phenomena in the U.S. and fall apart as explanations for the same cresting and subsidence of the crime wave in other countries, or even simply in other cities in the U.S. One city does broken-windows policing. Another doesn't. Both experience the same decline in the murder rate.
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