Speaking of imbalance, in the USA, Black and American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) people have the highest firearm mortality rates of any racial or ethnic group. The U.S. also ranks at the 92nd percentile of all countries and territories for child and teen firearm mortality.

Source: Evan D. Gumas, Munira Z. Gunja, and Reginald D. Williams II, “Comparing Deaths from Gun Violence in the U.S. with Other Countries,” chartpack, Commonwealth Fund, Oct. 2024. https://doi.org/10.26099/1t4e-7h62

When I’m sitting at home, I am not living in constant fear of fending off robbers and rapists, or fantasizing about murdering them with a firearm.

A perpetrator with a victim complex.

People are more scared of the boogeyman than the people literally kidnapping folks off the street and sending them to concentration camps merely because they belong to a 3 letter agency with authority.

FWIW Quebec generates 94.3% of its electricity from hydro. Non-hydro renewables such as wind and biomass account for a relatively small percentage of Quebec’s electricity generation mix (5.3%). They only use a small amount of natural gas when demand is peaking.

Also, know your limits before the protest. If it escalates, know what you are or aren’t comfortable with. Do not let anybody convince you to do something that you are not comfortable with in the heat of the moment

Truly shameriffic to switch to Ecosia, based in Europe and working on their own European indexer. I’d hate to see Google lose shareholder value.

Check out the new community !canada@50501.chat

Most speed cameras are either revenue-neutral or generate a small amount of revenue for the city.

I love that this won’t happen on Lemmy.

It’d be a shame if more people switched from Chrome to Firefox with UBlock ad blocker…

Those who can afford to should consider donating to support development too.

Your write some of the best essays I’ve read btw. I appreciate you.

Can we stop it with the low effort dunks?

Obligatory !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com

i.e. hardship

I actually disagree.

There is a tipping point when MAGA followers are forced into situations where they must rely on their neighbour and mutual aid. They’ll be forced out of necessity to interact with people across the aisle who are giving them compassion.

You’re already seeing republicans flipping before that point from the DOGE cuts. Also, the governor of Kentucky is already flipping after their largest purchaser by a long-shot, Canada, took all their booze off the shelves.

Sharing tactics does not mean people will suddenly show up at the next protest lobbing paint. Ideally, nobody ever has to do that.

But if cops escalate against peaceful protestors weeks, months or years from now. Then at that point you either resist or lick the boot. Knowledge is power.

A big part of the plan was that in addition to reducing car usage, the revenues collected by congestion pricing would be used to make huge investments in improving public transit, thereby reducing car dependencey even further. Win-win!

Cars should not need registration, licensing, or insurance.

Waaaaait a minute, what?