These aren’t remotely the same systems.

You don’t get to pretend two train systems are not similar because you write BILLION in all caps and bold.

Thank you, by the way, for so clearly representing yourself in your post history. You’re doing this old man a service by making it so obvious that you are continually arguing in bad faith.

doing the job we asked them to do

Ah, so we should pursue this ‘we’ who are asking cops to kill innocent people. Thanks, Donlon!

“$3 is more important than innocent lives. We must set an example.”

But they are clearly intentionally downplaying that he pulled a knife

The subtitle: “NYPD brass said the alleged fare-beater had charged at the officers with a knife…”

Maybe your reading comprehension is indicated by your use of “He wasn’t shot for the fair [sic] lol”.

OK… But setting yourself on fire in a country on the other side of the world is better how?

It’s what they wanted to do. If you believe in people having free will, then you have to accept that this is reasonable.

To the media: I don’t give a shit. Stop talking about this pathetic waste of oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, carbon, calcium, and phosphorus. This allegedly existing alleged person offers no value, so just ignore them.

Republican politicians and voters are conspiring to harm innocent people by making up false rumours about them being dangerous, inciting violence against them.

“Oh, okay, but I don’t care. As long as the right people are hurt!”

This is a large part of why I don’t feel emotionally connect to the concept of being a member of humanity.

The right to own guns is clearly more important than the right to be alive. At least, until the lives of politicians or their financial backers are threatened.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_terrorism

Stochastic terrorism is political violence that has been instigated by hostile public rhetoric which is directed at a group or an individual. Unlike incitement to terrorism, stochastic terrorism is accomplished by using indirect, vague, or coded language that allows the instigator to plausibly disclaim responsibility for the resulting violence.[1] A key element is the use of social media and other distributed forms of communications where the person who carries out the violence has no direct connection to the users of violent rhetoric.[2]

We are a handful of days away from some right wing weirdo showing a video of a non-white person sneezing and captioning it with “wtf they firing guns in the street”. And that will become a popular talking point, and people will demand the death penalty.

The stochastic terrorism is the wild claims infrahumanising certain groups on social media. Then someone decides to act on those claims, and the people who posted them say “I had no idea that would happen”.

Rinse and repeat until you’ve made the world worse, then die with lots of money.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_terrorism

Stochastic terrorism is political violence that has been instigated by hostile public rhetoric which is directed at a group or an individual. Unlike incitement to terrorism, stochastic terrorism is accomplished by using indirect, vague, or coded language that allows the instigator to plausibly disclaim responsibility for the resulting violence.[1] A key element is the use of social media and other distributed forms of communications where the person who carries out the violence has no direct connection to the users of violent rhetoric.[2]

I have a strong desire to go to Gaza to support people there. That would be a kind of suicide, like suicide by cop, but instead suicide by regular bombing of areas designated by the military force doing the bombing as a zone that they wouldn’t bomb and I knew that when I went to that area.

Sadly, me being killed as a non-Palestinian by a military force which is killing indiscriminately would change nothing. It is apparent that many people think it is okay for a military force to kill indiscriminately. No number of deaths of Western people would be shocking, because ‘they shouldn’t be there’. Where is ‘there’? A place where Palestinians are trapped, in order to be killed. The infrahumanisation of Palestinians has been there from the very start, it was assumed from the conception of the opinion, and from the conception of the children.

And it changed nothing.

By that metric no human effort has any ultimate meaning, and choosing to live over choosing to die is just as tedious.

Thank you! Being judged negatively by a member of species which fails to feed children, and instead seems to prefer giving money to people who preach hatred against groups based on their identity (or just funding endless pieces of media which are all broadly similar) instead, I will take that as a compliment.

Please know that, when I die - whether that is by my own hand or not - I suspect I will not think ‘wow I wish I’d been here for longer’. I’ve been here for 42 years. It’s not great. People do not live up to my lofty moral ideals of supporting each other to make a better world.

I will hurt myself if I decide to. It’s not like I enjoy being around humans. Many humans hurt themselves and each other as a matter of course, and it is not edifying to see.

It’s saddening that so many people devote their short lives on spreading hatred and violence when they could be putting efforts into furthering the human race

I think it’s that these people actually really like inequality.

Furthering the human race involves helping other people, so a lot of effort is diluted into everyone, and ‘me and people like me might not benefit more than others’. Scapegoating an outgroup means reducing the status of others, so that ‘me and people like me will end up being elevated over that group’.

This preference for harming others is then turned into a potent political weapon, because hatred is still a legitimate political position. And, as long as it is so, I expect humans to hate themselves into irrelevance.

If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you. — Lyndon Johnson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy)

Who could ever know why men aren’t becoming as progressive as women, guess we will never know! Every refusal to acknowledge the issue, is cause for it to grow bigger.

Yes, I too could act like a dick and say ‘I have an issue!’

Yes, I too could respond to people saying that I’m being unreasonable by saying ‘it’s your fault!’

No, at no point am I doing anything but sabotaging myself because I feel entitled to being treated more leniently than everyone else.

Terrorism isn’t cool.

There are always better alternatives than taking your own life.

You are not entitled to me choosing to live just because you emotionally prefer that outcome.

The gender ratio in compsci in my institution is around 8:2 male:female.