Aaaand it's already outdated

I come here, surprisingly, for current news.

I don't come here for current news, @creativedragonbaby , but it does keep me up to date with what is going on around the world. But I do wish we kept it more clean and positive/fun like @mozzerhella asked.

Yeah, that is the main point of the site

Obviously we need to ban guns, balloons, furniture, pencils and toasters

Most common cause of toaster related death involves a person being electrocuted. Usually because they insert a conductive object into the toaster slots. Tooth picks cause a butt load of injuries and a handful of deaths too. The stuff people get injured or killed by, let alone the numbers of people... 7 billion people in the world. 1 million is a HUGE number of people- many people won’t ever see that many people at once in one area. But it’s also only 0.014% of 7 billion. To put in another way....

The suffering of 50 people is a lot. There are probably less than 50 people in the room with you if you’re indoors right now- if all were suffering, that would be significant to you likely- especially if one is you. But when we are given a number that seems “big” we tend to be impressed by it. We also tend to equate “big” to “epidemic.” What amount of murders or suffering of any type is too many to say “eh. That’s fine?” If say... 1. But does the fact that a country without electricity or without toasters would have effectively 0 deaths a year and a country like the US has 300 mean that there is a toaster danger? Yes it does. Does the response to that danger need to be proportional? Yes it does. I mean- well over 500,000 people a year are injured yearly because they are distracted by phones in the US.

Now compare the number of people distracted by phones being injured for any year between say... 2016-2019 to any year from 1877-1995- You’ll see a MASSIVE and sudden spike that steadily increases or stays at hundreds or more times the previous height. Curious no? Ladders are another big one too. Heart disease, alcohol related causes, and traffic accidents are still the top causes.

Just for the record, I definitely think something should be done about the obvious problem we have with mass shootings. Anyone with a brain can see it's a problem, there's no need to compare it to other countries. But the solution is probably a boring one, like legislating more funding to schools, specifically to hire one additional school counselor for every school

Yeah. At the very least it would be a good place to start. That’s generally how trouble resolution works when a cause is unknown. Start with the least extreme and most actionable possibilities for a solution and keep going until you’ve exhausted options. It’s much harder to convince a person they need to delete their entire collection of family photos than to just restart their machine. You’re more likely to get cooperation this way- and if nothing solves the problem to satisfaction- it’s easier to make a case to escalate when you’ve exhausted everything else.