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Student dorm does not allow wifi routers in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] Breve@pawb.social 2 points 2 months ago

The post mentioned a wireless mesh network, so it sounds like the ISP/provider already has a bunch of wireless access points set up to cover the whole building. One of the problems with high-density living spaces is that there are only a limited number of communication channels WiFi can use, so if everyone living there also runs their own wireless networks they use up all the available channels and have to cross-talk over eachother, leading to everything slowing down.

U.S. Vice Presidential nominee JD Vance says school shootings are a "fact of life" in c/politics@beehaw.org

[–] Breve@pawb.social 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yes, I agree those factors probably contribute to the fact that the US experiences far more school shootings than any other country in the world, but again while far more infrequent, there still have been school shootings in Canada, Australia, Europe, and many other places.

Keep in mind that I'm playing devil's advocate here, but if we were to fix the things you mentioned: toxic masculinity is erased from the public consciousness and the government gives free mental health support to everyone, can you guarantee on your life that a school shooting would never ever happen again for any reason? Simple yes or no answer to satisfy Mr. Vance.

U.S. Vice Presidential nominee JD Vance says school shootings are a "fact of life" in c/politics@beehaw.org

[–] Breve@pawb.social 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Are there ways to lower the number of school shootings? Yes, and you've already made some great points.

However, are there ways to prevent school shootings from ever happening again? Well, the answer is unfortunately no. Guns exist and even the strictest laws and bans could never change that. School shootings still sometimes happen in countries with far stricter laws too.

It's one of the logical traps conservatives love to use though: They lean on the fact that it is impossible to completely fix a problem and thus also dismiss any attempts to improve things even slightly because they still see any imperfect solution as a failure.

i will never understand scientific fraud in c/science_memes@mander.xyz

[–] Breve@pawb.social 38 points 2 months ago (16 children)

Money corrupts absolutely everything: science, politics, people...

it's election season, Beehaw, so — what are your thoughts on compulsory (mandatory) voting? in c/askbeehaw@beehaw.org

[–] Breve@pawb.social 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I would suggest in the future that instead of spoiling your ballot you can decline your ballot instead. Spoiled ballots are considered rejected because it's not clear if you meant to vote for someone but messed up versus not wanting to vote. Declined ballots are separately counted and will show political parties that there are eligible voters who went through the work to show up but intentionally did not want to support any candidates on the ballot.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/ontario-votes-2022-declined-ballots-rise-1.6466308

Led by the automaker BYD, China has established itself as the main car supplier in Mexico. The US worries China could use Mexico as a “back door” to sidestep tariffs and gain footing in the US market. in c/world@lemmy.world

[–] Breve@pawb.social 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

When a corporation or private individual uses their large pool of capital to subsidize an unsustainable business model that undercuts and disrupts the competition until it can establish market dominance, that's called venture capitalism. When a government does the exact same thing, that's called communism.

The typical American mindset of "corporation good, government bad".

Brazil’s supreme court upholds ban on Elon Musk’s X over ‘illegal conduct’ in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] Breve@pawb.social 3 points 2 months ago

Before Elon acquired Twitter, the platform enforced an one-sided policy of censoring right-wing points of view. It even started actively shielding the left from any criticism, such as when the Hunter Biden Laptop story was blatantly censored so as to not affect Joe Biden's presidential campaign negatively.

What's funny is that there are a slew of articles from 2019 to 2022, before Musk's takeover, talking about a study that found Twitter's algorithm actually had a right wing bias because conservative opinions generated higher engagement (both positive and negative) so it boosted them more than liberal ones.

Also Elon has censored many news stories about himself and his companies since his acquisition. He hasn't stopped censorship, he merely took control of it.