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I could find 0 incidences of ewoks being shot in a forest outside of Return of the Jedi.

Rather than "all shootings" which is harder to find details of I'll go with death statistics for the shootings:

In 2020–21, there were a total of 41 school-associated violent deaths in the United States, which included 20 homicides and 17 suicides. Source

Traffic stop killings In 2021 it was 117, according to the Mapping Police Violence database.

According to this Police Shootings Database Hispanic and African Americans constitute 45.4% of all police killings.

Meaning that of the 117 in 2021 you'd expect ~53 of them to be "Slightly darker skinned"

So 24 school associated (ruling out suicides) vs 53 slightly darker skin means you're 2.2x as likely to be shot by a cop for being brown, or 4.875x as likely to be shot by a cop in a traffic stop overall.

Hope that helps.

"Rosy retrospection" is the phenomenon.

Humans are flawed. We forget how much things suck and remember what was nice about them. That can be good in getting along better with other people - but it sure causes a lot of problems in a modern context.

No - the internet pre-eternal September was not perfect. Objectively speaking it was less useful and less helpful than the modern web. A bunch of old heads got mad that they couldn't keep using the same crusty Monty Python jokes ad nauseam when they had to routinely interact with the general public.

I have family in Taiwan, (and get Taiwanese content constantly) that's not a convincing argument. Thanks.

Everything always has a spin. It's important to be critical.

That's different than being paranoid that the CCP is controlling my mind by showing me a dog waking up it's owner at 3am with a bowl in its mouth followed by a truck saying "Fresh milk inside" and then a stereotypical Los Angeles Latino gangster wearing an It mask and huffing from a red balloon in a storm sewer followed up with a woman in purple talking about Victorian street slang.

You're being influenced by commenters on lemmy you should probably log off you can never be too careful. I'm actually a CIA psyop here to convince you that TikTok is bad by using reverse psychology.

The quality of a meme recommended by a tuned algorithm well exceeds the quality of leekspin on its own, much less in the quantity served.

Don't use this shit for your news or to inform your world view but use it to fuck around and enjoy yourself. That's the point. It's an endless feed of human creativity and the bizarre. Using it for the serious is the worst way to interact with it.

Who cares if it's a human recommending it to me - it's a human making it and I'm here for the creators not the middlemen.

Controversial opinion: the Internet didn't die, you just got left behind.

Gotta keep up. The edge of culture is always moving and trying to stay put is a guarantee that you'll miss out.

The community of memes is more varied and nuanced than leekspin ever was. There's more lowbrow comedy sure but there's more of all types of content.

If you only see shit you hate online it's your fault. Go find places you enjoy (for me that's lemmy, as an example) and teach your algorithm to stop showing you rage bait by not falling for it.

Tiktok has plenty of problems but if you teach the algorithm that the only reason you're there is absurdism and the bizarre: you'll end up with an absurd and bizarre feed.

Smh look at this guy chaining up their dog

Well that's all the convincing I need tbh

Serial killer Garth

I don't keep up with my country music memes - what's this one?

Damn that's wild reading this from an app

That's less an endorsement of PWAs and more a condemnation of how garbage the native app always was.

☝️🤓 actually people survived before money ! Fool !

Lemme go tell my 80 year old grandma on a fixed income to go forage instead of heading to Albertsons.

Money is required for survival in any nation where you're getting a salary for your work. Dying 40 years early because your body gives out from giardia isn't surviving.