Good book along those lines…
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71·8 days agoGo down the list of articles documenting people killed in 2019 and show me where the bias is.
It’s cool, I’ll wait…
Again, you are willfully misunderstanding what the statistic is stating:
Here are the total number of PEOPLE killed by dogs.
Of that number, here’s how many PEOPLE were killed by each breed.
This isn’t tracking bites, or overall attacks, it’s tracking human deaths.
A similar stat would be tracking vehicular accident deaths, if in a year you have accidents involving “brand x” accounting for more vehicular fatalities than all other brands combined, that points to a massive, massive problem with the brand.
It doesn’t matter how many cars there are, that’s not what the stat is tracking.
But if you really want to know, Google says there are around 90 million dogs in the US and 4.5 to 18 million pit bulls depending on how you count. So 5% to 20% of the dog population accounting for 66% of the human deaths.
The number of dogs is irrelevant because the statistic is counting human deaths by dogs.
You wouldn’t say “well, how many people are there?” either.
The real question is “why would you believe that?”
They were bred to kill bulls, bears, and rats, in pits so that none of the animals could escape.
If you look at the chart “mixed breed” is it’s own category and they excluded reports where the breeds were unknown.
The number of dogs doesn’t matter, it’s tracking the number of human beings killed by the breed.
Yeah, Chihuahua might bite you, they aren’t going to kill you.
Dogsbite.org is super diligent about showing the supporting evidence. For example, the last complete year they have is 2019:
https://www.dogsbite.org/dog-bite-statistics-fatality-citations-2019.php
Each death marked with multiple citations.
When you look at annual statistics of dog bite fatalities, pit bulls aren’t just the #1 cause of dog bite deaths, they account for more deaths than all dog breeds COMBINED.
4·14 days agoLarger than EA?
Recently learned the actress who played Samara was the same actress who did the voice of Lilo in Lilo and Stitch.
That’s some casting whiplash right there!
Destiny 2 died because the studio was more interested in chasing F2P microtransactions than story content.
They cut the paid story content so they could go F2P, then the new players had no idea what was going on or how to engage.
What they SHOULD have done was this:
Fork Destiny 2 into 2 games, each balanced separately. A) PvE Paid Story Content B) F2P PvP microtransactions.
Let the same character bounce from one to the other.
In fairness, the Linux feature was half baked. I got YellowDog running on it, but because of the goofball CPU, you had to recompile everything to get it to run, which it did poorly.
Because stopping disc production has worked so well for Microsoft…
Here’s the bit both are forgetting:
The hardware is still sold at retail.
So you go into a store, you see a console for sale but no games. Or, worse, a shelf of old games on the “Discontinued” rack (the Xbox section in most Targets and Walmarts now.) Do you feel inclined to buy that hardware?
How is that working out for Microsoft?
Valve can get away with it with the Steam products because they are sold in the same online store that sells the games.
3·20 days agoI mean, palm oil is technically a real ingredient and all natural. Then again, so are cyanide and arsenic. 😉
https://www.health.ny.gov/environmental/emergency/chemical_terrorism/cyanide.htm
https://archive.cdc.gov/www_atsdr_cdc_gov/csem/arsenic/where_arsenic.html
No. Not a fan. I bought IV out of curiosity and I had a review copy of Chinatown Wars. That’s it.
From a comic book called The Tick. I believe that’s #3 or #4.
Hmmm… I wonder if there’s a market for pre-installed Win11 boot SSDs then. 🤔
SIR Cuppington.