porcoesphino
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- Comment on Does life have less value to people in Latin America? 16 minutes ago:
Your linked article says this:
macroeconomic instability often fuels spikes in violence: a recession in LAC is associated with a 6 percent increase in homicides the following year, while inflation spikes above 10 percent are linked to a 10 percent rise in homicides the year after. Growing inequality further exacerbates the link between economic stagnation and crime.
sound economic policy plays a preventive role. Stability, low inflation, robust social safety nets, and opportunities that reduce inequality and expand access to education and employment are critical to breaking the cycle of violence and stagnation. Financial authorities are also uniquely positioned to weaken criminal networks by addressing illicit markets, curtailing financial flows, and tackling money laundering—cutting off resources that sustain organized crime.
because the impact of crime extends far beyond direct economic costs, economic policymakers must adopt a broader role by targeting high-risk groups, improving crime monitoring, and enhancing interagency coordination.
In Rosario province, Argentina implemented a comprehensive strategy to combat crime, including territorial control of high-risk neighborhoods by the Federal Police, stricter prison systems for high-profile offenders, and collective prosecution of criminal groups under new legislation like the anti-mafia law. These efforts, alongside progress on a juvenile penal code to deter drug traffickers from recruiting minors, have led to 65% reduction homicides in 11 months. In Honduras, strategic security reforms contributed to a 14% decline in the homicide rate and an 8% increase in public confidence in law enforcement.
- Comment on Does life have less value to people in Latin America? 23 minutes ago:
I get the point you’re making but in the context of the OP the reply didn’t seem too far off. Yours though is getting pretty close to declaring a depression epidemic in Latin America, I presume because your saw red in their reply
- Comment on How long until we can start shorting years to 2 numbers again? 1 day ago:
I think Australian’s usually say “oh”. Signed an Aussie that’s spent enough time abroad to confuse himself on what they actually say
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 1 week ago:
Oh yeah, I can get behind this gif a lot more
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 1 week ago:
Yeah, his hand coming up in a way that could be “this isn’t what you think” doesn’t help. The description makes the situation sound very different though and there’s not much of an excuse for the armband right now. But yeah, not a fan of the gif now I’ve seen it
- Comment on Why did the proposed *Red Sea–Dead Sea Water Conveyance* project involve pumping water instead of siphoning it? 2 weeks ago:
Really great answer. Thanks
- Comment on Could there be additional forces at super low energies? Could a new fundamental force be discovered anytime soon? + other questions relating to forces 3 weeks ago:
Wow I wish this was two questions. I’m pretty curious to see if there is anything detailed people have to say about the first paragraph but have little energy to skim through the answers to the second paragraph that seem to be dominating word count
- Comment on Where do you typically leave/read reviews 1 month ago:
4.5-4.6 can be hit-or-miss
How is that not inflated? For my personal ratings, a three is something I’d be happy to eat every day. A five is close to unattainable. It’s basically centered on 2.5 with something like a tapered normal distribution. It’s tedious mapping out so I’m not lowering ratings for good places so I don’t rate anymore.
But getting past me being difficult, you can’t even rate 4.5 can you? Isn’t that information being lost when the way people rate is basically 5 for thumb up and every other number is a thumb down?
You’re right about it being useful to look at relative ratings, I just wouldn’t label that as really accurate.
It’s a separate issue but you brought up categories. I never loved rating in a situation like on Airbnb where one place might be a deliberately expensive penthouse and another might be deliberately a cheap shared room in the wilderness, especially with something like a “cleanliness” rating
- Comment on Where do you typically leave/read reviews 1 month ago:
Agreed Google maps is the best review aggregator (and I wish it wasn’t) but “the star ratings are scarily accurate”? I think you mean “hugely inflated”. Like almost any review system a I’ve seen recently: if you like a place and you give less than a 5 then you’re hurting it.
- Comment on If this has been asked recently just link it no need to be mean, because I am emotionally sensitive right now. Thank you for your attention to this matter. 1 month ago:
Most authoritarian regimes consolidate power through improving the economy and high approval don’t they? The collapse tends to come later after to consolation I thought and I hadn’t seen it argued as a strategic thing. Any chance you can point to something that discusses this more fully?
- Comment on Shark Data Suggests Animals Scale Like Geometric Objects 1 month ago:
I didn’t bother reading it but I presume an attempt at compelling reporting. Mice and elephants have some morphological differences that are influenced by their size differences and these have been used in high school physics for at least decades but I presume longer
- Comment on Magic Mushrooms Evolved Psilocybin Not Once, but Twice 1 month ago:
I’d be curious to see that with dosage. Like maybe they’re just more sensitive to caffeine than originally expected, kind of how humans were way more sensitive to LSD than expected. But also, the effects of LSD in humans seem to plateau unlike alcohol, it would be interesting to see if the caffeine web is the spider falling off a metaphorical cliff
- Comment on If you smoothened out the earth, how high would the water level be? 1 month ago:
You did well in your answer by the way. I didn’t downvote. My comments are directed at everyone downvoting the person calling out imperial units
- Comment on If you smoothened out the earth, how high would the water level be? 1 month ago:
Sure, they’re great for people chatting casually in the US, Myanmar and Liberia but they add unnecessary complexity with scientific or engineering applications
- Comment on If you smoothened out the earth, how high would the water level be? 1 month ago:
Like, nautical miles have a good use but that’s not even the miles being used
- Comment on If you smoothened out the earth, how high would the water level be? 1 month ago:
Yeah, I’m fluent in what you listed too… but everything you listed is just meters in metric so that’s five-ish conversions to needlessly need to know. And if you start using equations in then standard units play up a lot like when diving with imperial units you measure depth in feet but pressure in pounds per square inch so you have an awkward feet to inch right there and the equations are just more complicated. Anything beside the simple gets compounding unit conversions. And the countries left in the world that only use imperial are the US, Myanmar and Liberia.
- Comment on If you smoothened out the earth, how high would the water level be? 1 month ago:
Ahaha. All the people from the US downvoting this 🤦♂️ So many solutions to questions like this a just easier and more intuitive in metric. Tec diving is just hilarious in imperial units
- Comment on If you smoothened out the earth, how high would the water level be? 1 month ago:
This is close, if you haven’t seen it. It plays off of the “earth is smoother than a bowling ball” thing that’s almost true but turns it around:
- Comment on How many people would a generation ship need to have for inbreeding to not be an issue? 1 month ago:
I was more thinking of the space / rockets side of things but you got me. I’m already subscribed to both
- Comment on How many people would a generation ship need to have for inbreeding to not be an issue? 1 month ago:
It’s the wrong place to ask, but if I liked this question, where should I be subscribed to besides !space@mander.xyz ?
- Comment on How many people would a generation ship need to have for inbreeding to not be an issue? 1 month ago:
And presuming a species that built a generation ship doesn’t have the ability to handle these environmental changes (either through “fixing” the environment or the genes). And there are two migrations here. I’m not seeing much targeting the earth to generation ship migration directly here. But, they’d all die in free space so the ship is an environmental “fix” and they may need a genetic “fix” to handle things like long term exposure to lower gravity, or some quirks of centripetal gravity.
- Comment on How, and why, are there so many AI-generated videos of incredibly obscure/niche topics? 2 months ago:
Bad content with new tools isn’t a new issue for sure… but it seems pretty dominant in places
Another example is/was every time a space X launch happening (particularly starship) if you search space x or elon musk on youtube. That used to be pretty crypto currency targeted slop though
- Comment on Do boycotts work? 2 months ago:
Yeah, I was think there is easier momentum for non-hardware tech. Social media is mostly its users so if they leave there isn’t much. Disney showed some of the weaknesses of streaming services but they’re aren’t many non-US alternatives. There are YouTube alternatives but there most of the content creators are entrenched there. Most of the rest of Google’s offerings have European alternatives.
- Comment on Do boycotts work? 2 months ago:
I wish there was momentum to boycott US tech companies
- Comment on Why are fruits and berries healthy, even though they are mostly just sugar? 2 months ago:
What specifically in the original post did you have issue with? There’s not a lot too that post, and you have agreed with part of it, so it seems like it would be faster to list out the issues
- Comment on Why are fruits and berries healthy, even though they are mostly just sugar? 2 months ago:
Here’s a review focused to some extent on how accurate the science in that book is:
www.healthline.com/…/how-not-to-die-review#TOC_TI…
The author seems pretty focused on pushing a single message so I’d be careful with that message myself. (As someone who aspires to have a diet that’s mostly vegetables with a few cheat days for meat.)
- Comment on Why are fruits and berries healthy, even though they are mostly just sugar? 2 months ago:
Fruits tend to get listed as low GI supporting the poster’s statement.
Also, you’re simplifying the chemistry and metabolic pathways to the point they sound the same when they’re obviously different. I’m not an expert but I as I understand it table sugar is short chain and good to go, fruits (if they’re not pre cooked) tend to be a bit more complicated and have a few more steps along the way (and I assume each requires some energy to unlock and also result in some chemical energy that isn’t completely digested). Also, what you’re saying goes a lot against what I understand from the carb count on the packet from fibre vs. what your body unlocks. That said, I’m very ignorant and far from an expert
- Comment on Why are fruits and berries healthy, even though they are mostly just sugar? 2 months ago:
Are you both from the US? It was rough getting used to how much you all like to drown out the food with various sauces
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 2 months ago:
Oh, I didn’t say I had a preference. And I see your point that one is just a conjugation of the other. I’ve just seen capitalism as a term used more for explanation and when I’ve seen capitalist said it tends to have a negative connotation at best but more often it is half spat out
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 2 months ago:
The question says capitalism (not so loaded term) your answer said capitalist (more loaded term and you’ve taken time to use the loaded part of the term).
That said, I accidentally replied to a question in lemmy.ml so the person asking the question is probably more aligned with your way of thinking and explaining than I am. Sorry about that