Depending on whether you mean Sandy Hook/Columbine type shootings or any shooting that involves any school property in any fashion then either mostly white or mostly black. If you're averaging a school shooting a day, then you're including any shooting involving school property so mostly black but also fewer students than you'd expect (a lot of "school shootings" are just gang violence that involves school property in some fashion and a surprising number are accidental discharge of a concealed carry that hits no one).

The great thing about federated social media is that there is no central control, so someone else can just open a server with the opposite views, or one that tries to be aggressively neutral is they really wanted to and users from other servers can read those communities and post there from their own servers. Hell, those other servers can even have communities with the same name (just @ the other server) if they want.

Having the giant userbase does make it more likely there are enough people into whatever weird niche you are to have a reasonable community though. I mean, how else are you going to get a community going for, I don't know, hyper-realistic simulations of underwater basketweaving or w/e?

You get a lot of votes and comments but the votes don’t matter and the comments are largely empty one-liners.

The votes matter even less here, so there's no reason to drop empty one liners you think might get karma.

Call him Donald. He hates it

Yeah, but beinf assosciated with him is insulting to all the other Donalds out there and Donald is inside the top 20 most common boy's names in the US over the period that most current adult males were born. I presume that's why he hates it - it's a common name, some might say a peasant name (despite it's meaning).

I mean the point of all rating systems in the US was fear of government regulation of content and having to fight that particular legal battle. It basically exists because moral busybodies were upset about Night Trap, Mortal Kombat and Doom.

That's fair.

Meanwhile, Luigi’s bullet had plenty of impact and plenty of meaning, as evidenced by the outcry of support from common people of both parties. This may be one of the only issues that the far left and the far right actually agree on.

Two things:

1. The constituents of populist wings of both left (such as it exists in the US) and right have generally the same concerns but radically different views on what to do about them and how to do it. So executing a health insurance CEO from a company known specifically for denying care at a much higher rate than other insurance gets approval all around even if one side wants to solve the problem by nationalizing healthcare and assuming the government will fix it and the other by deregulating it and assuming the market will fix it.

2. This is the best kind of political violence - the sort where it's clear and obvious what the issue is, what message is being sent and there's a clear line between the problem and the violence that goes right through the message. As opposed to say burning down a pawn shop with someone inside in the name of mistreatment of black people by law enforcement (Montez Terriel Lee, during the second night of BLM 2020 protests in Minneapolis).

when will euthanasia be legal?

It may not be legal, but when self-administered it's not like you can be punished for it.

On a somewhat less severe side of things, lack of libido in women is still considered a jokey non-issue by most doctors but viagra has been on the market for decades for men.

Viagra doesn't treat a lack of libido, it treats a lack of blood flow to the relevant anatomy. And it was discovered by accident - a drug meant to treat high blood pressure and angina that was more effective at doing something else to blood flow. In other words it's not that men use viagra to have the desire, but rather to get the equipment to play along. Lack of libido in men is often a symptom of low testosterone, so they check for that and prescribe testosterone if that's the issue but that's really the entire toolbox on that front.

Lack of libido in women is a much harder problem to solve, and the first attempt at it that ever made it to market barely worked, had to be taken daily, and went horribly wrong if you consume any alcohol at all. There's a second that hit market a few years later that's supposedly more effective and isn't a daily regimen but is also an injection, has significant potential side effects and can't be mixed with naltrexone (a drug used to treat opioid addiction) because it will cause naltrexone not to work.

Compare to contraception, where there are tons of options available to women and basically all insurance is legally required to cover at least one brand of each type, including barrier methods, with a prescription. The options available to men are condoms or being surgically sterilized, and there's no requirement to cover either at all.

It's harder to get contraceptives for men approved because it doesn't prevent a medical condition for the user and so the bar for what is acceptable as a side effect is really low. You may have seen news stories about a male pill and men chickening out over the side effects (what wimps!) but the problem wasn't men backing out of the study, but that the acceptable side effects for a treatment that prevents a different person from developing a condition are so restrictive that they killed the study because it was already never going to be approved.

There is another male contraceptive that's been in development in India since the 80s, and as of 2022 has still not been approved - RISUG. Phase 3 clinical trials for RISUG were published more than twenty years ago. There's a variation of RISUG that's in development in the US called Vasalgel, and it's been in development here for over a decade. RISUG and Vasalgel are long term reversible contraceptives - think like an IUD - that consist of an injection in each of the vas deferens and lasts up to a decade, but can be removed earlier if needed by another set of injections in the vas deferens. Should it get approved in the US, there's no legal requirement that any insurance cover it, let alone without copay because the ACA specifically only requires coverage for contraceptive options for women.

The best part of that line is that everyone left of fascism reads it as a direct threat - bow to our will or there will be blood, while the right can claim it's just them worrying about the left turning violent.

Nah, your lifetime license will be fine. They'll just slightly rename the products, release them as "entirely new, unrelated products" and cease updating it under the old name. You can still use the old, never updated product in perpetuity, if you want...

The first time this happened to me was a MUD client of all things. zMUD discontinued, check out the new cMUD! Also available with a lifetime license just like zMUD was!