Because a columbine type of school shooting is different than property damage.

And people writing these articles know that “some destructive teens did donuts in the school parking lot at night and shot the stop sign” isn’t what people think when they say that a “school shooting” has happened.

None of it should be happening is right. I just get a skeezy feeling when articles use language they know will get people thinking one thing when they mean another.

It’s horrible, don’t get me wrong. I worry about my own little one, but the distinction is an order of magnitude of a difference in my head. Like the distinction between a troublemaker throwing a lit match in a trash can vs some maniac dousing a building in gasoline.

This is depressing, but it also bothers me that there’s such a large distinction between how the average person would picture a “school shooting” and what these articles are talking about. Is there a name for that in journalism?

Like, if someone told me “there was a school shooting at school X today”, like most people I would immediately picture someone walking into the building and firing indiscriminately at everyone. Not, “a couple of teens got in a fight in the parking lot, and one pulled out a gun”, or “someone shot at the school’s sign”. (Which are also horrible, but I feel like we need separate terms)

From the article:

According to the report, the most commonly known situations associated with such incidents included “escalation of dispute,” “drive-by,” “illegal activity,” “accidental firing of a weapon” and “intentional property damage.”

Who is influencing all these tech companies to be this greedy lately?

It’s been an internet thing for long before 2016 (at least mid 00s in my memory), so I don’t associate it with them.

They took the pepe frogs for a while too, but I’ve been seeing them come back. Nature is healing.

I truly can’t picture it.

I’d love to find one

You’re welcome. Go out there and be free.

“Mannanafnanefnd”

Who watches the watchers?

I like the old style comics. Reminds me of stealing the comics section of the paper when I was a kid.

You’re welcome, Steven.

What an irredeemable monster.

Is it my app or Lemmy that doesn’t like ampersands?

I’m having much more fun here too

On one hand, competition is usually good for the end user.

On the other hand, we have such a better platform for users on the fediverse that I’m not really invested in what either of these weirdos do.

These screenshots are making me think really hard about where my upvotes/downvotes buttons are on apps I’m still getting used to.

This is what happens when we take transformers cartoons out of schools.

Hey, some people just aren’t part of the essential crew.