So? It’s not like it was a tourist destination that he bought and turned into a home, it’s a home.

Also middle aged and my only real issue is how stupid everyone is

They don’t read. They don’t research. They don’t question… not in a “conspiracy theory” way, but they don’t see a headline and go, “is that true?”

They’re morons that feed off negativity.

They’ll post an article about something terrible but then I’ll look it up, find out it’s bullshit, and then post the data that shows it’s bullshit and instead of everybody being like, “oh thank God, I was worried there for a second” they go, “Fuck you. Obviously everything is shitty and how dare you even try to point out that it’s not”

What the fuck is wrong with people these days?

The article that listed all of the hangings had links to articles about each individual case in which there were interviews and quotes from the people involved with the investigation and reports from the autopsies that showed no signs of a struggle.

yes, you should verify claims actual factual information to see if the claims are true; that is how you should live your life.

They did investigate, they said it was suicide. You’ve just decided on your own that this is untrue

I asked what proof you had and you said none, just a gut feeling that it was suspicious because they were black and not only hanged, but hanged outside. Turns out people track this kind of information so we could look it it up to see if you were right. You were wrong. Not only is hanging still an extremely common form of suicide (even for black people), but doing it outside is the preferred method.

This is how you are suppose to live your life. Walking around assuming everything is a racist conspiracy based on a hunch and that you can trust everything every famous person says is how you end up stupid

I found more data

Between 2005 and 2014 there were 25,207 suicides by asphyxiation. 90% of these were hanging and the most common place was a tree, at 2,215

76% of the victims were white, so 1683 people were non-white… over 9 years. SO that’s 59 a year or about 5 a month.

So yeah, finding 8 black people hanging in public over 8 months is probably pretty normal

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29308538/

So this is tough to track but the US NVDRS data says that between 2005-2014 there were 25,270 hangings. 90.7% of those involved hanging, so 22,931.

The three most common hanging points were Trees (2215), beams, and closets.

That alone says 221 people hang themselves outdoors every year

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29308538/

It’s not that the police don’t have any information, it’s that we, the people on Lemmy, don’t have any information.

The police said “suicide” and that’s where the story stops. You’re just assuming there is more to it but you don’t have any proof that there actually is

The article says one case even the family agrees is suicide. Another case the family agrees the victim was being bullied and so suicide is a strong possibility. One case the police have a suspect and it’s her boyfriend but there isn’t enough evidence to charge him. One case was so new we didn’t even have a name yet

According to the CDC about 12,000 people a year hanged themselves. You don’t think any of those people are ever black?

You’re just assuming these are all racially motivated cases of murder that the police are covering up… but you have zero evidence of that

And even if it were true it’s 4 cases over 8 months across the entirety of the United States. Not exactly the kind of thing that warrants national attention

Or there just isn’t any information because it actually was suicide

Again, one of them the family agrees probably was suicide. One of them the family admits that the victim was being bullied and so suicide is a strong possibility. One of them is probably murder there just isn’t enough evidence to prove it. The fourth case was so new we didn’t even have a name

The other four we have no information on. It’s not that the police don’t have any information, we, the people of lemmy, don’t have any information on them. All we know is that the police ruled it suicide. We have zero evidence that the police didn’t investigate or that there were signs of a struggle and the police covered it up… all we know is the police said, “suicide”

Which isn’t all that shocking because according to the CDC about 12,000 people a year commit suicide by hanging themselves. You don’t think any of those people are ever black?

And even if there were signs of a struggle that the police ignored we still have zero evidence that the murderer is white. Black people can’t hang each other? Hispanic people can’t hang black people?

It’s ironically racist to just assume that it had to be something only a white person could have done. Like saying every time you hear a story of someone getting shot you just assume the trigger man is black. Doesn’t matter what color you skin is, people are people. Anybody could have done this, including the victim themselves

So the only way this matters is if it turns out all four of the remaining cases turned out to be racially motivated murders committed by a white person but even then, it’s four people across 8 months over the entirely of the United States… not exactly the kind of thing that needs nation wide attention

The problem is that we don’t have any information

Conspiracy people are going to say it’s a cover up but also it very well could be suicide or non-racially motivated murders

In that article the family straight up agrees one case was suicide, and in another case the family admitted that the victims was constantly being bullied, so good chance for suicide there too

The latest case in that article was so new we didn’t even know the victims name

That’s 3 out of 7 all year.

One case the woman left town for a family reunion and while no arrest was made her on-again-off-again black boyfriend was questioned and witnesses say that two had gotten into a fight the day before she was found. He was a felon who was currently set to appear in court for felony possession of a firearm.

So maybe 4 black people were hung due to racism. More likely, if any, it was 3. But also, maybe not. Not only do we not know any of these were murders, but we also don’t know it was a white person that did it even if it was murder

and you’re talking about a problem that is, at most, 7 people across the entire united states over 8 months

In my state the ambulance is free

It should be free everywhere, I’m just saying that it’s not always a charge. It literally depends on your state? city?

Maybe, maybe not. Doesn’t matter, it is currently free and people prefer it over your nerdy cousin because of that

There’s the argument that despite what your nerdy cousin says, he doesn’t actually like making art, he just think that if he can be an artist he won’t have to have a real job. He doesn’t want to draw a picture for you, otherwise he would have done it for free simply because it was fun

This is why AI art is so incredibly popular

Fuck my nerdy cousin, AI will do a bang-up job for free

This is the problem… people tried

“I need an icon for my twitch channel”

“I’m an artist, I don’t work for free” /r/choosingbeggers

Normal people don’t use VS Code either… what’s a silly article

I don’t use a scalpel… so I guess scalpels are stupid and Surgeons are idiots?

yeah.

I made a comment in a match thread and got the alert on the little bell icon that usually means somebody responded

But instead of a response it was an auto-message that said my comment had been removed because my account is too new and doesn’t have enough Karma to post. But this auto-message also said something like, “message the mods here” and then had a link I could click to message the mods of the World Cup sub, so that’s what I did

And all I was doing was explaining that I’m not a bot and I’ll take a picture or whatever to prove it, I’m just a dude who signed up for reddit that day just to post in the world cup match threads. That waiting days before being allowed to post isn’t the end of the world but considering the World Cup is a limited-time event, not allowing me to post for days would mean I wouldn’t be able to post in match threads for 12 or 13 of the games (at that point there were 3 or 4 a day)

So I was just asking if they could lift my ban considering the circumstances

But they came back and questioned why I had no posted anywhere else on reddit.

So I told them, “I don’t really like reddit. I don’t have any interest in posting anywhere else. I’m literally only here for the World Cup match threads”.

And I guess me telling them that reddit sucks was a trigger because the response I got back after that was super nasty

It wasn’t until later did I think, “I be the World Cup sub is a sub created by reddit admins themselves because of it’s popularity. So I bet the mods of that sub are people who work for reddit. And I just told reddit employees I think their site sucks shit, hence the nasty response”

It’s just a bit ironic because it was their chance to change my mind and prove that reddit doesn’t suck. Instead they banned my entire account and just kind of proved to me that everything bad I think about their site is not only true but actually much, much worse

I got banned for making an account just to post in the World Cup threads but the sub wouldn’t let me post because my account needed to be older and have a certain amount of karma

This “you can’t post message” came with a note saying I could message a mod and then a link to click to do just that, so I did

I explained I wasn’t a bot, I was a human, I’d prove it however they wanted, but I couldn’t really wait days to post because the World Cup is happening now and in 3 or 4 days I’d miss like 12 games

They responded saying that I had zero karma and had not made any posts…

So I replied that yeah, this is exactly true because I don’t like reddit I only signed up to post in the World Cup Match threads

I received a very nasty reply where they told me that reddit was super popular with millions of users and that it wasn’t their problem I didn’t like reddit and then my account got banned

I believe the World Cup is super popular and so it’s not just a random sub ran by random people in the world… but a sub made by reddit and moderated by reddit employees. So I just told a reddit employee I hate their site and so they banned me

It’s a pretty shit site

In other words, the average person is dumb and so they’re entertained by dumb things

“You like money and sex? Me too! We should hang out”

Garfield is notorious for being lame to the point where there are no real jokes… Garfield comics are just Garfield saying the same thing everybody says

For instance, I googled “Garfield Comic” and the first one that showed up was Garfield walking up to a mirror, Looking in the mirror, walking away from the mirror, and the last panel had Garfield think, “when did the cat in that mirror get so old?”

There’s nothing to that comic, It could have been one panel if you really wanted it to be and that “joke” is the same thing my Grandma said when we walked past a store with a reflective window

And that’s all this PizzaCake comic is

Literally everybody was like, “if they’re so proud why do they cover their face?” – it’s the political equivalant of, “If it didn’t ring up it must be free”

This shit sucks

thats more creative than anything PizzaCake has ever written

Make fun of them all you want, but maybe don’t go with the most obvious jokes of all time

This is the political version of, “it didn’t ring up? It must be free”