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From: Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Why Python When There Is Perl?
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2024 08:26:47 -0400
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RonB wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

> On 2024-04-07, Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> wrote:
>> RonB wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>>
>>> On 2024-04-05, Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> wrote:
>>>> rbowman wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, 5 Apr 2024 02:36:17 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Yes. More reliable food supply. More varied sources of food and other
>>>>>> goods by trade. Greater chance of surviving medical conditions and
>>>>>> disabilities that would have immediately meant death for nomads--that
>>>>>> alone showed you that they had an easier life.
>>>>>
>>>>> Do you think the laborers building the pyramids had an easier life? That's 
>>>>> the ultimate outcome of agriculture -- the haves and the havenots, the 
>>>>> people on the hill and the one in the dark satanic mills.
>>>>
>>>> And NFL-loving gun-totin' Trumpenproletariat.
>>>
>>> I'm guessing the inner cities are not "Trump Country" and that's where most 
>>> of the "gun-toting" and killing thugs reside. But carry on, don't let 
>>> inconvenient facts get in your way, you might lose your Woke Card.
>>
>> Cut the "woke" nonsense. And repeating simplistic statements. Jesus!
>>
>>    https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/map-gun-death-rates-lower-cities-than-rural-counties-rcna81462
>>
>>    The most rural counties had a 37% higher rate of firearm deaths than the
>>    most urban counties from 2011 to 2020, an analysis found.
>>
>> That may have changed, of course. Some cities, such as St. Louis, do have a lot
>> of killings.  But people are always making fun of Chicago for some reason.
>>
>> You carryin', bro?
>
> Some cities... like St. Louis? How about Chicago, New Orleans, New York, 
> Baltimore, Los Angeles, Portland, Atlanta? Every week in Chicago death toll 
> from thug violence results in multiple deaths.
>
> When they gather these "gun violence" statistics, they include suicide and 
> accidental shooting deaths. Not quite the same thing as thugs killing each 
> other, or innocent bystanders or victims.  

St. Louis is #1. Chicago's way down the list.  IIRC, North Charleston, SC,
if pretty high up there.

It puzzles me why you dudes think the manner of gun deaths is important.

-- 
"Not Hercules could have knock'd out his brains, for he had none."
		-- Shakespeare