I would add the cop didn’t turn down his music either. But hey, the parents received 6 million dollars in tax payer money and it only cost them their son. Infuriating. The kid was so composed and calm. More so than I believe I would be. Gave them all the necessary information and they failed him. I’d love to know what happened to those fucking idiots.
Oh, probably suspension with pay for a year and then moved over to a different nearby police department.
JFC, now I’m mad.
I’ve seen so many examples of cops doing shit like that. They just don’t care and they can become impossibly obtuse when it suits them.
From the title “Internet’s Darkest Corners” I assumed it was some horrific 911 call that 4chan or w/e was spreading for edgelord shock value.
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That’s like the opposite of a weeb
Is it just me or is hurricane Helene’s impact not really being covered? Like, literal towns were washed away. I would have thought it would be wall to wall coverage and everyone talking about it, but it doesn’t seem that way.
I only listened to the first story of that video and decided I didn’t need anymore of that. But in the first story, the 911 operator deserved way more hate than the cops. She didn’t relay the make and model of the car, she didn’t relay which parking lot he was in, or that it was life threatening. The kid called 911 twice relaying it all both times.
I’m sorry to hear that Marksman. Hopefully you can find some peace in your memories together.
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It’s the 6th story down on CNN.com right now which is wild. Not in the top 10 on Fox News. All I can think up is that these places are hard to get to so it makes for a difficult story to tell.
Hard to get to. No large populations stranded like in Katrina. Press and public are super distracted by the election.
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Nice little heart warming read. Sure loving all my different private insurances right now
Crowley’s stuff is hard to categorize. Its rarely gratuitous and much more often depressing and dark. He uses a lot of scratchy visuals and audio distortions to add a creepy atmosphere, but mostly the stories are centered around true and dark stories
I think those things are largely true, and you can only see so much destruction before it all starts to look the same. And the survivor stories sound the same. Not that different from mass shooting coverage. Disasters and tragedies of all kinds are so much more common now than they were years ago. And even the major media companies find their resources stretched. You cover them and you move on.
There’s probably a lot of local coverage, but the people who need to see it don’t have power. I think more follow up could be done of past hurricanes, like Ian. But yeah, the election is probably a better ratings grabber, and sadly that’s what the news business seems to be about these days.
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That’s part of it, but another factor I think is that Katrina was almost 20 years of climate change ago, and now crushing catastrophic natural disasters are going to become like US school shootings, occuring with increasing regularity where each one is less shocking than the last until no one cares anymore. A hurricane destroying thousands of lives is just another Tuesday in America in the 21st century. Thoughts and prayers.
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Whoops, I just posted a similar thing. My pony lost it’s home in a flood.
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I don’t think I have the mental fortitude to read this today.
I had never seen this before, and it’s simultaneously obvious and mind-blowing.
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I didn’t think about this much but I don’t understand. How do you pick a random number based off of a distribution without any parameters to the distribution? And if you do know the distribution why not just keep going if it is less than the mean. I’m clearly missing something
It’s a standard Gaussian distribution, so it’s distributed ~N(0,1), right?
A “standard” Gaussian is parameterized, mean zero, variance 1.
https://x.com/KnightsbyBen/status/1840879616833016280
This was my original thought. If the range is infinite, then the probability R lands between the two numbers should be vanishingly small, right?
How do you even get a random number from an infinite range? Can someone show me that number?