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Re:Social Media Can Be a ‘Profound Risk’ to Youth, Surgeon G... by tantalor on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @04:33PM (#36050482)
> School shootings are such a regular feature of American life...

No they're not.

> ...that every school holds safety drills for the risk.

They also hold drills for tornado, fire, etc. These aren't regular parts of life either; they are emergencies for which people can prepare for the extremely rare chance it actually happens.

We could debate the utility or practical implementation of active shooter drills compared to fire drills, but just waving your hands saying they are injecting horrors into children's heads is overblown. Most kids just find them a waste of time. Just like fire drills.

Re:Social Media Can Be a ‘Profound Risk’ to Youth, Surgeon G... by Jedd on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @05:47PM (#36051272)
> No they're not.

Yes, they are.

But rather than merely gainsay, I'll support that by observing:

a) here in Australia we regularly, consistently, have zero school shootings each year. Can recommend.

b) you are probably misunderstanding the meaning of regular, and conflating it with frequent.

Halley's Comet is regular - at once every ~76 years. But obviously not frequent.

(I'd argue, as per (a), that the USA has too high a frequency of school shootings as well. If your tolerance for slaughtered children is higher than mine you may disagree with that claim.)

Re:Social Media Can Be a ‘Profound Risk’ to Youth, Surgeon G... by nostrebored on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @06:21PM (#36051575)
Maybe if you had the same attitude about bus fatalities this would be grounded in reality. If we relax the rules to school bus related fatalities there are almost an order of magnitude more.
Re:Social Media Can Be a ‘Profound Risk’ to Youth, Surgeon G... by JoeyJoJoJr on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @06:53PM (#36051857)
And many more people die of heart disease than school bus fatalities, and which is arguably more preventable. The point is that a school shooting represents an event that is so extreme, and so completely antithetical to society, that the members of any well functioning society should have enough shared values to give such an event the level of importance it deserves.
Re:Social Media Can Be a ‘Profound Risk’ to Youth, Surgeon G... by escapedmoose on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @06:55PM (#36051871)
I would think if the US had routine bus fatality counts an order of magnitude larger than other countries, then yes, that would be cause to be alarmed about student bus fatalities in the US as well.
Re:Social Media Can Be a ‘Profound Risk’ to Youth, Surgeon G... by Jedd on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @04:59AM (#36055594)
How are bus fatalities related to a misunderstanding about what 'regular' means? (And/or how regular is not a synonym of frequent.)
Re:Social Media Can Be a ‘Profound Risk’ to Youth, Surgeon G... by tantalor on Thursday May 25, 2023 @10:32AM (#36071222)
What I mean by "regular" is you can go to any school or place and find it happening.

Bullying is regular in America. It happens in every school.

Police brutality/abuse is regular in America. It happens in every city with a large enough police force.

Pharmaceutical addiction is regular in America. It happens in every town.

Re:Social Media Can Be a ‘Profound Risk’ to Youth, Surgeon G... by Jedd on Thursday May 25, 2023 @11:27PM (#36079440)
Okay, so you've redefined regular, and are now surprised the person you're responding to doesn't share your unique definition.

It sounds like instead of just mistakenly using it as a synonym for frequent, you're mistakenly using it to mean something like prevalent or widespread or pervasive.

Either way you're responding to a perfectly valid claim by re-purposing the words used by the parent post and then arguing against that.

Re:Social Media Can Be a ‘Profound Risk’ to Youth, Surgeon G... by JoeyJoJoJr on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @06:39PM (#36051742)
If you took all school shootings of all first world nations, other than USA, in the last 100 years, that number would still be eclipsed by the average number of yearly USA school shootings. Comparatively the USA is an extreme outlier, even compared to 3rd world nations.