is it really hot in your country?
Every other day. It’s impacted my neck of the woods on several occasions just this year.
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Yes, I don’t know where you’re from or where you live, but here In the United States, some states are experiencing heat waves.
and the question no one wants to answer is why? Mass shooting ( murders) is nothing new in human history. But why does it happen so often now. Some want to blame the gun, yet in my high school days back in the 70’s kids drove to school in a pickup truck with a gun rack in the back window, and yes there would often be a gun hanging there, but we never had school shootings. What has changed? here are a few things that have changed since my childhood
- ADHD, no such thing in my day or the drugs given to kids to treat it
- Gun violence in movies, sure we had it too but nothing like today’s graphic violence
- Video game violence , in my day all we had was pinball
- God ex-spelled from school, and with it the end to teaching morals
- Single parenthood, more now then anytime in history
this is my top 5, anyone have one to add
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mass public shooting incidents are typically premeditated and often planned in advance by angry, vengeful individuals seeking retribution for perceived wrongs done to them by someone, group, or institution.
so people were not angry and vengeful 50 years ago. I doubt that is the case
The question still stands, Why?, what has changed?
…and the doors to the pickup truck unlocked…
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Things are not the same as 50yrs ago, people change, societies change, mindset changes. etc.
In today’s America, you’ll be lost if you think like you did 50 years ago
People’s behavior can change due to stress in their lives, we began seeing mass shootings years ago when co-workers went postal, those shootings Evolved
Just my two cents FWIW… The world was a lot simpler when you/we were young… We were a lot simpler when we were young…
When I was born in the mid 1960’s… There was only roughly 2 and half billion people on this planet, now there is 7 billion, cities have become a rat race… Traffic, Housing, Affordability of services that once upon a time were free… Life has become so stressful… So complicated…
Governments, Regulations, Rules and their will to control more and more of your everyday life is causing untold stress on society, families and the world as we once knew it…
Many of the horrors of todays world were still there in our early days… Rapes, Pedophilia, Murders, Fraud etc. While they were probably a similar percentage to population levels as today… Less people less crime… Reporting of these issues travelled a lot slower and definitely less widely…
The social structure of society has changed… Families in general lived more day to day… Our parents didn’t have much (if any) disposable income… Most families relied on one income (until ~late 70’s), and most families didn’t live beyond their means… One mortgage, no Credit Cards… So as kids you made do with what you had…
You didn’t have to have the latest iPhone, Computer, 5 Televisions or a flash new car… No one had them so you never felt like you were poor or being left behind… Compare that with the youth of today…
For the most part, you just watched television or played outside, while your parents had a BBQ with the neighbour’s on Saturday afternoon’s…
You scrounged up Wood to make a pretend Gun or Bat… Riding a Bicycle or walking was your main means of transport… You hardly ever rang a mate on the phone… You rode, walked around there and banged on the door…
I find it almost therapeutic to watch an old movie or TV Series and see this on display… No mobile phones, Laptops, Computers or Digital Social Networks… Just communication via conversation… Just lots of Alcohol and Smoking…
A simpler life in simpler times… The world was a lot slower, a lot calmer place to be…
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We, as a country, don’t have a lock on violent movies and video game violence. Those are global. I’m with you on the mental issues and parents. But I’ll add technology and the shear number of guns in circulation.
We have more guns than people in this country and access to people and services, from the comfort of their home, is turning the youth and not so youth into awkward, anti-social, angry a-holes. You don’t have to meet people face to face any more. You can speak your mind and somebody, somewhere will listen, no matter how big of an idiot you are. You can find people just like you with the click of a few keys. There’s always an audience.
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There is a business culture in America that values money over morals and profit over people.
The ADHD Crisis: The Ugly Truth Behind Pharmaceutical Companies Strategically Drugging America
Manufactured Epidemic
APRIL 17, 2014
Edwards’ tragic tale is an anecdote that underscores a burgeoning crisis in America.
Over the past decade, the rate of ADHD diagnoses in the United has exploded, especially among high school age boys. These soaring rates have stirred controversy in the psychology and medical communities, prompting some experts to question whether the ADHD diagnostic requirements have grown too broad.
Today, nearly one in five high school boys in the United States and 11 percent of all grade school children have been medically diagnosed with ADHD, according to data from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
This amounts to an estimated 6.4 million children between the ages of 4 and 17 having received the diagnosis, marking a 16 percent rise in ADHD diagnoses among adolescents since 2007 and a 41 percent rise over the last decade. By high school, nearly 20 percent of all boys receive the diagnosis, a 37 percent increase since 2003.
In 1990, only 600,000 children were prescribed ADHD medication. Now, that number has soared to more than 3.5 million.
While some doctors and ADHD advocates believe that the rising diagnosis rates are a good thing, insisting that the medical community is simply getting better at recognizing and accommodating patients suffering from the disorder, others argue that the surge in ADHD cases are the direct result of a push from the pharmaceutical industry to bolster profits.
Among those troubled by the uptick in ADHD cases is Dr. Keith Conners, who a half-century ago, led the fight to have ADHD classified by the psychiatric community as a mental health disorder.
Last December, while addressing a group of ADHD specialists in Washington, DC, Conners expressed concern over the spiking rates of diagnosis, describing the trend as “a national disaster of dangerous proportions.”
“The numbers make it look like an epidemic. Well, it’s not. It’s preposterous,” Conners, now a psychologist and professor emeritus at Duke University, told The New York Times in an interview following his address in Washington. “This is a concoction to justify the giving out of medication at unprecedented and unjustifiable levels.”
The unjustifiable levels described by Conners appear to closely correlate with a 20-year campaign by the pharmaceutical industry to educate the public on ADHD and to encourage doctors to prescribe powerful stimulants like Ritalin, Adderall, Vyvanse and Concerta to treat the disorder.
Historically, ADHD has been estimated to affect between 3 and 7 percent of children. Because there is no definitive test to determine whether or not an individual has ADHD, its diagnosis is entirely subjective.
Under intense pressure from drug manufacturers, insurance companies and parents desiring to improve their children’s social behavior or school performance, physicians are often forced to quickly diagnose the disorder and prescribe drugs, often without completing a thorough examination.
The ADHD Crisis: The Ugly Truth Behind Pharmaceutical Companies Strategically Drugging America
Good reply, this is what I am looking for, answers to the why question, and as usual government is the cause not the solution
Another great reply, clearly social media is and has had a huge negative effect.
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I did something last week I rarely do anymore, I paid to see a movie at a movie theater
Sound of Freedom is a good movie that addresses a subject matter that for some reason the elites in Hollywood choose to ignore
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Heard nothing but good about it. Well, at least, on the sites that I follow.
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This is on my to-watch list.
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The US justice system is a mess, and here is an example of the judges being nominated by the current administration, I see a future V.P. nomination in her future
Reports of a Shooter in the US Capital…
Convenient just as Tuckers interview drops with a whistle-blower… Police went door to door in the senate building. No one heard shots, no victims, no suspects…
It will be interesting to see how fast they find the person who does this compared to how fast they find the person who left the cocaine in the White House…
I wonder how they will blame Trump for this one…?
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No shooter, no injuries at US Capitol after ‘bogus call,’ police say
I don’t know how this will play out or how it will end, whatever happens, I hope America stay calm.
Watch live: Former President Trump indictment coverage
“It was fueled by lies − lies by the defendant,” special counsel Jack Smith said as the indictment was unsealed. Trump, now facing his third criminal case, has denied wrongdoing and denounced the indictment as an attempt to derail his 2024 presidential candidacy.
A federal grand jury indicted former President Donald Trump on Tuesday for conspiring to steal the 2020 election from President Joe Biden, including actions that led to the insurrection of Jan. 6, 2021, which the prosecutor described as “an unprecedented assault” on democracy.
DW headline following the news.
I don’t know how much of any of this really changes peoples minds at this point. You either like him (regardless of faults) or hate him (regardless of good deeds).
In the end, politicians will continue to keep each other in check, waiting for someone to screw up. That’s a good thing. But it also means that the tit-for-tat retaliation won’t go away.
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