I understood a couple of those words…

But "it is almost a perfect correlation (.77, with 1.00 being a perfect correlation) as Figure 1 shows“!

Crimes rates have plummeted in the U.S. since the mid-1990s. Most of the credit for this remarkable trend has been given to an enlarged criminal justice system—largely more police, tougher sentencing and a massive prison complex.

I’m doubting the legitimacy of the article, based entirely on this opening sentence alone. It’s pretty well established that an enlarged criminal justice system does little to reduce crime. No one’s giving it credit except those lining their pockets.

Rice, sardines, kimchi, avocado, soy sauce, sesame oil.

Using the word “server” is super confusing to me. My kid has a rack of servers in his room. Can I join one of those? No. They’re not Mastodon or Lemmy servers. But I’m not joining the specific piece of hardware in some storage locker owned by Lemmy or Mastodon, either. Everything on the Internet is on a server. So what’s different, here?

I think your analogy is a good one, well, a better one. If you’re reading a newspaper, I think people have a better, inherent, understanding that the news might be different from paper to paper. But that’s less the case on TV or the Internet. It’s just news, regardless of source – it’s so monopolized.

Lemmy and Mastodon are “just the internet” to most people. A lot of them don’t even distinguish social media as a separate category. They only see the presentation format of, say, Facebook or Twitter as different, and that’s less and less the case all the time, as companies compete for each other’s users. They don’t really see them as different services, just different brands.

Source: I’m the person who teaches them to reset their passwords, how to print their paystubs, and how to get on Facebook.

I feel heard. I’m not sure the recommendation is a good one, but at least someone is trying to solve my problem.

Of course it makes little sense that he would go along with this. But why in god’s name would she want to stay married to someone she doesn’t trust with his own children?

Paywalled.