Birthday card for a friend tonight:

Question:
Why do some killers target schools?

Hypothesis:
They didn't have a particularly happy or supportive time while in school.

Solution:
Assess how people that are at-risk while in elementary school are supported. Mitigate the negative impacts they experience. Take ownership of their actions years hence by continuing to monitor and support them.

No, this doesn't solve every scenario. But, this is one scenario that can be called out and targeted with solutions.
#uvalde #gunviolence

I'm going to turn this pile of steel into something pretty!

"Justice is the first virtue of social institutions as truth is of systems of thought" - John Rawls

Chew on that one!

Fireworks are going off in San Francisco now that the Warriors are going to the finals!
#dubnation

Current COVID infections in San Francisco.

My coding skills are slowly progressing. I got the underlying data to pop up when the circles are clicked. Red-filled circles are increasing, green is decreasing.
The thicker the outline the higher the percentage of the population that has had the virus since this pandemic started. The highest is 41% in a neighborhood in Bayshore.

Clearly, I'll never get good at javascript.

Maybe I'll figure out how to get this onto a public website.

Cold:
on effect of Uvalde on NRA meeting "I think it will have no change..if there is any mention at all, it will be the school is a 'gun-free zone'..there will not be any soul-searching...the purpose of convention is to be a pep rally"

https://twitter.com/JudyWoodruff/status/1529592343409614854

Should parents be held accountable if their child commits a mass murder?

Hey @th3j35t3r, maybe this could be an option to add to the CoSo desktop?
I'm unsure where you could pull the data. If interested, I could do some research.

If all of the news orgs installed a counter on their chirons - the lower bar on the screen - that showed the number of deaths by guns in the prior 100 days, we would become a little less desensitized between mass casualty events like Texas.

I guess we're going to restart the cycle of :
1. Outrage
2. Blame
3. Despondency
4. Resignation
5. Disgust
6. Forget
7. Repeat

IMHO, more than half of America is emotionally stunted and has no empathy.

They will never be part of the solution because they cannot comprehend that there is a problem.

That's the problem that needs to be fixed before sensible gun regulation is implemented.

What if you had to take a picture of a donut on the moon?

The moon is 238,000 miles away.

That's what the Event Horizon Telescope (a system of radio telescopes) was able to do, but all the way out to the center of our galaxy.

Or, another way to think about it:

If an astronaut held up a donut on the edge of the moon, that black hole would be about the same size from our position here on Earth.

This is the terrifying donut about 25,000 light years away:

This is one of the first big investments in a solution to extract CO2 from the atmosphere using technology: https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/19/politics/doe-carbon-capture-investment-climate/index.html

Pharam Bro is released from Prison.

Why do we find this person repulsive?

He has no shame.

But, not everyone finds him repulsive.

Maybe you need to be able to feel shame in order to see the lack of it in others.

Distribution of COVID cases in San Francisco as of 5 days ago. Red circles mean it is still increasing.
The two big circles south of Market St could be due to a homeless shelter and a testing facility. Nevertheless, they were not there a few weeks ago. So, the data collection may have changed or there is a significant shift away from BayView (southeast section of town).

COVID cases keep edging upward in San Francisco.
I thought there might be a 14 day peak after Easter. But that was 32 days ago.

Progress!
#Ukraine