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Cake day: March 13th, 2025

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  • …did you read my comment at all? I very clearly stated that those are popular tourist destinations that people are still visiting all year round. As in people don’t find THOSE places too dangerous to visit why should they worry about america?

    Both of those places are significantly more dangerous than the overwhelming majority of America as I very clearly explained in the rest of my comment.

    I don’t think you read my comment at all. If you did you certainly didn’t understand anything I said.

    Try again.


  • What that data fails to properly explain is that outside of a few counties you are basically never going to see a gun homicide in the US. The city I live in has some of the highest gun crime in the country, but it is almost exclusively in a few small areas that tourists would never really go anywhere near.

    Of our yearly gun homicides ~82% of it is African Americans killing other African Americans. Often in gang related disputes in very specific areas in a couple of states.

    Depending on where someone is visiting they are likely much safer here than in many other countries on average.

    Statistics are a wonderful thing, but it’s important to fully understand the data rather than just applying that average to the entire united states without any nuance.

    Mississippi had a gun death rate of 29.6 per 100k in 2022.

    Rhode Island had a a gun death rate of 3.1 per 100k in 2022.

    Both those numbers include suicide by gun and suicide has outpaced homicide for at least the last 40 years.

    Another thing to note is that the USA over all has lower gun homicide rates today than back in 1970s.

    For comparison Jamaica had 44.7 gun death per 100k in 2022.

    The Bahamas had 28.5 per 100k in 2022.

    Plenty of people still feel comfortable traveling to those places year round.


  • I think it would have been a much better film if the audience had also been kept in the dark about him opening her pod as well. That way we can also go through the range of emotions with her at the same time when she finds out.

    Just start the movie from her perspective. Pod opening and Pratt is already there. He tells her his pod just opened and he’s confused too. Then we get the whole “wandering the shipn for the first time” montage where they could drop subtle hints that it’s not actually his first time doing any of those things.

    His character is absolutely a bad person, but it’s a situation we can sympathize with because being truly completely alone for any amount of time fucks with people badly. She has every right to hate him for the rest of their lives, but it turns out that if he hadn’t done what he did they all would have died because of the damaged engine or whatever it was (I can’t remember).

    They could have made the movie much harder hitting and/or creepy for the first half, but they opted to try and make you sympathetic to his situation from the start.

    It’s the movie that always pops into my head when thinking about wasted potential.