Exactly, it's performing the job of an artist filling in the missing frames based on the pictures available and based on film of other volcanoes erupting.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8486698/
Apparently it looks like it should actually be treatable with cochlear implant. But every person is different, might be lots of reasons I/we aren't aware of he's not a good candidate.
I am neither anarchist nor communist but the day I'm okay with police being better armed than the populace is allowed to be is the day I can't imagine police not standing with labor unions or treating minorities significantly differently than those in the dominant socio-economic class and not a second sooner.
Tbf, you were going to hear those stories either way, it's in Russian/Chinese disinformation campaigns best interest to stoke as much division as possible
There are too many responses here to reply to all of them individually so I'm just going to post some quotes here, more in response to other comments than the OP, but perhaps also a perspective to consider for OP as well.
"That rifle on the wall of the labourer's cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there."
George Orwell
And the shockingly only increasingly relevant full quote from one of the founders of the Black Panthers party:
"Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment. If the guns are taken out of the hands of the people and only the pigs have guns, then it's off to the concentration camps, the gas chambers, or whatever the fascists in America come up with. One of the democratic rights of the United States, the Second Amendment to the Constitution, gives the people the right to bear arms. However, there is a greater right; the right of human dignity that gives all men the right to defend themselves."
Huey Newton
I'd really ask more people to consider their position of privilege, to be less afraid of state sanctioned or enabled violence of all forms than some crazy neighbor with guns who was likely failed many times by that very state to have come to this point. Please just consider the counterpoint, that armed minorities are harder to oppress, and that far, far more people have been killed by state sanctioned and enabled violence, than by access to firearms by "the common people".
I'm not telling anyone that they're wrong, I'm just asking that you really internalize and consider this perspective.
Thank you for reading and thinking.
Finland has very similar access to guns, yes it has much fewer total guns but that is much fewer people having many guns, they have a very similar percentage of homes with at least 1 firearm in them as the US currently does. It is actually a myth that they control the ammo, they control their military ammo, not their hunting/personal ammo. Switzerland is not THAT far behind though they I believe do have tighter restrictions on ownership. Also the percentage of households with at least 1 gun in it has remained mostly unchanged in the US for the last 60+ years, and the types of guns available have also remained largely unchanged, intermediate caliber semi automatic mag fed rifles have been shockingly cheaply available in the US since the M1 Carbine became available as military surplus after WW2. Something other than "availability of firearms" is very different now to explain the gun violence (it's mostly culture and systemic poverty).
That seems like a very I have nothing to fear from other people viewpoint. Lots of places in urban areas where a firearm is a tool for safety that has everything to do with other humans.
Source that research was banned since the 90s? All I'm aware of is that they aren't available commercially and sale and field testing of terminator seeds has been banned since the 00s.
Exactly, it's performing the job of an artist filling in the missing frames based on the pictures available and based on film of other volcanoes erupting.