Except for Franken, who had what 3? Each with fairly benign stories. He caressed my muffin top weirdly at a state fair photo op! After the schadenfreude wore off of watching the left eat its own, by throwing all rationality out the window, you kind of feel bad for the dude. I guess we'll wait and see with Browkaw if there is a sea of following complaints that paint a darker picture. He certainly didn't help his cause by framing his attack the way he did.
A dude posted up beside a highway in georgia and opened fire on passing cars. He shot at them with a 9 mm pistol. He also had a .22 and a 12 gauge. Injured two people, then once the cops closed in the fucker killed himself. My issue, aside from him being a piece of shit, is every article I've read refers to him as a "sniper." Is the media just trying to sensationalize this for clicks? Or are they really that dumb to think that someone essentially lobbing pistol shots at cars qualifies as a sniper?
That's exactly what they're trying to do. It's just as stupid as when people refer to a bolt-action rifle with a scope as a "sniper rifle". "Do you need to be worried about snipers along American highways picking off your children one by one? Find out tonight at 10."
Or AR-style riffles as "assault rifles." Assault is what you do when you shoot someone. Technically, any rifle is an assault riffle once it is used in that manner. "AR" stands for Armalite Rifle, the original manufacturer of a gun in that style.
Sniper is a buzzword. Shooting is not. Sniper means “run and hide, panic, you don’t know where he is.” The lead bleeds more.
From the article it looks like he tried to be a sniper but just completely sucked at it. I think the article should've referred to him as a "wannabe sniper" just to further emphasize how much of a fuckup loser this guy was.
Not even close to being anything like a sniper... He tried to be a common foot soldier / grunt and failed miserably at it. Absolutely nothing he did or that he possessed comes close to warranting the term "sniper". In fact, it screams "not a sniper". But sure... let's go with "sniper"... that'll sell more fear and more hits and higher SEO.
I was listening to Preet Bharara's podcast today and he had a woman named Sherrilyn Ifill who is an attorney who deals a lot with race and civil rights issues and on the podcast today talked a lot about examining racial biases among all people. She brought up the subject of AI and how a lot of AI algorithms have difficulty differentiating between Asian faces and African American faces(like it recognizes one Asian person as being another, and the same with two black people) and that the reason for this is because the people who program the software have racial biases themselves. I guess what I'm wondering is...is she right? I feel like she might be a little out of her depth with respect to AI technology. But I also don't know much about it. Does anyone here have much knowledge about current AI and facial recognition and whether or not the software exhibits the same racial biases as it's creator?
It's less the algorithm and more the dataset the algorithm is trained on. A lot of algorithms are trained by feeding them huge datasets of labeled data (so say a million photos of human faces with a tag that says "yep, this is a face", and a million more photos of things that aren't human faces with a tag that says "nope, not a face"), and if this data set is selected with bias (for example an overwhelming majority of the faces are white faces) you can see bias in the resulting trained algorithm. Some examples of how this has popped up in the past are things like cameras with automatic squint detection thinking that Asian faces are squinting when they're actually not, or thinking black women are men, or thinking two distinct minority individuals are the same person, etc. It's not because the person who wrote the algorithm wrote some "if(darkie == true){ outputRacistShit() }" code, but rather because they selected a training set that was heavily weighted in a way their bias made them blind to. So the resulting algorithm "learned" to treat things that may be unique to whites as universal to humans for example.
Thank you. That's kind of where I was thinking with it. She made it out to be like it was purposely programmed that way, and I felt like she left her professional lane by including that.
Taking this to the serious thread... I thought the same thing about that San Antonio church shooting. It was south of San Antonio, in a fairly remote area, but the dude lived north of SA. He had to travel at least an hour if not more. If he was intent on max destruction, he'd have gone to one of the big churches in the city. If he wanted something easy, he could have stopped at any one of the dozens of churches he passed along the way. Like he literally went to the type of remote area where everyone has a gun in their truck and another on themselves because they live on property and you never know when somethin's gonna need a-shootin'. Which is exactly how he was stopped. Then again, trying to make sense of a nonsensical act is pointless.
It’s hard to make sense. With few exceptions though, school shooters tend to have a reason for picking a certain school. They usually know people there and have a connection. The one that comes to mind that breaks this rule is sandy hook.
That church shooting dude was pissed at his in-laws that usually attended that church, that's how he came to choose it as a target.
The fucker used to attend there. Right before the shooting, his mother was considering moving to a different area, and his mental illness (which made him fear leaving his comfort zone) combined with his obsession with violence caused him to take out his anger at the situation on the easiest target. Or at least that's the short version. The only recent mass shooting I can think of that didn't have a clear motive was the Vegas one.
So the texas shooter was captured alive (it's now 10 dead -- 9 students, one teacher). They've also found bombs in the school and at his house, both pipe bombs and pressure cookers. A student who saw the shooter right before he started firing, said he was wearing a trench coat, army boots and a tshirt that read "born to kill." He also said he was bullied and very quiet. He also said "he's been picked on by coaches" (which sounds like Texas). I'm sensing a pattern here...