"Ranson has already thought about what that response might look like. One option is for communities to spend substantial amounts of money increasing the size of their police forces. Another possibility is that people will simply change their behavior in an attempt to avoid becoming the victims of crime—leaving their homes less frequently in nice weather or locking their windows.
Of course, there's a third alternative—reining in the greenhouse gas emissions that are causing global warming in the first place."
First off, thank you for allowing me to waste my time with something unrelated to video games. Second, we are all dumber for having read this. Third, the amount of stupid-to word-count ratio in this piece may be one of the highest ever encountered on Mother Jones, and that is saying something.
Tony, rather than cutting your carbon emissions, I think you should focus on reducing your temperature-induced rape sprees. That advice goes double for Jon.
Sweet fancy Moses, but these climate change cultists really have lost their minds.
This kind of research really does not deserve a place in the public forum - it is reference material for other researchers, not something substantial and meaningful on its own. The central theme is driven by the escalation theory which is highly debated in the research community.
I wish there was an "uninformed" stamp I could use to publicly shame journalists who grab on to research w/o doing due diligence and truly understanding the full scope of an issue. I'd certainly go stamp happy on 90% of the media covering the "we hate gay people" law in Arizona.
"Ranson has already thought about what that response might look like. One option is for communities to spend substantial amounts of money increasing the size of their police forces. Another possibility is that people will simply change their behavior in an attempt to avoid becoming the victims of crime—leaving their homes less frequently in nice weather or locking their windows.
ReplyDeleteOf course, there's a third alternative—reining in the greenhouse gas emissions that are causing global warming in the first place."
First off, thank you for allowing me to waste my time with something unrelated to video games. Second, we are all dumber for having read this. Third, the amount of stupid-to word-count ratio in this piece may be one of the highest ever encountered on Mother Jones, and that is saying something.
Tony, rather than cutting your carbon emissions, I think you should focus on reducing your temperature-induced rape sprees. That advice goes double for Jon.
ReplyDeleteSweet fancy Moses, but these climate change cultists really have lost their minds.
This kind of research really does not deserve a place in the public forum - it is reference material for other researchers, not something substantial and meaningful on its own. The central theme is driven by the escalation theory which is highly debated in the research community.
ReplyDeleteI wish there was an "uninformed" stamp I could use to publicly shame journalists who grab on to research w/o doing due diligence and truly understanding the full scope of an issue. I'd certainly go stamp happy on 90% of the media covering the "we hate gay people" law in Arizona.