What does 100% US made mean here? Like raw material or assembled parts made in Asia?

“Target was the good guy”

Oh for the love of class consciousness! They just said what they thought would bring more sales, they never cared about their workers who they extract value from.

Because it’s all an excuse to eliminate all privacy. The empire doesn’t survive if the workers are allowed to communicate freely.

🤢🤮🤮🤮

The Democrat started the genocide of my people and doubled down on it. They aren’t my friends, and one day they’ll come for you too.

My family is only in this country because of neoliberals destroying and stealing our homelands.

And no, I’m not worrying about them, I’m just crystal clear they won’t save this country.

I’m sure you’re really worried about being dragged to camp. Meanwhile I actually have family in ICE detention, and I lay the blame on both the fascists in charge and the idiots who still insist we should have voted for a nonviable genocidal candidate running a platform of most lethal military.

“considered left”

Yeah, by ignorant quick to adopt the narrative of the oppressor types like you.

My point is clear, you can’t call a system that gives all rights and privileges exclusively to a minority while openly oppressing the majority Democratic socialist.

How can you have social ownership of anything when over half the population isn’t allowed that ownership? Do you know what the words you’re using mean?

Not good, but not something that makes me immediately want to move

Okay… I didn’t realize we’re talking about your personal tolerance of it, as long as you’re okay with it I guess the numbers aren’t staggering.

We aren’t talking about overall life expectancy, we’re talking about excess child mortality. COVID affected children the least, remember.

I feel more threatened by other things like accelerating global warming.

You can have multiple concerns, you really don’t have to champion just one issue and attack all others. Recall your objections and the whole argument we’re having is because you’re insisting the article is editorializing 54 excess child deaths a day by calling it staggering. Would you complain the same way about an article describing the average annual increase of global temperature as staggering?

COVID affected all other developed nations being compared. Again the N you’re seeking doesn’t matter.

If we had 1,000 additional deaths per day worldwide, it still wouldn’t be counted in the excess deaths. Excess deaths is relative to other developed nations.

Why did their excess deaths not rise similarly? What’s unique about the US? It’s not COVID, friend.

See? You’re arguing over a word without bothering to read the article or understand the statistic.

The question “what is N” doesn’t make sense here. Excess child deaths doesn’t mean we expect N deaths and are okay with that…

Let me explain:

1. Take the actual U.S. child deaths.

2. Compute a counterfactual N* = how many would have died if the U.S. had the same age-specific child mortality rates as peer rich countries.

3. Excess = Actual − N*. It’s the avoidable difference, not an acceptable target.

That’s why the piece says ~316,000 excess child deaths (≈54 per day) from 2007–2022, those are deaths above what we’d expect if U.S. kids had peer-country risk.

And if you want scale: U.S. kids weren’t a few percent worse off. In 2014 they were ~1.6× more likely to die than peers; by 2022 it was ~2.3×—that’s 60% to 130% higher risk, not “a factor of 20,” but nowhere near “just a little bit” either. It’s staggering!

If a toy number helps: suppose peers have 25 deaths per 100k children in a year and the U.S. has ~58 per 100k. Apply those rates to the U.S. child population and you’d “expect” ~N* at the peer rate but observe far more; the gap between them is the excess. The study’s bottom line is that this gap averaged ~54 preventable child deaths every day over 16 years.

In other words, the US is a third world country.

Your definition of left is off, that’s why you’re being downvoted. Israel was established on over 500 destroyed Palestinian villages and ethnic cleansing of half the population with the open intention to colonize the entire land.

Read some non colonial history books before you complain about Internet points.

Democrats enabled him and did nothing in the gap between his first and second term to prevent him from executing the out in the open takeover plan. They did start genocide and lost the election because they ran campaign on “the most lethal military” instead of stopping the genocide, and your dumb ass still think the Democrats are you friends.

How would you describe 54 excess child deaths per day? Harrowing maybe? Depressing perhaps?

Or you think it’s possibly not one of this? It’s it comforting to you? Pretty weird one to be upset over and describe as editorialization.

PayPal/Visa/MasterCard do way more than just payment processing for one company.

Valve wouldn’t need 25,000 employees just to process payments for their own platform.

That’s not mental healthcare… That’s just different drugs.

It really is. If you don’t mind potential instability, upgrade to the latest alpha build. I haven’t had a single crash in months, and cosmic desktop is already way better than Gnome, and Cosmic Store (pop shop replacement) is very fast.

They are descriptive terms used in the article to describe the statistics. They don’t change the statistics, 54 excess child deaths a day.

Buddy, the US is quickly becoming a third world country. Yes, mass school shooting are normalized but that’s the symptom not the root problem.

nor help with their problems

See? You identified it yourself. Universal healthcare that includes quality mental health care that isn’t driven by profit is the solution to the listed problems, I’m not sure why they listed drugs and failed to recognize healthcare as the solution that too, but people turn to drugs to drown the depression they can’t treat in a healthy way.

Yup. And there are several other 2 lane roads connecting Florida and Georgia to the west of the swamp. A direct line from Jacksonville to Atlanta would be challenging, but that’s not what we’re talking about here.

Orlando to Atlanta is already a direct land route, and you see Georgia plates in Florida and Florida plates in Georgia regularly.

And nothing will be fixed while “the left” in the US still worship and lionize Carter, who started all the mess.

Yes, Trump is literally worse, but both parties are two sides of the same coin. You cannot save the country by electing neo-liberals, it’ll always be further right than before.