Mass shooting in the middle school Vladislav Ribnikar in Belgrade

[arewethereyet]

You have 5 reps here.  What does that tell you?

Keep in mind that Mister Agenda is one of the nicest people here and tomato reps everybody.

Well, I don't know what reputation on this forum means. Reputation on Latin Language StackExchange shows that you know a lot about the Latin language. Reputation on StackOverflow shows how good you are at programming. But I don't know what reputation on AtheistForums would mean.

If you were good at programming you might actually finish school some day.

[FlatAssembler]

Well, I don't know what reputation on this forum means. Reputation on Latin Language StackExchange shows that you know a lot about the Latin language. Reputation on StackOverflow shows how good you are at programming. But I don't know what reputation on AtheistForums would mean.

If you were good at programming you might actually finish school some day.

Being good at programming doesn't mean you can finish school. I think the best programmer in my freshmen class was Benedikt Orsolić, who dropped out on the first year. And by "best programmer" I don't mean just algorithmic skills useful at competitive programming, I mean competent to make actual programs. And Marino Šišmanović was also an exceptionally competent programmer (he was, along with me, representing the university at the STEM Games programming competition), and he dropped out on the second year.

[Thumpalumpacus]

Dude, you should not care about reps, pos or neg. Seriously.

[FlatAssembler]

I have opened a Politics StackExchange question about it, which has, thus far, received 17 upvotes and 4 downvotes (it is one of the most well-received questions I have ever asked on StackExchange). The general consensus seems to be that Croatians feel safe because most of the adults remember a time when walking the streets was very unsafe (the Yugoslav Wars), whereas most UK adults remember a time when it was slightly safer to walk the streets. Of course, that explanation assumes the Yugoslav Wars really happened, which I am not entirely convinced is true.

It’s encouraging that you now grasp the difference between perceived safety and actual safety, and that you understand that the former has no correlation with the latter.

On the other hand, it’s disheartening (but not totally unexpected) that you’re unsure about the historicity of the Yugoslav wars: a series of conflicts that left at least 150k people dead and more that 4 millions displaced, lasted more that ten years, involved a dozen countries, resulted in the dissolution of Yugoslavia and the formation of successor states, involved NATO forces, the UN, and has more hard evidence that a dog has fleas.

Boru

If there is evidence to justify such an extraordinary claim, how it is that I, as somebody who lives in Croatia and who has studied quite a bit of Croatian history (both in school and for my interpretation of the names of places in Croatia), am not aware of that evidence?

[Foxaèr]

Clear and present bias will blind the nationalist.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

It’s encouraging that you now grasp the difference between perceived safety and actual safety, and that you understand that the former has no correlation with the latter.

On the other hand, it’s disheartening (but not totally unexpected) that you’re unsure about the historicity of the Yugoslav wars: a series of conflicts that left at least 150k people dead and more that 4 millions displaced, lasted more that ten years, involved a dozen countries, resulted in the dissolution of Yugoslavia and the formation of successor states, involved NATO forces, the UN, and has more hard evidence that a dog has fleas.

Boru

If there is evidence to justify such an extraordinary claim, how it is that I, as somebody who lives in Croatia and who has studied quite a bit of Croatian history (both in school and for my interpretation of the names of places in Croatia), am not aware of that evidence?

Have you considered the very real possibility that you're an idiot?

https://www.militaryimages.net/threads/y...wars.7251/

https://www.icty.org/en/about/what-forme.../conflicts

https://www.theguardian.com/law/gallery/...erzegovina

https://scholarship.law.vanderbilt.edu/v...28/iss1/3/

Plenty more where those came from.


Boru

[FlatAssembler]

Clear and present bias will blind the nationalist.

What do you mean?

[Foxaèr]

Clear and present bias will blind the nationalist.

What do you mean?

I'm not in the habit of explaining every little thing. Use your brain.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Clear and present bias will blind the nationalist.

What do you mean?

He means you’ve got a severe case of confirmation bias - you accept only what supports your position and reject or ignore that which doesn’t.

Regarding the Yugoslav Wars, let’s just take one piece of evidence: the 4+ millions of persons displaced. If the wars didn’t happen, what caused all of these people to move?

Boru

[Angrboda]

It’s encouraging that you now grasp the difference between perceived safety and actual safety, and that you understand that the former has no correlation with the latter.

On the other hand, it’s disheartening (but not totally unexpected) that you’re unsure about the historicity of the Yugoslav wars: a series of conflicts that left at least 150k people dead and more that 4 millions displaced, lasted more that ten years, involved a dozen countries, resulted in the dissolution of Yugoslavia and the formation of successor states, involved NATO forces, the UN, and has more hard evidence that a dog has fleas.

Boru

If there is evidence to justify such an extraordinary claim, how it is that I, as somebody who lives in Croatia and who has studied quite a bit of Croatian history (both in school and for my interpretation of the names of places in Croatia), am not aware of that evidence?

Aren't you the one who has been repeatedly telling us that we must accept the conclusions reached through bad evidence in lieu of a different conclusion with better evidence?