• @SquirtleHermit
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    367 hours ago

    Nothing is wrong with them, but I get not wanting to gamble with thos odds.

    Especially when, according to the national park service, “when bear encounters do happen, they are most often nonviolent”. So if you had to gamble…

    • @pixxelkick
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      Are you saying that theres >42% chance a bear will be on your side in the wilderness then?

      That makes no sense. By all arguments taking “a man” is prolly the far better choice anyways, people are just stupid.

      There’s a 100% chance that “the bear” is a fucking bear

      Theres at least a decent chance “a random man” is an asset to survival and your odds of success go up instead of down…

      There’s no scenario where choosing “the bear” improves your odds of success >_>;

      • @[email protected]
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        82 hours ago

        You’re changing the hypothetical into something it’s not. “Odds of success” are a weird thing to think about when it’s just a walk in the woods.

      • @BaldManGoomba
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        42 hours ago

        Ok 42% of men voted for your rights. Most violent crime, SA, and murder is done by men. Potentially in the near future you can’t escape a marriage without a “good” reason and you can’t abort a forced pregnancy.
        Bears. Potentially murder and maul you. Majority of bear to human interactions are non violent and happens numerically wise less than Bears. You interact with men more than Bears. By a million times. The interactions with a male could be worse. Than just killed or hurt severally. Which is the only thing you get from a bear.

        Yes not all men but most men don’t support your rights and crimes are mostly men. Bear impacts are better outcomes than a bad man impacts

      • @SquirtleHermit
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        246 hours ago

        Very true, but the overwhelming majority of women interact with men overwhelmingly frequently compared to bears.

        Almost as if the whole thing is a light hearted way of drawing attention to a very real fear women live with every day, that stats posted above bear (get it?) witness to.

        Plus, if we are being pedantic, it’s not “interactions with men”. It’s “would you, as a woman, feel safer encountering a man or a bear when you are alone in the woods”.

        • @[email protected]
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          The overwhelming amount of violent crime that happened to my race is from black people but I don’t see people running around saying they’d rather run into a bear than a black prison in the woods.

          • @FooBarrington
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            02 hours ago

            What’s a “black prison”? Is that like an off-the-books CIA site where they keep people who won’t be found? I’d definitely take the bear, the CIA would probably torture me to get me to tell them how I found their black prison.

        • @pixxelkick
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          Any woman who says “the bear” honestly, I have to assume" has never once actually encountered a bear in the woods.

          Prolly has had extremely few encounters with anything in the woods.

          People hang out on trails all the time, and are alone with another stranger on the trails extremely often, and the extremely vast majority of those interactions are overwhelming positive in all configurations. The vast majority of humans are helpful at worst, for all genders.

          People like to help other people out.

          Yes, I would vastly prefer to encounter a gun toting right wing MAGA nut on the trail than a fucking bear, thats not even a hard question to answer, its a fucking bear.

          Im left wing by a long shot but I still know that even the average right wing MAGA nut is actually prolly still gonna be, on average, helpful and/or friendly, or maybe just cold and indifferent towards me, out in the wilderness.

          Hell I’d actually honestly say this scenario is one of the few times I’d choose a MAGA right wing nut over a fellow left leaning fellow.

          I love my fellow liberals but I also have to acknowledge the vast majority of us are city slickers, many many of which prolly couldnt even start a fire if their life depended on it (cuz its just not a thing that matters in the city)

          Meanwhile the odds the random selected MAGA right wing gun nut prolly shows up with hunting equipment and knows how to do shit like make a lean to and skin a rabbit.

          If I got to pick between the two, I’d choose the gun nut cuz Id rather risk surviving with a gun nut than dying with a fellow city slicker, love yeah all but like, we aint fuckin surviving in the woods long, thats just a fact lol.

          • @[email protected]
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            53 hours ago

            Any woman who says “the bear” honestly, I have to assume" has never once actually encountered a bear in the woods.

            i have to assume you never were a woman… is that correct assumption, smartass?

      • @[email protected]
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        64 hours ago

        Overwhelming majority of women interactions with men is not alone in the forest - and that was the setting of this exercise.
        Of course I’d rather see a man in crowded office space than a bear, stranded alone in a forest however, math changes.

      • LustyArgonianMana
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        126 hours ago

        Yet the majority of violent interactions women experience come from men

          • @TexasDrunk
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            93 hours ago

            You’re sure doing your part to make sure women want to interact with you. I bet you’ve convinced most of them that throwing a fit and calling people names when you don’t get your way makes you the best guy.

      • @pyre
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        44 hours ago

        “the overwhelming majority of these m&ms are not poisonous.”

        mmm sounds delicious

        • @[email protected]
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          They one poisonous m&m in the factory is better than this chainsaw will to your face off, but at least you were safe from potentially being poisoned

      • @Entropywins
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        36 hours ago

        I’m about to have a violent interaction…

          • @Breezy
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            15 hours ago

            Only if they voted for trump

                • @Breezy
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                  13 hours ago

                  And as bad as it is, i think reducing the amount of nazis before they take power will always be a good thing.

          • @lath
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            16 hours ago

            What if they’re at the receiving end?