Recent comments in /f/RhodeIsland

Urbanitesunite t1_je6k44d wrote

Reply to comment by stosyfir in Breeze Airways opens base of operations in Rhode Island by therealDrA

If ri had a few connections to Europe and LATAM enough to promote competition, that would be great. I understand having to go to Boston for lengthy international journies like to Asia or Eastern Europe that the prov market could never support. But some of these routes to LATAM or Eastern Europe is literally 6 hours or under total. Short enough to be able to use a medium sized aircraft ( a321 for example) that can easily be filled due to its capacity of around 200 people.

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Chimbo84 t1_je6juik wrote

Reply to Mass shootings in the US since 2009. A mass shooting is defined as any incident in which four or more people are shot and killed. Since 2009, there have been 306 mass shootings, resulting in 1710 people shot and killed and 1087 people shot and wounded. ---NONE IN RHODE ISLAND! by wyzapped

This really doesn’t mean anything. It’s not like RI policies or gun control are better or mental health services are better. I say we’ve just been lucky which we all know is barely a notch above “thoughts and prayers” on the effectiveness scale. This is not something to celebrate.

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BananaSandwichDuce2 t1_je6jht4 wrote

Reply to comment by thosethingstodo in Mass shootings in the US since 2009. A mass shooting is defined as any incident in which four or more people are shot and killed. Since 2009, there have been 306 mass shootings, resulting in 1710 people shot and killed and 1087 people shot and wounded. ---NONE IN RHODE ISLAND! by wyzapped

The Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit research group, defines a mass shooting as an incident in which four or more people are shot or killed, not including the shooter. 

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BitterStatus9 t1_je6fy9d wrote

Reply to comment by therealDrA in Breeze Airways opens base of operations in Rhode Island by therealDrA

It's not that different: a commercial carrier markets its trips on a regular schedule between two under-served (they think) airports. The requisite number of pax never shows up, and they fold. The only difference is the size of the plane. Providence is never going to generate enough non-stop traffic at prevailing prices to keep a carrier afloat, and the bigger the plane, the steeper the wall they need to climb to stay solvent.

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citrus_mystic t1_je6dndy wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Mass shootings in the US since 2009. A mass shooting is defined as any incident in which four or more people are shot and killed. Since 2009, there have been 306 mass shootings, resulting in 1710 people shot and killed and 1087 people shot and wounded. ---NONE IN RHODE ISLAND! by wyzapped

/u/thosethingstodo - “This doesn't fit the definition of a mass shooting for this map. 4 or more people need to have died from the shooting to be on this particular map.”

(Edit) Google/Wiki: “There is a lack of consensus on what constitutes a mass shooting, but most definitions include a minimum of three or four victims of gun violence, not including the shooter, in a short period.”

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boulevardofdef OP t1_je6d1tu wrote

Reply to comment by Proof-Variation7005 in Rhode Island's Tim White to become first referee inducted into WWE Hall of Fame by boulevardofdef

Two major points against Hebner, who empirically should probably be the first ref inducted:

  1. He was fired for essentially stealing and reselling WWE merchandise, and
  2. He joined the 2016 class-action lawsuit against WWE over concussions, which so far has kept all participants out of the Hall of Fame
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