800,000 children are reported missing every year in the US. I’d say it’s good to be just a tad bit cautious, wouldn’t you?
I see your point, but it's a little disingenuous to imply that "reported missing" = "forcibly kidnapped and murdered by a strange pedophile". The vast majority of missing persons cases are resolved very quickly, especially when it's a child, because you've got custody disputes and reports made any time a kid/teen might briefly sneak off from what is usually more or less some constant degree of supervision.
Also, where the fuck are you getting your numbers? I've attached my sources for the sake of autistic accuracy, but I found some ballpark figures. According to the FBI there were 647,435 missing person reports made in the US in 2016, while 644,294 reports were purged from the database in the same period (i.e. the people were found). More recent stats from the NamUS 2025 biannual report puts the proportion of juveniles making up total missing persons cases at 18%. A bit of quick and dirty math with these numbers approximates maybe 116,538 kids reported missing yearly with a rough figure of 1,165 not resolved in a reasonable time frame. And while I can't find anything solid to go on, I'm gonna assume most of those are just teens who ran away, reached the age of majority, and didn't return to a shit situation. Like, in the worst case, the kind of foster homes so grim that they go off to get hooked on heroin and sex trafficked because it seems preferable. That or younger kids who were the subject of custody disputes having an immigrant parent take them and fuck off back out of the country. They weren't all getting the America's Most Wanted treatment at any rate, it just gets endless sensationalized media coverage when that does happen because journos are fucking vultures.
Never forget, 20% of this country said being locked in your home indefinitely as a COVID precaution was just fine.
To the point that not doing it meant you should be arrested.
I remain convinced that the vast majority of these faggots weren't the least bit afraid of fucking covid, they just really loved the state handing them a legitimate sounding excuse to not work, do nothing but bed-rot, doomscroll, and rapidly gain weight ordering Ubereats that other people are paying for, they could avoid their cognitive dissonance and guilt for living that way because (as far as they know) nobody else can go socialize/work/do any activities either, they were given carte blanche to live out their gay ass power tripping petty tyrant fantasies by loudly and often policing adherence to retarded security theater, and to top it off the state patted them on the ass and called them heroes for just being an entire piece of shit.
Anyway, even people low on self awareness should've gotten a clue about what too much screen time, no social outkets, zero opportunities to learn independence, and overreliance on a retarded nanny state that fucks people left and right in the name of false safety will do to your children after what happened to their mental health and educational attainment over the course of lockdown/remote schooling. I'm not sure how that wasn't a wake up call to chill on the helicoptering a bit, make sure your kid doesn't spend their life listening to the shit-flinging retards on the fucking internet, and recognize the importance of teaching your children how to exercise critical thinking and make good decisions on their own. Allowing them gradual opportunities for freedom and independence is a necessary part of this process, unless you want to feed and house them until they're 40 while they claim inability to function from muh depreshun&anxietee (aside from their reddit moderation duties, anyway). Sadly, the amount of parents foaming at the mouth screeching anytime a school tries to float a serious "no cell phones" policy because they think they need to communicate with and surveil their spawn at all times makes me sort of doubt it. Not that school always does a bang-up job either but if nothing else learning restraint and discipline is vital and kids can't do that if they can't concentrate on anything long enough to accomplish anything useful because they're so dependent on endless 30-second videos fed to them by the retard factory app.
What happened to this child is an unfortunate accident, but there is no guarantee a nearby parent could've prevented it and the constant communication didn't help him any. It may have even given the parent a false sense of security if anything, though I don't think they were negligent to let them go in the first place. Accidents happen but on a society-wide scale there is nothing good about denying your kid opportunities to learn independence and treat their ever-present devices as a substitute for learning to use logic, make good decisions, and generally function in life.
Yeah, my takeaway here was that if the difference is just a tenth of a second, oldies can drive. I'm more interested in seeing the super old statistics, how about 80-85? There has to be some exponential growth at some point as your brain is just dying at that age.
There are plenty of olds who can drive fine, or at least no worse than any other retard you may run into behind the wheel of a car. Some people just have a brain that shits itself in an emergency and that translates to really fucking stupid reactions when something sudden and unexpected occurs. Sheer measurable reaction time on tests is one thing, intuiting what constitutes a
good reaction in a real crisis situation is another. That's why people don't typically get charged for causing car accidents unless it can be proven they were already up to something egregiously retarded prior to whatever unforseen event/obstacle appeared that directly led to them wiping out their car.
I'd like to see what happens to spatial awareness with age. Kids seem to be neurologically incapable of watching where the fuck they're going below a certain age, is that why so many 75+ drivers start scraping everything with their cars and taking out the corner of their yards pulling in?
But they are thinking, "if that car hits me, it will really hurt or I might die". They understand what death is and what can cause it. What they are bad at, however, is assessing risk, and that running into a road unexpectedly is a risky endeavor. In other words, he likely didn't think the car would hit him, not that nothing bad would happen if the car did hit him.
Agreed, they know consequences and that they're supposed to be careful and why. However, they need frequent reminders because they don't seem too capable of impulse control. And as I said, they absolutely never watch where they're going.
Yeah, now kids are more likely to run into a pedo at school or the library than a stranger on the street.
Probably accurate. Most pedo incidents are because the parents entrust their children with someone they shouldn't. Or in current year, think they're keeping their kid safe by shoving an iPad at them and not letting them leave the house, and since they never bothered to ensure they learned any kind of social awareness, critical thinking, or common sense, the kid just rots their brain with bizarre pornography and gets groomed into trooning out by losers on Discord and reddit.
