Baguette @ Baguette @lemm.ee

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I've already stated that I think this volunteer position should have better benefits and pay. Despite that, I will stand behind this program being a step towards the right direction. This program is far from exploitation. It's not an embarrassment, and one of the few rehabilitation programs that actually attempts to help inmates get back on their feet after prison.

If you really think other states do any similar programs you're grossly mistaken. Except for a couple other blue states, the other states imprison people in for profit prisons, so they can lease forced labor for pennies. There's no comparable program in the states, and if you find a problem with the pay, you should be looking at literally everywhere else in the states that uses inmates for farm labor because those states refuse to pay people proper wages. Not to mention the fact that those are involuntary labor.

Everyone's always quick to attack Cali for literally anything.

The firefighter / emergency reponder program is a volunteer position. Prisoners are not forced to join. They willingly joined, learned about the job, and are expected to help out when needed.

Everyone likes to complain about this as forced slavery, but this is one of the better programs inmates can volunteer in. They get experience, rehabilitation, and work towards emergency certificates that they can then use to get hired once they are released.

The other states have no comparable rehabilitation program. They'll gladly throw you out to the streets with a criminal record and let you suffer because a criminal record reduces your chance of getting a job by a significant amount.

Are there plenty of issues with the program still? Yes. There's long, grueling hours that comes with the nature of emergency response, bad pay, and a multitude of other issues, but a lot of it ties with how the prison system works and will take a lot of reform to set things right. I'm confident in Cali working towards those things though. This state has always been working for the people, even if it's a slow and tedious process.

And for those who actually care, you can read more about the program here:

https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/facility-locator/conservation-camps/faq-conservation-fire-camp-program/

Public utilities are cheaper than private ones. And it's not like there aren't city programs for low income. Cali is far from being the most progressive (in comparison to the rest of the world) and they have plenty of assistance programs for all possible utilities.

They censored certain phrases and words, which they plan on no longer enforcing. I agree that they leave hate speech on the platform (reports rarely do anything) but the looser restrictions mean people can post even more hateful content and that paves the way for discrimatory ideologies

I dont think fact checking was the main reason, moreso that they decided to allow hate speech (e.g. They're allowing targetted hate against LGBT groups).

Ah yes because wanting to not be discriminated against and censoring hate speech is such a woke thing /s

Live service also means with every update are new forms of monetization (cough cough skin microtransactions), because according to the c suite, live service means continuous profit, or whatever the fuck that means

Now every game has to be a multiplayer live service and the campaign/storymode is an afterthought for AAA

Not to mention time crunch for every AAA project

Im not usually a fan of alc but I do enjoy rice wine (korean flavored ones) and choya plum wine. Maybe you could try those? They're moreso a sweet alcohol and doesnt have that weird earthy bitter taste imo

Broke my nail once because i had my finger where the door hinge was and kid me was the not the brightest tool in the shed

Also I have really bad scarring from when I used shaving cream and whatever I did fucked up my leg enough that I just have a bunch of dot scars now which is partially why I only wear long pants now

I lived by a concrete slide that you needed cardboard to use like a sled in order to go down. Otherwise the slide would burn the everliving shit out of you if you didn't, but damn it was fun

And are we sure these monopolies are located in germany and not say the US?

What? League is consistently the top result of twitch. Even accounting for other regions, league is by far one of the largest games people watch in na. Big na streamers pull in thousands of viewers (doublelift, tyler1 for example)

The pole is to prevent people from taking carts and similar objects up and potentially causing an accident

Though it does have unintended consequences

Eggs are great but the us is back to a shortage bc of the bird flu

I stopped buying eggs the first time this happened and i stopped buying eggs again bc of this. Its like 8 dollars for a dozen...

Which is partially because of the surge in ai. All these startup companies wants to be associated with .ml (machine learning) and drives up the demand for these domains. If Mali gets it back, it could net a good amount of money.

What use are buildings if they aren't closed spaces? If they're open, then you're open to the elements and/or wild animals, and at that point it's not a shelter.

https://youtu.be/Xh4CtTGAzKw

I don't understand how anyone can support this regime when they do such horrendous things like in the video.

Considering the outcry from mobile auth back then, I dont think valve will ever try for id check.

Yea it doesn't really look like a platypus imo. The background is really convincing though, the only things in the background that look a little funky is that the grass kinda pops out as leaves and the trees on the left look off (though its kinda hidden by the blur and fishrye lens pov)