SreudianFlip @ SreudianFlip @sh.itjust.works

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Your typical walk in. I got it.

But your back yard is infinite.

Boats are the original tiny home.

Local classified right now has a 29 foot sloop with extra sails, recent bottom paint, and a 9hp outboard plus dinghy for $5700 CDN. It's been up a while, you could bargain down, the seller seems motivated. It's a 1978 boat so really skookum fiberglass on that.

A mooring buoy costs around $1500 to plop down but sometimes you can get one second hand for less. (Every Canadian is entitled by citizenship to a mooring buoy or two.)

An equivalent RV costs around $15k with nowhere to park.

People who assume that they are going to buy stuff new are just locked into a class-based mindset.

Around here you can buy a serviceable 29-foot sailboat for $5k, and a mooring buoy for $1k. It's cheaper than a van by the river FFS.

People who live on sub-40-ft sailboats are usually just hanging in there. Source: that was nearly me before my fortunes changed slightly. Boats are underpriced because they are a lot of work.

My sister is a corporate executive. Her walk in closet is objectively larger than a 29-ft live aboard. Hell her ensuite bathroom is bigger than that and she lives in a duplex. You are lacking real world context I think.

Fraud, treason, endangerment, etc.--all normal and reasonable restrictions on speech.

Nazi propaganda checks all those boxes.

Advocates genociding all authoritarians

Gets put in line for the solar express

Surprise!

Bad news: the 1/3 authoritarian segment of society seems to be a human trait. Culture determines how the trait is expressed.

So fire them into the sun but statistically the hierarchically-minded, active-amygdala, contrarian and cruel segments of the genome will just always be there.

This is probably the primary challenge of the human condition: graduating from a troupe species with ling-refined tribal techniques for handling the problem individuals, to a noöspheric global species successfully coping with with emergent problems due to mass "civilizational" effects.

Yet Putin published an opinion that Ukraine is a modern fiction and should return to Russia. It isn't official... just the geopolitical opinion of the dictator.

One other given reason that people seem to forget is the published position by Putin that Ukraine is a fiction, that Ukranians don't exist in a culturally distinct way, and that their claimed history and distinctness should be erased and made properly Russian.

It's not just imperialism at that point, it's genocidal.

Yeah I was pointing out that the prison system may be completely ineffective where it's based on punishment. It's a critical view, not prescriptive, and designing a new system requires a revolutionary approach, with consideration for the needs of the victims as well as the mental state of the perpetrators.

I wasn't proposing anything pat and simple like one-size-fits-all incarceration, completely the opposite, actually. Maybe forever in prison, maybe no jail time. Justice, in terms of repairing things for a victim, might mean a lifelong burden for the convicted, or something else entirely. It would necessarily be complex. More emotional, less rational people would have a problem with that since they can't see justice without punishment.

Why would they result in the same sentence? That's a strange proposal that I have never heard before.

Regarding rehab, well that's a procedural question more than legislative. Ask experts in the field. It's not like the problem is new, even if it's evident we are going about it fundamentally wrong.

Uh, sure it does, in the sense that if someone is unable to be rehabilitated, they should be kept away from the public? Not sure what you're asking except maybe "can I please just have a little revenge?"

This principle applies to many stores. If you shop at a mattress store the mattress pads are priced at triple the value.

I'm unfortunately dependent upon said company, as a "partner", which just means a hack indie developer who herds customers to the slaughter for the corp.

The last round of layoffs was a brutal experience for the "Plus" customers. They lost crucial advisers and support, and now the guidance available is a bored and untrained chat support thrall on the other side of the world, or a stochastic parrot.

You can smell the enshittification from here. The vendor lock-in is so intense it seemed inevitable.

We learn over and over again from our various texts-of-wisdom, be it fables or scripture or novels or movies, that revenge is a primitive response to problems. It's the moral of so many stories, right?

Yet we organize society to satisfy these immature desires. Punishment, for the most part, is neither deterrent nor corrective, and a paltry form of redress.

Do you want justice? Start with redress. You can't fix the problem of a dead child but the victims need proper support, to alleviate all the other issues caused by the crime. In Canada the prison system is called "corrections" but it mostly fails at that... rehabilitation requires an evidence-based system to succeed, and ours is built on punishment, an emotional response.

If you want deterrence, well that requires eliminating poverty and supplying real education, backed by proactive and robust mental health services.

I define justice as the best possible outcome of a bad situation.

"Ex-girlfriend" ... I think you can put a hypothesis together.

No.

Phobic describes the motivation for the act, which is a ban.

It will be interesting to run this with Lulu installed and see how badly it leaks data.

Lawler suggests that he's getting around $5000 per piece and there were three pieces, so that's around $15k going to the local skating rink.

It means you're looking for a fight, which usually involves bouncers and shit.