flamingo_pinyata @ flamingo_pinyata @sopuli.xyz

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Yes, the first half of my professional career. I went from nothing to working at the same level with the people on top of the system.

Which I all then promptly lost and now I work a shit job for shit money. One of many reasons I'm socialist leaning these days.

Loud street beggars - never. They are usually members (or victims) of criminal organizations. Even if they are forced to do it, giving them anything only makes the business profitable for their bosses.

Poor people you know otherwise. Like for example a homeless person in your neighborhood who doesn't usually ask for anything. Help them if you can, especially with non-monetary support. Food, clothes you don't need, personal hygiene supplies, etc...

For all native English speakers, this is how the rest of us feel about any words in English

DoS on the universe

I mean it depends which ones are you watching.

True crime series usually deal with crimes where the perpetrator is undeniably guilty, and typically of very heinous crimes. It shows cases where the police is correctly doing what should be their job.

If there are any videos that show "we assaulted a random person on the street" type of police work in a positive way, I haven't seen it yet.

At some point airlines stopped doing the hub-and-spoke model where all flight come into one big airport and then passengers change flights onward to their destination. Now they favor the point-to-point model, which as the name suggests means every destination pair is served by an individual flight.

As to why. It's probably financial but it don't know for sure really.

It's easy to see how someone might fall into an anti-immigrant pipeline with news like this.

• Thousands of immigrants are willing to risk death to reach the UK which they see as a promised land
• I live in the UK and see nothing of this promised land, on the contrary my life is quite shitty, I'm barely making the ends meet
• Therefore the good life opportunities are taken by the immigrants

Of course what's missing is the first-hand insight in the immigrant life, which is far from comfortable.

Which makes me think what is driving those people to see specifically the UK as a promised land. Rather than any other country. Mass hysteria/cultural phenomenon? An extreme case of FOMO?

Says someone whose urinary tract is combined with reproductive organs

Homophobes: resist those evil urges, don't give it to the gay sex, you can do it just say no...

The rest of us: uh, who's gonna tell them

American issue is that they package many independent opinions into just 2 political "labels". And then you get seemingly schizophrenic results like this.

Not just an American issue though, it's happening elsewhere too, but maybe less extreme.

Change imposed by force never works. Iranian people need to overwhelmingly decide to do it. Providing help is fine, but bombing them into "freedom" never works. It actually has the opposite effect, when you feel in danger (because for example bombs are falling around you) you'll less likely to start a revolution.

People from some cultures (typically those where Islam is dominant, but not exclusively) are more prone to behavior like this. Probably due to a system of values they have adopted in their environment and upbringing.
Call it Islamophobia or something else it does lend itself to the idea that some people should be regarded with more default suspicion than others, based on their origins. As long as each individual is treated as just that - individual, and not blamed for the crimes of others, a higher base level of suspicion is unfortunate but a normal human reaction that shouldn't be treated as some kind of horrible sin.

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Sentencing to long prison sentences should be avoided. There should be two general categories:

• danger to others
• not danger to others

In the danger case the sentenced should be kept imprisoned until proven safe, otherwise only a light deterrent is needed.

There isn't much difference in the deterrence between 1 year and 10 years for most people. The really violent crimes are committed either without regard for oneself, or as a part of organization that already has a support system inside the prison.

Structured way of spending a lot of time in the same environment with other people with similar goals. "Go out on your own and make friends" doesn't work for many of us, additional free time will not help.
There's a good reason most people make long-term friendships in school and university, we need a similar space where we are surrounded by the same people every day (even though we may not like all of them). I have no idea what could it be since our society frowns upon such ideas.

Before Covid the office kinda took this role, however it was a gamble and not voluntary.

All of them 1!1!1! It's all connected.
After you put your container in the flatpack it will fork itself into an nginx distro.

This is called a cooperative

Except not just control but ownership too, there is no division between owner and employee.

And yes I agree with you, it would be a good idea. The economic system I advocate for the most is cooperatives in a free market.

Um, why would they attack a prison? People locked up there are presumably not friends with the Iranian government, and it's not a likely place to keep any military supplies.

Yes but he did it the wrong way South America -> Polynesia.

Turns out it actually happened the other way around Asia -> Polynesia -> South America. Most likely, still a lot to be determined.