Kobolds with a keyboard.
I really appreciate that they’re targeting republican states specifically. It’s at least nice that it’s being acknowledged that the US isn’t a monolith and most of us don’t agree with this shit. Not that it doesn’t hurt us all, obviously, but it’s at least a nice little nod to the fact.
fancy version of piano
The organ? Or did the church you visited have something else?
It’s right on the Steam page. Just click ‘Show More’.
No Stupid Questions is typically for questions that have answers that are not based on speculation or opinion. That might be better suited for Ask Lemmy. ([email protected] or [email protected])
I don’t have the links you’re looking for, so I can’t be any help there, but I do want to give you a hearty welcome to Lemmy anyway!
It’d legitimately be hilarious if they introduced it on the House floor and the general response was, “Oh, yeah, this is perfect!” and it somehow passed.
“The accounts are key components of the defendant’s popular and lucrative commercial enterprise,” Zlozower’s lawsuit states. “Defendant has over 12 million followers on [Facebook], and over 6 million followers on [Instagram], and over 5 million followers on [X] — all of which are monetized and provide significant financial benefits to the defendant.”
Among the images are some of Ozzy standing with Zakk Wylde and hugging the late Randy Rhoads, who died in 1982.
What an unbelievable shit-heel.
As a Venezuelan, I give y’all Americans the Welcome to the Authoritarian Countries club!
I want to get off Mr. Bones’ Wild Ride. :(
Not pay for their service. Pretty simple. If only there was a way to watch their shows without doing so.
https://12ft.io/ is faster than archive.is and doesn’t actually archive the page. In cases where you just want to read it and don’t want to waste server space on it, it’s maybe a better option.
The way they describe it makes it sound like a story beat from a Black Mirror episode.
Strongly suspect that “a % of the overtime rate” is a lot less than 100%, too.
The original comment was really just intended to point out the shit take in the article. It spends a lot of time talking about how bad people can pay money to get jail accommodations that are less awful, but its tone is overwhelmingly that the problem is that nicer accommodations are available for people who pay (which I do agree should not be a thing), but its implication is that everyone should have to be subject to the same awful conditions, not that the conditions should be improved for everyone regardless of their economic position. It sounds like they’re saying, ‘Some criminals are able to spend their time in jail in conditions that aren’t awful and dangerous, isn’t that terrible? You should be angry about that.’
The stance I was taking is that if we’re going to be mad about something, it should be that jails are so awful by default.
(Take a read: https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev.lawsocsci.3.081806.112833)
I don’t have access to this journal, unfortunately.
(Old paper but gives you an idea as to the complexity and unreliability of solving this: https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles/171676.pdf)
This seems to suggest that low-effort, generic solutions don’t work, but that more personalized, targeted solutions tailored to the individual are effective. That tracks with what I think we all would assume to be true.
I think it’s also worth noting that the article is talking about jails, not prisons. In theory, criminals sentenced to time in jail, rather than prison, would be the prime candidates for a focus on reducing recidivism, rehabilitation, and re-integration into society.
Well, you’re completely missing the point of the comment you were originally replying to, so this is really another topic entirely. I don’t have all the answers, but there are other countries who seem to have it closer to figured out than we do, so we could start by taking notes from them. Acting like this is an unsolvable problem isn’t helping anything.
I’m here to make your life on Lemmy a fucking nightmare
Good luck.
That’s a fair point, but they could have been up front about it, or at least adjusted their advertising some. They basically told consumers “We’ll get you the best deal, and if we don’t find one, it doesn’t exist”, which is a spurious claim anyway, but it surely misled people. They could have just said “We’ll see if we have any coupon codes available” or something less committal. There still would have been a lot of value for regular consumers… if you weren’t using a coupon code, 5% off is better than nothing and if they weren’t being dicks about the referral links, nobody likely would have cared in the slightest.
No, I haven’t. I don’t see how that has any relevance, but if you have and disagree with me, please explain why?
To be clear (and head off one potential objection), I’m not saying all jails are actually as awful as they make them sound (as I really don’t know), I’m referring specifically to the tone of the article, which definitely paints a very specific picture and then normalizes it.
If they’d just been a little less greedy, and only inserted their affiliate link for purchases where none was originally present, and actually provided the service they advertised rather than ‘partnering’ with merchants to provide worse coupons, they’d probably never have gotten caught and if they had, nobody would have cared. Could have skimmed a significant but lesser amount forever. But no, they had to go full on villain, and here we are.
I hate everything about this, but the part I hate more than everything else is how ‘normal’ jails being rife with violence and abuse is just treated as a matter of fact, not as something that needs to be fixed.
“They tried to tell me he was afraid of the general population … but that’s part of jail,” he said in a recent interview. “That’s what makes you not want to go back, it being such a horrible experience.”
No it fucking shouldn’t be, what the hell is wrong with these people?
It shouldn’t be surprising. Trump doesn’t represent the Republican party; Trump represents Trump. He does what’s best for Trump, nobody else. If what he wants happens to coincide with what’s good for anyone else, it’s a happy coincidence, nothing more.