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  1. Those numbers are significantly worse than I expected them to be: one percent recommit murder, 22 percent recommit violent crime, and 51 percent get arrested for criming again. The numbers are even worse for people incarcerated for violent crime. Needless to say even the one percent that do another murder are killing at a rate exponentially higher than the rest of the population (something like .001 percent of American adults commit a murder). All in all, this website confirms my firm belief that murderers are in general anti-social, have poor impulse control, and that there is little benefit to allowing them to roam free. I’m not sure what number I would find acceptable but if 51 percent of murderers we let out get arrested again within five years I am very comfortable saying that we let too many murderers out of prison. There is also where we distribute the risk and benefits. If we let a murderer (or really any violent criminal) out of jail, that person stands to gain a lot, perhaps a few people close to him benefit. The rest of us gain at best nothing but stand to lose quite a bit. On the flip side, the rest of us don’t suffer much harm at all aside from taxes if we keep a violent criminal locked away and in fact stand to gain quite a bit. I am not particularly interested in something where the benefits primarily accrue to convicted criminals and the risks and negatives all fall on non-criminals. I feel the same way about white-collar crime and fraudsters, I think people who do that are inherently untrustworthy and predatory and should not get a second chance to fraud people again. For what its worth, I do think jails in America are completely inhumane and that drives a lot of the discussion. I strongly support safe, clean, even enriching places to stash criminals away from everyone else where we don’t have to think about them.
  2. The SC wrote the opinion to allow them to do exactly this while pretending to still respect basic law and human rights.
  3. One of the things I am happy to pay taxes for is to put people who kill other people in a place that’s not around me. I have never wished that more murderers be let out and I don’t particularly care if they “age out” of crime. One strike you’re out for murder is OK in my book. Its not a mistake that just happens/ I’m happy if you reform and become a better person and prison should be a safe space where you can cultivate a rich inner life. I’m even fine with setting up a cush Nordic-style nice prison where the reformed killers can go hang out.
  4. There has been a lot churn targeting anyone who said Trump lost in 2020. I expect a rewrite of history is going to play heavily in fuckery related to the 2028 election, that Trump is owed a term.
  5. It’s absolutely having an effect on little people. He cited national security to strip union rights from the employees of the FDA, EPA, Bureau of Land Management, General Services AdminIstration, FCC, and Veterans Affairs among others.
  6. The Pentagon spokesperson is retweeting Kremlin media.
  7. It was a bump that he manipulated. Before his insane tariff announcement, 10 percent across the board and 104 percent on China was considered “worst case.” The market sighed in relief when it realized it hadn’t been nuked from orbit and now people are realizing they’ve “just” been firebombed.
  8. When I swam in high school we were all the time in other teams tents or bleacher sections, you knew the other competitors and it was prime territory to meet girls. Never had a knife but always packed a big gun in the trunks tho.
  9. Take a look at the first Dire Maltese to walk the earth in 30,000 years. Incredible to believe this same animal (ok, maybe there are a few modified genes) once stalked the massive wooly mammoth and giant sloth as the glaciers retreated across the plains of North America.
  10. We’ve moved beyond law firms and are now just targeting individuals who say things Trump doesn’t like. Today he signed an executive order targeting a former government employee for “falsely denying that the 2020 election was stolen and rigged.” https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/04/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-addresses-risks-from-chris-krebs-and-government-censorship/
  11. Feudalism and the vassal-lord system would not have been feasible in a continent-spanning political entity like Westeros. The Targaryans would have had no need to accept it while they were in sole possession of air domain dominance and would not have tolerated subordinate great houses raising armies and any that tried to do so— either to enforce their own rule in the provinces or march on Kings Landing would have been destroyed while bivouacked and vulnerable. The Targaryens would have established a centralized empire, likely with a small professional standing army to defend the wall and for emergency shows of force or insurgency not requiring dragons and local militia or police forces to maintain order/collect taxes. They’d also have invested in a navy and trading fleet to defend the continent from external threats and seek revenue other than heavy taxation. So GoT is bullshit just like the reincarnated dire wolf.
  12. Lol at chainsaw arguing that the CCP could be really awesome if they wanted to be and that the Chinese like sweatshops anyway.
  13. Just a thought maybe we could vote D consistently and not let the GOP sucker us constantly with moral panics and tax cuts they never pay for.
  14. This was all part of the plan. Yet, the crafty Red Chinese would have seen through any deceit or trickery or they would have refrained from retaliating and exposing their treachery. Thus, it was necessary for all of the emperors advisors and subjects to believe tariffs were happening.
  15. I’m really getting fucked over on this massive loan I took out to build a textile factory.
  16. https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musk-rage-quits-livestream-after-getting-ruthlessly-cyberbullied-in-the-chat/?via=twitter_page&utm_campaign=owned_social&utm_source=twitter_owned_tdb&utm_medium=socialflow I completely and totally reject a “cyberbullying” characterization here, Elon has chosen to become the most prominent and obnoxious internet troll and to inject himself into the culture wars in the most polarizing way possible. This was just the little guy getting a shot in when he could.
  17. I don’t think so, I know the roadster was based on a heavily modified Lotus Elise gliding chassis. Lotus produced them for Tesla. Tesla focused heavily on the powertrain and battery for that run and as a proof of the concept. I don’t think Tesla wanted to get into that part of the tech too heavily till they proved the market for a “sexy” and upmarket EV.
  18. I don’t think any of this was ever about jobs or eggs.
  19. Bessenet suggests that fired fed workers will supply the labor for new factories and I cannot emphasize enough that sending cancer researchers and biologists and international development pros to staff steel mills is literally fucking Maoism. The entire MAGA movement is teeteting that way. .
  20. Answer: Even if the US fucks up and leaves NATO, no Western NATO Ally is going to integrate Chinese tech into their military. Canada will buy Saabs or Eurofighters.
  21. I cannot fucking believe I live in a country that’s planning a military parade for the President’s birthday, its just making me want to pull my hair out. Fuck every person who voted for this forever, may they spend their twilight years turning screws at the iPhone factory.
  22. Guy who has only ever read Sun Tzu’s The Art of War, reading his second book: ”Getting a lot of Sun Tzu’s The Art of War vibes from this.”
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