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theres also been tons of incidents of judges taking kickbacks from the private companies that operate prisone in exchange for the judge making sure that the prison is well stocked up on inmates since the company charges the government $X per prisoner
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Aug 30, 2018 02:15
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A century or two of people trying to get elected by being "tough on crime" will do that, especially when you have an entire industry that springs up out of jailing people or giving predatory loans to pay bail. Convicts aren't going to have any political pull, especially since they don't have the right to vote most places. It's even supposedly built into the constitution to be reasonable about it all, but apparently people care more about Amendment 2 than 8.
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Aug 30, 2018 02:16
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Shear Modulus posted:theres also been tons of incidents of judges taking kickbacks from the private companies that operate prisone in exchange for the judge making sure that the prison is well stocked up on inmates since the company charges the government $X per prisoner the kickbacks are illegal of course but the companies or their executives just giving campaign donations to the judges is perfectly legal and aboveboard
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Aug 30, 2018 02:17
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Best part is that we do it to kids. There are entire mega businesses dedicated to pressuring judges to convict young troubled youth so they can live the rest of their lives in prison acting as slave labor
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Aug 30, 2018 02:22
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amerikkka is a powder keg lol
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Aug 30, 2018 02:36
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Shear Modulus posted:theres also been tons of incidents of judges taking kickbacks from the private companies that operate prisone in exchange for the judge making sure that the prison is well stocked up on inmates since the company charges the government $X per prisoner the kind of people who want to treat causes instead of symptoms dont become judges every judge is poo poo can nato or someone invade america already for a peacekeeping operation?
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Aug 30, 2018 02:39
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are crash teams of armed paramedics a william gibson invention? theyre in a bunch of cyberpunk stuff and im beginning to believe the super rich already have them
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Aug 30, 2018 03:01
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They've got them in the US, they're called the cops, and the prescription is a healthy dose of lead. Especially good coverage for the mentally ill.
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Aug 30, 2018 03:34
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BONE DOG posted:Especially when the proprietor of this establishment has alluded to patrons being able to live out their darkest most violent fantasies with the dolls. I've been saying for a while that sex doll repairman is going to be a solid career choice pretty quick. if the business owner has any common sense they're going to tack on a security deposit for each session, because if they don't, those dolls are gonna see some poo poo...
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Aug 30, 2018 03:39
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Al! posted:are crash teams of armed paramedics a william gibson invention? theyre in a bunch of cyberpunk stuff and im beginning to believe the super rich already have them There is references to services like this in Mona Lisa Overdrive as I recall. But yeah Shadowrun springs to mind.
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Aug 30, 2018 03:43
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Rookoo posted:I suppose this fits into this thread better than any others, another case of me not understanding what the gently caress is going on with the US legal system. a) elected prosecutors, who have an incentive to convict as many people as possible, engage in high-profile prosecutions, and so on so that they can brag about conviction rates at the next election b) it's usually a tactic to force a plea bargain. the prosecutor charges the the person with some absurdly overkill list of crimes that carries a ridiculously long sentence, and then offers a deal in which the prosecutor will reduce it to a more normal list of charges if the person agrees to plead guilty to those reduced charges. scaring someone into pleading guilty is a lot easier than actually taking them to trial, which boosts conviction rates and saves the prosecutor some effort
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Aug 30, 2018 05:14
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Rookoo posted:I mean, getting dine'd and dashed on isn't exactly assault. I admit i've never had it done to me but at my most vengeful i'd probably be satisfied with the guy having to pay me back the 100 or so bucks and, say, wasting 100 hours of his time making him pick up cans at the side of the road, not putting him in a fuckin' cage for years and making him unemployable. I found a guy in my family tree who was basically a hobo & once went on a month long bender and broke into pantries all over the place (including a clergy home). He'd eat some food and drink whatever liqour was there, often in prodigous amounts. He was finally caught when he passed out inside one of the pantries. Anyway, it was pretty interesting to read the statements from the witnesses/victims who literally all refrained from demanding damages (except a painter who wanted a "small white bottle" replaced but received it back as it had been found in the guy's pocket), and in some cases urging a mild sentence. He ended up getting 8 months for the series of break-ins. This was 1902 in Denmark tho.
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Aug 30, 2018 06:15
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Krankenstyle posted:I found a guy in my family tree who was basically a hobo & once went on a month long bender and broke into pantries all over the place (including a clergy home). He'd eat some food and drink whatever liqour was there, often in prodigous amounts. He was finally caught when he passed out inside one of the pantries. This is such a quaint story I love this guy. Everyone is just ja kristjan is a bit of a lush he's alright though
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Aug 30, 2018 06:24
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Main Paineframe posted:a) elected prosecutors, who have an incentive to convict as many people as possible, engage in high-profile prosecutions, and so on so that they can brag about conviction rates at the next election Also parasitic bail bonds services have caused bail amounts to increase 10 fold
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Aug 30, 2018 06:47
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I remember seeing this video not long ago. http://www.governing.com/topics/public-justice-safety/tns-judge-ehrlich.html pisses me off an absurd amount. Just a complete failure of a human being who should know better.
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Aug 30, 2018 07:19
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BONE DOG posted:This is such a quaint story I love this guy. Everyone is just ja kristjan is a bit of a lush he's alright though Yeah  From the proceedings (my translation): "Presented with the fact that [on the night in question] he would have drank half a bottle of rum, a fifth of cognac, a liter of brandywine, and half a bottle of red wine, he answers that it is indeed a lot, but he does not doubt that he did it, seeing as how he had buzzing for several days and under such circumstances he can drink just about anything. However, he adds, it is not certain that all the bottles were full, and he may also have spilled some of their contents." In some circles he was known as "The Terror of [City]", where he is supposed to have bitten the nose off another man sometime before 1896, but I haven't been able to find any evidence of that. In fact, no evidence that he's even been there.
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Aug 30, 2018 07:26
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SMILLENNIALSMILLEN posted:Also parasitic bail bonds services have caused bail amounts to increase 10 fold California just signed a bill for cash bail to be abolished next year...except they left judges with the discretion to detain prisoners until trial whenever they see fit. Whoops! " Washington Post posted:But the American Civil Liberties Union, among early supporters of the measure, says the law could do more harm than good. In the ACLU’s view, the law removes the option of bail without also restricting the detention power of judges, some of whom are elected. Even prosecutors acknowledge that judges might err on the side of caution, realizing that they will be more sharply criticized if a defendant commits a crime after being released than if a defendant is unfairly held in jail. Class Warcraft has issued a correction as of 07:42 on Aug 30, 2018 |
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Aug 30, 2018 07:38
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America... is bad!?
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Aug 30, 2018 08:22
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Morphix posted:I mean can't weirdos already gently caress dolls though? Like I'm sure somewhere in the world someone was hooking up a sony walkman and some vibrating motor in the 80s to a cabbage patch doll. As far as I understand it, redecivism rates are that's high because the treatment mandated by the courts more often than not amounts to absolutely nothing, whereas those suffering from pedophiliac tendencies who haven't yet abused anyone can't really seek out preventive treatment because of mandatory reporting laws. In Germany there is a project called "Don't offend!" that offers a year's worth of therapy under complete confidentiality that is also covered by insurance. Because of the anonymity offered by the project it's hard for them to come up with any reliable statistics about redecivism rates, but out of 56 participants who reported back to the project six years after their treatment there had ended, only one had had sexual contact with a minor in the meantime, so there's that. Chemical castratation is also an optional part of this treatment if other sorts of therapy don't help, btw. So far it seems like the best thing we have in terms of treatment for pedophiles. No idea about the morality of child sex dolls, though.
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Aug 30, 2018 10:34
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HERE’S HOW MUCH TIME YOU’LL WASTE COMMUTING IN YOUR LIFETIME (BY CITY)quote:Have you ever stopped to think that over the course of your lifetime, you will likely spend hundreds of days commuting back and forth from home and work? If not, we've got a great map that's sure to make you question what you're doing with your life. The good folks over at Educated Driver used Census Bureau data on average daily roundtrip commute times in hundreds of cities nationwide to calculate how much time Americans spend traveling to and from work over the course of their lives. (They assumed a 45-year career working 250 days a year.) The results, mapped by city, are pretty horrifying.
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Aug 30, 2018 14:33
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Krankenstyle posted:Yeah lamo your relative owns
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Aug 30, 2018 20:48
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ahahahaha https://mobile.twitter.com/sambjoyce/status/1035597145443844096
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Sep 1, 2018 22:00
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buddy are you telling me car culture is bad?
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Sep 1, 2018 22:02
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I know for people in NYC you are talking about a fast mass transit being around 1.5 hours just one way.
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Sep 1, 2018 22:03
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Class Warcraft posted:California just signed a bill for cash bail to be abolished next year...except they left judges with the discretion to detain prisoners until trial whenever they see fit. Whoops! yeah lol. i saw this passed and i was like 'oh, great, instead of having to go into debt to not lose your job and house, you just lose your job and house if you're black'. thanks gov brown. you're a real progressive hero
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Sep 1, 2018 22:21
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X2kIfS6fb8
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Sep 2, 2018 02:32
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speaking of bad commutes...
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Sep 2, 2018 02:37
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this is totally legal too because generally researchers are not covered under FSLA
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Sep 2, 2018 03:54
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kinda looks like dogshit tbh
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Sep 2, 2018 08:04
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Larry Parrish posted:yeah lol. i saw this passed and i was like 'oh, great, instead of having to go into debt to not lose your job and house, you just lose your job and house if you're black'. thanks gov brown. you're a real progressive hero https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIqESwzCGg4
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Sep 2, 2018 08:10
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Sheng-Ji Yang posted:kinda looks like dogshit tbh There's a 48 minute gameplay showcase that came out recently, and it looks good.
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Sep 2, 2018 17:17
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We are a monstrous people. E: I almost didn’t qualify this, because really is it necessary? But I meant to quote one of the “America’s justice system is an Orwellian horror” posts. Lordshmee has issued a correction as of 01:17 on Sep 4, 2018 |
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Sep 4, 2018 01:12
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Sep 5, 2018 18:38
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uh. what is supposed to be happening in that clip?
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Sep 5, 2018 18:49
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Mayo chicken
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Sep 5, 2018 18:52
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Willie Tomg posted:uh. what is supposed to be happening in that clip? The decker getting a sandwich while the face and the sammy run interference
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Sep 6, 2018 05:25
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I live really close to one of the biggest sex doll factories in China where they're developing AI sex dolls. The photos are great. They're so insanely creepy and off-putting (including the finished products).  https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2018/jul/30/chinese-factory-builds-ai-sex-dolls-in-pictures NSFW obviously
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Sep 6, 2018 10:13
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a7m2 posted:I live really close to one of the biggest sex doll factories in China where they're developing AI sex dolls. Look, if you take a human being apart, it looks pretty gross too.
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Sep 6, 2018 15:40
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a7m2 posted:I live really close to one of the biggest sex doll factories in China where they're developing AI sex dolls. it’s like a low rent westworld
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Sep 6, 2018 15:54
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_8ReSlHkMY
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