I get what you’re saying but I get weirded out by people who go from "violence is necessary" to glorifying it. I’ve seen people dying before and I don’t think I’d ever find it satisfying to watch any human burning to death.
Justice is one thing but I think there’s a lot of sick fucks who practically get off to violence or at least violence like this in theory because they’ve never seen some horrific shit firsthand.
Maybe if every town in the country has properly funded public transit that was safe and reliable, we’d see less situations like this.
My city’s of public transit is a joke and we wonder why there’s so many drunk drivers. Can’t even sleep off the booze in your car without getting a DUI from some dickhead cop.
Extensive public transit hardly means functional. And women are far more likely to be harassed/abused on public transit than men.
Pretty weird that you’re baselessly accusing this person of doing similar things just for asking whether or not she’s doing this in the absence of a viable transportation alternative.
Like why are people on this site such dicks? It’s way past Reddit levels of snark and it just makes for a shitty experience here. It’s like hanging out with a bunch of jaded and snarky IT guys.
I’m no fan of shitty drivers and I think if we live in a world where license suspensions are a thing, that’s fine but don’t be surprised when stuff like this happens when public transit sucks. It may exist but there’s a reason why a lot of folks prefer their car over poorly funded public transit.
The studio that developed this game is disgustingly sexist. Can’t say I’d ever spend $$$ supporting devs that are so weirdly proud about being sexist wannabe macho assholes.
Talked a friend out of suicide when COVID first hit and a bunch of people lost their jobs and homes. Now he’s got a pretty sweet work from home job with full benefits and his own place again. Am very happy for him.
Just familiarity for me.
I’m bored so I’m just going to make a list:
Lightroom Classic (I’ve tried Darktable, just not for me. I take a lot of photos on my DSLR and I’ve been using Lightroom since 2015 so for me it’s worth eating the awful monthly subscription that I split with someone else.)
Anki (flashcard app, very popular among med school students and folks trying to learn new languages. Open source and tons of useful decks available. I’ve aced plenty of exams thanks to Anki.)
Bitwarden (finally caved and got a password manager-- could not be happier)
CHIRP (the best for programming handheld, mobile and base station radios)
CrystalDiskInfo (great for checking the health of SSDs and HDDs)
DaVinci Resolve (love using this for video editing-- pirated copy was easy to find)
Deluge (great for torrenting)
foobar2000 (I love it for music)
Greenshot (useful screencapture software)
inSSIDer (great for wifi analysis)
IrfanView (very good for photo management)
MusicBrainz Picard (amaaaaaaaaazing god tier music management software to get all the correct metadata/album art)
reWASD ($7 but it’s so good for no BS macro’ing of keyboard/mouse/gamepad shortcuts and profiles. I have two PCs and two mice + gamepad attached to my PC and this software is very helpful. I think the license is for life.)
WizTree (SSD/HDD visualization tool that is useful for figuring out what’s taking up too much space on your drive)
Oh man I crave peaches hard. A good peach is delicious.
I have family members who are doctors and they generally agree that the worst patients are physically/verbally abusive ones. Apart from that, they complain a lot about patients who don’t follow their advice and then get angry when they don’t get better.
I really liked Bastion.
Way more than 50%. I’d say closer to 90%. In countries like Norway they have far more COs per inmate and it generally works out better for everyone, although that’s only one small reason why. That place gets it right when it comes to prison in ways inmates in N. America could only dream of.
Please, COs break protocol on a daily basis. They just don’t leak shit so much to the public. Instead, they do stuff like take highly inappropriate photos of inmates and share them in their little group chats.
This is just toxic shit.
I guarantee you he was offered little to no transitional support when he left prison, which plays a reason why a lot of people don’t finish the degrees they worked on in prison. Trash system and then supporters of it have the nerve to blame incarcerated people for not magically improving their lives like [exception to the rule].
Weirdly enough, this quote is hilariously accurate if you consider COs to be IRL dementors.
From the wiki:
“Dementors are among the foulest creatures that walk this earth. They infest the darkest, filthiest places, they glory in decay and despair, they drain peace, hope, and happiness out of the air around them… Get too near a Dementor and every good feeling, every happy memory will be sucked out of you.”
Replace "Dementors" with "Corrections officers" and I bet most people who’ve been to prison would say that’s an accurate statement.
The only thing that sucks about this Michael Scott scene is that very few people remember the reference :( Prison Mike is fucking hilarious
Funny you should mention that documentary…
I’ll just say it was (and still is) very popular among inmates and many are outraged when they find out what the Nordic system is like, specifically in Norway. Guys were losing their shit when they saw the humane living conditions, especially when it was explained that yes-- even Norway has hardened criminals who are nonetheless treated with decency and the ultimate goal of reintegration/rehabilitation.
I’m really glad you asked about that documentary. I’m guessing it had to have been the same one-- at some point they show the apartment-like living quarters and show the inmates living a very normal looking like, not even dressed in an orange jumpsuit.
But yeah, a lot of guys felt a mix of emotions watching that documentary. Happiness for Norwegian inmates that they actually aren’t being treated like shit, happy that even the COs there seem to be genuinely rehabilitative-minded, but outraged and very sad that all this time we’ve been told all the "soft" approaches like Norway’s isnt effective and that Norway doesn’t have hard criminals like N. America (low-key racism is implied IMO), only to find out Norway does have hard criminals, many of which are able to turn their life around when they’re not dealing with state-inflicted traumatic retribution.
Guys are more likely to open up about their prison experience if they know there’s a chance it could perhaps help guys currently inside. Not every formerly incarcerated person is open to this but you might be surprised.
For what it’s worth, most guys who’ve been in prison have little to no interest in revisiting their time inside for obvious reasons. There’s of course some (relatively) happy times but they’re largely outweighed by the bad, often traumatic times that many former inmates understandably downplay because they’re used to the "suck it up" attitude.
Also, talking about prison with people who’ve been in prison is one thing but talking about prison to people who have never been in prison often just results in the same tired old questions, many of which come with a very morbid but almost gleeful curiosity. That said, most people who’ve been in prison aren’t too thrilled about talking about it even with other formerly incarcerated people.
Obviously there’s some former inmates who love talking about prison but I think guys like that just want someone to listen to them more than anything. Those are also the types of guys who lie their asses off about their prison experience and were probably known inside as a bullshitter.
There’s other exceptions, like inmates who are outspoken about their experiences specifically to open peoples’ eyes about how the supposedly “correctional” system is nothing but a sick form of traumatic retribution that only increases the rate of recidivism (and likelihood of people becoming victims of crime, I’ll add). So even if a person doesn’t give a fuck about inmates, they kind of should because the crueller and inmate is treated, the more likely he is to offend or re-offend in the future.
Things like AMAs are rare because that requires verification which for a million opsec reasons is a horrible idea.
"Haha I’m pointing my gun at you" is exactly the kind of garbage-tier humor that only a moron in law enforcement could appreciate.
Did you reply to the right person? I’m not sure how your comment is relevant to mine. I’m well aware of why public transit is poorly funded and developed.