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Cake day: September 19th, 2023

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  • That’s a weird argument.

    It’s not an argument for going to prison, it’s a commentary on the deplorable state of American society.

    Suicide is even cheaper, should we recommend that?

    You think people haven’t considered and even exercised that option for that very reason?

    incarceration is not an experience most people enjoy…

    If the point of prison is to remove joy, then why not just have convicts play No Man’s Sky?

    But seriously, should that even be the point? Isn’t the point of having a justice system a bit more nuanced than that? Shouldn’t our aim be to create a better society in general? Not simply through mere incarceration, but also education and mental health care?

    Don’t we owe it to the members of society who have been failed by society to lift them up when possible to a place where they no longer need to subvert and disrupt society’s rules for the sake of their own survival? Don’t we owe it to the rest of society to provide a path to a productive life for so of its citizens, regardless of our previous unwillingness or inability to do so?









  • Assault style weapons are expensive.

    Brand new AR-15s are available for $400 all day long. It’s not even a week’s rent most places. Poverty isn’t keeping people from arming themselves.

    It’s not poverty.

    But you’re right. Technically.

    There are plenty of people in this country living well above the poverty line without the means to care for themselves, due to the extreme cost of healthcare, shelter and food. Nobody in this country should have to struggle for any of these basic human necessities.

    And yet here we are, arguing about the price of guns in a country that invented school lunch debt.



  • I drive one for Uber as my full time gig. I spend about $125/wk on charging exclusively at superchargers.i could mitigate this substantially of I was able to put a home charger in.

    People on the left hate Elon, tech people think a car can’t drive itself without a weapons grade sensor array, and people on the right hate using electricity for propulsion, car people are threatened by electric car’s acceleration, or that the battery is going to die and I’ll need to get a new car.

    I think it’s important to note that all of those fears are completely unfounded and some are just ridiculous. Also that you can lease one now for literally $250/mo, so not really so expensive to own.