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- Comment on The "Threat" to America. 1 week ago:
For one, the conviction rates for the exact same crime wildly differ based on your race. If you are black, latino, or indigenous you are more likely to be convicted of the same crime than a white or asian person. Not to mention that your chances of getting stopped or arrested to begin with are dramatically higher if you’re black or latino.
The more pertinent point, though, is prison conditions. Did you know that it’s very common for prisons to either provide very little or no menstruation products? Did you know that some prisons will sell them in the commissionary at crazy high upcharged prices while inmates make pennies on the dollar? Does that sound like a choice to you?
Here’s something that’s allegedly a choice: food. Prison food (with very few exceptions) is borderline inedible. There are a lot of states who have incentives to cut costs in prisons wherever possible, and they will buy the cheapest, lowest quality food possible. This food is often prepared in unsanitary conditions by workers who are not trained in food safety because they are also inmates. Oftentimes it is extremely difficult to stomach and people will get food poisoning. I personally know somebody who was in prison for a while and worked in the kitchen and there were multiple times that spoiled, rotten food was cooked and served, and there was even a time where a rat got into the food and the kitchen staff just cooked the rat along with everything else and served it anyway. This person would often just not eat as a result. The prison commissionaries sell junk food like chips and cookies for a crazy upcharged price. Anything is better than what you get served in prison.
One last thing: is the bail system “fair and just”? Is it fair that if you have money and pay you don’t have to go to jail, while somebody who does not have money has no other choice? What about other fees that they charge you? Court debt is a thing. What about the laws themselves? Being homeless is illegal in many parts of the US. You will get arrested for sleeping under a bridge or in your car.
Highly recommend reading the book the Warehouse by James Kilgore and Vic Liu if you want to learn more about how the American prison system works. It’s an incredibly disturbing read, but it’s the reality we live in.
- Comment on I also have an opportunity to study abroad in Iceland. Is that also a good choice? 2 weeks ago:
What are you studying? Are there good programs relevant to your field of study there?
Iceland is a very safe country and millions of tourists from all over (including the US) come to visit, so that shouldn’t be your main concern.
- Comment on We'd all live in a golden utopia if ppl just did what I say the solution is online to strangers that don't read my replies 2 weeks ago:
Yeah…
…yeah
- Comment on Why does Americanized Chinese food make me poop so much? 4 weeks ago:
If you have the privilege you can always grow it yourself or buy organic
- Comment on Happy Labor Day! 1 month ago:
I see no point in trying to pit us against each other. People with normal desk jobs aren’t inherently the problem.
- Comment on Not a good sign 5 months ago:
While your sentiment is in the right place, trees are not a one size fits all solution. There’s a variety of ecosystems on this planet, and not all are densely packed forest. Instead of everybody just planting a tree, it’s important to think about what kind of tree and if a tree would be beneficial at all. Sometimes planting a native grass would be a lot more beneficial in a specific context.
One other thing is that the places where pine beetles are the most destructive are monocrop pine forests. If you have diversity in your forests, it makes them more resillent to this kind of thing.
It should be every human’s role to learn about how their local ecosystem works and how to exist within it in a reciprocal way.
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- Comment on a special message from our sponsors 7 months ago:
Here’s the meme format if anybody wants it:
The font I used for this is Are You Serious off of Google Fonts.
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- Comment on Esquizo ❤️ 7 months ago:
it’s ofishal now
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- Comment on OMG! Trumps! 11 months ago:
This is the one time a trump meme is funny
- Comment on Photographer combines family faces together to show genetic similarities 11 months ago:
In genetics recessive traits usually skip a generation to show
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- Comment on The next time you hear someone say they're just vibing in life without a job, just look at this image. 1 year ago:
As someone from one of the most obese states in the union, the core of the issue is most definitely not portion sizes. Food quality is shit and most people will eat ultraprocessed foods on the daily because money is tight for most people and fresh/healthy food is hella expensive assuming there’s even access to it. If you have the same amount of calories in ultrprocessed food vs real food, your body will still gain more weight from the ultra processed one because it is less satiating because your body burns through it much faster.
Small scale organic farming used to be the norm in my grandma’s time, but nowadays younger people don’t know what an okra plant looks like or cracked open a pecan. Additionally if you’re even able to access and afford fresh produce it’s mainly water and is not nutritionally dense. This is an issue with the entire food system that’s been built on shipping stuff from far away and profit incentives. Not to mention the targeted advertising of ultra processed foods to kids…
Also, there’s virtually no public transit and the small amount of pedestrian and bike infrastructure is laughable and outright dangerous. You have to have a car to get to most places and most places require a lot of driving to get to depending. That means sitting down for most of the day. It’s hard for most people to get exercise in daily life without being super intentional about it, and a lot of people are overworked and underpaid on top of that, so they understandably just wanna relax. As with most things in life, the answer is always complicated.
- Comment on The next time you hear someone say they're just vibing in life without a job, just look at this image. 1 year ago:
Southern food has entered the chat.
In all seriousness, southern food is some of the best food the US has to offer IMO. There’s a shitton of diversity within the category and it has a lot of flavor and spice.
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- Comment on I asked Llama one question... Then it got disturbing 1 year ago:
S tier shitpost. The ending caught me off guard.
- Comment on Everybody gets one [choose wisely] 1 year ago:
I’m here for the wizardposting
- Comment on Why doesn't the US fill in the area in the Pacific to connect Alaska, Hawaii, and the mainland? Are they stupid? 1 year ago:
That’s me
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- Comment on Why doesn't the US fill in the area in the Pacific to connect Alaska, Hawaii, and the mainland? Are they stupid? 1 year ago:
Image I regret to inform you that it has become a specific cabbage patch.
- Comment on Why doesn't the US fill in the area in the Pacific to connect Alaska, Hawaii, and the mainland? Are they stupid? 1 year ago:
I somehow misread garbage as cabbage for this.
- Comment on Repairing Broken Sofa? 1 year ago:
You can use some old books as a temporary leg. They look cool too.
