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- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 2 weeks ago:
I am a pacifist, and I recognize the danger of encouraging/pardoning vigilantism. There are people I feel are heroes, who others view as villains. People should argue, debate, and put pressure as much as possible with non violence… but that is clearly not working for the ultra wealthy who are so insulated from 99.9% of what we can do.
The murdered man was, even by US capitalist standards, excessively evil. In a functioning and just system he would have had life in prison with no chance of parole for 1000+ counts of at the very least man slaughter for the millions of people whose health care was delayed or prevented. The world is a slightly better place without that level of extreme greed and heartlessness in it.
I also feel like the main point of prison “SHOULD” be Prevention and Rehabilitation. Which if the Attacker was personally harmed by a CEO and lashed out, I don’t think prison can accomplish either for him. I guess the US gov probably disagrees and thinks he should be rehabilitated as someone who is okay with being exploited by CEOs.
But I do want all evidence laid out, I want a jury to determine if he’s unhinged and a danger to others, or someone who was hurt on a fundamental level and lashed out. We of course assume it’s the second one, but we don’t know yet.
Juries and judges will sometimes use the kid gloves when dealing with people who kill their abusers, and I think a light sentence with the message of “murder is wrong… but so is allowing thousands to die to increase profits. So maybe don’t be so evil people wouldn’t mind giving up 10 years of their lives to see you removed from this world” would be fine.
… but also if this becomes another one of a million unsolved cases, I won’t lose a wink of sleep about it.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to videos@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Comment on Withdrawal is going to make people go mad 3 weeks ago:
Guyyyyssss, the vote was yesterday!
Also how was that mess over 10 years ago and they still are in the “Finding out” portion of FAFO?
- Comment on Give us your best infodump. 4 weeks ago:
Shout out to the scientists who study the reproductive pattern of certain insects for the sole purpose of wiping them out.
We see you scientists that are sterilizing trillions of bugs then releasing them into the wild. Your work is wild, weird, but very effective.
- Comment on The Prisoner's Trolley Problemma 4 weeks ago:
It says loved ones I’m afraid, can’t sacrifice one in prison I’m afraid.
- Comment on im going to need a bigger sd card for my tablet lol 5 weeks ago:
I promise, knowing why certain beetles have shinier shells than other beetles is very important to me!
Somehow.
You wouldn’t understand why though.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I mean, unless they are ferrying weapons across the great salt lake, I don’t think it applies to me XD
But if Californians wanna disrupt all trade on the west coast I wish them all the luck.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
You know what? That does help, thank you. This feeling you get when something goes terribly wrong that says “do something” can be good, but also very stressful because WTF are we supposed to do about an election like this?
I mean I hope they investigate, considering you know, the whole attempting to over throw the government thing. For all we know there already is evidence and they just are collecting. But yeah, not holding my breath for that one. I always knew we were bad at punishing criminal billionaires, but I would have never guessed “Rich man attempts to over throw government, is found guilty of various crimes and rape. Is handed government for his trouble.”
But sounds like we do have to wait and watch for at least the moment. I do hope maybe a few republican senators will want to slow things down, or at least want to pretend to be the sane ones.
- Comment on Withdrawal is going to make people go mad 1 month ago:
“Surely the company that sells a product for $100 will keep selling the product for that price once tariffs mean that it costs a $125 to produce and import!” - crazy people.
- Comment on Withdrawal is going to make people go mad 1 month ago:
Wanna bet that the search trend spikes again when/if they come into affect?
- Comment on Withdrawal is going to make people go mad 1 month ago:
Some folks were a little late to figuring out what tariffs were okay!
- Comment on How much should I expect to pay to have 40 feet of fence installed? 2 months ago:
What I am learning is that I am not in the correct tax bracket to pay for contractors unless messing up means the house burning down. So probably gonna be DIY this one.
- Comment on How much should I expect to pay to have 40 feet of fence installed? 2 months ago:
Oof yeah if it is coming out to 4k+ then I probably am gonna be a DIYer.
- Submitted 2 months ago to [deleted] | 28 comments
- Comment on Funky Little Rodents 2 months ago:
I actually went to a science/nature camp as a kid where a pig part was we would catch pot guts (ground squirrels)!
Almost every animal there had been caught dozens of times. Because they would go in, get peanut butter, be shown to a counselor that would mark that they were caught, then let go. So pretty sure all of them were trap happy since a 100 traps were out in a field 4 months out of the year, every single year.
- Comment on FREE God Tier Steam Games 3 months ago:
It’s in description of the video if you wanna just read it.
- Comment on FREE God Tier Steam Games 3 months ago:
Crusader kings 2 is one of the best games ever published by Paradox interactive, and is a super in depth strategy/RPG that I couldn’t even imagine on a phone.
So no.
- Comment on FREE God Tier Steam Games 3 months ago:
I will abide by no Crusader King 2 hate!
- Submitted 3 months ago to videos@lemmy.world | 10 comments
- Comment on Need a catfood/treat dispenser that can do like hourly for 12 hours 4 months ago:
I’m afraid it’s nothing fun.
I had two cats, one young, one old.
My old 17 year old cat passed recently, and my 3 year old cat has been super erratic for months since. I’ve tried tons of things from calm down treats, pheromones, different toys… he’s just a very unhappy young cat. He runs around just meowing a ton at random times, which he never did before. There is my room mates cat so there is another cat, but my cat has 0 interest in this other cat. He’s unhappy.
I’m hoping maybe I can hide this in different places each day and he’ll have something to hunt when it makes a noise and give him a sense of schedule and things to do?
I’ve tried most of the advice I can find online, so now I’m trying to make things up. I didn’t give very many details because I knew if I did, I’d just get a whole ton of advice that I already tried.
- Submitted 4 months ago to [deleted] | 14 comments
- Comment on Anon learns that his grandfather dodged being drafted 5 months ago:
Based purely on names, about 90% of those are HARD pass from me.
The other 10% are a soft pass.
- Comment on Apps that encourage/gamify walking? 6 months ago:
Don’t you have to buy an nft and equip it to earn money with that?
- Comment on Apps that encourage/gamify walking? 6 months ago:
I actually did do a lot of beat saber, but never got used to any games that had me move around a lot.
- Comment on Apps that encourage/gamify walking? 6 months ago:
Walk scape is super cool, but in closed beta. Might be a thing to keep an eye on.
- Comment on Apps that encourage/gamify walking? 6 months ago:
Android has built in pedometer that has nothing to do with google maps, as it’s not gps based. It’s called google fit.
I thought people would realize it just meant it was a built in Google service.
- Comment on Apps that encourage/gamify walking? 6 months ago:
Not a bad shout, I just want to spend a consistent amount of time each day for the most part. Which isn’t really a thing if I’m going to something like that.
- Comment on Apps that encourage/gamify walking? 6 months ago:
Downloaded!
- Comment on Apps that encourage/gamify walking? 6 months ago:
If I had the ability to self motivate I would not be asking this question I’m afraid.
- Comment on Apps that encourage/gamify walking? 6 months ago:
Hmm I was looking for more passive stuff where I do my walking, then get home and get a cool prize/thing to do, but doing things that actively contribute to a FOSS project is pretty inspiring.
