Incarceration rates are tied to our need for a "tough on crime" narrative from our politicians, which is driven by the insatiable need for some sort of punishment. Punishing people only works when that person had access to and knew a better way.
I know that if there was a cop on every corner, nit picking my life, they'd find 3 reasons over time to lock me up and throw away the key. Find someone to make the laws and enforce them, that wasn't used to a bunch of rowdy folks having a beer on Friday, and we'd all be in jail for life after 3 weekends. Our wives would be pissed and our children wouldn't have any fathers to teach them what is right.
A mobile to those without a lot of money is a lifeline to the world. Its the internet, which is a library in their home. Its a phone. It's where they fill out their job application. Is this also why the same people don't need a car, which costs more money (even a crappy car that pollutes your planet)?
We have policed ourselves into the largest prison population on the planet. This isn't helping anyone. That money would be much better spent in those same communities helping the communities help themselves.
If we employed every person for the same amount it cost to lock them up, it would certainly be a huge start. If we employed every person for less than the same amount it cost to lock them up, then the finger pointers could pat themselves on the back and say "look at the money we've saved," while at the same time watching the community slowly rebuild itself over generations.
There aren't fathers because they are in and out of jail. Most of the dad's didn't have fathers either because of the same thing.
Mom's end up with multiple baby dad's because the original man they were with is doing time for something.
When put children and young adults in jail and then don't teach them anything in jail, how do we expect they'll know anything different when they come out?
The drug war has been a major part of what you're complaining about.
When you take away dad, kids get upset, mom's get pissed. Why wouldn't they be mad at a system that came in and locked everyone up? The kids don't see anything other than, "You took my dad away."
Where was the help? It never came. We locked these folks up, and ruined their families. We then told them if they did the same thing more than twice, they were going away for life.
-- Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he'll eat until there are no more fish in the stream. Lock a man up, it will destroy his family, no one will eat and no one is there to teach anyone anything.
The online world is an emotional and intellectual fishbowl. Emotions and intellect are best developed in the real world. When we don't have as many real world experiences to fall back on, the highly emotional and intellectual world of the internet can be overwhelming. When kids spend so much time online, they are not developing the same tools they would in the real world. Young people just don't have the tools to deal with every level of insanity and brilliance you can find on the internet.
I'd suspect there is a depressional feedback loop with people spending too much time online and not developing their emotions. Those same kids interact online and re-enforce that emotional immaturity among themselves. One needs being checked face to face to grow emotionally with empathy. Basically, the internet creates a place for these kids to troll themselves, and the level of maturity doesn't rise nearly as fast as it would on the playground. Feeling like there is something more to be emotionally learned, but never getting there can leave that uneasy feeling of depression, which we see. One can look at 1000 comic strips, and laugh, but there is just something about laughing with a friend that makes it different, and better.
There is a difference between people new to specific areas of thinking and overall psychological weakness. As people move into new areas of learning, they may need some help. Asking for help isn't a bad thing, and should never be discouraged. Many people look to religion for help on every subject. The problem isn't people trying to learn. One of the larger problems with religion is when one person or group uses it to control a large # of people, by being the ultimate judge(s) on what is right or wrong.
I'm not sure most religious people hold the belief that death is scary. How many times have I heard about 72 virgins, and how wonderful it is to be a martyr? I don't think these people are just saying that.
-- "It's a bird, It's a plane..." - Unknown resident
Electric cars are quick, efficient and quiet. Imagine NYC if the sound of engines were taken away. Imagine a small 40,000 person community. Imagine the tangible differences; less smog, less noise. This is a great solution for people that live in urban areas. I think people will find the ease of use, the different feel of being so quiet, and how little maintenance has to be done so appealing that it is going to become irresistible to almost anyone buying a new car, relatively soon.
-- "Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right." - Pope Francis
No kid is more safe due to a smartwatch, but it makes mom and dad feel better. This enables and enforces fear mongering by the population. It is a false sense of security for mom and dad to a problem that is smaller today than at anytime in the past. In fact, it is usually mom or dad that kidnaps the child in the first place. Child abduction rates are down over the ages, especially when one considers the growth of the population over this same time. [freerangekids.com]
I've seen it done to others and experienced it myself. It is sometimes very hard to determine exactly what harassment is, especially when the boss picks out one or two people and only treats them badly.
One manager I had, harassed many of us, but ultimately was let go only after sexual harassment claims. My coworkers could see what he was doing, but pinning down exactly what he was doing was nearly impossible. The c-suite knew him longer than most of us, and just figured it was a bad fit for the first 20 or so that moved through his group. It took multiple sexual harassment claims for them to finally tell him to move on. 20 careers were severely disrupted in the meantime.
I learned the hard way that our laws for employment don't mean much on the back-end. I couldn't find a lawyer that would talk to me about anything that went on without putting up a retainer so large it never would have made sense. I searched the country for anyone that would help. The answer from all of them was basically, "these cases drag on for years, its their word vs. yours and rarely does anyone win."
I still don't know what could have been done in the first place as I look back. Regardless, I've learned and am extremely picky now for anyone I work for, probably to my detriment.
If these corporations were actually people, they would be feed to the dogs. They prey on people coming and going. They sell and trade information to manipulate people, while gaming the system in their favor. There are plenty of ways to do business without completely disregarding any semblance of privacy.
The question has been, "Why are wages not going up in the United States?" The answer has ultimately been, "We don't know."
If companies are using wage data to manage wages, the real market forces can not play out. It doesn't matter what one asks for, downward pressure on wages will always exist. This leaves zero room for real negotiation, and almost zero pressure for companies to have to decide real wages.
-- Pick a salary, any salary. That's cute, here is your salary.
This is a really great outcome. It would be horrible to have such a debilitating disease. For these scientists to be able to fix his DNA to cure him of this is truly remarkable, and should be applauded. Now, this young boy gets to grow up and have a chance at enjoying life without these sores and the crippling pain that is associated with it.
You're right. The interest and the readership is just not there at the moment.
That one headline that everyone saw every week had an impact. Its far from exciting news, but 52 times a year everyone at least got a hint at what was happening locally while sitting in their cars at the stoplight leaving their neighborhoods.
If/when people take some responsibility for what they are ingesting, it would help the entire situation. I do see a few people kicking the thought around at least. I think we have years to go before we go full circle though here, unfortunately.
The consolidation economy is starting to find breaking points. People are finding it hard to find anything worth reading, and the things worth reading are packed in between a whole lot of useless stuff. We used to have multiple papers competing, but they lost all of their ad revenue to the online world, everyone bailed until there was nothing left. People do want their information, but right now so many don't trust anything.
You touch on an interesting point regarding propaganda. We've got an entire section of the population so cynical about anything they see, they only read cynical stories as true. Anything not cynical just has to be false, they say.
Fifteen years ago our small town had a newspaper. There were newspaper boxes on every corner. Every person would at least see one headline a week that pertained to local news, because it was prominently shown through the newspaper boxes.
Ten years ago, the online version of the local news had a comment section. The trolls took over, but as long as you didn't scroll down, you could stick to finding the news.
Today, those newspapers are gone. National conglomerates have bought the small papers, and our now filled with USA Today style click bait. "This many people died this morning..."
People now say that they get their local news from Facebook. At the same time, their feeds are filled with angry neighbors arguing with each other. These news hawk are having trouble sifting through the lost dog notices trying to find a local person that wrote "news."
The current conversation revolves around making it easier to find news, all in one place where people can read it, where lost dogs are on page 7, and "real news" would be near the front.
We aren't full circle, and its causing serious problems. The local community is fractured. Fluffy the dog has been found 3 times though, and grandma is really happy every time.
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Incarceration rates are tied to our need for a "tough on crime" narrative from our politicians, which is driven by the insatiable need for some sort of punishment. Punishing people only works when that person had access to and knew a better way.
I know that if there was a cop on every corner, nit picking my life, they'd find 3 reasons over time to lock me up and throw away the key. Find someone to make the laws and enforce them, that wasn't used to a bunch of rowdy folks having a beer on Friday, and we'd all be in jail for life after 3 weekends. Our wives would be pissed and our children wouldn't have any fathers to teach them what is right.
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"Ribbit" - Unknown frog
I would have enjoyed the story about Apple placing it near folks with expensive haircuts.
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"Vegetables are a must on a diet" - Jim Davis
I believe that for most people, this is what they think a deep investigation is. Maybe we should mod the journalist "insightful."
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"You have the helm" - J. Kirk
A mobile to those without a lot of money is a lifeline to the world. Its the internet, which is a library in their home. Its a phone. It's where they fill out their job application. Is this also why the same people don't need a car, which costs more money (even a crappy car that pollutes your planet)?
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"It was ME!" - Donald Trump
We have policed ourselves into the largest prison population on the planet. This isn't helping anyone. That money would be much better spent in those same communities helping the communities help themselves.
If we employed every person for the same amount it cost to lock them up, it would certainly be a huge start. If we employed every person for less than the same amount it cost to lock them up, then the finger pointers could pat themselves on the back and say "look at the money we've saved," while at the same time watching the community slowly rebuild itself over generations.
--
"Ribbit" - Unknown frog
There aren't fathers because they are in and out of jail. Most of the dad's didn't have fathers either because of the same thing.
Mom's end up with multiple baby dad's because the original man they were with is doing time for something.
When put children and young adults in jail and then don't teach them anything in jail, how do we expect they'll know anything different when they come out?
The drug war has been a major part of what you're complaining about.
When you take away dad, kids get upset, mom's get pissed. Why wouldn't they be mad at a system that came in and locked everyone up? The kids don't see anything other than, "You took my dad away."
Where was the help? It never came. We locked these folks up, and ruined their families. We then told them if they did the same thing more than twice, they were going away for life.
--
Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he'll eat until there are no more fish in the stream. Lock a man up, it will destroy his family, no one will eat and no one is there to teach anyone anything.
I guess they do really know what I'm thinking when I leave feedback but can never send the form.
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"Ribbit" - Unknown frog
Here is the list, linked to from the actual article. List of 400
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"Ribbit" - Unknown frog
You use what called a hosts file. Can be found on Windows and Linux. Someone can add their two cents on IOS.
You can always block them through an ad-blocker, noscript or things of that nature in your browser.
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"Ribbit" - Unknown Frog.
I think you're on the right path here.
The online world is an emotional and intellectual fishbowl. Emotions and intellect are best developed in the real world. When we don't have as many real world experiences to fall back on, the highly emotional and intellectual world of the internet can be overwhelming. When kids spend so much time online, they are not developing the same tools they would in the real world. Young people just don't have the tools to deal with every level of insanity and brilliance you can find on the internet.
I'd suspect there is a depressional feedback loop with people spending too much time online and not developing their emotions. Those same kids interact online and re-enforce that emotional immaturity among themselves. One needs being checked face to face to grow emotionally with empathy. Basically, the internet creates a place for these kids to troll themselves, and the level of maturity doesn't rise nearly as fast as it would on the playground. Feeling like there is something more to be emotionally learned, but never getting there can leave that uneasy feeling of depression, which we see. One can look at 1000 comic strips, and laugh, but there is just something about laughing with a friend that makes it different, and better.
--
"To infinity and beyond" - Buzz Lightyear
There is a difference between people new to specific areas of thinking and overall psychological weakness. As people move into new areas of learning, they may need some help. Asking for help isn't a bad thing, and should never be discouraged. Many people look to religion for help on every subject. The problem isn't people trying to learn. One of the larger problems with religion is when one person or group uses it to control a large # of people, by being the ultimate judge(s) on what is right or wrong.
I'm not sure most religious people hold the belief that death is scary. How many times have I heard about 72 virgins, and how wonderful it is to be a martyr? I don't think these people are just saying that.
--
"It's a bird, It's a plane..." - Unknown resident
Electric cars are quick, efficient and quiet. Imagine NYC if the sound of engines were taken away. Imagine a small 40,000 person community. Imagine the tangible differences; less smog, less noise. This is a great solution for people that live in urban areas. I think people will find the ease of use, the different feel of being so quiet, and how little maintenance has to be done so appealing that it is going to become irresistible to almost anyone buying a new car, relatively soon.
--
"Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right." - Pope Francis
No kid is more safe due to a smartwatch, but it makes mom and dad feel better. This enables and enforces fear mongering by the population. It is a false sense of security for mom and dad to a problem that is smaller today than at anytime in the past. In fact, it is usually mom or dad that kidnaps the child in the first place. Child abduction rates are down over the ages, especially when one considers the growth of the population over this same time. [freerangekids.com]
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"I'd like a truck" - Kid to Santa Claus
Yes, Work should be like prison. Its a good thing they let us into the yard at night.
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"No woman no cry" - Bob Marley
I've seen it done to others and experienced it myself. It is sometimes very hard to determine exactly what harassment is, especially when the boss picks out one or two people and only treats them badly.
One manager I had, harassed many of us, but ultimately was let go only after sexual harassment claims. My coworkers could see what he was doing, but pinning down exactly what he was doing was nearly impossible. The c-suite knew him longer than most of us, and just figured it was a bad fit for the first 20 or so that moved through his group. It took multiple sexual harassment claims for them to finally tell him to move on. 20 careers were severely disrupted in the meantime.
I learned the hard way that our laws for employment don't mean much on the back-end. I couldn't find a lawyer that would talk to me about anything that went on without putting up a retainer so large it never would have made sense. I searched the country for anyone that would help. The answer from all of them was basically, "these cases drag on for years, its their word vs. yours and rarely does anyone win."
I still don't know what could have been done in the first place as I look back. Regardless, I've learned and am extremely picky now for anyone I work for, probably to my detriment.
--
"Whats up doc?!" - B. Bunny
If these corporations were actually people, they would be feed to the dogs. They prey on people coming and going. They sell and trade information to manipulate people, while gaming the system in their favor. There are plenty of ways to do business without completely disregarding any semblance of privacy.
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"Use the force Luke" - O. W. Kenobi
I'd like to write a couple of macro's for these things.
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"Hey Macarena" -- Los Del Rio
The question has been, "Why are wages not going up in the United States?" The answer has ultimately been, "We don't know."
If companies are using wage data to manage wages, the real market forces can not play out. It doesn't matter what one asks for, downward pressure on wages will always exist. This leaves zero room for real negotiation, and almost zero pressure for companies to have to decide real wages.
--
Pick a salary, any salary. That's cute, here is your salary.
This is a really great outcome. It would be horrible to have such a debilitating disease. For these scientists to be able to fix his DNA to cure him of this is truly remarkable, and should be applauded. Now, this young boy gets to grow up and have a chance at enjoying life without these sores and the crippling pain that is associated with it.
--
"...to the moon..." - Neil Armstrong
What is an app other than its interface? The user cost of having users re-learn an app, is large. This is going to have to be amazing.
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"I ain't afraid of no ghost" - Ghostbusters
You're right. The interest and the readership is just not there at the moment.
That one headline that everyone saw every week had an impact. Its far from exciting news, but 52 times a year everyone at least got a hint at what was happening locally while sitting in their cars at the stoplight leaving their neighborhoods.
If/when people take some responsibility for what they are ingesting, it would help the entire situation. I do see a few people kicking the thought around at least. I think we have years to go before we go full circle though here, unfortunately.
I hear ya. Our was local until Gannett came in and bought them. Now its local news through the main conglomerate as you describe.
Our local Facebook page where our citizens claim to get their news, is more like a daily talk show, full of gossip and lost puppies.
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"No Branch" - Poppi, Trolls
The consolidation economy is starting to find breaking points. People are finding it hard to find anything worth reading, and the things worth reading are packed in between a whole lot of useless stuff. We used to have multiple papers competing, but they lost all of their ad revenue to the online world, everyone bailed until there was nothing left. People do want their information, but right now so many don't trust anything.
You touch on an interesting point regarding propaganda. We've got an entire section of the population so cynical about anything they see, they only read cynical stories as true. Anything not cynical just has to be false, they say.
--
"Fear is the path to the dark side" - Yoda
Fifteen years ago our small town had a newspaper. There were newspaper boxes on every corner. Every person would at least see one headline a week that pertained to local news, because it was prominently shown through the newspaper boxes.
Ten years ago, the online version of the local news had a comment section. The trolls took over, but as long as you didn't scroll down, you could stick to finding the news.
Today, those newspapers are gone. National conglomerates have bought the small papers, and our now filled with USA Today style click bait. "This many people died this morning..."
People now say that they get their local news from Facebook. At the same time, their feeds are filled with angry neighbors arguing with each other. These news hawk are having trouble sifting through the lost dog notices trying to find a local person that wrote "news."
The current conversation revolves around making it easier to find news, all in one place where people can read it, where lost dogs are on page 7, and "real news" would be near the front.
We aren't full circle, and its causing serious problems. The local community is fractured. Fluffy the dog has been found 3 times though, and grandma is really happy every time.
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"That won't be easy" Jiminy Cricket