I read that in belch.

Make sure the jail will accept the donation before you stock up. Different institutions might have different approved supplier lists because there have been issues with contraband as well as administrators who just like to make having even the simplest of comforts as difficult as possible. Having been a volunteer with the incarcerated, don’t forget that depending on where you live you might have a lot of folks who don’t read English and would appreciate books in their language, and middle school/high school reading level books might be appropriate for some of the folk’s current reading level. I’ve generally found that public, school, and college library discards can be arranged if there’s no middle man handling the books. Even slightly outdated textbooks are useful for people studying for GED or learning ESL.

You guys get vacations?

Elaborate. I’d like to hear your opinions on why.

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It will worm it’s way into more and more everyday interactions and the bulk of society will accept it like they did cameras everywhere, smart appliances, the digital tracking device in their pocket, and screens in their cars instead of physical controls. Avoiding it will become a lifestyle choice that takes effort, and the secondary market for decades old digital/analog technology will continue to grow.

Day training and rescue. You could probably get AI and a robot to teach Pavlovian conditioning in a controlled environment (screen shows symbol, dog gives appropriate response, machine dispenses treat), but behavior modification, leash training in different environments, manners, social conditioning around other dogs/people/animals? A substantial number of humans can’t even train their own dogs to sit, much less behave in public. That’s why I have a job.

Quit Meta a few years back, never had Amazon, and haven’t had a computer in… fuck, almost 20yrs now! My phone is a compromise because it’s a work phone, personal phone is a landline (it’s fantastic, you can ignore it and people can’t assume you have it on you and are ignoring them). Still rocking cassettes, cds, dvds, and vhs, some old, some thrifted. When I do drive (which is infrequent) I drive a 40yo dumb car with a manual and windows you still have to crank down. I still use a typewriter. Some of this is deliberate anti-tech, some is just a fondness for vintage tech.

Eh, I offered my personal experience as an abuse victim and my adult struggles because of that as well as my insight gained through working with people who have committed heinous crimes and what they told me about their lives. If you don’t want to believe it that’s your choice, because as I said earlier, the only universal truth is that people will continue to choose what they want to believe even if every fact, logic, reason, and experience says “you’re wrong”. People believe what they want to believe and will find any excuse to avoid a conversation that challenges their belief. By all means, block me, but this is not a message, it’s a reply in a public forum.

So, you don’t know many rapists, murderers, or child molesters personally?

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Do you know many rapists, murderers, and child molesters in real life? Their backstories, the lives they lived before they became rapists, murderers, and child molesters? I do. I’ve been volunteering at the prison for over a decade and as a re-entry aide for dudes who get paroled. I’ve met dudes who had every opportunity to be good, successful people but chose to indulge their worst impulses and I’ve met people who perpetuated the cycle of violence. I’ve known some that continue to get love and support from their families despite the heinousness of their crimes and have seen misguided love turn into enabling. I’ve seen people rejected by both loving families and their abusers who taught them such behavior was acceptable. I’ve seen people break the cycle, struggle to break the cycle, and many fall back into it. I also have friends, like myself, who were beaten, molested, raped, pimped out, and otherwise abused who became decent enough members of society. Granted, many are substance abusers, have a higher acceptance of interpersonal violence, and have been married and divorced a half a dozen times, but they are at least aware of their faults and coping mechanisms and put in the effort to grow.

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Sir Molotov of Cocktail.

How about a non-military coup while the military is otherwise occupied? I have yet to see how ICE performs when faced with anything other than clergy, frogs, nurses, and high schoolers, but I have seen a lot of them eject their clip, drop their guns, and cram themselves into Temu tactical vests with all the breathing room of a corset.

40s. Pretty much the same as a lot of folks, grew tired of the Reddit bot-verse as well as kept getting banned for encouraging Shermination and posting pictures of Mussolini’s hanging corpse. Not incredibly tech savvy, but yeah, closing in on 30yrs of being on the internet. I still remember the first time I ever logged on. It was at a friend’s house, he went into a chatroom, someone sent us incest themed porn and asked if we want to roleplay a dirty Peter Pan and Wendy chat. Welcome to the internet!

Yoda: “Know of second genocide, she does not.”