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.

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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.

I haven’t been having any bugs lately. What kind of phone do you have?

Yeah…

…yeah

If you have the privilege you can always grow it yourself or buy organic

Super cool. had no idea that existed

At that point just pirate your internet

I see no point in trying to pit us against each other. People with normal desk jobs aren’t inherently the problem.

Thank you! I will try that and update this post if it works.

Most of the people using the loaner are not technically inclined at all. I just want to make it more difficult for them to accidentally break it and not know that they did. I do already have a custom ISO that I use for it, so a drive image won’t be an issue, but if they have important data on there and break it it’ll be more difficult to recover, so I’d rather prevent it as much as I can.

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.

Here’s the meme format if anybody wants it:

The font I used for this is Are You Serious off of Google Fonts.

it’s ofishal now

you have been blessed for saying hi to esquizo

Ooh, that one is interesting. Hadn’t heard it before. Thanks for the rec

Can’t believe I forgot to mention that one. It is exceedingly winter vibes. The whole album is really good as well.

Ooh, thanks for the recommendations. I’ll def check them out. Finally We Are No One by mum is one of my favorite winter albums to put in rotation.

This is the one time a trump meme is funny

They also allow ICE to recruitment ads on their platform.