What's on Your Mind

[InbetweenDreams]

@Chase It sounds a lot like trying to find a job... Companies want someone who's young, has an education and 20 years experience...and willing to work 60+ hours a week and on weekends.

[ChadCoxRox]

@ChadCoxRox Not quite following you on that...

It's a subject I'm at odds with... Yes, people who do bad shit should be dealt with but what good does it do to lock someone up for 10 years...20 years and so on. Almost all places I have ever worked at simply will not hire anyone who has ever been convicted of a felony... Doesn't matter what it is, why, how long ago...won't even look at your application beyond that. I don't see anything correctional of holding someone prisoner. If the idea is that we're supposed to "fix" these people that's probably not how you do it. Now, keeping these people out of society, well we in the US do a good job at that...and to be clear some people need to be kept out of society and some people just can't be fixed.

I remember watching some documentary or 60 minutes about how other countries deal with people who commit crimes, like murder and so forth and how they deal with them, rehabilitate them and so on. It is completely different in some European countries. Of course, much of the prison system in the US is privatized and for profit.

I think your very last sentence begins to scratch the surface of what I meant so you follow better than you give yourself credit! Albeit, only scratching the surface. Regardless of what to do about dealing with crime effectively, the prison system in the context of your post has it's clear intent toward capitalist success. SO much of the system can easily put on a show of all the innovation and/or the tried and true success they have with programming and inmate care, and I assert that above the front-line level of service the prison system (I'm talking top level and mostly government and private business do not truly give one rat's ass above the money.

[Karl Rand]

How many cauliflowers will be ready to pick from my veg garden today and will it stop raining long enough.
That, and my usual underling thoughts on our species achieving it’s own extinction and will I manage to depart the planet before it takes place.

[Chase]

well don't brag about it!

[InbetweenDreams]

Well I just did my first appearance on someone else's podcast. I think it went pretty good and I'm told it will be published in the next few days. Going to have to listen to see how bad I really did lol

[calgor]

Well I just did my first appearance on someone else's podcast. I think it went pretty good and I'm told it will be published in the next few days. Going to have to listen to see how bad I really did lol

Nice. Are you at liberty to share the topic?

[InbetweenDreams]

@calgor we talked about a lot of things. I went on for about 1 1/2 hours, but we touched a lot on some of the topics I had in some of my podcast episodes...religion, spirituality, anxiety, conspiracy theories. It was The Boiling Frog Podcast, once I get a link I'll post it here.

[InbetweenDreams]

Well I spoke too soon, they just published it https://open.spotify.com/episode/7xX8Pc5...6xIxGEotdw

[Karl Rand]

On my mind is the urge to crawl into bed with my two dogs and fall asleep listening to the rain.
Night Night children.

[Chase]

crazy world we live in