What's on Your Mind

[InbetweenDreams]

@ceez So...are you going to message him and get a date?

[CellarDweller]

Derek Chauvin found guilty of murder and manslaughter in the death of George Floyd!

RIP George Floyd.

[Cridders88]

Derek Chauvin found guilty of murder and manslaughter in the death of George Floyd!

RIP George Floyd.

I was very happy to read this also. Hope Chauvin rots.

[InbetweenDreams]

   

[InbetweenDreams]

As per my last email.... *sigh*

Some people's go to thing when you don't respond to an email is to start CC'ing their boss and their boss's boss and people who have nothing to do with what their email is about. So we have to explain to more people who don't fucking know anything and could care less.

[InbetweenDreams]

Why do they call prison a "correctional facility" when there's little in correcting done?

[ChadCoxRox]

As per my last email.... *sigh*

Some people's go to thing when you don't respond to an email is to start CC'ing their boss and their boss's boss and people who have nothing to do with what their email is about. So we have to explain to more people who don't fucking know anything and could care less.

Yes! Very irritating so I've learned that when I think there is coercion or manipulation in email I respond with "sorry, too much for me to manage by email so talk to you soon."

NIP THAT SHIT.

[ChadCoxRox]

Why do they call prison a "correctional facility" when there's little in correcting done?

What's the best way to mask an inordinate source of capitalized income? Market education and discipline with a sprinkle of punishment.

[InbetweenDreams]

@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.

[Chase]

I've noticed a paradox in a lot of country's immigration systems. A lot of them have point-based systems, and you need a certain number of points to even get on a waiting list or lottery. It seems simple enough, just rake up points by getting the certain skills and qualifications that the country is looking for. However, they mainly want you to be young, yet have both a high level degree and years of work experience at the same time. Like, if you had a degree and are under thirty, you might still need five to ten years of work experience to get enough points to reach the minimum, yet once you go over thirty as you accrue that work experience, bam you lose a bunch of points and are below the minimum again.

A lot of countries that are seemingly progressive really aren't in this regard.