Yeah a prison with a focus on rehabilitation is still a prison. Nordic prisons sure are nicer than american ones for example, but they're still prisons and to not call them that is just silly. In the video the only difference to a nordic prison is that it's managed by a smaller scale community.

After reading the comment thread linked in the source, damn. Harassing someone with alts and a fake ai-slop osint report just because they disapprove of the concept of prisons is... wild.

The morbid curiosity might get the better of me and I might go look what other wild takes this so-called "anark" has. Too bad that Shitter sucks to browse without an account.

If the essay by zig which apparently started this feud is wrong on such a fundamental level and Anark is in fact against prisons (I don't know his takes), wouldn't the best course of action be to focus on that instead of accusing him of running a honeypot (while himself using twitter and youtube)?

The dogwhistle seems pretty far fetched tbh. They also have this nice picture on the projects community page:

ziq called that "evidence" AI generated copjacketing slop, and given that the site has just that one report, it doesn't seem too credible. The list of factual errors in that report written out by ziq in the comments linked in the OP here is also quite lengthy.

And the parliament has to vote against it, and I'm betting they'll then have to do that again and again ad nauseam, same as with chat control...

What's the latter portion referring to? I don't keep up with bullshit anymore so no clue what they're up to these days.

The meme is old

It's quite well documented that the austerity politics of Kokoomus (the current PM party) didn't come from Russia, but the Confederation of Finnish Industries, which is the big employers union in the country, run by these "some of the best people on the planet" that you keep talking about. These same people are to blame for that graph I posted earlier that you didn't even address.

I'm quite familiar with the numbers and how they are calculated. It's headline news every year here. I suspect that it contributes to our scores as well. "Well I live in the happiest country in the world and everybody told me as a kid that it's like winning the lottery to be born in Finland [a phrase from the 70's uttered by boomers every now and then], so I guess things are pretty good for me.".

From that website you linked:

Our happiness ranking is based on a single life evaluation question called the Cantril Ladder:

Please imagine a ladder with steps numbered from 0 at the bottom to 10 at the top. The top of the ladder represents the best possible life for you and the bottom of the ladder represents the worst possible life for you. On which step of the ladder would you say you personally feel you stand at this time?

This question is both democratic and universal. Rather than constructing an index from multiple metrics, the Cantril Ladder empowers people to make their own judgements about what matters most, regardless of their culture and background. The question does not mention concepts like happiness, wellbeing, or satisfaction, so it can be easily translated and understood in many different languages.

It's completely subjective. There's no way for it to not be completely subjective. The local culture dominates what expectations people set for what's at the top of the ladder and what's at the bottom. A frog in a well will say "Eh, I guess I'm doing pretty good" and that's as accurate a result as can be obtained. I don't say that the numbers themselves are up for debate. The studies aren't bad, it's just that their importance is inflated way past proportion. At best it's a cultural curiosity.

Edit: Oh yeah and I laughed when I saw the "Perceptions of corruption" part. We have plenty of corruption here. it's just less overt and instead takes the form of old boy networks, small circles and informal favors.

Musk isn't even the founder of tesla though.

Good meme regardless.

Ai generated imagery.

(The lines on the road all conveniently end when they are behind someone)

This has nothing to say about anarchism itself. It just assumes that coercive authority would be required for industrial medicine production and large scale agriculture. Anarchism does not mean a lack of organization, just a lack of coercion and unjust hierarchy.

I would love to see the video these screenshots are from, if it's real. But I do suspect that it's made with ai...

The man’s only recollection of a possible exposure was eating raw snake meat during military service 50 years prior.

Based

I think that's not actually Pangea (the past supercontinent), but a rendition of Pangea Proxima (the future supercontinent). So just gotta wait a while...

I'm not catholic, but I do like the fact that artillery has its own patron saint.

The twitter user is an actual commercial pilot, and ACARS messages do look like that. Not sure what's up with SKW2438/SKY2438 but otherwise it seems legit. I think faking it would be harder than actually doing this.

Edit: Here's a picture of a much longer message in a more professional, non furry rp context:

IIRC this theory was debunked some time ago by a study. If you think about it, any dampening within the skull would lessen the force of the pecking and the bird would have to hammer away harder.

Edit: Link to a study

Reminded me of a quote from The Expanse:

My life has become a single, ongoing revelation that I haven’t been cynical enough.

• Chrisjen Avasarala, Babylons ashes by James S.A. Corey.

I need to get me one of those bicycle accessories.

It's the experience of a toothbrush collecting data about your daily routines to sell for profit.

You'll never believe what they're called