Sounds like someone doesn't know (or care) what can happen to protestors that are protesting the "wrong things"... Like oil and gas pipelines, for example, or training centers for heightened police militarization. Or foreign policy, even, that one has been happening for generations already.

Lol if only they would protest the right way, they wouldn't have to worry about anything, right?

Thanks God! Keep up the good work

... Unless you put your own OS on it? Think that's still possible in 2024, right?

This feels a bit like Russia gallantly "offering" to "adopt" and "care for" Ukrainian children whose families are unfortunately, inadvertently facing some difficulties currently (e.g. death)...

Can confirm, Jeroba has been really solid (minor hiccups occasionally w/ feeds and inbox not loading -- usually fixed by refresh, sometimes by app restart) for the few weeks I've been using it. Well-featured, and looks/"feels" nice!!

Yeah, this does seem like a kind of inaccurate generalization.

Does this mean you honestly wouldn't have a preference if you were dropped into a random "place" in one of these countries' societies and had to live the rest of your life there?

It's easy to say "Hey, plus a few ethnic cleansings, minus an intentional lack of economic development in favor of political corruption, plus a couple of highly extractive, insecure, and immoral sets of socio-economic conditions... and I mean we're all basically the same, amirite??"... But while each country's civil society is kinda fucked in some fundamental ways, they seem like unique ways that are hard to compare "apples to apples".

EDIT: Having said that, the issues in each country strongly depend on dividing lines between various "peoples", and a manufactured assurance that your conditions are the best that they could possibly be, so...

Norway is actually a good example of this -- where pro-social regulatory policies (i.e. beneficial not from the perspective of capital, but from the perspective of actual societal conditions) are used to help mitigate some of the BS that capitalism produces.

Regardless... Yeah, it's a problem with capitalism. It's a problem that stems from the literal core of the 'system': utilizing 'capital' to find opportunities for the creation and extraction of 'surplus' from labor and its products.

It's great that regulation is able to reign in, in some cases, the deeply criminal BS that such a system naturally produces... But it seems like a huge overreach to assume this is possible "globally" (as it would need to be for a blanket statement like that to be true).

It's because state-level analysis is misleading, it masks disparities within states. The state-level analysis can be seen as a weighted average between rural and urban areas, for example, depending on how "sampling" is done.

... Doesn't "limited resources" basically just mean here ones ability to consider more than one thought at a time? Surely a species capable of collaborative efforts like space travel can handle the complexity of generalizing to say "no, sorry, none of the human-bulldozer designs are okay actually"?

If only there was a way that didn't involve involuntarily committing people, whether to jail or a psych hospital...

You left out that mental illness and addiction are both increasingly acknowledged to very often result from the difficulties of coping with garbage social conditions -- even at an individual level. What came first, the chicken or the egg?

Some wild experiments have been done out there -- mostly in other countries, obv -- where it turns out that when you give these deranged people housing, access to education and/or employment, and maybe even healthy social connections, they get a lot less deranged like super fucking quickly. Just wild.

Doesn't mean it's not a nightmare, and that doing it with a car wouldn't be easier. Try doing this with two toddlers one day, lol, I promise you it's not as easy as watching someone else do it.

What if its not streaming? What if its just cached for future access, e.g. next time the user opens the app (and network traffic spikes anyways) maybe?

... But if they don't, there's an f-ing net there just in case. Assuming we care about others to any meaningful extent.

If this is somehow that big of a problem for them after, I guess nothing is stopping them from trying again someplace else, but apparently some of them might actually appreciate the blessing of that choice.

Capitalism and free markets are separate things within the economic "sphere" of society. Capitalism is an economic doctrine that focuses on directing production through private capital; free markets (in theory) ensure "equal access" to markets for products (as compared to monopoly or (economic, not necessarily drug) cartel markets which restrict access).

Over in the "public sphere", governments decide whether to jump in bed with private capital (often resulting in monopolies or cartels in economic marketplacs), or to make & enforce regulations that protect the (so-called) free market.

Or to make and enforce regulations that protect consumers -- i.e. human f-ing beings -- and enrich local economies without protectionism and "zero sum games", but I guess we shouldn't get too carried away here ;)

What kind if career area are you in?

You'd think at some point they'd adapt to the stress of such a situation (especially since they literally signed up for it, and ostensibly trained for it), so that they can handle it effectively without murdering others, though...

Soldiers fighting wars in hostile countries are (in theory) held to higher standards in this way.

Ironic considering he himself was the "generic democrat" a few years ago -- or at least the "demonstrated state puppet whose name doesn't rhyme with Billary, and DEFINITELY not with Ernie" candidate...

Just curious, if some fascists came to your house citing historical claims to your land, how much would you care about the validity of that claim? How about when they burn your house down, kill your family, and arrest you for objecting? I truly, deeply would not give a flying fuck who lived nearby my house 300 years ago.

Same, this sounds like what the homeowner/killer is going to be telling himself the next day to rationalize it (if he even thinks about it that deeply).

Side-note: in the beginning there, punitive is probably the exact right word.