rchive

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[–] rchive@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

That is a completely legitimate concern. It's important to note that even if prisons are publicly run, there's still a bunch of private actors in the prison system in the form of the people who work in it. Prison worker unions and police unions lobby for more laws already to protect their jobs. Private prisons might make that aspect worse, but it's not like it's perfect now.

[–] rchive@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm obviously not advocating or defending any particular behavior.

Legally speaking, why is what age they are today relevant rather than the age they are depicted as in the picture? Like, imagine we have a picture 20 years from now of someone at age 37. It's legally fine until it's revealed it was generated in 2023 when the person in question was 17? If the exact same picture was generated a year later it's fine again?

[–] rchive@lemm.ee -3 points 11 months ago (3 children)

If you make a picture today of someone based on how they looked 10 years ago, we say it's depicting that person as the age they were 10 years ago. How is what age they are today relevant?

[–] rchive@lemm.ee -3 points 11 months ago

If you make a picture today of someone based on how they looked 10 years ago, we say it's depicting that person as the age they were 10 years ago. How is what age they are today relevant?

[–] rchive@lemm.ee 15 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Neither is obviously more efficient than the other overall, it depends on the structure and the incentives. People worry about private prisons for example. If you make it so the government sends people to prisons and you pay the prison a fixed rate per prisoner, of course you're gonna get skimping on services by the prisons. If you instead give the prisoner a voucher for a prison and make them pick where they go and prisons get money per voucher they get from prisoners, you're gonna get competition on quality so you'll get high quality prisons. Opposite outcomes with just a change to incentives.

[–] rchive@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

In this case it's the definition of efficiency. Efficiency = (resources used up) compared to (resources taken in). How else would you even calculate it?

[–] rchive@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

Literally nothing I said justifies that assumption.

[–] rchive@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

Nothing I said suggested beating or anything physical at all.

[–] rchive@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

No one mentioned hitting or physical discipline of any kind.

[–] rchive@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago

People listing people like Trump or Mitch McConnell might want to check their privilege. Actual mass murderers like Putin still walk free.

[–] rchive@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They should make batteries that swap out completely so you can load a fully charged one in in a few seconds and let your old one charge while you're off driving somewhere else. Or you just exchange the battery permanently like with some propane tanks.

[–] rchive@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

I'd prefer that the people who did the beating not be allowed to be in office anymore. There's a lot of people on that list.

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