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Cake day: July 31st, 2023

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  • There are different ideas about the purpose of imprisonment but the ones I’m aware of are exclusion, deterrence, punishment and rehabilitation. The second two are predicated on prison being worse than freedom, which obviously doesn’t hold for people in a lot of situations. In fact I’ve heard of people comitting minor crimes so they can be let into prison.

    Unless prisons can get really good at rehabilitation then the only way they can be effective is if life outside of prison is healthy and prosperous.










  • There seems to be a general misconception that Europe has been unable to help Ukraine more when it has actually been a free choice for them. That’s the whole purpose of NATO - it binds member states to shared defence. Ukraine was not a member when it was invaded.

    Russia + China + Iran +

    Russia: Ukraine. China: needs to keeping selling us stuff to keep its property bubble from crashing the economy, far away. Iran: Israel.

    Imagining a terrifying and powerful threat and gearing up for a world war is a good way of helping that to actually happen. Fair enough. Some people want that. Perhaps because they stand to profit individually from the economics of it, are lacking purpose or are simply bored.