Victor

Take a look at big companies or rich individuals, who commit tax fraud for example. Or people who murder or harm others out of unstable emotions. Would you say they are out of options?

Definitely not, that’s why I made sure to say “usually”, because the number of crimes that require a lot of resources to begin with, and murders who occur due to mental illness are surely outnumbered by crimes that happen out of necessity, I imagine. I’d also like to see statistics on this. (And have the energy to study it, of course.)

Subscribed just to piss Elon off. Suck it, Elon. Suck. It.

The reason why punishment does not deter crime is because people who commit crimes usually do so because they are out of options, or were not given other options to begin with. So if you increase the severity of the punishment, you are merely making it more stressful for the people to commit the crimes, rather than deterring them.

That’s my take. And I don’t have a damn criminology degree to come up with that. (Not to say it’s necessarily true, but it rings true to me.)

Legalize it! 🌿

Do not look up at the sky. Do not make noise.

How you doin’ 😉😏

hunter2 ftw

Exactly the same feeling for me. My first DM ever and it seemed suspicious. I get a lot of these annoying things in Telegram. They all start the same so it’s easy to figure out. But this one was different. Although the same, in the sense that they always introduce themselves yet still don’t seem to have anything to say, initially.

Same, but different city. Very annoying shit.

Oh for sure. My comment wasn’t meant to undermine your point. Ideally there would be no abuse whatsoever, that should be the minimum baseline. I stand by your point with you, friend.

Cool, I guess that’s the only solution then. 🤷‍♂️

They won’t have a choice but to quit if we all boycott the business either.

I can not. Can you give an example of boycotting a business causing that business to raise prices to pay their employees a living wage? If so, I guess let’s go with your thing.

I’m trying to help the establishment, by changing their ways. Not by bankrupting them. And if they just keep changing waiters, surely the quality of service will go down and Darwin takes care of the rest.

I wonder how many damn products we use on a daily basis that have been produced with some level of abuse along the production chain. Probably easier to count the ones without abuse, eh.

You don’t get it, I think? The point is to get the workers to quit or protest because they don’t get paid enough, so that the place can increase the prices instead so they can pay their workers. If the place is still providing a nice service or good food or whatever it may be, you don’t want it to go out of business. Just make a worker-positive change.

The Pixel 9 Pro is incredible. Writing this on it right now. I love it. Previously had the 6. I’ll be sad if they go away, for real.

Very good advice. I think it sounds like you came out of all this with a lot of insight along with the inevitable damage/baggage. And that’s honestly a bit of a win. That’s awesome.

Thank you for sharing. I hope this helps others who are going through the same thing, or are putting their kids through the same thing.

And I’m actually so, so sorry you had to go through that. I can’t imagine the anxiety. I love you, man person. You’re strong. 💯

Swedes? You mean Volvo? Aren’t those manufactured in China as well or nah?