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by chroma 3y ago
I wasn't born in the US. I've lived in other countries. There are other disadvantages to places like Europe or Australia (or Japan or China, where I've also spent time) that make the tradeoff not worth it to me. The biggest i
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by chroma 3y ago
I'm asking for facts. Surely if there are thousands of examples, three exploitative companies shouldn’t be too difficult to find.
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by chroma 3y ago
I've moved lots of times. In terms of crime, the SF bay area was by far the worst. The Bronx was second-worst, but I hear it's gotten a lot better since I lived there. Portland has gotten pretty bad over the past few years but at
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by chroma 3y ago
You don’t have to execute them, just lock them up until they’re too old to be a threat. I’ve been a victim of violent crime at least a dozen times in my life. I wasn’t the first victim for any of my attackers. Far from it. And I wasn’t the
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by chroma 3y ago
Ok. If there are thousands, can you give three examples of companies that are designed to profit off of incarcerated individuals rather than rehabilitate them?
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by chroma 3y ago
Apologies. I read a news article about him being charged with carfentanil possession and assumed the conviction referred to that. Apparently the carfentanil was found in his apartment and he was later caught with the other synthetic opioid.
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by chroma 3y ago
That’s true of everything in an economy. It’s also true that Norway’s prisons rely on, and provide revenue to, companies specifically designed to profit from the prison population. Is a prison suddenly better if a government worker builds t
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by chroma 3y ago
He was convicted of possessing 30 grams of carfentanil while on parole for his previous conviction. A lethal dose of carfentanil is 2mg, so it was at least 15,000 doses. 1. https://www.doj.nh.gov/news/2017/20171011
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by chroma 3y ago
Recidivism rates are astonishingly high in all countries. Norway has the lowest at 20% within 2 years. The real rate is higher because most crimes aren’t solved. So in the best case, rehabilitation makes someone 300x more likely to commit c
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by chroma 3y ago
Cruise has now done over 4 million driverless miles on public roads.[1] That figure doesn’t include miles with safety drivers. 1. https://twitter.com/kvogt/status/1690050803283922944
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by chroma 3y ago
Cruise said they shared all the video from the crash with government agencies including the DMV, and the DMV says Cruise didn't because they managed to get an additional video from another government agency. So how could Cruise be hidi
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by chroma 3y ago
Incorrect. The pedestrian was dragged for 20ft because that’s how long car took to stop. The slower the car would have been to react, the more the pedestrian would have been dragged. And humans get confused and have people pinned under thei
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by chroma 3y ago
It’s incorrect to say that Cruise severely injured a pedestrian. The pedestrian was hit by a human driver (who then fled the scene). The first collision knocked the pedestrian into the path of the Cruise vehicle. The Cruise vehicle tried to
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by chroma 3y ago
The vehicles seem to be incredibly safe when compared to human driven vehicles, so what’s the problem? Cruise has caused zero deaths. In that same time, 144 people have been killed by vehicles in San Francisco.
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by chroma 3y ago
Ok but you’re not the only person on the internet. Other people have different preferences, and in fact some even enjoy personalized ads. Nobody is forcing you to look at ads on the internet, so why is it fair to force others to not look
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by chroma 3y ago
> Compared to private entities, the government is very restricted in what it can do. Companies can’t point guns at me and put me in a cage. They can’t go into my home without my permission and search my stuff. And if I don’t want to deal
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by chroma 3y ago
That’s not the type of bias that gets people upset. For example companies want their hiring process to be statistically biased in favor of selecting competent candidates.
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by chroma 3y ago
It's not just about matching imprints on the bullet to the barrel. They likely also checked the ammo against what was in the magazine, and I doubt Teran had the same ammo as the police. It might be the same caliber (9mm luger) but ther
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by chroma 3y ago
So what do you think happened? Did the Atlanta police place the gun at the scene and hope that the GBI would lie about the forensics results? Did they lie about the purchase records too? Did they shoot one of their own to justify murder? If
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by chroma 3y ago
Cops get too trigger happy all the time, but in this case the activist had a gun that forensics matched to a bullet in a state trooper’s stomach. From the GBI’s press releases [1]: > Today, the GBI received confirmation from a firearms t
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by chroma 3y ago
He was so committed to nonviolence that he purchased a handgun and somehow one of the bullets from that gun ended up in a state trooper’s abdomen. From the Georgia Bureau of Investigation [1]: > Today, the GBI received confirmation from
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by chroma 3y ago
Here’s the summary of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation’s findings: https://gbi.georgia.gov/press-releases/2023-04-14/gbi-invest... The protestor had a gun on him. The model and serial number matched that of a g
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by chroma 3y ago
The guy had a gun on him. The serial number matched that of a gun he legally purchased in 2020. The bullet in the officer matched that gun. Do you think the cops shot him, then shot one of their own to make it look like self-defense? If the
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by chroma 3y ago
You forgot to mention that the activist was killed because he was shooting a cop.
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by chroma 3y ago
Yeah and they also fall over all the time. And when that happened, it leaked gallons of gas. It increased the amount of pollution and created a fire hazard.
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by chroma 3y ago
The device didn’t improve emissions. It was designed to try and prevent gas fumes from coming out of the tank. It technically did do that… but only if the bike was upright.
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by chroma 3y ago
I don’t think all manufacturers follow CARB for all the cars they build. When I lived in California I knew several people who bought their cars in Arizona because it meant they’d have more horsepower and fewer parts that could break. Also I
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by chroma 3y ago
The "shouting fire in a crowded theater" metaphor was coined by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr in the Supreme Court case Schenck v. United States, in which Holmes and the majority of justices sent a man to prison for distributi
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by chroma 3y ago
I believe this guy’s story, but the article in question doesn’t link to the source of the quote, and that quote directly contradicts the experience of every Tesla owner. There would definitely be a conversation in the owner’s service histor
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by chroma 3y ago
Anyone who owns a Tesla knows that isn’t true. The Tesla app lets you see all kinds of history related to any service requests. I can see plenty of feedback in text form, including cancelled appointments because the service center couldn’t

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