@Jolly said in Recidivism:

I used to work around a lot of cons. Some are very talented...woodworking, welding, etc. Some are even college graduates.

But if you talk to the guards and the wardens, they all say the same thing.

The prisoner has to admit in his mind, his crimes and take personal responsibility for his own actions. He needs to leave his old neighborhood, his friends, sometimes his family, and make new friends, a new job, a fresh start. Religion does help. More inside than outside, but it helps.

Yes, you put them in the correct order. I would add that there is a 'user' mentality for many of them, meaning they want to use other people without caring whether it hurts the other person. Some even like to make sure the person they are using is also harmed by the use/abuse. It makes them feel powerful, smart, and proud of themselves.

Tried a PC with significantly better specs. Sucked. Could NOT render video files to save its life.

Have a Mac now. Works.

Annnd another one about hand jobs

https://fb.watch/e41YU8tH_J/

@Copper said in A painful need for better liters:

The GIQ

Indeed, America needs to increase its pints and quarts to the correct amount before it starts complaining about liters.

Real men laugh at your storage inadequacy.

@Doctor-Phibes said in In New Orleans:

@Jolly said in In New Orleans:

You people are going to hell. 😝😝😝😝

Po' boy

I am so having one of those for lunch now.

I'm pretty sure they're quackers

@jon-nyc said in Anybody know shoulders?:

Surgeon recommended non-surgical options. That is always comforting.

Excellent. With a non through-and-through tear, it should heal up with PT and scar down. It'll be a slow process, however. Mine took about 6-8 weeks to stop hurting.

snort

@Axtremus said in A painful need for better leaders:

Better leaders exist, but won’t make much of a difference if voters do not elect them or the system keeps them away from positions of power.

Kasich, Romney, Jeb Bush … any of them is a better leader than Trump, but the Republican primary voters chose Trump instead, giving Trump a very big victory margin over Kasich, Romney, and Bush. This is the case of the voters not electing a better leader.

Hillary Clinton is a better leader than Trump, and she actually won 2.87 million more popular votes than Trump nationwide. Yet the Electoral College put Trump in the White House instead. This is direct consequence of having an Electoral College that works the way it does. More voters actually voted for the better leader, but the electoral college went against the popular vote anyway.

“Good leaders” do not matter if the voters or the system do not actually put them in leadership positions.

Think there are no better leaders than Putin in Russia or Xi in China? It’s a statistical certainty that such leaders come into existence from time to time, but then Putin and Xi just make them ineligible in some way and the world remain stuck with Putin and Xi.

Don't you just love it....... a moron who wouldn't know leadership if it walked up to him and slapped him down, opining on who is and who is not a leader..... and getting every single thing wrong.....

@Ivorythumper I read an interesting article this morning about what the purpose of the Supreme Court is.

Is it the role of SCOTUS to determine the law, or is it the role of SCOTUS to determine public policy?

Lemme see if I can find it...

@George-K Oh please oh please let him do it before he kills anybody else.

@Catseye3 said in The second fire-bombing in a week:

@LuFins-Dad said in The second fire-bombing in a week:

Maybe he can try those things?

Sure. If he puts his mind to it he can probably get it all done by the weekend.

Amazing, isn't it, that no leader has ever thought to do those things before now?

Please note that it’s been 3 weeks since the first two attacks that George posted? So in three weeks show me one instance where Biden has even intimated that these criminals at the least will be held accountable? Just one instance? How about Garland? Anything from him about finding and trying these idiots? Nope. He’s too busy trying to intimidate parents from speaking out at school board meetings.

So yes, there is a lot the asshats can do and you know as well as I do that the failure to do so is willful. They aren’t trying to stop it because they don’t want to. It serves their purpose.

This is one of his older videos back from the days that I found pretty funny.

@George-K said in Data Sez...:

@Doctor-Phibes said in Data Sez...:

It seemed to me that the countries that accepted masking more readily, also had a tendency to follow guidelines and rules more rigorously across the board.
It's not just masks, it's culture. And the willingness to wear a mask tends to indicate a willingness to put up with other stuff, too. The mask is more of a symptom than a root cause.

Well put.

The point in my response to @Jolly is that two geographically-close, culturally-identical societies had very similar results, regardless of mandates.

One can compare South Dakota and Oregon and draw whatever conclusions one wants. They are as dissimilar as the great plains and the Pacific coast, geographically, philosophically, and from and ideological standpoint.

@jolly's article seems to discount those differences.

Thailand until recently (I think 01 June) had a mask mandate both indoor and outdoor. (75+ dewpoint 24 hours a day :eek ) I would say probably 95% of the people followed it. Even after the stopping of the outdoor mask mandate (indoor still in place), that number has not changed much.