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jarfil , 10 months ago to U.S. News in Lawsuit: Transgender inmate killed after sheriff made a violent sex offender her cellmate

What’s so bad about siding with the “prisoners”? Not with the “criminals” mind you, just the “prisoners”.

In many countries, prisons have the mandate to “reeducate and reinsert into society”, and while privation of liberty is a punishment in itself, it’s intended only as a way to turn criminals too dangerous to let loose, into upstanding citizens once they do their time.

Prisoners can be “citizens in the making”, not just “criminals thrown in a hole”. That might be the first point to try to get through.

jarfil , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to U.S. News in Lawsuit: Transgender inmate killed after sheriff made a violent sex offender her cellmate

Yeah… from the descriptions of this case, it seems like it was more of an execution, with other inmates high-fiving the killer as he was beating the victim, and personnel conspicuously absent for over an hour even as it was being recorded on camera.

Then again, there was the Epstein case, where he was “left alone” and just the cameras and all checks “happened to fail” all at the same time.

jarfil , 10 months ago to U.S. News in Lawsuit: Transgender inmate killed after sheriff made a violent sex offender her cellmate

The downside of “cells of one”, is people who get suicidal. In civilized countries, new inmates get paired with a “trusted inmate” for the first couple weeks, both to show them the ropes, but also to prevent them from hanging themselves with one.

jarfil , 10 months ago to U.S. News in Experts sound alarm over concerning ‘propaganda’ found in public school curriculum: ‘It’s evil more than it is stupid’

This seems to be kind of on point with the current political issues surrounding the Turów brown coal mine in Poland:

www.google.com/search?q=turow+coal+mine+problem

jarfil , 10 months ago to U.S. News in Harsh penalties approved for Florida state college employees who use restrooms that don't correspond with gender assigned at birth | CNN

What are they going to do put cameras in every bathroom and toilet stall in the state?

Not enough. You’d need a camera in every toilet, and people to review the footage… maybe reduce government spending by crowd-sourcing it, post the videos on “hidden camera” porn sites and let the community vote… 🙄

jarfil , 10 months ago to U.S. News in Harsh penalties approved for Florida state college employees who use restrooms that don't correspond with gender assigned at birth | CNN

cannot be resolved through therapy or socialization/conversion therapy

I’d go further, and say that anything that needs “just” therapy, is also a medical condition.

The mentality of “as long as it lets you work, it doesn’t matter whether you suffer or not” is pretty inhumane, IMHO.

jarfil , 10 months ago to U.S. News in Harsh penalties approved for Florida state college employees who use restrooms that don't correspond with gender assigned at birth | CNN

Outside the bathrooms, peeing on the wall/floor… or something.

(if I were intersex, I’d go with malicious compliance)

jarfil , 10 months ago to U.S. News in 75 Pittsburgh officers on leave after firing their weapons during hourslong standoff at eviction attempt

But it was 6.5 hours, so just slightly over 11 officers per hour. Maybe they took turns?.. or they had a shift change in the middle, so that would be two shifts.

jarfil , 11 months ago to U.S. News in A Spelling Mistake Is Causing Thousands of Sensitive Pentagon Documents to Be Leaked to a Russian Ally

Email encryption is kind of broken, but kind of in a good way: if you don’t have the recipient’s key, then you can’t send an encrypted email. Since there would be no reason for senders of sensitive info intended for .mil receivers, to have the key for an equivalent receiver at a .ml domain, the emails would just fail to send, stopping any leak before it happened.

jarfil , 11 months ago to U.S. News in A Spelling Mistake Is Causing Thousands of Sensitive Pentagon Documents to Be Leaked to a Russian Ally

What I don’t get, is why would anyone send any sensitive info unencrypted.

jarfil , 11 months ago to Do It Yourself in DIY, what are you working on this weekend?

The one I have doesn’t fit through the strainer, I’ll try to locate a thinner one, or some of those hair removal ziptie lookalikes (it likely isn’t hair stuck down there, but who knows).

jarfil , 11 months ago to Do It Yourself in DIY, what are you working on this weekend?

It’s and apartment, so that would require access from the common collector. It is possible, some neighbors did it (to locate a leak they caused by DIY “re-tiling” the bathroom with a jackhammer, not kidding), but it takes a long snake to reach even the bottom floor.

For now at least it drains. I’ll try and locate a thinner snake, or some of those “hair removal” ziptie lookalikes.

jarfil , 11 months ago to Do It Yourself in DIY, what are you working on this weekend?

Trying to fix a slow bathtub drain.

It’s got one of those flexible ribbed pipes that keeps holding onto everything, and whoever installed the bathtub had the amazing idea of fully encasing it in brick and large tiles, with no access left to replace the pipe. To add insult to injury, the pipe is attached to the bathtub by a single screw going through a metal strainer, so no way to properly shove in a pipe cleaner without it coming detached and falling under the bathtub… inside the encased part; even if I managed to fish it out afterwards, no way it’s going to match the gasket again. The toilet is also so close to it, that even to try breaking the tile and brick to get to the pipe, one would have to remove the toilet first.

I’ve poured in some “gel drain cleaner”, left it for a while, washed it out, and some plunger action seemed to move some stuff around, but it was still slow. Poured some caustic soda, which outgassed pretty nicely, and the plunger worked some more, but I’d say it’s still less than 50% there.

I’m torn as to what to try next, whether some HCl, bleach, or sulfuric, but the strainer is metal and I don’t want to make it look worse than it already does. Could try more of the gel and/or soda, but I think they might’ve already done all they were to do.

jarfil , 11 months ago to U.S. News in These cities are ending fares on transit. Here's why

That’s the reasoning behind an Universal Basic Income system: deciding who needs financial aid and who doesn’t, is more expensive than just giving everyone a fixed monthly payment and calling it a day.

That is, except for those who think nobody should get anything for free, and are trying to rip out the aid systems altogether.