[-] Vorticity@lemmy.world 6 points 7 hours ago

For profit prisons need to be made unconstitutional. If someone is dangerous enough to be in prison, that cost should be borne by the state/federal government. This would reduce the incentive to keep people in prison and would likely lead to some justice system reform.

The fact that prisons literally profit off of the work of their inmates means the prisons have every incentive to tarnish their I mate's records to keep them in prison as long as possible. This system is also as ripe as can be for corruption.

[-] Vorticity@lemmy.world 9 points 9 hours ago

My first thought was to quickly go search to make sure mine is no longer searchable. That thing had some embarrassing stuff on it...

[-] Vorticity@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago

Ummm... What? Proof of this? Would be pretty wild if true.

[-] Vorticity@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

There is one near me that is now a church.

[-] Vorticity@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago

They still exist, but the Pizza Hut chain and it's remain restaraunts are shadows of what they used to be. Pizza Hut was awesome in the 80's. Now the old one near my house is a church.

[-] Vorticity@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago

Are you a troll or dumb? They're not endorsing her because they like her policies. They are endorsing her because she isn't actively trying to subvert our entire government. Yes, even a monster like Dick Cheny endorsed her but he stated that he doesn't like her, he just hates her less than he hates Trump.

[-] Vorticity@lemmy.world 42 points 3 days ago

How about you go organize a protest in front of another news room? They're doing something. They can't exactly go protest a bunch or organizations at the same time without a ton more people.

Why are you letting the perfect E the enemy of the good?

[-] Vorticity@lemmy.world 18 points 4 days ago

Require all conservative white men at his rallies to open carry so they can prevent violence from...

...other conservative white men...

[-] Vorticity@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago

This has nothing to do with scared students. This is the result of rhetoric from Trump and Vance about the large Haitian population in Springfield. Violent right-wingers are acting upon their dear leader's words.

[-] Vorticity@lemmy.world 22 points 5 days ago

Look at it differently, you're taking advantage of Nestlé. They're trying to make themselves look better with the program and adding one more person to their list of "who we've helped" won't really have any impact on their attempt to sanitize themselves or their taxes. It will, however, have a big impact on you.

Just don't start telling everyone that nestle is paying for your meds. That would be helping them with their image.

[-] Vorticity@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

That photo makes his head look like a balloon sticking out of a suit.

[-] Vorticity@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I don't know Korea's laws but this would likely be illegal in the US, too. It depends on whether it could be proven that you knew that the stocks were issued in error. And even if it wasn't a criminal act, the company would be within their rights to recover the mistakenly issued stocks.

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I'm a white guy from a fairly non-diverse city. I was at a grocery store today where a cashier opened up their line to serve me and, I thought, the person behind me. As they were serving me, though, they put up their lane closed sign right in front of the black man behind me. The buy was just trying to purchase some tuna, bread, and peanut butter.

The cashier basically decided to serve me, a middle class white man, but refused to serve the black man behind me. I was so shocked that I didn't say anything. It is possible that I misunderstood the situation but it seemed so blatant.

What should I have done in this situation? Should I have spoken up? Would that have just been more embarrassing for the man who was being discriminated against?

Honestly, I'm still just in shock to see someone treated so poorly when they were simply trying to buy food for themselves. I recognize that means that I'm sheltered but I also feel like I should be able to use my unearned privilege to help others who are being discriminated against.

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I keep running into issues where I'm unsure of which account I'm currently using. It would be nice if it were more obvious at all times. Two things that would help me are:

  • always display the current user somewhere, regardless of what content is being viewed.
  • allow setting different color themes for different users.
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I use Podcast Addict and have recently noticed location-based ads in my podcasts. Adds that are local to my large town / small city. The app doesn't have location permissions, so how are the podcasts embedding localized ads?

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