Crimes are generally either irrational or desperate, and neither of those states lend themselves to considering what-ifs that may or may not come to pass.

You mean the crimes people do in societies with punishments? Kind of a self-fulfilling prophecy you have there.

but the belief that increased punishment implies increased compliance comes from a place of ignorance.

Err... no it doesn't. Look at the amount of theft in places that allow it vs. places that cut off your hands. It's normal to steal from Walmart, but a sub-saharen African street vendor might be able to get your hands cut off if they catch you stealing from them.

A place of ignorance is ignoring which place has the greater amount of theft, even when considering who is more incentivized to steal. It's okay. Most people on these forums are disconnected from reality.

Not everyone can be rehabilitated.

Also, the threat of "rehabilitation" isn't enough to deter a significant portion of criminals.

That's really fascinating, actually.

I'm always interested in seeing what damage the US military sustains in actual combat, considering how much money they spend on it.

It looks like the only damage being done to the US at all in this conflict is from friendly-fire.

He's referring to a hardware mux. Essentially, it's hardware that will bypass your iGPU and directly use your dGPU. It's more expensive to find laptops with hardware muxes, but they perform a bit better because output isn't being routed through the iGPU first.

The downside of a hardware mux is that you have to switch between the dGPU and iGPU in your UEFI. This means you need to restart the computer every time you want to change which GPU you're using. The dGPU will result in better performance at the cost of battery life.

Odds are your laptop does not have a hardware mux and you will need to go through the standard optimus setup for your distro. Some distros make this easy with their own tools, like Linux Mint and Manjaro.

I've been using Manjaro for years and highly recommend it.

That said, lenovo build quality has gone way downhill and anyone reading this might want to avoid them in their next purchase.

I just have to say, we shouldn't even be targeting musk with this; we need to be going after his family.

Once musk is out of the picture, they're just going to inherit the wealth and continue to use it to gain more wealth as quickly as they think possible.

Keep in mind, as it stands right now, his kids expect our kids to serve them.

There needs to be a cultural change for change to happen.

Until that cultural shift occurs, voting really is just a waste of time.

Although you would have a point if more people were actually interested in solving problems facing the working class. Too many of them are divided on gridlock issues that exist to distract them from how they're being exploited.

I actually disagree. I think the debate was blown way out of proportion and most people who would've voted for him prior would've still voted to him after.

It's important to acknowledge that there are a lot of liars on the internet. It's easy to make it appear that a bunch of people jumped ship from biden after the debate when you see waves of trolls saying "yeah, I was gonna vote for Biden but not after that debate!" Meanwhile, they were going to vote for Trump all along.

That said, I still don't think Biden had a great shot at winning because he doesn't serve the working class or exploit their emotions.

Personally, I would like to see drones dropping things like eggs and paint come into style.

That said, don't target walmart with this. Go after corporations that are just as scummy (most of them) but don't give people the best deals on their food.

So, pretty much any other grocery store.

Not really. You're delusional if you think supporting establishment democrats will change the two party system.

Both parties exist to distract us from rich people getting richer at our expense, and they're both very successful.

The clowns are the ones who fall in line believing that things will improve.

But it also kinda feels like a lawyer convinced a victim they could get paid if they sued Apple, because Apple has lots of money.

Yep. All the money being wasted on this lawsuit could be spent catching actual producers and distributors of child porn.

Always follow the money. It shows what people's true intentions are.