How many decades does this restitution take to actually make criminally vile behavior stop? I’m no spring chicken and I’ve been waiting for a long time for a train, it seems, that is just not coming.

You are at the wrong station.

Please folks, don’t confuse justice with policing, or crime prevention.

Restitution, and in general a ‘fixing the wrongs’ approach to justice, is not about prevention, it is about clean up and repairs. How that is done is a whole discussion about details, but we are discussing principles at the moment.

Prevention: a healthy neighbourhood with embedded nurses, social workers, and active mental health services could have caught this kind of shit. Functional education system would have caught it. Also: see economics for causes, aka material conditions.

Punishment: well cruelty is the point, isn’t it? And you get to participate without guilt.

I don’t believe them getting shanked will deter or prevent other child abusers in any way. Different issue.

Examples should be made

Whelp, if deterrence worked the prisons wouldn’t be overflowing. Most murderous bastards are not rational about it.

There is no touchy-feelying this one into anything remotely civilized.

Ah there it is, the rule of law is subject to the Law of the Jungle ethos.

‘They weren’t civilized, why should I be?’ I have explained this issue to toddlers through teens. That is not how it works.

Restitution vs retribution is not touchy-feely FFS. It’s basic ethics. We need more of that in grade school curriculum, along with history.

Most of TFG’s legal troubles are related to financial fraud, especially real-estate related. It’s more projection.

A chicken is a vegetable that can count and ask for hugs.

Krill were my first choice, squids might be up there too, but the word ‘species’ instead of a more broad taxonomic term is a special limit.

Mushroom = sex organ of alien invaders

I don’t understand your nonsense… you must be a fish.

Cuttlefish are molluscs. Smart mussels then!

OK Richard, I will bite. Why three (3) quote marks?

WHY THREE, RICHARD

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“Just”

An eye for an eye and the whole world goes blind.

Restitution works towards material conditions being corrected. Justice requires making things right --conditions, capacities, results.

But revenge is just childish emotional indulgence. Prison is revenge, at its core. I’d like to see victims set right as the main result of sentencing.

Well the MBA has some standout features:

• build quality, it really is well made
• trackpad (all apple laptops)
• fanless, this is underrated for some people
• runs macOS
• battery life
• powerful enough for nearly anything south of long 4k renders or LLMs etc.

Honestly, oranges to oranges, I consider the Air as competing with more expensive business class laptops with more ports and bigger numbers, but worse end user experience.

Yep, most people seem to have cellphones, and if you wanted to use a tablet as a phone I would suggest an android tablet (or a cheap used smartphone, TBH).

Yeah true skimming eh! Fuck Apple.

Yes it’s annoying, which is why storage on the list. I have different but equal complaints about other manufacturers.

FWIW I usually advise a compromise at 512GB as that is enough for most current working active projects, then periodically offload to a media or archive drive. Most clients are fine with that.

In the cases where 32GB of RAM is needed and not just nice to have, maybe a different computer is better, like LLM capable machines with discrete GPUs. If you need more RAM for professional purposes like Vectorworks, well it’s a write-off and the cost vanishes compared to ROI so whining is just indulgent.

Uh, I think you are agreeing with my last point…? You savvy user you.

Meh, in my fairly extensive experience with end users, they don’t care about that, they have phones. Different use-case.

But I recognise that we’re here amongst many fussy edge-case users. Still the best tablet by majority acclaim even if you can’t use it as a phone.

Well, not a fan, exactly, but I am forced to be fully engulfed in the apple ecosystem.

I don’t hate them more than Dell, Asus, Sony, or Microsoft. Not everything they make is a ripoff.

• the $10 A/D converter in the headphone adapters is a steal
• the mac mini with base config is a good deal
• the macbook air is worth the money and best in class
• ipad — no worthy competition for most users
• M-series chips and their energy consumption
• savvy users avoid all the upsell ripoffs like storage upgrades and displays and sock slings

Those are givens. They bear repeating, but in this context they are indeed whataboutism, because they are unnecessary and deflect criticism.

You can have shit on your shoes but still point out the shit on other people, so just pay attention.

The most common response on social media to the democracy crisis in the USA seems to default to a need for extreme violence.

This response seems to have skipped from frustration and “don’t blame me I voted” to “civil war is coming” – and jumped right over ‘time to furiously organize civil society’.

Strategically, this is abandoning fundamental and practical matters. I don’t have much hope for success, those self-limiting ideologies seem to run deep even in the progressives there.

Warning: the video is posted by a Fox News account, so they get the revenue.

Essentially, DT makes election promises to release UFO, Epstein files, and warns that the Biden admin will lead the USA into wars, and makes WW3 boogeyman noises.