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Reminder that only 8% of USA prisons are for-profit (I.e. private prisons).

Also a reminder that 2 out of every 3 workers in state and federal prisons still have jobs creating for-profit things.

Exactly. That kind of politican.

(you'll know you're in a control state if you think I'm hitting at either party in particular)

It won't, but that's not the point. Gov. Spencer Cox is campaigning. Ever notice how politicians get real busy and start hitting hard with stuff like this when election season is near?

I chuckle inside and exit the room at the first chance when someone non-jokingly refers to themselves as an alpha male. And that's not because I'm afraid of them--the fact is that I'm the alpha male.

/s

Humans in packed cities could be described in a similar way though, if there's not a social reinforcement in place, by the community elders who are respected and followed, to keep them from it. I live in a medium sized city now because of work, but even still I can relate to the rats [I'm aware of the studies flaws].

Put any one species into a [packed] depressing [space] with way too many strangers and way too [varied amounts of resources per individual], and they will fight and establish a pecking order eventually. This has nothing to do with how the same species would behave in the wild and with enough resources to live comfortably.

I grew up in the country with tens of acres and my nearest neighbor was a mile away. Separated from the small town nearby by a river and surrounded by thick hedgerows going miles around in every direction, with a huge open space (fields) between our house and the hedgerows. I've never been happy in the city. No matter where I am, I feel like I'm in a cage. I'm not agoraphobic but there's a sense of being 'watched' when I leave my house that just isn't there when you live in a remote area. All the people, sights, sounds, smells can be incredibly overwhelming at times.

I am only capable of attaining a true level of peace when I'm in nature.

Damn, that is heavy and it really doesn't seem like there's any way for an eventual good peaceful outcome without a lot of bloodshed leading up to it.

Thank you for taking the time to educate me on the subject instead of getting into a keyboard war. You wear the halo this evening.

Are you trying to guess what my reply would be? If not, you seriously need to look in the mirror bud.

Hamas is a terrorist organization. They are horrific and should all be taken care of.. take that how you will. Palestinians and Israel is should be able to live in peace. This much is self evident and shouldn't be up for debate like you're trying to do.

But Israel lobbing back over bombs and killing innocent civilians is the Spider-Man pointing at himself meme.

I think it's quite obvious they were using the royal 'you', as in America (almost every American assumes everyone else is also American in the internet unless otherwise stated).

And they're right, American soldiers did unspeakable things in Afghanistan and Iraq, but that doesn't mean all Americans are responsible for the decisions those soldiers made.

Ah, I'm "lawyering around about historical shit" (historical being within a lifetime) but I'm the one with a cold dead soul because hundreds of "the good people" who stole the land died, and you're the one with a heart of gold who thinks it's lol-worthy and likes to make jokes when tens of thousands of "the bad people" die fighting for their stolen land.

Let me know when you want to attempt to argue in good faith, because as I said from the beginning I'm not well educated on the subject, and your tactics are failing.

Here is a Quota page with good answers (surprisingly) that may help you in the future: https://www.quora.com/If-you-deny-permission-to-a-cop-to-search-your-vehicle-and-the-cop-calls-for-K-9-to-come-check-how-long-do-you-have-to-wait-for-the-K-9-cop-to-show-up-before-you-can-leave

If it were an official way to train dogs then it would be a nationwide scandal. However, the handlers can always train them in their own time. After all, besides a K9 being a partner, they also live with their handlers. I wouldn't be surprised if some handlers have done just that - to alert on a subtle (subtle enough) physical queue or even command, like "Search buddy" instead of "search go."

Urim has been Israeli since the country came into existence.

There's so much propaganda from both sides that I don't know what to believe about who, but Israel has only been a country since 1948 - that's after the invention of the Jeep, microwave ovens, Frisbees, jet aircraft, etc.

I'm not aware of the agreement made with Palestine for the land, but I've seen enough videos of Israelis near the border, both citizens and uniformed men, throwing Palestinians out of their houses so Israelis could live there. Not to mention the violent acts.

All good points.

Links out of order but are the sources. I'm short on time right now. You'll notice the US IC still thinks it was not a lab leak, while the FBI and DoE think it is from their research, but China won't cooperate in the investigation of the source of COVID-19 so that makes things hard.. Biden is attempting to get the IC to declassify and release their info about the origins. Right after the reports from DoE and FBI, China released data showing it appeared to come from wet markets again. I'm happy to be proven wrong but my understanding from people discussing the experts is that the lab leak theory is most likely. The article about the toxic debate is full of info and I believe newest iirc.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9

https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/origins-of-the-virus

https://www.npr.org/2023/02/27/1159630271/energy-department-assessment-low-confidence-china-lab-leak

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64806903

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/21/newly-released-chinese-covid-data-infected-animals-wuhan

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64819965.amp

Edit: after typing all of this, I re-read your comment and realized I simply argued your point for you further. Initially misread.

luckily it's not very subtle and rarely hard to spot.

The abrasive propaganda that's easy to spot, sure. But I'm positive that's a minority of if unless you're hyper vigilant in which case you're also going to have a ton of false positives.

Now to preface this next bit. I don't categorize myself politically. I'm very open to many different viewpoints but I saw Trump winning as a very dangerous thing, so some people would call me liberal, although plenty of liberals have called me a conservative in the past. I'm pro-choice, but I can understand that many really do see it as murder. I've had insults from all across the spectrum accusing me of fitting nicely into a box.

The first example of a western media type of propaganda that comes to mind in America-centric media is how the COVID lab leak theory was so heavily associated and linked with the far-right and discredited that even when the Department of Energy (they handle nuclear secrecy and many other things) and other official agencies released their assessments earlier this year that said the lab leak theory is the most likely by far, few seemed to believe it and not many news networks reported on it longer than a day, if that. And, since scientists work in provable facts and China hid the initial infections for over a month, even though they studied all the data and said it's the most likely theory, they said they had "low confidence" in that assessment, because you can't go back into the past and investigate things that are now covered up. Many if not most virologists who specialize in coronaviruses extensively now say that coronavirus jumping from an animal to a human with the highly-contagious specific modifications it had for binding to the specific receptor say it's highly unlikely that it occured naturally in the wild. We (including American and other western scientists) went searching in caves and forests for many months for any mammals that had a previous version of the specific mutation that led to COVID-19 before it jumped to humans. No animal coronavirus with that precursor mutation has ever been found.

We now know that at least 3 people who were working at the Wuhan Institute of Virology where gain-of-function research was being done (in a level 2 lab -- only medium security, if I recall correctly - think gloves, masks, change of outfit... no serious sanitization) were hospitalized for COVID symptoms a month before the first infected masses started showing up to hospitals with covid symptoms. The 3 scientists tested negative for everything they tested them for.

But the majority of people will still tell you it was caused by a wet market infected animal, and if you bring up the evidence and official opinion that it was a lab leak they will fight you on it and make up excuses.

Whether it's a case of political bias, or self-censorship for fear of repercussions of subscriber numbers, or a message came from the top of the networks, it was a very effective campaign of propaganda. Even though it would be beneficial for the "China is incompetent, and dangerous, and we need to spend as much as we can to protect ourselves from them" narrative the DoD has been pushing (true as it may (or may not, I'm not an expert in geopolitics) - the majority of major news networks decided to brush it under the rug.

There is a Firefox plugin which I believe is called CleanURLs.

it's interesting that you mention the shorturls OP... I'm almost positive as of today that those links you can share that are like amazon.com/a/ab3cd4 are customized tracking links.

Problem is, if you paste it in your browser from the app, it doesn't go back to the original URL. You have to search the product again and customize the color, number, etc, and then strip tracking again from the url.

Most people just want to send a friend a link of the thing they think they'll like.

If you have proper full disk encryption and know the caveats, it really doesn't matter what you name your files. If you're the anal-retentive spy handler type, you are probably very organized, and you name files with exactly what's in them.

He was a spy handler who handled secret and top secret documents and worked in intelligence for a number of years. I'm sure he knew how to encrypt his hard drive.

He may have even used a VPN, or tor for the searches which has (had?) a very curious ongoing network-wide DDoS attack (very useful if you had access to the entire inflow and outflow of the Internet via undersea cables and ISP access and wanted to do timing attacks) for at least a year in 2022-2023. The tor project themselves tell you that if your adversary is a nation-state, you need to use more protection than just browsing from your normal laptop on your home network.

I imagine he at minimum used private browsing to search Google and reddit for this stuff, but they logged the search and the DoD was later able to easily get the customer details of the IP from his ISP at the time the searches took place, and also all other searches during a time.

But it's also just as likely he thought he'd be in the clear, knows how incompetent the beurocracy seems since he was inside of it, but something he did tipped them off and he was scrutinized (maybe his VISA application for China and plans to travel there yearly).

This seems like a weird way to set someone up... Setups are much more rare than the movies would have you believe.

I'm mostly concerned with the lack of details about whether he did or did not successfully give China those details... He was arrested at the San Francisco airport coming back from China... asset info, meeting places, etc, of even just a few known spies can potentially give the adversary a pattern to look for to find other unknown assets. I forget exactly when, where, or who, but there was some massive spy bust (either Russians in US or US in Russia, iirc) that happened because of some pattern they found between the registered addresses of the spies... Something about them all living in the same apartment building, or the numbers in the building or something. If anyone remembers the story please link it here.

The "to" field is showing whatever his name is on Facebook, I believe it's done by formatting as "Name To Send To"

Edit: can lemmy not show email addresses, or just anything between greater than/less than tags?

Edit edit: no symbols for us... That's... interesting design. I guess nobody can use html tags if nobody can put anything between greater than and less than symbols.

I'm not surprised. Propaganda as a systematic process of human psychological manipulation was essentially born in Russia, and they've been honing in and practicing those skills ever since.

It is undoubtedly a group of synapses with one about to get a big juicy golden dopamine hit. I feel like that was a spez request to marketing and design departments as a subtle way to laugh at how obviously overboard they can go and people will stay addicted.

I'm curious how the r/conspiracy sub is reacting, or not reacting.

Yup. That $50 option is going to be 75% business/political co, and 25% real users.