TheHarpyEagle @ Theharpyeagle @lemmy.world

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Well that's disappointing as hell...

What In the world is a jungle paging shack?

I love Kingdom Hearts dearly (beloved) and will be the first to tell you that it makes no god damned sense. I love the characters and many of the themes so much that it hurts to see them get so misused.

What's insane is so many adults still believe AIDS is from being gay. I mean it takes a seconds to reason that any man is more likely to spread AIDS because, you know, they're shooting a bunch of bodily fluids into someone else. But no, the virus can sense the homosexuality.

While poppy seeds do not contain opium, authorities fear they could be contaminated with opiates, a class of drugs that can relieve pain and cause drowsiness.

This whole thing is clearly ridiculous, but that's a hilariously dismissive way to describe opiates.

"Michael Obama" jokes were a thing long before conservatives had trans people on their radar. No safety in being cis, or different in any way at all.

Imagine how many people could be debt free with a fraction of that...

Even if I was using that money entirely selfishly I could come up with so many better things to do.

Ah, spent so many hours of my youth on albinoblacksheep. My first introduction to Lemon Demon among many other things.

Ehhh, there's a difference between necessary nasty stuff and not necessary. Not to say I'm a saint about it, but popping zits is bad for your skin along with being gross so I don't think it's necessarily a red flag if someone doesn't want to do it.

Now I'm confused, I thought the premise of this thread is that jail time should be based not on the severity of the crime, but only how long it takes to rehabilitate the offender. Did I misunderstand that?

I mean we did have to live through the era of popups and really annoying ads. ("Say something!" "Whaaaat?")

I'm confused on how you quantify rehabilitation. How do you know someone has changed?

And yeah I guess I'm genuinely having trouble wrapping my head around the idea that first degree murder and shoplifting could result in the same sentence.

So the crime committed and the effect on the victims, if any, doesn't affect the sentencing?

I don't know that emotion is so easily divorced from justice. How do you define what a just punishment is for a crime? Or does the magnitude of the crime not matter?

How do you know when a person is reformed versus playing the part to get out earlier? Is there a risk of the system being abused by those who commit a crime knowing that they can get out in a couple years' time?

If you can't even think of forgiving this hypothetical transgression you've come up with, how can you ever hope to have a positive influence on this world that might actually protect others from the kind of tragedy you've described?

I'm sorry but I'm not sure I see the connection here. How does forgiveness prevent such tragedies?

I get it, but also when I think about if that happened to my sister, let alone my child, no amount of time would be enough. 2 years for ripping two people out of your life feels like a pittance. How do you separate the emotion from the practicality?

To be fair even the most technically adept person can have tunnel vision where they start digging before ruling out all the simple stuff. Yes it can feel tedious and a little condescending to follow all those steps, but you get humbled the first time it really is just an unplugged cable.

I feel like there's a specific peak between total technical ignorance and a weary understanding of how fickle technology can be. On this peak is the height of arrogance, where you believe you've really got everything figured out. Part of learning is understanding that, yes, sometimes you really did just forget to plug the modem in.

Huh?? The West has been almost entirely united behind Ukraine. I mean it's the controversial stuff that gets clicks but there's plenty of hatred for Russia to go around. Hell there's graphic videos on Lemmy of Russian soldiers being blown to bits and no one bats an eye.