SkookumTree
1yr ago
Give the Jewish people Alaska, or something
Should've been part of Germany, if anything; they were the ones that started the shit that go-round.
SkookumTree
1yr ago
The microroni is just a rifle attachment for a handgun. I suppose you're more accurate with it, but the ballistics of it are still shitty compared to a real rifle.
SkookumTree
1yr ago
Yeah - moving some 98yo geezer who was a piece of shit Nazi during WWII from a nursing home outside of a prison to a nursing home inside of a prison doesn't sound like the best use of the justice system's time and effort. Almost all of the perpetrators are dead.
SkookumTree
1yr ago
Yeah. There's definitely a use case for a shit tier hotel room like this but I wouldn't want to be around a bunch of people that can't even live in an apartment...it seems like it would be safer for me to just camp in the woods or something.
SkookumTree
1yr ago
I mean these things are designed to be able to be cleaned by a guy hosing the place down with a power washer. Shitting all over the place isn't as bad as flooding it or cooking meth in it.
SkookumTree
1yr ago
Yeah. You've got Daniel Shaver's death; he pointed something that looked like a real rifle out of a hotel window, then got shot by a trigger-happy incompetent asshole cop. Same thing's true for police harassment. Maybe in our fathers' or grandfathers' time there were drop guns and people being shot in the back for running from cops. It might still happen now, but not all that often and if it does the police departments are at least competent in covering this up. Asshole cops can definitely make people very clumsy indeed because they "look like criminals" or something like that. Sometimes the cops are beating up people they really think are criminals but can't prove anything.
You have people with privacy and tools. If they have a grudge against you, they could very well remove the grates and seal the drain with contractor bags stuffed full of rags or something. You also have toilets and plumbing. Flushing a bunch of old T-shirts down the toilet and chasing it with something like rancid fat or concrete can block pipes pretty badly. Any halfway determined asshole with access to the entire contents of a goddamn hardware store can create a pretty damn bad clog with $20 worth of goods from the local hardware store plus or minus commonly available scavenged or stolen items like trash bags, old fryer oil, paint/glue/adhesives, or something else.
I suppose that you could just use a Singapore-style solution where you beat or flog people for damaging the hell out of the apartment and then maybe boot them out, and the hobos that can live in apartments without royally fucking it up get to live there.
Also how do you deal with these guys deciding to cook meth or something in the apartments? IDK - maybe you just do the same thing as you do to the guy that floods the place.
If you let angry prisoners get $20 worth of goods from the local Home Depot and a whole week unsupervised, they could probably burn down the prison.
SkookumTree
1yr ago
I don't know about that; I think it would have some pretty large knock-on effects and I am not sure how desirable these things would be in a modern, Western society. I would guess that you could just find a different proxy for neuroticism or something like that.
Maybe you could just use the Hock, but explicitly allow people to pay or have substitutes.
SkookumTree
1yr ago
Yeah. In theory stuff like poll taxes or literacy tests for voting might be good ideas; however, it is possible to abuse the living shit out of these and rig the hell out of the system. I am somewhat partial to Heinlein's service-guarantees-citizenship idea; IIRC, physical disability was not a barrier for service and anyone that was able to understand the oath of enlistment was eligible to serve. Which is in my eyes rather admirable in a modern society: why should some dude who's born without functioning legs not be able to vote?
SkookumTree
1yr ago
The old saw is that conservatives are both stupid and evil while liberals are insane. There's a difference; you can be intelligent (by some definitions) but also nuts. Consider the Unabomber; he was many things but he was most definitely not dumb.
SkookumTree
1yr ago
Most of it is: BLMGNF.
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Cops being trigger
happyscared and genuinely believing that a wallet was a gun. -
The odd piece of shit pig like Michael Slager that guns down a fleeing suspect.
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What you might call criminal negligence, like the cop that thought her gun was actually her Taser and shot a suspect...this, to my mind, is not all that different than if she had run a stop sign and killed the suspect with her cruiser.
BLM seems to be...at ground level, a lot of very passionate, committed activists. With leadership, at least with BLMGNF, they're a bunch of greedy pigs milking these passionate, devoted foot soldiers for all that they're worth.
SkookumTree
1yr ago
Even then, they need to make sure the occupants don't have any tools.
Yeah. Preventing potentially hostile people from destroying these things is a system; not only are there tough, destruction-resistant fixtures but there is also a lot more restriction on tools and equipment and guards or orderlies surveilling the place and checking in on people to make sure they're not flooding the place with toilet water.
SkookumTree
1yr ago
You can’t harden windows, so they’re right out.
Bars or grates could be used over the windows; they could be made out of Lexan or something, too.
Even so, the biggest problem here seems to be good old fashioned flooding, either through malice or gross incompetence.
SkookumTree
1yr ago
Prison cells are also supported by guards, unlike apartments. Can't bring a sledgehammer into a prison cell.
SkookumTree
1yr ago
You can get prison-style furniture and toilets and whatever that are relatively resistant to trashing. Not trashing-proof, some asshole might try and burn through your rock-solid prison toilet with homemade thermite or something. However, one of the issues that comes to mind is flooding, either deliberately or through drug-fueled incompetence or just idiocy. How do you deal with assholes blocking the drains in your units and getting the water running? Maybe you can have some kind of shutoff meter or something, but those can be defeated and even IDK 10 gallons of water just sitting in a unit is a lot and can cause mold and other damage.
Prisons have guards that walk by and see if an inmate is flooding his cell with toilet water or some shit like that, and they put a stop to it reasonably quickly - within hours, I think, but I'm no corrections officer.
SkookumTree
1yr ago
Yeah. The big BLM organization - Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation - is probably grifting or at least enriching the pocketbooks of its members a good deal more than is customary for nonprofits. It's possible that they might simply be unsophisticated n00bs and thus not all that good at being corrupt and grifting successfully, and you never hear about the really good or even just decent grifter nonprofits. Grifting aside, I still think that BLM is unfortunately too divisive - it stokes racial tension. Of course, Martin Luther King did the same, as did Malcolm X; the difference here is that they managed to effect lasting societal change and had a clear endgame. They also referenced the shared humanity of Black people, rather than painting police brutality as an issue that only or mostly affects Black people...yes, there IS some disproportionate impact. Yes, there IS bias, it's very real, some of it is due to cops being pigs and some of it is due to the vicious cycles that stereotypes enable. On the other hand, I think that painting it as being just a "black problem" is the wrong tactic to take as it stokes racial and political tension in order to resolve a black issue rather than a human issue...I've heard that cops in redneck rural areas are just as much of assholes as cops in the 'hood. It'd be nice if BLM was able to join forces with rednecks against police brutality. Maybe they could find themselves some sympathetic white Boy Scout that got gunned down by asshole cops or something.
SkookumTree
1yr ago
As I understand it, the Comanche basically lived by the sword and died by the sword. Whatever we did to them, I am fairly sure that if the shoe was on the other foot it would not have been much better.
SkookumTree
1yr ago
Tourniquets can work. IF she is conscious when she reaches modern medical care AND she just has the fractures in her legs she can probably be saved.
SkookumTree
1yr ago
He is the world elite of the violent class. The modern equivalent of a knight, loaded down with many years' wages' worth of technology, weapons and armor.
The knights of yore were essentially ye olde officers, no? Leading troops in battle, managing a bunch of squires and militiamen and whatnot, stuff like that...like a cross between Green Berets and modern day officers or something. Granted, I'm a civilian, no military experience but have family that were officers.
Also, an arithmetic error - those 100k guys are not 3/10,000 of a percent, they're more like 3/100 of a percent of the US population of around 300m people.
SkookumTree
1yr ago
Something like this was already tried; I suppose that they could have killed a lot of people if they had been able to get their hands on lots of poison. With fifty smart people willing to die for the cause you can accomplish a good deal of destruction...
However, even a few dozen 9/11s' worth of casualties, hell a few hundred, wouldn't bring down technological society.
SkookumTree
1yr ago
I know one guy who did. I'll call him the Carpenter. He dealt a shit ton of weed in the 90s and made an assload of money before he went legit and had a big carpentry business.
SkookumTree
1yr ago
Do you really think I might be able to get a book or movie deal out of the Hock? That would be cool as fuck.
SkookumTree
1yr ago
Update: training for the Hock, buying ski gear. Planning on going in February in the Brooks Range. Running and biking as training.
SkookumTree
1yr ago
Suicide hotlines, funeral homes. If you want something really goddamn heavy - try to find a way to volunteer in a pediatric cancer ward. Hospice is second - but in a pediatric cancer ward you'll see families that are more or less broken by grief. If an old man with a pack-a-day cigarette habit he's had for 60 years is dying of lung cancer, few people are surprised. Even the old man himself often shrugs and says something like "I knew the smoking was gonna catch up to me". When it's a twelve-year-old, it is different. I was a medical student in a cancer ward for a month. I don't have the words to describe it: if we could resurrect Wilfred Owen and have him walk those halls, he might be able to write poetry sufficient for the task.
Daniel Abse and Dante might be sufficient too.
Hell, a trillion bucks wouldn't be a bad price to pay. For what it's worth it wouldn't be bad if the US took a bunch of 'em too.
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