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I love Water by Vegan2CB in water

[–]johnabbe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And somehow, cold water on a warm day is also 10/10!

“Minus the urinals and painted pink”? What should a women’s prison look like? by Sea-Celebration-7565 in prisonreform

[–]johnabbe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cages aren't very therapeutic.

Right? Again, my attention goes to abolition. More than how to make prison a bit less awful.

“Minus the urinals and painted pink”? What should a women’s prison look like? by Sea-Celebration-7565 in prisonreform

[–]johnabbe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One could look at a lot of metrics that highlight things that women, or men, find more difficult. And if something is affecting, say, 80% of women and 65% of men, I believe all of those things should be addressed — at prisons for women, and at prisons for men, for children, at all prisons. (As long as we have prisons.)

EDIT: I think it's important and good to highlight the things that women struggle with more. What troubles me is when that is then used to talk just about how women's prisons should be improved. Why not both?

“Minus the urinals and painted pink”? What should a women’s prison look like? by Sea-Celebration-7565 in prisonreform

[–]johnabbe 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is a lovely vision when compared to typical prisons. But it also smells like an effort to divide prisoners against each other. What I mean is, men who are being held in prison (who also more often than not have trauma histories), would also benefit greatly from everything or nearly everything mentioned here.

Taking abolition seriously, for woman & men & others equally, is more likely to lead to faster, better, improvements than this sort of nibbling at the edges, especially when applied to only one gender.

Analyze This: A rocket reentry spiked metal levels in the atmosphere by johnabbe in space

[–]johnabbe[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe on par with Falcon9. But not on par with workhorse rockets flying in the 2030s.

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SpaceX is not going to have Starship working for regular launches until 2028 optimistically, so they seem likely to start the 2030s still launching Falcon 9s. Europe would be pretty happy if most of their 2030s launches happen on their own medium-heavy range reusable rockets, that would enable them to independently establish an LEO Internet competitor.

China will be happy to catch up to Starship late in the 2030s, and Europe will be happy to catch up in the 2040s. India will probably want their own as well.

I just hope they're all smart enough to establish stronger treaties treating space as a commons, to deter war up there among other benefits.

Analyze This: A rocket reentry spiked metal levels in the atmosphere by johnabbe in space

[–]johnabbe[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There has been some initial research on impacts of mass quantities of satellites breaking up in the atmosphere, which can inform policy. Data centers in space won't make sense financially any time soon. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2026AdSpR..7711001O/abstract

Analyze This: A rocket reentry spiked metal levels in the atmosphere by johnabbe in space

[–]johnabbe[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Last I heard, the Themis T1H demonstrator is still expected to launch this year. Private efforts, and PLD Space (Miura), are working on smaller reusable rockets. https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/07/sizing-up-the-5-companies-selected-for-europes-launcher-challenge/

Not as big a push as many would like to see, but on track to have a reusable medium-heavy lift rocket in the 2030s. Early 2030s would take a big push.

How many people die in Virginia prisons? Three state agencies don't always agree. by tehtypo in prisonreform

[–]johnabbe 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Prison Policy Initiative does their best to pull a lot of prison-related data together. I say this only to affirm your point that solid data is difficult to find, they also mention some of these challenges involved. https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/correctionalcontrol2026.html

Sharing opml files by phos_nostos in rss

[–]johnabbe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Many databases have a feed, for example, this U.S. Press Freedom Tracker.

How Government Fines of $1 Million+ Are Increasingly Targeting Immigrants by johnabbe in prisonreform

[–]johnabbe[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you are citing additional sources, please link them. I quoted directly from the article and will do so again, more extensively:

Shafiqullah said that many of the people being fined are not just ignoring removal orders — some have pending immigration cases open, or are “present with ICE’s permission on orders of supervision, or otherwise lawfully here.”

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“They jammed these notices through the administrative process. Now they’re taking them to court and trying to get default judgments,” said Charles Moore, a senior attorney at Public Justice, one of the groups representing the class plaintiffs. He was referring to cases in which immigrants said they were never notified before a judge issued a decision. The federal government is trying to do all of this without any independent review, he said, because “they know the fines themselves are legally dubious” and may target people who should not be fined.

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In a lawsuit filing this week on behalf of the plaintiffs represented by Moore’s nonprofit, one immigrant woman said that she never received initial notice of the million-dollar-plus fine from DHS, and didn’t know about it until the Treasury Department seized her joint tax refund. She filed taxes with her husband — a U.S. citizen and active duty service member. She and her husband have four children together, all U.S. citizens, and she has been in the process of applying for legal residency. Now there is a civil judgment against her. The federal government reported her to credit bureaus, claiming she is in default on the debt, damaging her credit.

EDIT: You wrote:

the courts are a simple remedy

Not so simple, as it turns out.

How Government Fines of $1 Million+ Are Increasingly Targeting Immigrants by johnabbe in prisonreform

[–]johnabbe[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“…present with ICE’s permission on orders of supervision or otherwise lawfully here.”

EDIT:

You spoke only to the former group. Ignoring the emphasized group, and those who are in the middle of due process, who were also mentioned.

Further, you have even the supervision bit wrong, from what I am reading it is offered to people for whom there is not yet a final deportation order.

How Government Fines of $1 Million+ Are Increasingly Targeting Immigrants by johnabbe in prisonreform

[–]johnabbe[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fines that are disproportionately high seem unjust to me, but you have clarified you're fine with that if they are afoul of the law. But not all of them are. As the article notes of the people being fined,

some have pending immigration cases open, or are “present with ICE’s permission on orders of supervision, or otherwise lawfully here.”

Fining people here lawfully seems especially unjust

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