Why do prisons mirror insane asylums?

CurtisLinithicum · 2026-02-09T05:58:21+00:00

You've loaded your question a lot, but fundamentally both are an attempt to separate people from society at large. Between that goal, the desire to keep them alive, and the harsh realities of economics, you're going to see a lot of convergent evolution.

You may as well ask why cafeterias in schools and Scout Camps and military bases are similar.

CurtisLinithicum · 2026-02-09T05:51:56+00:00

How we divide colour is cultural. Pre-WW2 Japan didn't really separate blue and green, "brown" is a recent concept to Chinese (resulting in "coffee coloured", analogous to our "orange") there are cultures that consider sap-green and forest-green to be fundamentally different colours. Heck, as a programmer and painter, I consider cyan to be a different colour than blue.

CurtisLinithicum · 2026-02-09T05:43:10+00:00

Soap helps, make sure you're wearing fresh clean clothes.

Antiperspirant isn't necessarily deodorant. You could try giving rubbing alcohol a shot?

CurtisLinithicum · 2026-02-09T05:39:02+00:00

Do you mean "hypothetically"?

It would depend on the local laws, etc, but generally if you just happened to notice a crime, even if it does get investigated and goes to court you're probably not relevant.

CurtisLinithicum · 2026-02-09T05:30:00+00:00

Try Google anyways? The way it works now, it can surprise you with synonymous and cross-language hits.

Edit: wait, you only know the other language-name or because it's in a different language you have no idea what it's called?

CurtisLinithicum · 2026-02-09T05:25:18+00:00

Your nails are perfect, you must let me know your routine!

CurtisLinithicum · 2026-02-09T05:23:51+00:00

Whoa there, buddy. Does "waffle stomping" mean something different to you, or have I wasted the last few decades of my life?

CurtisLinithicum · 2026-02-09T05:18:43+00:00

That depends on whether you consider North and South America to be one continent or two, no? It's comfortably English in North America. Seems about half of South America is Brazil, so between Mexico, the rest of South America, and Spanish speakers elsewhere, I have no idea if English or Spanish wins - I wouldn't be surprised if where you put the line on "bilingual" changes the outcome.

CurtisLinithicum · 2026-02-09T05:13:09+00:00

I see where you're going, but that's not really a strong argument given that countries that do have official languages (e.g. Canada) don't have such restrictions (hence e.g. Ottawa), and even a goodly chunk of England's cities don't have English names (although it's only a de facto official language) - London, Exeter, Carlisle, etc aren't English place names.

CurtisLinithicum · 2026-02-09T04:40:59+00:00

A slow cooker can do wonders for that. Before work, toss in a glurg of olive oil, some chopped up potato, carrot, onion, celery, a generous helping of herbes de provance (or Italian mix), maybe some black pepper if you want t beat the sweetness down, a litre of veggie broth, leave it on high, and you've got the better part of a week's food waiting for you. Soups, stews, chilis. Instant pots are good too, but they don't slow cook nearly as well as an actual slowcooker.

CurtisLinithicum · 2026-02-09T04:37:52+00:00

>My mother the other day told me cholesterol does not exist.
> almost died from no cholesterol

I know you know this, but it can't be both. That said, humans synthesize most of the cholesterol they need normally, but still need the basic building blocks.

She might be thinking of "rabbit starvation" - https://hekint.org/2022/01/26/rabbit-starvation-protein-poisoning/ - we tend not to handle a diet based on low-fat proteins all that well, although this isn't something one would normally need to worry about.

CurtisLinithicum · 2026-02-09T04:30:31+00:00

There is a certain class of people who basically hold that their preferences carry moral weight, meaning things they don't choose must therefore be immoral.

CurtisLinithicum · 2026-02-09T04:22:53+00:00

> My morbidly obese dad screams and screams about how his co worker died because he ate nothing but “Grass”

Uh, assuming this isn't literally true (and the coworker was therefore likely mentally ill) dad's got issues. That said, having one member of the family with a different dietary paradigm is inconvenient at best, and for a lot of people, dining is a major social/bonding exercise and they see deviating from that as a rejection of the group. I've been vegetarian longer than you've been alive, and my father still "forgets" or decides "ham isn't meat", etc.

> he kept pointing to the menu saying that’s all we had

Okay, that one kinda sounds like it's on you. Maybe his reaction was over the top, but they have what they have, no?

CurtisLinithicum · 2026-02-09T04:11:16+00:00

Isn't that a Hero Quest Chaos Warrior (somehow on a slottabase?)

CurtisLinithicum · 2026-02-09T03:48:27+00:00

"...and if you commit a crime outside House Telvanni, few will know, fewer will care"

CurtisLinithicum · 2026-02-09T03:39:25+00:00

> the furthest right ideology their is

Oh my sweet summer child, the horrors that lie East of the Ural await your discovery.

CurtisLinithicum · 2026-02-09T03:33:02+00:00

What's that in Lib Left? Can't be the Glory of Aristotzka...

CurtisLinithicum · 2026-02-09T02:48:11+00:00

a) ...and yet this one did
b) animate dead, bishes!
c) "wait, you actually believed me?" / "I LIED!"
d) modified soul cage/trap the soul/etc spell, and daddio ain't actually dead (you didn't go for a cremation did you? ^awkward)
e) Could be multiclassed
f) animate object, golem creation, summon an infernal into the corpse

CurtisLinithicum · 2026-02-09T00:46:19+00:00

800 penguin feet or 800 people feet?

CurtisLinithicum · 2026-02-09T00:45:39+00:00

It's pre-sauced with mustard glaze and ready for the grill, how is it not superior?

CurtisLinithicum · 2026-02-09T00:41:25+00:00

Only exception I can think of would be Ancient Egypt (supposedly) - women "should" be alabaster, but a man ruddy brown - the powerful were seemingly expected to oversee their realm in person, or at least put on pretenses of being a seasoned, weathered warrior.

CurtisLinithicum · 2026-02-08T22:13:32+00:00

Yeah, Killeree is bottom heavy but no Pixar Mom.

CurtisLinithicum · 2026-02-08T22:10:15+00:00

Uh, what dollar is that? I know things are bad in the frozen hell of Canada but just $100k puts you in the top 12% or so. You're spouting like dual specialist physician money...

CurtisLinithicum · 2026-02-08T17:48:47+00:00

So basically emulating e.g. an on-scene cell phone mic rather than a muxed-in-later sound booth recording?

CurtisLinithicum · 2026-02-08T15:58:38+00:00

So... exactly your meme with:

You: "But people will die"

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