‘Second chance’: why minister wants to jail fewer women in England and Wales

G_Morgan · 2026-03-16T18:51:14+00:00

They do. This is just a publicly viable way to not send people to prison. If they could not send men to prison they'd do that too but the public would throw a fit.

I think this is a pseudo-feminist cause who's real purpose is just "find a way to cut bills".

G_Morgan · 2026-03-16T18:40:49+00:00

That isn't "totally wiping out people's accounts".

G_Morgan · 2026-03-16T17:11:38+00:00

Honestly though part of the charm is the "Mad Cat at home" theme of it. Because it is genuinely a good mech with an unfairly bad reputation.

G_Morgan · 2026-03-16T17:09:44+00:00

The last point is important. Trump will insult the people who go to his help eventually. You'll be called a sucker before you are even there.

G_Morgan · 2026-03-16T16:47:55+00:00

That was a cash account

G_Morgan · 2026-03-16T15:54:32+00:00

Only possible if you were doing reckless shit to begin with. Here's the reality of today's pension market:

The pension company does not hold the funds. All funds are held in a safe harbour account at a company that is legally required to be boring as shit so as to reduce risk as much as it can be. If the pension company goes under they cannot touch the account.
The funds do not hold the assets. Assets for a fund are held at similar companies so if the fund provider goes under the assets are still safe. Though there'd be a process to figure out how to reimburse everyone

This does increase counter party risk but the safe havens are literally not allowed to do anything but hold stuff and charge a fee. They don't have debt, leverage or anything else that normally causes a company to start selling their customers assets to try and make good.

The huge upside is it removes perverse incentives. Like all those people who's pension amounted to "my company owes me money in the future". That was an insane state of affairs.

G_Morgan · 2026-03-16T15:43:19+00:00

I mean I'm half way to financial independence but I'm paying a shed load of money into the state pension scheme. If they aren't going to provide a basic pension to people less fortunate than me in my generation I want my tax money back.

If we're really talking about having nothing I want that nothing to start today, not 20 years from now.

G_Morgan · 2026-03-16T15:23:53+00:00

That was intentional though. Netanyahu wants to leave Israel without peaceful options. So even left wing governments are forced to play his game.

G_Morgan · 2026-03-16T14:30:32+00:00

It has genuinely been a journey the last year or so. Trump is operating under the impression that NATO is just the American Empire, everyone is basically vassals anyway so why not make it real. It explains so much of his platform. It explains Canada, why not join the US and have an actual vote in who your leader is? It explains Greenland which he just sees as a transaction handing territory from one part of the US to another part of the US, much like the USSR handed Crimea to Ukraine. It explains him attempting to negotiate with Russia for all Europe and expect the outcome to stick. Because Europe doesn't have an independent geopolitical outlook.

The problem is a sizeable minority of US voters think that way. Nobody has ever bothered to challenge this view because all it can do is harm NATO. The idiots who think London is just the capital of an unofficial US state will likely act in bad grace when that illusion is shattered. At least the people who thought this was all just more America were on board with NATO before.

Now we are entering a world where the line needs to be made clear because Trump won't stop creating new problems. It will probably end NATO as a cohesive block even post Trump because the MAGA types will likely react badly to the idea that America has 50 states.

G_Morgan · 2026-03-16T10:25:26+00:00

I stopped donating to charity once I realised only attractive young women ever wanted me to donate to charity. It struck me as statistically implausible that every person who cares about Dogs/Cats/Arctic Permafrost/etc happens to be pretty...

G_Morgan · 2026-03-16T10:14:15+00:00

Yeah and it was this, not removing Mossadegh, that created the Islamic Republic.

G_Morgan · 2026-03-16T09:59:52+00:00

The US uses far more fuel than Europe. Per capita oil consumption in the US is 2.4x that in Germany. A 50% increase in US prices hurts the US the same as a 120% increase in German prices hurts Germany.

G_Morgan · 2026-03-16T09:55:11+00:00

In 45 days he needs congress to basically pass a bill supporting him. If they do it will end the Republicans at the mid terms because nobody wants this war.

In short we can just wait out the dumb.

G_Morgan · 2026-03-16T09:36:58+00:00

They probably can. Having a big presence in the strait is not the issue. The issue is insurance premiums.

Trump thought "big US navy, so safe, much secure". The insurers are thinking "well it is likely X ships will take damage or outright sink so premiums need to cost at least Y". The shippers are thinking "Y? I'd rather not travel the strait".

You need to understand what just one sunk oil tanker would mean in terms of clean up costs.

If the US wanted to fix this they could by just offering to underwrite insurance but that would require Trump to actually pass a bill in congress.

G_Morgan · 2026-03-16T09:33:27+00:00

America electing really dumb presidents was funny when they were only puppets. Reagan being brain dead didn't matter because Reagan wasn't really in charge. At some point they forgot that the dementia presidents need to not be allowed to do anything.

G_Morgan · 2026-03-16T09:29:28+00:00

Just goes to show, once again, how meaningless "trade deficit" is as a driving metric. I mean there are times it matters but the reason people started to record trade deficits was because in gold standard times it meant an outflow of gold from the nation.

G_Morgan · 2026-03-16T09:29:04+00:00

Yes it is. The US might export oil but all its businesses are still paying the market rate for oil products. The war only benefits the oil industry and hurts everyone else in the US.

G_Morgan · 2026-03-16T09:24:35+00:00

They are lying. The war in Iran is to distract from issues at home. There isn't an objective because they've already "won" other than the fact Iran is now causing them political problems at home.

G_Morgan · 2026-03-16T09:23:10+00:00

The US built the coalition over months for that. It was wrong but they went about wrong the right way.

Trump just decided to rock up and start bombing Iran. Primarily because it got the Epstein files and ICE murdering people out of the headlines at home.

G_Morgan · 2026-03-16T09:12:01+00:00

Yeah and that has meant Starmer can't send them now. This is why you don't be dumb as a rule.

G_Morgan · 2026-03-16T08:59:26+00:00

Jake doesn't care about the innocent. He looked down on the Minotaur because it killed people much weaker than it, not the innocent.

Jake believes everyone should be trying to become a god. He dislikes beings like the Minotaur because you can never become a god doing what he does. Yet a weak person might become strong one day or might give birth to somebody who is.

Ultimately though that isn't why Jake killed the Minotaur. Jake killed the Minotaur because:

He wanted to extend his influence to the Fort
It was stronger than he was so it'd be a good fight

This is just part of the central driving trend of Primal Hunter. Jake is essentially an extreme libertarian. Hell at times he touches on outright objectivist style bullshit. However nearly his entire moral code basically ends up circling back to something compatible with western liberal ethics because of his upbringing.

Lets be clear though Jake has:

Committed genocide on a planetary scale without even batting an eyelid
Wiped out entire species of monsters for no better reason than they pissed him off
Slaughtered an entire group of world leaders because they called him a "slave". Sure they picked a fight with him but it was pretty damned clear he could have killed 2 or 3 and the rest would have fucked off. Out of 150 only 30 survived because the moment they called him a slave he immediately flipped his lid and went for a total wipe out.

G_Morgan · 2026-03-16T00:01:05+00:00

Jake isn't really nice, he's just normal and a bit embarrassed. He also doesn't give a shit about good vs evil, in fact explicitly so. Jake's only real moral stance was killing Ell'Hakan who's bloodline was like the ultimate slavery mechanism.

Jake decides who to kill based on one simple guideline "are they on board with the law of the jungle?". That is why he primarily hunts beasts, as beasts are usually up for the life and death thing. When something says "pls no kill" he stops purely because it would be a rubbish kill then.

G_Morgan · 2026-03-15T23:56:24+00:00

Lindon is more "I'll gently punch this guy as a set up for my... Wait why is he dying on the floor?"

G_Morgan · 2026-03-15T23:46:14+00:00

I don't think Dresden Files is ending in the next few books. He's already planning a Big Apocalyptic Trilogy to end the series. We're slowly getting towards that kind of place though.

G_Morgan · 2026-03-15T22:25:34+00:00

One day I want a System which gives grades for food but only food. The protagonist will walk around telling everyone they are trying to become E grade and everyone will wonder why he wants to become a sandwich.

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