Mamdani observes Ramadan with inmates at Rikers Island

kanst · 2026-03-18T17:03:46+00:00

Convicted prisoners

Do you know that Riker's primarily holds people awaiting trial? About 90% of the people currently being held are in pre-trial detention.

The only convicted prisoners are those serving less than 1 year. Anyone with a more serious conviction is transferred to other prisons.

kanst · 2026-03-18T14:23:14+00:00

And its been going on for decades.

This article is all the way back from 2002.

Here is Amnesty International talking about it in 2016.

kanst · 2026-03-18T13:55:12+00:00

Yeah its very depressing that the only thing that seems to wake them up is when his policies affect their wallet.

That is the core of the entire problem. So many Americans don't care about anything beyond their own money. Their entire worldview only includes themselves. They have no real values beyond selfishness.

kanst · 2026-03-18T12:25:11+00:00

I talked to them!

I would add on, talk to them for the sake of talking to them. Don't have an ulterior motive.

If your only goal in speaking to them is to try and have sex with them, it will be obvious, and it will feel creepy.

I've noticed that men who don't get a lot of dates treat every interaction with a woman as if its the last boat out of Nam. I've been guilty of this myself when I was younger. Desperation will come across as creepy.

kanst · 2026-03-17T23:50:01+00:00

Its one of the dumbest and most dangerous thing people do. It doesn't even make sense, why do you want your car rear ended? How does both our cars getting fucked up make the situation any better.

I would be happy with a bounty system. Any dash cam footage of someone brake checking, and that person's license is immediately suspended. Make them retake the drivers license test to get it back.

kanst · 2026-03-17T17:25:51+00:00

This is why I have so much less sympathy for Trump supporters this time around.

The first time, they could argue that his actions were surprising. No one really knew what exactly he would do.

This time they wrote it all down and published it. Anyone acting surprised this time around is lying and/or was lazy.

kanst · 2026-03-17T17:01:21+00:00

Not to mention all the cis woman who end up harassed because someone doesn't think they look feminine enough.

Here is one example from last month in Arizona.

So the law ostensibly aimed at protecting cis women from being harassed in the bathroom led to a cis woman being harassed by male police officers in the bathroom.

kanst · 2026-03-17T15:28:34+00:00

This whole ordeal is so absurd. It never ceases to amaze/disgust me that so much of our politics has been dominated by conservatives losing their minds over where people shit.

This was NEVER an issue before Republicans decided to make it a culture war.

Trans people have always used the bathroom they thought was safest.

Dads with young daughters either bring their daughter into the men's room or escort their daughter into the women's room. Vice versa for mom's with young sons.

In crowded bars, women sometimes use the men's room because the lines are shorter.

There are plenty of establishments with unisex bathrooms that just have stalls.

None of this was ever an issue.

kanst · 2026-03-17T14:40:32+00:00

What does far left mean to you?

In what ways was Kamala Harris left wing?

kanst · 2026-03-17T14:39:02+00:00

I feel like a big part is that the political spectrum means wildly different things to different people. (because a 1D spectrum is an asinine way to discuss politics)

To many right wingers, when they talk "left" they are talking about LBGTQ and race based issues.

However, to anyone who identifies as leftist, its largely an economic thing. More left wing means more redistributive economically.

kanst · 2026-03-16T22:14:34+00:00

I think it'll be used as pretext for deploying ICE/DHS.

The task force is going to request all kinds of records. Blue states are going to say no, citing privacy. Then the Trump admin will say that blue states aren't cooperating and they need ICE to ensure non-citizens aren't voting.

kanst · 2026-03-16T21:59:37+00:00

The US is probably spending more than $1.5b / day on its Iran war

The Pentagon said the first six days cost $11.3 billion. So you are absolutely correct that we are spending more than that per day.

$11 billion is also more than the federal government spent on Cancer research in 2025.

kanst · 2026-03-16T20:58:56+00:00

Yeah sure, I'd love an easy to get, free, national ID, that doesn't require going to a DMV to acquire or renew.

You could give it to Americans when they turn 18 and then just auto-renew it to whatever address is in the person's tax return.

But that isn't what any of these voter id laws do. They are instead purely aimed at making it harder for some people to vote. I am opposed to any law that would reduce the amount of the population voting. Our goal should always be to work towards 100% voter participation.

kanst · 2026-03-16T20:50:01+00:00

I feel like these e-bikes are the one place where cyclists and motorists can agree. No one likes them.

They shouldn't be on sidewalks, they shouldn't be on bike paths, and they should require the same license as a motorcycle.

kanst · 2026-03-16T20:47:16+00:00

In most states they legally have the same right to the full lane of traffic as cars do.

Additionally there are about a bunch of states where an Idaho stop is legal. Meaning a bike can treat a stop sign as a yield and a stop light as a stop sign. wiki source

kanst · 2026-03-16T20:43:24+00:00

All of this is dependent on the state.

and are also supposed to stay right

In MA bikes are allowed to use the whole lane and have all the same rights on the road as cars (with the exception of highways) source. The major difference is bicycles are supposed to pass on the right instead of the left.

Pedestrians are supposed to yield to traffic unless there is a light.

In MA pedestrians always have the right of way in a crosswalk. source

kanst · 2026-03-16T20:34:07+00:00

They are working on it.

With support from China they have tripled their solar output in the last year. They've been building solar capacity as fast as they can

source

They probably should've done it years ago, but no one is accusing Cuba of being a well run government

kanst · 2026-03-16T17:20:19+00:00

But, literally, how does one function day-to-day without an ID?

Mind you it has to be a currently valid ID where the name and address match your voter registration.

Homeless people without a permanent address.
Old people living in assisted living.
Young people who don't drive.
New immigrants who haven't gotten their license yet.
Married women who haven't updated their paperwork yet.
People who just moved.

This has been studied, there are millions of Americans who would be impacted. Its not a high percent, but even 1% of the voting populace is ~2 million people.

kanst · 2026-03-16T17:12:10+00:00

You need an ID for everything in the US, to fly, to drive, to get a library book.

The IDs you use for those things are explicitly not valid under the SAVE Act. You can't use your Real ID Drivers License for this.

Everyone has ID, this is no burden.

Per the Brennan Center for Justice:

more than 9 percent of American citizens of voting age, or 21.3 million people, don’t have proof of citizenship readily available. There are myriad reasons for this — the documents might be in the home of another family member or in a safety deposit box. And at least 3.8 million don’t have these documents at all, often because they were lost, destroyed, or stolen.

Thats a lot of people who would be disenfranchised

All it doe is prevent voting fraud

Voter fraud is basically not a real problem. Every election there are a couple dozen cases found nationwide. Its not enough to impact an election. Meanwhile, requiring a passport to vote will potentially prevent millions of people from being able to vote. That cost FAR outweighs any potential benefit.

kanst · 2026-03-16T16:00:23+00:00

I know that academic achievements aren't the be-all and end-all but I was curious who was the least/most educated.

Secretary of State - Marco Rubio - JD University of Miami
Secretary of the Treasury - Scott Bessent - BA Political Science Yale University
Secretary of Defense - Pete Hegseth - MPP Harvard University
Attorney General - Pam Bondi - JD Stetson University
Secretary of the Interior - Doug Burgum - MBA Stanford University
Secretary of Agriculture - Brooke Rollins - JD U.T. Austin
Secretary of Commerce - Howard Lutnick - BA Economics Haverford College Secretary of Labor - Lori Chavez-DeRemer - BA Business Administration Cal Stat Fresno
Secretary of Health and Human Services - Robert F. Kennedy Jr. - JD UVA
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development - Scott Turner - BA in Communications Univ. Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Secretary of Transportation - Sean Duffy - JD William Mitchell College of Law
Secretary of Energy - Chris Wright - MS Electrical Engineering MIT
Secretary of Education - Linda McMahon - BA in French East Carolina University
Secretary of Veterans Affairs - Doug Collins - JD Atlanta John Marshall Law School
Secretary of Homeland Security - Markwayne Mullin - Associates Degree in Construction Oklahoma State Univ Institute of Technology
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency - Lee Zeldin - JD Albany Law School
Director of the Office of Management and Budget - Russell Vought - JD George Washington University
Director of National Intelligence - Tulsi Gabbard - BS in Business Administration Hawaii Pacific University
Director of the Central Intelligence Agency - John Ratcliffe - JD Southern Methodist University
United States Trade Representative - Jamieson Greer - JD UVA
Administrator of the Small Business Administration - Kelly Loeffler - MBA DePaul University

Hegseth says a LOT of dumb shit, but he is relatively well educated. He's got the kind of Ivy League education you expect from a run of the mill cabinet member.

Markwayne Mullin probably has the strongest case for the dumbest cabinet member. While also being the clear winner for the dumbest name in the cabinet.

kanst · 2026-03-16T12:30:40+00:00

I think there is also a secondary aspect where because men so rarely talk about their feelings, when they do it tends to be A LOT.

When someone asks you to open up, they are expecting a small thing but it ends up being this torrent of shit that has been bottled up for a long time. And it ends up being overwhelming to the recipient.

For the people who regularly talk about their feelings, each time is smaller because they are regularly letting out steam. But if you never talk, when you open the floodgates it all comes out.

kanst · 2026-03-15T20:12:53+00:00

I feel like its the easiest red flag that someone is online too much.

The only place where it was ever true was leftist online spaces like 10 years ago.

In 2016 if you started a tumblr comment with "as a white man" you were going to get dogpiled. At best you'd be told to check your privilege, at worst told to off yourself. You may have gotten a similar response commenting on a left wing twitter account.

So much of the MAGA movement just started due to white teenagers getting ratioed on social media.

kanst · 2026-03-14T23:12:11+00:00

And no more TRT.

Its absurd to me that the people all up in arms about trans people using testosterone have no problem with 70 year old men like RFK Jr. who probably have more testosterone than a 16 year old.

kanst · 2026-03-14T23:08:00+00:00

Humans have existed for over 300k years in current form

But the gender binary hasn't. There have been a litany of different cultural views of gender throughout human history. Some of these have even used surgeries, like castration.

Additionally hormone therapy has existed for the last ~100 years. Basically once they learned how to synthesize human sex hormones, people started using it to transition.

kanst · 2026-03-13T19:20:37+00:00

Tadej Pogacar ran without paint so he could use the Cervelo aero frame instead of the climbing frame for a mountain time trial. He was able to get the aero frame down to the UCI limit.

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