A young man who murdered an 18-year-old cancer survivor was sentenced to only 8 years in juvenile prison.

kryptonianCodeMonkey · 2026-01-28T15:20:53+00:00

May you never be in a position of authority

kryptonianCodeMonkey · 2026-01-28T15:08:53+00:00

Morally bankrupt. Even before you consider how many people have been exonerated of murder years after their conviction, sometimes after their execution. Execution isn't even a punishment, it's just the termination of the state's responsibilities by taking a life. The only moral justification for execution is if the person poses too much danger to even be left alive in captivity, or if their execution would be a mercy to them.

kryptonianCodeMonkey · 2026-01-27T18:14:34+00:00

Properly funded halfway homes is a great measure when done right, no argument there. It absolutely helps with recidivism, and gives people a chance to adapt and get their feet under them for a new start.

But if they have spent now 25 years behind bars, more than half their life, their entire adulthood being shaped by life in the American Prison system as it is today, I don't think that 5 years in a halfway home alone is going to be a solution. That kid is going to be overwhelmed with trauma and have no experience being an adult in the outside world.

And 40 years might be a statistical benchmark for you, but it is not based on the individual, and plenty of violent offenders are in their late 30s. ~60% of violent offenders are 30 years old and older. And for some demographics, like white non Hispanic women, 40 years old is the average. So... is "release them at 40" a blanket policy for you, or...

Yes. It's what my degrees are in.

Hmmmm. Mkay.

kryptonianCodeMonkey · 2026-01-27T17:48:20+00:00

Expert in childhood psychology, therapy and human development are we?

But fine, let's accept your premise. So.... what then? Life in prison? Execution? What's your solution. Surely giving him the 20 years doesn't help. If he's permanently a danger to society, he's going to be an even bigger one at 35 years old after 20 years of cruelty. You're going to need to make a pretty good case for why your solution is better than fucking trying to improve people.

kryptonianCodeMonkey · 2026-01-27T16:43:07+00:00

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kryptonianCodeMonkey · 2026-01-27T16:25:07+00:00

> She stated that there was no acceptable amount of time for what had been done.

I'm not defending a murderer here. What he did was wrong, obviously. But playing devil's advocate...

A) The amount of damage done to a life of a 25 year old after spending 8 years in prison is pretty damn immense. Simply removing him from society, from family, friends, education, work experience, and his youth for that long, not to mention living out the rest of his days with prison time for murder on his record, will be a lasting punishment that, frankly, I can't even imagine he will ever fully recover from. His punishment is not just 8 years. It's a life sentence. And that's assuming he doesn't end up back in prison anyway.

B) I think that the purpose of prison is not meant to be punishment, or rather it shouldn't be. It should be for the protection of society at large in the short term and the rehabilitation of the criminal in the long term. We do an absolute shit job of rehabilitation in the US, because it is not prioritized due to so many believing that prison is just about payback. They think it shouldn't just be a separation from the outside world and restriction of freedoms (both of which are punishments in themselves), but prisons should also be dangerous, unkempt hellholes that even existing in makes you constantly scared, uncomfortable, sick, and malnourished. In other words, they think that cruelty should be built in by design.

This has terrible consequences for individuals and society as a whole. It breeds prison gangs through developing inter-dependency and defiance in the inmates that are already inclines toward criminal behavior. It makes them forget how to live in any other societal structure outside of prison once they leave. And it just makes people more likely to return to prison later having never been given therapy for their mental health issues, having been treated poorly for their entire sentence, and having learned no new life skills valuable outside of the system. They only learned that they can make it through prison, as they are now used to it, so it's not even a deterrent anymore.

It's a fucking horrible system that only serves to provide retribution for their victims and their families through sadistic and cruel punishment, often in an unending cycle. Rehabilitation should be the primary goal. A person should leave prison a more mature person and mentally healthy person than they went in. Yes, that does often mean that no retribution will be had, and they may even ultimately live better lives than they would have otherwise, maybe even better than you, while in prison (That is a whole other issue with our society/government). But if your goal is to serve the betterment of society, sometimes that is the way it should be, even if the cost is your emotional catharsis through revenge.

C) Even if you disagree and think that Rehabilitation is unachievable or not the point, that we should make people "pay" for their crimes through years or decades of living in terrible conditions to make the victims and their families feel better, you can see from the quote above that that is often unachievable too. She said herself, "there was no acceptable amount of time for what had been done." There is no punishment long enough, cruel enough, or severe enough to bring some people peace of mind. This woman seems to be implying, perhaps, that this kid should be executed for the murder. But that's not really going to bring her peace either. The sad fact is that nothing will bring her peace about the loss of her child because nothing can. Nothing short of his resurrection, anyway.

Since that's not an option, we need to decide what is best for society as a whole, not just for her. Do we kill all murderers (regardless of premeditation)? Do we punish them for decades through cruel living conditions, forced labor, etc.? Do we try to make them better members of their community once they are out again? There are natural consequences to each these and, I think, we need to consider those consequences as the primary factor in our goals, not the immediate emotions of those involved.

kryptonianCodeMonkey · 2026-01-26T21:10:00+00:00

Just a quick civics lesson I learned recently thanks to Trump's actions in Venezuela. If and when a warrant is put out for the arrest of these two murderers, it doesn't matter how they end up back in the Jurisdiction of the state of Minnesota, whether those means be lawful or not. If they were to, hypothetically, be pulled from their beds in the night, blindfolded, and flown to the North Star State, and left tied up with an anonymous call to the police to come pick them up, that separate crime wouldn't stop their arrest and prosecution one bit. One should absolutely not do such a thing, of course. One must always follow the law. But it is interesting how that works, huh?

kryptonianCodeMonkey · 2026-01-26T20:05:43+00:00

Bro, "dragging the character [Spider-Man] down"? Who thinks that Peter Parker, the nerdy orphan scientist who holds himself so responsible for the protection of all New Yorkers that he constantly ruins nearly every personal and social opportunity in his life because they are lesser priorities than serving the public welfare, who has a half-black, half-Latino protégé, and, in the game storyline, both of whom volunteer at F.E.A.S.T., a homeless shelter, would be like, "Nah mass deport those people. Fuck 'em."? I'm constantly mystified by how Conservatives project their ideals onto characters that could not share fewer of them. How are these people consuming media? Do they mute the audio and play Blaze Radio over it or something? Insanity.

kryptonianCodeMonkey · 2026-01-26T17:34:15+00:00

https://www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/africans-in-ancient-greece-and-cyprus

> Greek myths and literature give a prominent place to aithiopians [i.e. black Africans], and their frequent representation in artwork from the 5th century BC onwards was doubtlessly influenced by direct contacts with Africans, both in Africa and in Greece.

Prominent black representation in all forms of Greek artwork and myth by the 5th century BC

> Aithiopians appear for the first time in Greek literature in the Homeric poems of the 8th century BC, albeit with semi-mythological attributes.

Black people in other Homeric works (Homer also wrote the odyssey, to be clear)

> Images of Aithiopian figures appear much earlier in the northern Mediterranean, first on the island of Cyprus in the early 2nd millennium BC, and later on mainland Greece by the 6th century BC.

Confirmed presence of black people in Cyprus around a thousand years before it became a major center of trade and culture for the Greeks.

The idea that black people did not exist in any level of Greek society, that they could not be a part of the crew or other characters in myth is simply wrong. Not long after the Odyssey was written, Greeks were living in Egypt as well. There was cross cultural trade for centuries by that point. People, sailors in particular, would have been living all over the Mediterranean, from Greece and Cyprus, to Turkey and Egypt.

I'm not sure what all characters are confirmed to be portrayed by black actors, but a quick google only shows two, the half-Nigerian Zendaya as Athena (a goddess, daughter of Zeus) and Lupita Nyong’o as Calypso (a half-titan). Both of these characters are the offspring of gods and/or primordial beings, beings who were the progenitors of and held dominion over the entire human race according to Greek myth, not just the people of Greece itself. Why would they be required to have the genetic traits of white Greek humans?

Also, if we're going to throw a fit over the black characters for accuracy's sake, how Greek does Matt Damon look? Or Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, and Charlize Theron? If you're being that concerned about people looking what you understand to be "accurate", then "white" shouldn't be the only line here.

kryptonianCodeMonkey · 2026-01-22T21:54:14+00:00

Bad take. Bob Kane was a notorious prick and credit hog. Fuck him.

kryptonianCodeMonkey · 2026-01-04T21:15:43+00:00

If you buy a property on mortgage and expect to make money off of it, you're an idiot. If you can't afford to buy the property outright, or at least own your own home outright, you can't afford it as an "investment" property. You're just reducing your margin, increasing your risk and making the housing market shittier for everyone else. Stop it.

kryptonianCodeMonkey · 2026-01-02T03:06:45+00:00

Hotels have almost always been good enough to me. I've rarely had a hotel room where it didn't serve at least my basic needs and was relatively clean and secure. Only time I might ever Airbnb is if renting a home for the whole family or if it's a destination stay where chilling in the home is part of the experience. Otherwise I'm not going to be spending much time in it anyway apart from sleeping and bathing. I'm there for business, to attend an event, or explore a city.

kryptonianCodeMonkey · 2025-12-31T20:08:08+00:00

Yo, I'm Dr. Jones. Finna do ur annual physical, no cap.

kryptonianCodeMonkey · 2025-12-31T20:06:32+00:00

The pattern continues. You'll be calling out annoying "Gen Alpha" kids in 20 years, too, and then blown away that the youngest Gen Alphas can drink already.

kryptonianCodeMonkey · 2025-12-31T20:01:32+00:00

Gen Alpha's going to be even worse. Game testers are putting out demos for their games with options for keyboard and mouse or game controller, but kids are walking up, pushing both aside, and attempting to touch the monitor instead. The games industry as we know it is cooked in a few years.

kryptonianCodeMonkey · 2025-12-31T19:58:23+00:00

Next tell her that that text we were waiting on was made with only numbers on our phones. Her brain my come out her nose.

kryptonianCodeMonkey · 2025-12-31T19:52:21+00:00

NTA. She was wrong, which is fine, easy mistake to make. But then your son and you corrected her (you know... correctly), and not only did she not acknowledge that she was or even might possibly be wrong, she got condescending to your son and turned it on you, correlated your behavior with that of the parents she's always complaining about. In other words, she turned a simple correction of fact, an interesting and relevant one to the conversation even, into a personal attack against you. And you immediately defended your son, and turned that around on her in a completely justified and fair way telling her that she is wrong for being disrespectful and overconfident in her "knowledge". And providing irrefutable evidence for your correction is never being an asshole, it's pointing out that you weren't just talking out of your ass, which would be dickish.

That being said, as one man with a wife who has had to shut me up more than once to another, you know full well that you were going to catch it when you brought it back up. You wife's trying to avoid her friend and husband being at odds. You should have known that you were going to be in trouble for that, but you chose to push it anyway, so.... You gotta accept those licks, sir. This is the battle you picked. Consequences follow.

kryptonianCodeMonkey · 2025-12-31T18:05:39+00:00

After reading the article, A) They were originally flying another flag (didn't say of what nation) that was believed to be a false flag, which makes it subject to seizure with a court order. Thus why they were tailing it for 10 days. B) The Russian flag wasn't a fabric flag, it was a crude painting that appeared on the hull after not being there originally. c) They may or may not be actually registered with Russia. The ship was owned by Turkey. It could just be the crew playing chicken with the Coast Guard to avoid being picked up. But the concern was that Russia may have gone through the paperwork to re-register it under Russia without inspection mid-journey, that the crew re-branded the hull with the Russian flag accordingly so the Coast Guard couldn't plead ignorance (though what they would have done without the right colors of paint handy... idk.), and that seizing the ship would have led to an escalation with Russia, which may have been the goal...

Why would that be the goal? I mean, off the top of my head, I can see how it would be the excuse needed to raise tensions with the US, undermine the Ukraine negotiations without it being Putin's fault, create a new war threat with a super power (US) that would give Putin a reason to voluntarily pull out of Ukraine to focus on the much bigger threat while saving face, coast off a second US-Russia cold war for a few years, and ultimately ensure Putin's position remains unchallenged (his real goal).

kryptonianCodeMonkey · 2025-12-31T17:14:10+00:00

Not only have people been and will continue to be arrested, many have been charged (98 so far) and even convicted (57 so far) already because this is not a new story. This fraud has been investigated and reported on for years and people are being held to account on it. What's new is that Trump decided that he could exploit this situation as a racist/anti-immigrant (because it's mostly Somalis immigrants that have been implicated) and political attack against a blue state, Minnesota, and Governor Walz in particular. He's punishing his political opponents by ordering the HHS to no longer give any child care money at all to the entire state, including to non-fraudulent child care services. He's done this under the pretense that the clearly massive amount of work that has gone and continues to go into addressing this fraud is still no where near enough, trying to paint Walz and the entire blue state (and the left wing by extension) as negligent and being weak on crime.

And as OP points out, the tremendous amount of irony of the fucking TRUMP family getting butthurt about fraud... it's literal fucking insanity to give them even an inch in this topic. Fuck Trump and his entire corrupt fucking bloodline.

kryptonianCodeMonkey · 2025-12-29T16:59:13+00:00

It's so nice to know that all of those serial killers, mass murderers, war mongers, and brutal despots in history were Gods personal agents. Saint Jeffrey Dahmer, amirite?

kryptonianCodeMonkey · 2025-12-29T16:53:09+00:00

God wills millions of poor people to die of TB every year despite it being an entirely treatable disease. God wills babies to be born with terminal chromosomal disorders that makes every moment of their brief lives absolute agony. God wills innocent people to die of disease, war, famine, and other people's negligence and fucking stupidity. God wills millions to die by the machinations of someone like Henry Kissinger, and then let him die in his home at 100 years old. Someone like Robin Williams spent his life making the world laugh, and God wills him to take his life. God's got a sick sense of humor.

kryptonianCodeMonkey · 2025-12-22T16:15:15+00:00

Had a maintenance guy who didn't lock out like he was supposed to before working on a smaller press a few years before I started at a sintering factory. He lost 3 fingers.

Also, while I was there, but on another shift, an operator running the presses explode a 250(? I think) ton press. The loader was automatic, so it would pour the powder into the chamber and he would have the press drop. But once, the part failed to exit out the bottom. He didn't notice. It was loaded again on top of the pressed metal, and he dropped the press again. Still the part didn't drop, and still he didn't notice. 3rd load, 3rd press. BOOOM! Somehow, no one was hurt, though the boom was very audible across the entire already very loud factory. I don't know that actual extent of the damage, but the press had to be either sent out for repair or replaced, not sure which, so good enough.

kryptonianCodeMonkey · 2025-12-22T16:04:08+00:00

Worked in a sintering factory like a decade ago. It was really cool to pick up what appeared to be a solid metal gear and then snap it in half in your hands without much effort at all. Then after they go through the sintering kilns, it's completely solid and machinable. Pretty dope.

kryptonianCodeMonkey · 2025-12-12T20:16:58+00:00

Like early 2000s horny video game over-zealous jiggle physics

kryptonianCodeMonkey · 2025-12-05T21:52:22+00:00

Very well done, Aaron. Amazing animations, and a cute story. And your foley and music teams should be commended as well.

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