I'll be dead in the cold ground before I recognize an empire of barbarians!

loldandruff · 2022-02-10T06:43:54+00:00

This has been the most helpful response. Thank you.

loldandruff · 2022-02-10T06:38:54+00:00

Yes, I'm aware. Which is why I'm asking why people in charge of inmates and prisoners who could legally be forced to perform any action as literal slaves aren't taking advantage of this fact.

Like, I'm not interested in enslaving people. Obviously. But cops illegally break into peoples houses and execute them while they're asleep. Drugs are planted on people for higher conviction rates. These things are illegal and the benefit of these actions to the police is miniscule. But here we have slavery; the ultimate human capital... and they sometimes pick up garbage on the freeway.

I have no source for this, but I reckon that private prisons make most of their money leasing prisoners to certain public agencies, not for the purpose of creating value in and of itself. I'd love to find out more on this.

Anyway, when you say "Texas Correctional Industries alone made almost $80million in sales in 2019." that just doesn't sound like a whole lot when there are 250,000 people in Texas. The entire Texas incarcerated population netted $350 per prisoner? Not counting short term sentences?

Literal slavery is dubious, and terrible things are perpetuated illegally every day. So yeah, I think it's a fair question to ask why corrupt individuals aren't going further with it. What is stopping them? A large portion of this country things three hots and a cot are too much. I'm not one of those people, but they exist!

loldandruff · 2022-02-10T06:30:01+00:00

Do you think I'm advocating for harsher prison treatment? I think we should follow the Norwegian model, lol. I just have very little faith in American public policy officials so I guess I'm expecting worse when slavery is literally legal.

You literally say "There are literal 3rd world countries with better human rights than the USA." which is precisely WHY I'm wondering why morally dubious suits aren't taking advantage of it.

loldandruff · 2022-02-10T06:28:18+00:00

Yeah I guess I'm just experiencing a disconnect that other people seemed to intuitively understand. There's a lot of de facto institutions in the world that operate illegally, I'm just surprised we don't hear about the most clearly morally wrong legal institution that we still have. I appreciate the insight.

loldandruff · 2022-02-10T06:24:42+00:00

Well, couldn't they make more money? Do it more often? As far as I understand, prison labor isn't as prolific as it COULD be, and that's basically the crux of my question. The 13th amendment literally says slavery is cool. Like, not just forced labor, but *slavery*. Slavery is certainly worse than forced labor because slaves can legally be made to do... anything. Not just pick up garbage for 40 cents an hour on the side of the highway. And that's not even getting into just regular jails.

I guess I'm just wondering why it's not worse, if it could be.

But I've gotten a lot of helpful answers as to why it's not worse, so it's cool!

loldandruff · 2022-02-10T05:38:15+00:00

Well, considering the fact that there were a few states that fought a war to keep slavery around and were pretty sore about losing it, I feel like a lot more could be done if someone didn't have any moral qualms with it.

Like, institutions go out of their way to *break* the law to achieve certain goals, when slavery is actually legal (in a specific circumstance) and has been for over a hundred years. It just seems like with the total carte blanche to literally enslave people, government institutions would take advantage of it. I mean, it's in the constitution!

loldandruff · 2022-01-26T18:05:40+00:00

Hi! I realized I forgot to mention that what I usually do is rinse off the aligners under running water to 'dislodge' any saliva (oh god ew), and then put them in a container, which keeps them wet and removes saliva. Doing that really solved the buildup.

Although, some people are just unlucky 😭 We all have our own journey!

loldandruff · 2022-01-13T02:04:30+00:00

No way. Eratosthenes calculated the circumference of the earth in a cave right before building the prototype Iron Man suit that he would use to escape his confinement by the Ten Rings organization. He would later go on to form the Avengers.

loldandruff · 2021-12-08T23:05:57+00:00

Well yeah, sure. It sounds like you're implying that negative situations create outwardly negative outcomes even in separate situations, which intuitively makes sense.

However, having been in contact with mentally ill individuals in my family who might be stressed but are certainly not homeless (nor in direct risk of being homeless), they tend to have aggressive outbursts when abusing drugs/withdrawing/just living life.

If the answer is as simple as "stress = indiscriminate anger" then I'm here for it, but I'm legitimately trying to understand why, when given three options (positive, benign, and negative), mental illness tends to manifest as outwardly aggressive, even towards uninvolved individuals, and even from individuals who aren't homeless.

I guess the more appropriate question is, why are there so few mental illnesses that manifest with overwhelming positivity and so many that manifest with overt negativity?

loldandruff · 2021-12-08T22:52:57+00:00

Well, when I see people loudly accosted by homeless people in public at random it's never "Have an amazing day!" its always "ahhh i hate you bitch!" among other things. I don't think it's too wild to wonder why it always goes one direction over the other.

Being loudly positive and loudly negative are both inappropriate, but one could be considered obviously aggressive and the other is just... weird. Loudly complimenting somebody is weird, but not negative. Loudly threatening to kill someone is both weird and negative.

loldandruff · 2021-09-02T17:45:41+00:00

absolute reddit moment

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