They might even have 33.

I went the iPhone way as an experiment. The interface is nice, but no matter what you do, the phone is always listening and sending data to Apple, it doesn’t respect the microphone privacy settings in that way. GrapheneOS felt like death by a thousand cuts on my Pixel 6a, and yet I’ll be going back to graphene or lineage on a new phone because that’s how blatant the data-gathering is. Apple is getting shadier in general every year.

A truly laughable proposition

They are dogshit as a tech company.

Agreed, to me this just says “newsflash: here’s the name of another brainwashed genetic pool detractor”

Unfortunately they’re also doing tons of other dystopian shit.

It’s been going on for way longer than 9 years, is part of the problem. They turned up the propaganda at just the right rate and timing

I agree he fucked up bad enough to get fired and for some kind of punitive fine, but 84k worth of pension (the entire pension, which is itself a problem) is entirely too much. It completely pulls the rug out of the rest of his life, which is also when he’ll be most vulnerable and least able to push through hardships. That pension is also too little to truly retire on, maybe the old man has been on survival mode for a long time. Maybe. I was once poor enough that 15 dollars’ worth of an unexpected expense caused enough anxiety to make me want to recalculate my budget that month. I was in college with a minimum wage job and doing everything I could to save a dollar and still only keeping my head above water, relying on sharing a room for rent. Would I have risked my job? Hell no. But would I have taken 7$ from somewhere if I felt I could truly get away with it and I was taking it from some large organization that is guaranteed to stay running from government? Maybe. It might mean a dinner I really needed to keep going. It would still weigh on my conscience, but your brain and sense of self can change when you’re that vulnerable for that long.

It took many years for me to undo some of the effects that has on your sympathetic system of the brain. Still probably fuels some things.

I could easily see how someone could become callous to such small thefts as a wrong deed and even somewhat justified if they felt a part of an unfair system. Which is arguable. There’s plenty of people who try to take advantage or take the opportunity to knock you down as less-than because of your financial situation when you are that poor. Life is different. The world in which you live is very different. I don’t know every detail, all I know is it’s not as easy to judge as someone who doesn’t have or hasn’t had those hardships.

Sorry to belabor the point, but it’s also worth pointing out that even from a more pragmatic standpoint, we know that overly punitive sentences result in more recidivism across different types of crime, especially if you’re exacerbating the reason they might’ve done it in the first place.

Not that much over 7 dollars, get fucked

Still seems quite excessive

Ah yeah, I’m sure lack of due process in an authoritarian regime leaves freedom of speech and accurate reporting of power abuse from the state completely unaffected.

This is the real question. Americans don’t give enough of a shit to lift a finger and do anything about it.

Without due process and unchecked power, Bukele’s regime are the new gangsters. You haven’t solved anything.

I’ll take your wife

It was lost a long time ago for the lower classes and those with the least power. It’s the middle class that it’s catching up to.

!Traducemipopó

!Translatemyshit

“I put at least some minimal effort into looking like I don’t just fantasize gargling their balls. Even though I do.”

It’s not. I meant it and there’s no use pretending.

I’ve lived through enough racist bullshit and had some close encounters with neonazis going further back than the first trump presidency. He certainly emboldened them and both the frequency and severity of bullshit increased during his first term. Most of my life has been marked with more privileged people asking me to pipe down because they simply couldn’t connect with, fathom, or were unwilling to consider how much worse the experience in pockets of this country can be for some of us. There are always many different reasons to defend the status quo, including the fear of breaking an illusion of a much more civilized America. Those at the bottom always take the brunt of the consequences of maintaining this illusion.

Seems that people are barely recognizing the patterns that have been established for many, many years, only because they are now undeniable. Because they have come to a head.

I don’t care about being held to some higher standard in order to appease overly idealistic sensibilities, when the overton window has pushed us back this far to the brink of civil war through double standards. Neonazis are making demonstrations in minority communities, and we have a set of politicians using nazi playbooks to turn this country fascist in record time, following steps openly outlined by them years prior.

Sorry, but the intolerance paradox is real. And I won’t live my life a useless saint. Fuck these morons.

Do the gene pool and the rest of the world a favor and fucking die.