Yes; every time a city, county, or state does this; it ends up getting shutdown no matter how successful they are

I’m an American so when we say “Europe” we assume it’s understood that I mean Western Europe. Lol

… which is ultimately for the better. This way I can die with a clear conscience.

i envy you and i wish i could say the same thing because i have to vote for biden or else we’ll regress backwards in addition to dying.

I get what you are saying, but we allready have a prison system focusing on rehabilitation, and it doesn’t phase the gangs.

you’ll never stop the gangs; but you can make it more difficult to operate if it becomes getting harder to find new gang members and less cost effective to retain the ones trapped in their sphere.

By increasing the length of prison sentences, we atleast keep them contained for longer.

that’s what i meant by viable alternatives to their situation; no matter how long you contain them they eventually have to return to their situation and all at great cost.

If you have any other suggestion, please go ahead and tell me.

aggressive outreach is a more effective tactic at combating gangs

he also has a front seat view to this country’s rightward shift and i wonder how frustrating it is to be so close to the levers of power to stop it; but to be blocked both your adversaries and your allies each time you try to reach for them.

i sometimes wonder if he wishes he had stayed more of a celebrity than a politician.

In my mind we need heavier punnishment, we need containment punnishments, way longer punnishments for those who are not interested in rehab which our justice system focuses on, after two times caught they need to get an automatic 10x the time normally given. If people are not interested in being part of a working society, then I’d rather they stay locked up.

we do that here; not only does it both not work well and allows people to profit from exacerbating it; it fixes a lot less and costs a lot more than treating it like a societal issue; changing policy; and aggressive outreach.

we’ve also had recidivism rates drop when convicts were given alternatives viable to their situation instead of focusing on the punishment.

But if you group the far right with the increasingly far right “conservatives”, it looks much more bleak.

we’ve been in that situation since the 1980’s; our center-right and our far right are our only choices for president now.

i used to think europe’s democracies were ahead since they carried on with progressive initiatives the americans stopped doing in the 1970’s, but now i wonder if europe’s lurch rightwards is them catching up to the americans.

after winning a simple majority

don’t listen to them; our systems beats theirs because you don’t even need a majority to win over here thanks to the electoral college and gerrymandering. lol

If they had run someone under the age of 40 I imagine every leftist voter under the age of 50 would have been voting for them.

cough

except they didn’t because they didn’t learn shit.

not only did they not; but they cock blocked a popular progressive candidate from running; twice.

i wish he was on drugs; maybe he would have done better.

I would vote for a wet sandwich before I vote for Trump, but Jesus Christ, it would be nice if the democrats fucking tried.

why should they? you’re going to give them what they want from you anyways in november and multiple novembers into the future; there’s literally no reason for them to ever bother.

i use to work IT at a place that used those cisco AP’s and i always considered getting one for myself to drown out the other AP’s in my apartment building because my wifi was always spotty no matter what channel i picked and whatever survey i took; the price tag at the time (around $1k+ at the time) was the only thing preventing me from doing so.

so too are a lot of gay men

or create a tv show and watch as millions fawn over their every move

the last time i tried doing something similar was with a plasma 1080i tv (yes that long ago) connected via hdmi to component adapter and i eventually learned that the nvidia driver will overwrite everything in favor of it’s own detection method, thus ignoring the custom edid i provided; perhaps the ati driver your using does something similar?

i would have tried switching to one of the open source drivers but the tv died and it’s replacement had hdmi ports and the problem went away

for the united states, it’s actually pretty simple; it’s about stopping chinese control of the auto industry and protecting ford, gm & chrysler from having to innovate. here’s a short video with a high level overview of it.

I could get on board if manufacturers were making $10,000 sub 50 mile vehicles that were compatible with a swap station so you could switch to a larger battery for the weekend. This would have to be a standard adopted by all however, and even before that, they’d have to make small cars. Which they won’t, because we all know they are too busy making trucks and SUVs.

they make $10k ev’s with 250 mile ranges that are for sale everywhere except the united states & canada. you can get them in australia or western europe for a 50-75%-ish tariff depending on which country you’re in…

why does the one on the right look so displeased? lol