quicklime
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- Comment on Liberals Plan To Blow Current Educator-to-Child Ratios To 1:50 4 weeks ago:
“Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice”
- Comment on Thousands flee as Los Angeles wildfires burn out of control 2 months ago:
no, he’ll block federal aid and claim that Palisades residents didn’t rake their yards well enough.
- Comment on Six days of horror: America’s thirst for executions returns with a vengeance 2 months ago:
Right? And meanwhile the alternatives also cost more than they ought to if our whole system weren’t so fully captured by profit seeking.
It seems our species as a whole has deep problems of greed, corruption, nepotism… we’re fundamentally, maybe even genetically, not very close to systemically social and selfless behavior. We turn any system of government and economy and social structure to the benefit of an elite few eventually.
- Comment on Six days of horror: America’s thirst for executions returns with a vengeance 2 months ago:
It’s worse than murder because
- the state MUST be held to the highest standard;
- the state has the resources to do other than kill;
- execution ends up costing the state more than life imprisonment or better solutions;
- because someone who is ready to murder typically already does not fear punishment of any severity;
- because resources spent on decreasing economic inequality decrease the murder rate far more effectively than capital punishment ever can;
- etc.
- Comment on Pope slams 'cruelty' of strike killing Gaza children 3 months ago:
Odd how cruelty is in quotation marks but SLAMS! isn’t