Corporal_Punishment
@Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk
- Comment on Why does Finland have a lower recidivism rate than the US? 2 days ago:
You’ve already answered your own question.
But don’t forget culture. The USA was founded by the religious extremists we (the UK) booted out hundreds of years ago.
There is a very deep, biblical/puritanical streak running through the psyche of Americans (and to a lesser extent the English speaking world) that demands extreme punishment for wrongdoing. Rehabilitation is a dirty word, it doesn’t matter if someone commits a crime again, the whole point is that if they do they rot in prison.
- Comment on UK Politicians Continue to Miss the Point in Latest Social Media Ban Proposal 3 days ago:
All the online safety act has done has made it more difficult for adults like me to access LEGAL material.
I got asked for age verification on Steam ffs. A platform I’ve had an account on since 2003. My account is literally older than a significant proportion of the internet using population.
Didn’t wash with the support people. Dicks.
- Comment on Flying from the UK is about to get more expensive 3 days ago:
By £2.
- Comment on Gotta Philip soon? 1 week ago:
£1.40 a litre in the UK at the moment.
I think the difference here is that we aren’t fooled by right wing politicians who blame prices on their left wing counterparts.
Trump made petrol prices and inflation a key policy issue that he alone could fix. And now its worse.
Although the fact that he could be brought down by petrol prices and not him being a demented war-mongering kiddy fiddler is deeply saddening.
- Comment on As a Chinese American, if I wanna travel internationally, is it better to just say I'm American, or pretend to be a Chinese National (to hide from Anti-American sentinments)? 1 week ago:
Except to Ireland for St Patrick’s day
- Comment on He has become a felon 34 times over, impeached twice, is there anything else anyone can do to get Trump out of office besides a storming the gates? 1 week ago:
Interesting, but that is still very political. The judges are effectively being selected by people who will do what Trump tells them to
- Comment on He has become a felon 34 times over, impeached twice, is there anything else anyone can do to get Trump out of office besides a storming the gates? 1 week ago:
This is how we do it in the UK.
For Supreme Court justices the selection process is slightly different in that the Minister of Justice convenes the selection panel (constitution is defined in law)
1.the President of the UKSC, who will be the chair of the selection commission; 2.a senior UK judge (who is not a UKSC Justice) nominated by the President of the UKSC; 3.a member of the Judicial Appointments Commission for England & Wales; 4.a member of the Judicial Appointments Board for Scotland; and 5.a member of the Northern Ireland Judicial Appointments Commission.
Members of the JAC are senior civil servants and by law must remain politically neutral.
- Comment on He has become a felon 34 times over, impeached twice, is there anything else anyone can do to get Trump out of office besides a storming the gates? 1 week ago:
And this is where ensuring total independence of the judiciary comes in.
Its insane to me that the president can pick a Supreme Court judge.
- Comment on He has become a felon 34 times over, impeached twice, is there anything else anyone can do to get Trump out of office besides a storming the gates? 1 week ago:
Being allowed to run again, despite being a felon highlights a glaring gap in the ability of US politics to prevent shit like this from happening.
In the UK some right wing manosphere influencer keeps saying how he’s gonna run for Mayor of London (Ant Middleton).
People are gleefully pointing out that his convictions for assaulting a police officer and tax evasion bar him from the role.
- Comment on High court claimant was fed answers through his smart glasses, judge finds 2 weeks ago:
Fingers crossed, shitty behaviour
- Comment on High court claimant was fed answers through his smart glasses, judge finds 2 weeks ago:
Sure, but losing a case isn’t a punishment for wrongdoing during the hearings.
A real punishment would have been getting detained and having to pay a large fine
- Comment on High court claimant was fed answers through his smart glasses, judge finds 2 weeks ago:
And he wasn’t punished by the judge because…?
- Comment on UK petrol retailers claim ‘inflammatory language’ of ministers led to staff abuse 2 weeks ago:
They don’t deserve abuse.
But to suggest the retailers aren’t putting prices up for petrol they already paid for is a lie.
- Comment on What are your best memories of playing Civilization III? 2 weeks ago:
This galaxy is a human galaxy
- Comment on Governors warn of increasing violence of ‘nothing-to-lose’ inmates attacking notorious prisoners 2 weeks ago:
Everyone has something to lose.
For a prisoner doing 40 years,they lose their opportunity to leave their cell. They lose access to luxury goods like tvs.
Eventually they get put in solitary confinement…
- Comment on What are your best memories of playing Civilization III? 2 weeks ago:
I do this in Stellaris.
I grind some foul xenos empire down until they’re left with a single blockaded system.
I then enslave them and make them pay excessive overlord taxes.
If they complain I glass the planet.
- Comment on Do rich people get addicted to drugs? 2 weeks ago:
Ahhh. Now I’m rereading it, that kind of makes sense.
- Comment on Do rich people get addicted to drugs? 2 weeks ago:
OP is suggesting the rich family can’t pay. So unless its a typo it doesn’t really make a lot of sense.
Rich family WON’T pay is more realistic imo
- Comment on Do rich people get addicted to drugs? 2 weeks ago:
Rich people do get addicted to drugs.
The unrealistic part is the fanily being killed because they can’t pay.
Why can’t they pay? I thought they were rich? And a drug dealer isnt going to kill the only people who could conceivably pay him.
- Comment on Anyone remember that "First is the worst, second is the best" rhyme kids used to do? Where did that come from? 2 weeks ago:
All I can remember from being at primary school in the 80s is that the first three were the only consistent ones.
First the worst, second the best, third the one with the hairy chest.
After that it changed depending on the day/time/vibes
I recall - fourth the dirty donkey, 5th the golden eagle.
We all got bored after that.
- Comment on Soham murderer Ian Huntley dies after prison attack 3 weeks ago:
Agree. Objectively speaking, this is a massive failure by the prison service.
As detestable as the man was, prison staff had a duty of care over him. I suspect some will lose their jobs over this
- Comment on Soham murderer Ian Huntley dies after prison attack 3 weeks ago:
I doubt you’ll find a single person in the UK who will shed even a single tear for this monster.
- Comment on So why are Indian curries so popular in the UK? (interest in culinary perspectives). 3 weeks ago:
If you think a British stew is bland you’ve evidently never tried a joint of beef slow cooked in beer and gravy for 24 hours.
- Comment on Can one use someone's previous argument against themselves in a different legal case? 3 weeks ago:
Yep, absolutely you can.
They would be arguing that you doing something is causing them harm. By using their own words against them you weaken their argument
- Comment on How did internet viruses spread before the internet was invented! 3 weeks ago:
First thing you need to realise, the internet has been around in one form or another for decades.
The internet as we know it has been around for over 30 years.
However, before widespread adoption of the internet, viruses were spread either by BBS services or via disk.
As a young Acorn achimedes user in the late 80s and early 90s I would obtain floppy disks with games on from friends, they would have obtained them from other friends who either downloaded them via BBS or bought them from a dodgy market stall. You could also buy them from magazine advertisements (I once bought a few floppy disks with porn on them).
There was always a risk that one of these disks had a virus on. For me it wasnt an issue. The Acorn used ROM to store the operating system and all your other files were kept on disks. We couldn’t afford a hard drive so we were immune, however I did once have a disk that had a virus called Marburg on it according to our virus killer at the time.
- Comment on Why does it seem like teenagers killing people is way more commonplace in the UK now? 3 weeks ago:
I was in the police from early 2004 until end of 2016.
Things were significantly and statistically worse back then, including violence. The kids especially were fucking feral.
I worked in a predominantly rural area and in 2004/2005 our station was firebombed twice, police officers were regularly assaulted and we would have to attend incidents as a three because we needed someone to look after the vehicle whilst dealing with a job.
It wasn’t a friday night if we weren’t having bottles chucked at us from alleyways, and youth drunkeness and antisocial behaviour was rife.
Over the years we managed to get a grip on it. Council evicted a lot of the troublesome families and we locked up the rest. By the time I left, the job was almost boring.
- Comment on Failed asylum seeker families to be offered up to £40k to leave 3 weeks ago:
I know logic suggests that this is cheaper than following the legal process to remove someone, but fuck me is this a brain dead idea. Its as if they want Reform to get in
- Comment on BrewDog bought by US cannabis and drinks firm for £33m, costing nearly 500 jobs 3 weeks ago:
I’m no fan of brewdog, but yet again a British company is being bought out and asset stripped by an american conglomerate.
- Comment on Ultra wealthy want global nuclear war to create nuclear Winter in hopes of slowing down human climate change. They'll rebuild after it's safe to leave their bunkers. 3 weeks ago:
Not gonna be enough in a bunker to keep a horde of survivors happy.
- Comment on Ultra wealthy want global nuclear war to create nuclear Winter in hopes of slowing down human climate change. They'll rebuild after it's safe to leave their bunkers. 3 weeks ago:
What value? Money/gold etc will be worthless if society collapses.