Good on him, who doesn’t?

Oh absolutely, no argument there.

Is it oniony because he’s a rapper and if so, what in all boomer hell kind of a take is that? Yikes

No, my intention there was more like " healthcare is such an unbelievably bad scam in this country We had to get a random celebrity that you haven’t thought about for several years on the problem." Like, I figured the service level seeming randomness of the headline would be a good hook to draw people into reading about a real problem (hospital prices being completely unpredictable ) and a good person trying to do something about it, but after reading your comment I can see how that might not have come through.

Gerrymandered Congress, no campaign finance laws, bought and paid for judiciary - Allow us to introduce ourselves

And the US government is going to hold a vote on a plan to make it harder for people to migrate today

Yeah, I’m skeptical of this story to begin with, but even if it is true it doesn’t make any real difference

Nobody places less value on Russian life than Russian leadership, from the Tsars onward

Some possible misinformation that’s going around related to this story, Bloomberg says Dubai’s cloud seeding program is to blame, Wired says Bloomberg is wrong about that. The Wired article sounds better informed and more persuasive imo.

now makes it hard for allies to rein in support

Which they were totally doing before now /s

I don’t know nearly enough about the different sides here, but a quick skim of the Wikipedia page for the Karen National Union and the National Unity Consultative Council that they’re members of makes it sound like they’re pro-democratic and anti-racist, so, yeah - keep kicking military dictatorship ass!

Coming to a uniform code near you soon

Downvoted this before I saw what community it was posted to

The devices should be returned to inmates immediately, prison administrators should then slap themselves in the face one time for implementing them poorly to begin with, slap themselves in the face several times for overreacting to a viral story without having any reason to believe there was an active or imminent problem with any of their inmates, and deliver a tooth-loosening punch to their own faces for thinking they could punish these inmates by taking away their education to cover their screw up.

After that, hire a real IT person who knows what they’re doing by paying them decently allowing remote work and not drug testing, and then listen to them.

Not victimizing all of the student inmates because the prison invested in a poorly designed system that could potentially be exploited when none of the students have attempted that exploit or were likely even aware of it

Every prisoner who knew about that password

Meanwhile, back in reality

Wright confirmed no one incarcerated in Washington prisons had attempted to unlock their devices but said the decision was “made out of an abundance of caution.”

They were taken for reasons that inmates had nothing to do with, they have not been replaced, and it’s unclear when they’ll be returned. Inmates who are enrolled in college courses are having to handwrite papers that are due soon.

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240304195938/https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/04/middleeast/un-israel-confessions-allegations-intl/index.html

Didn’t realize that could be an issue, but I should be able to do that

Thanks for the heads up

Thailand in the big business of housing draft dodgers

I’d heard the opposite, genuinely don’t know what the situation is since I’m nowhere near it

Which is good that the people are doing this

Agreed

but idk how this affects the Thai people and economy.

Seems like any plausible difficulties that could result are really unimportant given the context of what these people are fleeing.

Yes, but it’s a crappier legal process than Britain should be able to get away with. She’s a British citizen who was radicalized on British soil and now they’re just pawning off the problem they created onto someone else.

e; like, fuck daesh to hell and back, they were one of the most evil intentioned organizations ever, but doing shit in an unequal and secretive way just writes propaganda for their sympathizers. The right way to deal with terrorists is to treat them like the organized crime they are - drag them into the court room, put on a full presentation of the evidence against them for an independent press to report on, give them a fair chance to defend their actions, and when they’re unable to do so throw them in a jail cell and treat them like the dangerous, evil, but ultimately human thing they are. Denying healthcare, torturing people, etc. does more to hurt the society that perpetrates it than it does to our enemies in the long run.

e2; added the italicized bit

The British government bears responsibility for letting that happen to one of their citizens either way. The responsible thing to do is to imprison them yourselves, not leaving them stuck in a ramshackle detention camp in rebel held territory in Syria.

Not a criminal, a stateless nobody stuck in a detention camp (where there have been credible allegations of guard abuse) with no legal rights to any sort of humane treatment or medical care or anything