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Can you imagine being a Haitian in Haiti?
In 2023, kidnapping jumped 72% from the first quarter of the previous year.[228] Doctors, lawyers, and other wealthy members of society were kidnapped and held for ransom.[229] Many victims were killed when ransom demands were not met, leading those with the means to do so to flee the country, further hampering efforts to pull the country out of the crisis.[229] It is estimated that amidst the crisis up to 20% of qualified medical staff had left Haiti by the end of 2023.[230]
In March 2024, Ariel Henry was prevented by gangs from returning to Haiti, following a visit to Kenya.[231] Henry agreed to resign once a transitional government had been formed. As of that month, nearly half of Haiti's population was living under acute food insecurity, according to the World Food Programme.[25]
I don't think being treated in a dehumanizing manner is anywhere near as bad as what they fled from. They come from literal starvation to a land where there are pets aplenty and delicious wild geese are running around, why not take advantage of the free meat? If there was an endangered elk or buffalo running around Springfield, they'd carve it into steaks too, there's no question about it.
The question isn't about whether racism is an issue, it's about the Springfield community's ability to absorb these people without suffering any deleterious effects. If they assimilate and go to eating packaged precut chicken breast and cheez-wiz, good for them. But you have to prepare for the eventuality that one of them goes 'wait a second, why would I do that when meat is running around for free'?
Throwaway05
32m ago
Certainly possible but I'm hoping it's some weird drink I haven't heard about for me to try next.
Loquat
40m ago
Was she? My own recollection is that the Cheney family accepted her and her lesbian partner, and there were hints that Dick personally would have been fine with legalizing same-sex marriage, but as VP he wasn't willing to publicly disagree with his president or his party on the matter. I guess it depends on your definition of bus-under-throwing.
gattsuru
41m ago
It happens [cw: images of serious injury to face], but the explosion is pretty characteristic and very different from what we've seen from the pager explosions.
gattsuru
46m ago
Bunnie Huang has a not-implausible analysis of the difficulty. I think he underestimates some parts of it, which I'm not going to go into detail here around, but it's still absolutely plausible that the difficult part was setting up the front business and getting sales.
Polish supertrawlers were the fleets that first exploited the Peanut Hole (the small stretch of the Sea of Okhotsk that was out of Russia's EEZ until 2013 I believe) and were also pretty active in the Donut Hole (the stretch of the Bering Sea outside of the US and Russia's EEZs) until both ended up being closed. It was kind of surprising to learn about it at first because they kinda get smol beanified due to their history but especially in the post-Soviet era they've been a pretty substantial third party presence in international fisheries (Also, as someone currently taking an imperial Russian history class I fw the Time of Troubles reference heavy)
100ProofTollBooth
Dumber than a man, but faster than a dog.
50m ago
I want sniper school / ranger school / or other selection stories. I collect these like challenge coins.
Also, please include your favorite memory of a SEAL making an ass of themselves, but thinking they were a total badass in the moment.
2rafa
58m ago
Yes, and in reality fifties houses were below the standard most working class Americans expect today, both in terms of being tiny square footage single floor houses and because they lacked air conditioning and were extremely flimsy even by the standards of modern US single family housing.
Lewis2
1hr ago
I know this isn’t the main point of your comment, but I’d like to make a practical suggestion. If you find ads that damaging, just mute the TV during commercial breaks. I always do it on the few occasions I watch TV, and I merely find the ads obnoxious, not damaging to my ability to function.
Supah_Schmendrick
1hr ago
Not in the vernacular.
wraelk
1hr ago
the correct metric to measure criminality would be average conviction length per person, not 'number of suspects'. If most of the French suspects are accused of crossing as pedestrians on red, that paints a very different picture from them being accused of aggravated assault.
Doesn't this start having issues if judges have different levels of leniency for different demographics of offenders, or other confounders that vary between demographics (like age or wealth)?
I think you'd want to instead do it by the average sentence length for the crime they were convicted of, regardless of what they were actually sentenced to. That should eliminate the confounders while maintaining a relative scoring that roughly maps to society's view of the crimes' severity.
If you're worried that those numbers don't match up, that there are crimes that carry a sentence of 5 years but no one's ever given more than 6 months, you could instead use the average actually-given sentence length for all people convicted of that crime.
TequilaMockingbird
1hr ago
When they say "walkie talkies" i suspect that they're talking about something more like this than the cheap one's that are sold in blister-packs at Wal-Mart.
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
As the debate kids would say: “cap solves.”
Debate kids no longer say this, they say stupid race bullshit with no relation to the topic at hand and then call you racist for pointing it out.
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
Can you imagine being a Springfielder already close to poverty who suddenly has to deal with wages dropping and car insurance rising because the government imported tens of thousands of foreigners to your backyard and de facto exempts them from laws?
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
In 1950, a kid could barely graduate high school and still get a pretty decent job at a factory or something similar. He could expect at least a small house, a car, and to be able to support his wife and kids.
Of course, a key part of this formula was the fifties having a far lower standard of living.
MaximumCuddles
1hr ago
I recognize some of these words.
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
The Church hierarchy was the original market for printed bibles.
SteveKirk
1hr ago
Working here again now after a few hours of "whoopsie you broke reddit uwu" error messages
RandomRanger
Just build nuclear plants!
1hr ago
Unfortunately for Mao, the sparrows that he had killed were really important. I think there's a perception effect where the species that come to your attention are usually important in one way or another. Prominence correlates with importance. So you assume that everything is important - but the species that are lost are mostly unimportant and never came to your attention because they were unimportant.
In the same way, I think we romanticize nature and don't realize the impact of what we've done. I've walked through the English countryside, it's quite pleasant. Completely unnatural. It was all forested, then the forests were cut down, marshes were drained, fences and grassland installed and maintained...
Throwaway05
1hr ago
"Kefir, Kvass, Tiger."
What's Tiger?
SSCReader
1hr ago
In Northern Ireland when the British Army shot into crowds it wasn't stopped by other people with guns (in fact it was soldiers fear of that which often presaged such events), it was stopped by a largely unarmed populaces horror.
The chances of the US nation descending into tyranny in the next say 50 years is in my opinion, very close to zero, no matter which side wins elections.
Magical (or advanced tech indistinguishable from it) aside, the problem with removing guns through banning them, isn't that I think it would make the government more likely to be tyrannical, privately owned guns have a negligible impact on that in my view. Its that criminals would still have them, and that even the attempt of a ban would create (understandable!) widespread instability and violence among legal gun owners which is I think is much more of a risk than government tyranny to long term civilizational stability.
So pragmatically the 2A should remain, at least in my view.
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
Sure, I think but don't have evidence for that Kamala's gains vs Trump have been overwhelmingly among professional-class voters. I think Biden as an old-school democrat had some ability to hold onto traditionally democrat constituencies that most are losing and that without Biden(and the huge backlash against Biden in the early-mid summer can't have helped) the DNC is probably just up a creek with these voters.
My mental image of the story is that the teamsters shifted from mildly favoring Biden, to way favoring Trump when his evident late stage dementia became impossible to ignore, and just haven't shifted back towards Kamala.
Sure but where does the difference in politics come from? Why would Trump appeal less to a union boss than a union worker and vice versa with Harris?
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