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Never met @hippy in person but from what I’ve read something tells me they’d be warm and soft.

Mylar blankets are £0.087 on Alibaba. Dunno if they’d be useful in practice though.

A bleak reality lots of people are going to be forced into.

This makes me think: is there something we can do as a somewhat loosely knit forum? Besides the Boss and the Golf Club, I expect most of us aren’t flush with cash atm, but maybe with sheer numbers we can make a difference?

reality is much bleaker

A friend from the tropics who moved to the UK told me that he didn’t understand how a cold or minor respiratory ailment was a death sentence just a century ago, until he spent a winter here. Without modern conveniences your body is constantly constantly battling off exposure to the cold, and like frankenbike says it takes a big physical and mental toll that not everyone can survive after months non-stop.

Is it correct that this the first major war where climate change possibilities have to be factored in? E.g., will it freeze earlier, later, at all? Sounds like a logistical nightmare. It will be interesting to see what Ukraine’s clearly sophisticated psyops will do, and how they leverage this unknown quantity to their advantage.

I firmly believe that UK is a lost cause and in a complete downward spiral towards self destruction in every aspect, so there is no point. At least we are not America.

You ok there?

Private prisons are a big thing in the US.

Oh I’ve known about private prisons for decades. Problem is, every bit of coverage I’ve seen or read has portrayed them privately run normal prisons, that are paid hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars per prisoner because the state can’t cope with the numbers or has privatised that sector of the justice system. What I discovered this week is that, if you have the money and connections, you can spend your incarceration in a separate private facility surrounded by other paying inmates. You’ll have access to a more comfortable cell block, better medical care, better trained guards, better facilities, more recreation possibilities, potentially more lenient visitation schedules…. All because you had the cash to pay for it. Meanwhile, people who don’t have the cash are treated like wild animals, and then some states try to charge them for the experience.

Fuck. That. All of that.

Intex, look no further. Plugs into the wall, inflates and deflates quickly, can get very firm.

Brought to you by Dräft.

On a slightly more lighthearted note, adult mascot shows no sympathy to child players:

https://gfycat.com/evergreendampantlion-baseball-falcons-braves-2022-mlb

I started writing a response and it kept branching out into really depressing aspects of current US society and possibly human nature. There’s just too much to unpick.

I don’t agree with convicts being made to pay for their stay in the current system. If costs are so high they need to pay for their stay, useless incarceration as it is needs to be reassessed. Etc etc etc.

$249 a day is $90,885 a year, £77,500. It’s not about recovering costs, they’ve designed a system that creates lifelong, legalised slave labour; that preys on the vulnerable (whether convicts or not); and that actively chews away at the foundations of a safe, functional society/economy/country.

Fucked isn’t strong enough a word.

(before prices increase from demand and inflation)

Trigger warning- US dystopia.

Further adding to the neoliberal nightmare, I submit the US’ “pay for your stay” prison system, where prisoners are charged an average of $249/day for the pleasure of being kept in small cages and under-socialised for years. I had to google it and yep, it’s actually a thing in every US state.

https://apnews.com/article/crime-prisons-lawsuits-connecticut-074a8f643766e155df58d2c8fbc7214c

From this useful Reddit thread, I’ve surmised that there’s 2 systems at work: 1) the secret, parallel luxury prisons where the rich and powerful can legally bribe their way into better conditions than the great unwashed; and 2) some states actively recover prison stay costs from prisoners, like Florida who goes after people who win a civil lawsuit against the state, say for being beaten into lifetime disability by a prison guard or being unjustly incarcerated.

https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/wz3n94/at_249_per_day_prison_stays_leave_exinmates_deep/

Business in front, party in back. Epic’s fauxhawk is hardly business appropriate, his locks probably cinched the win. Epic’s do is very 1980s, very in with trucker kids these days. Poor William was let down by the photographer, no colour correction, not enough of his curls in the pic and no smile.

Edit: I didn't ask the price, but the stakeholder did genuinely offer me a box of declassified US military secret documents for £1250.

They’re unlikely to be the original docs, and you can request copies of declassified federal documents easily. I wonder what their angle was.

Missed a few ;) but thanks helping ID what they are.

Sorry didn’t mean to reply to you.

Is it correct that if your supplier goes bust your account is migrated to another company without you choosing, and they don’t have to honour your fixed rate? If so, are there any reasonable actions one can take to hedge against their supplier going bust and being landed with a worse tariff?

Very slightly crisper image here
https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/uhymls/camouflaged_fighter_jets/

Good eye. It’s over Brazil, and the FAB has F-5 and JAS 39 fighters. Can’t tell which myself!

Walkers sensations are including 1 month free Paramount with a large bag of crisps.

Had Warcraft on in the background today. A bit better than I expected tbh. Lots of Easter eggs for the fans, featured a couple people from Vikings, it was fine.

Hmm he is relatively near LB Park but on the other side of the train tracks towards the Halfords/Brixton Hill. If there’s another like him in the area it’s news to me but I wouldn’t be surprised.

Edit: although as someone who got reasonable grades with very little effort and has taken 15 years to find a career worth building

So don’t leave us hanging, what sector are you in?

Camo in action. Can’t see it? Try zooming in.

Ah yes, forgot what thread this was in, as I’d posted it to another thread too.

Agree with the epic win, and hoping for more Dark Brandon calling out repub politicians’ hypocrisy.

Sam the wheels guy? On railton? The pile has spilled out onto the pavement now.

Guy’s face of shock, terror and expectation is very convincing.

Since her knees are fully bent, it’s likely she’s at the apex of her jump. Since her hands aren’t messy stumps, I’d say she got away unscathed. Looks like she jumped from the landing skid 🤦‍♂️

Sadly not going to be enough for millions of folks. $10k is a hefty reduction for many, but for others it’s just a difference on paper, and it does nothing to break the systemic debt trap that causes problems in the first place: education providers mooching off the federal government by ratcheting tuition prices up and up; useless degrees from degree mills being a thing at all; the job market requiring degrees for jobs that don’t need them; private companies, spun off of banks, servicing the federal loans and misleading young people into a lifetime of debt…

Federal loans make up 92% of student loans, and the average loan is around $28,000 iirc. They can’t be erased with bankruptcy, so they’re effectively with you for life. To boot, it’s normal for the interest on the loan to be added to the principal, meaning that an aggressive loan agreement or job loss or other event can cause a debt spiral, even in the young and healthy.

For the less young 62+ cohort, mainly retired now, they have about 2.4 million people owing $98 billion in student debt. That’s $40,800 per person, and it’s highly unlikely to be repaid unless their estate has sufficient assets after their death. Since houses are most people’s main asset, especially in that cohort, their home will be put on the line to repay the loan. If their heirs don’t have the money to pay off the loan, the title to the house will need to be sold or partitioned, pushing young people further away from homeownership.

Big ol’ mess unhinged capitalism has created in the US.