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January 1, 2025 - A stray dog in Petea receives applause for being the first to cross the newly visa-free border between Hungary and Romania, as Romania joins the Schengen area.
i come bearing great news: he was adopted!! his name is copÄcel which is a romanian diminutive for tree so in english it would translate to "little tree"
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STOP no more live-action remakes. We're going the other way now. Animated Casablanca. Animated The Godfather. Animated Oppenheimer. Animated Fight Club.
I am going to [remembers that jokes about suicide are detrimental to myself and others] Scarborough Fair.
A copper retriever with her unoxidised puppies
Such a beautiful family ā¤ļøš
AI under capitalism
i would cannibalize god's rotting corpse. if the opportunity arose
This implies you're the same species
glad you caught that! yes
Really I am a little too harsh on myself when there are people out there putting AI art in their portfolios
boyfriend asked what i was doing, told him i was editing a picture, boyfriend asked "is it something like house stretched out with the words 'menstrual blood' on it or some shit?", boyfriend was wrong, boyfriend was also onto something this goes hard
I'm not, generally speaking, a fan of punishment as a solution to social problems. Punishment is often overly harsh, ineffective as a deterrent, and doesn't solve the actual problem. The punitive mentality is more focused on making sure the "bad guys" "don't get away with it" than on actually solving the problem.
But I get a lot more worried when people talk about "alternatives to punishment", or when they support their proposed solutions because "it's not punishment."
Because what that means, in practice, is "I'm conceptualizing this form of coercive control as 'not punishment,' and therefore not subjecting it to the rigor, due process, or evidentiary standards of punishment."
The U.S. loves punishment. It's one of our favorite national pastimes. But we do have, both legally and culturally, some limitations on punishment, at least in theory. Punishment isn't supposed to be "cruel and unusual." It's not supposed to be inflicted without "due process of law." You're supposed to be convicted by a jury of your peers.
But if you call it "not punishment," none of that matters!
You can force people to register under a law that didn't exist when they committed their crimes, because it's "administrative," not punitive.
You can subject disabled people to shocks similar to a cattle prod -- which would surely be cruel and unusual punishment -- but it's okay, because it's not "punishment," it's a "treatment" called an "aversive" (that's therapist for "punishment").
You can have people locked up and forcibly drugged solely because they can't afford housing, but it's okay, because it's "help," not "punishment."
Police can kill people in cold blood -- judge, jury, and executioner -- and it's fine, because it's "self-defense," not "punishment," even if they argue after the fact that the victim "deserved it."
It's also a matter of cultural attitudes. If you said "The punishment for trespassing should be life in prison," or "The punishment for loitering should be permanent loss of the right to control one's body, money, or living space," or "The punishment for turnstile-jumping should be lifelong forced ingestion of drugs that numb basic cognitive functions," most people would think this was horrific, much too harsh a punishment for a relatively minor crime.
But if you change it to "Instead of jailing and punishing unhoused people with mental health issues, we should respond to their minor crimes by Getting Them Help, like institutionalization, conservatorship, or outpatient commitment," people now think this is completely reasonable.
Even being the victim of a crime can get someone not-punished far more severely than the perpetrators are "punished." People might serve jail time for financial fraud, but not usually a life sentence. Being the victim of financial fraud, however, can lead to a life sentence of institutionalization -- which fraud investigators have cited as a barrier to getting victims to report fraud. I personally know of multiple disabled young adults who were afraid to report being the victim of sexual assault or other kinds of assault because they knew that if they reported it, the perpetrator might or might not face some kind of punishment, but they would definitely face some type of "not-punishment" coercive control, like forced therapy, forced drugging, supervision, or having to leave school.
You want a society with less punishment? Me too. But only if you acknowledge that "punishment" includes all forms of coercive control. If you do something to someone against their will, if you restrict someone from their right to live as they choose, that's a punishment, regardless of whether you call it that.
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I left tumblr for like 7 years now sometimes posts are underwater now
globael warming
bro your whimsy. you forgot your fucking whimsy. your solemn and somber attitude is scaring the hoes
Already seeing people on tiktok saying āI still hate trump but he ate with this oneā like ā¦ babes ā¦ you just got propagandized ā¦ thatās literally exactly what he created this situation in the hopes you would say ā¦
might fuck around and walk into a thick fog and never return idk
