2023 LC Thread - It was predetermined that I would change the thread title (Part 1)

[LFS]

I bet the death penalty would deter more white-collar crime than street crime.

[Xiaolongbao]

If you are getting the death penalty instead of a 30 year sentence, it doesn’t matter since the sentences are equivalent. If you were getting a year in jail but now getting the death penalty, it seems like it would matter.

[econophile]

I think they tried this in the Philippines

[Melkerson]

@econophile

I think they tried this in the Philippines

Also Singapore. I suspect finding Fentanyl there would difficult.

Of course, there are other factors involved.

[LFS]

Trump wants the death penalty for drug dealers. Here's why that probably...

[TrollyWantACracker]

Gonna have mixed feelings when one of these republicans gets necklaced.

[Churchill]

@Melkerson

Also Singapore

Tangaraju Suppiah: Singapore executes man for supplying cannabis

He was not found with the drugs or during the delivery. But prosecutors said he had been responsible for co-ordinating it, and they traced two phone numbers used by a deliveryman back to him.

[econophile]

Just got a new glasses prescription filled for the first time in several years. Apparently my eyesight has improved to the point where I’m no longer required to wear corrective lenses while driving, and my old glasses were too strong. Walking around in the world feels like I upgraded to a next-gen gaming console.

[DrChesspain]

The same happened to me, although the process was caused by cateracts, and eventually my vision went blurry again until I had cataract surgery.

[cassette]

@Xiaolongbao

Hypothetically, if there was a death penalty for anyone selling any amount of fentanyl products, how does that change the market? Right now, from my googling low level dealers are getting between nothing and a couple of years of jail time and don’t make very much money.

It doesn’t make any economic sense to risk the death penalty 100 times a day so you can earn $2/transaction or whatever the cartels are paying street level dealers.

Given the debilitating nature of hard drugs, the business model only works if the product can be delivered cheaply.

Bad news for doctors.

[dlk9s]

@mosdef

Apparently the key takeaway here is that you should buy your w/d from the same company you buy you TV from.

Does TCL make washers and dryers with built-in Roku?

[LFS]

I too have had good experiences with my LGs. Over the years I’ve looked at getting new ones and based on my research I would never purchase any large Samsung appliance.

[Fatboy8]

I’ve only owned samsung refrigerators but this will be my last one. There’s a design flaw that causes them to leak water and it’s a bit of a pain in the ass to fix.

I think I’ve fixed it, but if it acts up again we’ll be getting a new fridge.

[Xiaolongbao]

Samsung appliances have been a straight disaster for me.

[beetlejuice]

https://archive.ph/qfc64

really good atlantic article about how America is an amoral hellscape and idk how that gets turned around in my lifetime

[NotBruceZ]

[mosdef]

Interesting, we haven’t had any issue with ours but that’s just one data point.

When we buy anything over a few hundred dollars we end up using the Consumer Reports reviews, and the Samsung w/d set we bought rated well on there for performance and reliability. Possibly it is an outlier among their products.

[NotBruceZ]

Anyways, the solution is for wokeness to be embraced as the roadmap for the moral formation that David Brooks longs for.

[mosdef]

Haven’t read the article yet but I suspect that Brooks is the type to yearn for an imagined past where the moral eduction provided by basically conservative institutions yielded a broadly moral and polite society where everyone treated everyone else* with respect.

*except women, black people, indigenous people, LGBTQ+ people, etc, etc, etc., etc, but perhaps his moral calculus doesn’t include them

[Trolly]

Brooks is just all about providing one-on-one moral education to his students.