dragonfrog, aggressive almond / is on Nostr

Overcaffeinated bike riding psytrance stomping polyamory doing scruffy looking nerf herder; father and husband and son and whatnot.

Pronouns: He/Him
Location: Amiskwaciwâskahikan / Edmonton, Treaty 6, Alberta, Canada

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2024-08-15 17:39:54

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in Tusky you can tap the ... under a post, copy the link, paste it into your own post to make a quote post. When reading a quote post like that, Tusky will show a preview of the post and clicking on it will keep you in your own instance so you can reply to the original.

2024-06-17 22:33:40

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That's roughly the story with figure skating.
In 1902 the world figure skating championship had no gender restriction; Madge Syers entered and won silver (there was commentary suggesting many thought she should have won gold - including Ulrich Salchow, the gold medalist, who offered her his medal).
In 1903 women were barred from competing in Worlds. Syers won the British championship (her husband Edgar got silver).
In 1905 the separate women's category was created.

2024-06-13 16:50:56

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The only thing this law achieves, as near as I can tell from your description, is to give prosecutors and judges the ability to punish people more harshly for identical crimes, the more downtrodden they already are - i.e. the harder it's going to be for the convicted person to reintegrate and avoid reoffending, the more the system can stack onto the sentence, even further increasing their recidivism likelihood.

2024-06-13 16:48:09

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I didn't say they "just" need addiction treatment.
I did however mean that at the point they're using a gun either to support their addiction or while they're actively intoxicated, the one thing that very much won't dissuade them is the length of the sentence they're likely to face.
The thing that's still gone entirely undefended AFAICT is, how does the fact they were suffering an addiction at the time they bought it make the subsequent crime itself worse?

2024-06-13 16:40:37

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So it's useful for needlessly stacking carceral punishment onto the sentence of someone who's already done harm with a gun and who needs addiction treatment the prison system doesn't offer, but no use in reducing crime.
Sounds very much like the kind of thing a stereotypical 2A advocate would love, yup.

2024-06-13 16:23:56

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I mean, ironically the law that does nothing ever to actually reduce addicts' ownership of guns, is probably better than a law that did anything.

2024-06-13 14:38:40

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all that does is make sure no one in America's large gun obsessed demographic never seeks treatment for their substance use problems.

2024-05-21 16:30:04

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Can you get a bottle of milk from the store please? And if the avocados are ripe, get 4.
(returns from store with 4 bottles of milk) The avocados are ripe.

2024-05-18 17:36:11

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I think that's entirely right. If you have a positive use for a tool, you boast about the use. If not, you boast about the tool.
It's like "gun culture" folks who will say "a gun is just a tool". A shovel is a tool but there aren't "shovel culture" folks, there are a gardeners. A handsaw is a tool but there aren't "handsaw culture" folks, there are carpenters.
You can tell the folks for whom a gun really is just a tool, because they talk about hunting trips.