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[Naturegirl1999]

Perhaps the most arbitrarily cruel aspect of California's slave firefighters other than the fact itself is that Californian law makes it illegal for them to become firefighters if they get released from prison.

"Thanks for the free labor, now go steal some bread so we can three strikes you and keep you for life."

WTF, “land of the free” is a lie, it’s been a lie for a while, how long though? Was it ever?

[Frumple]

I mean, there was a point there weren't any humans in north america, so probably at some time during that period it was honest. Been hella' conditional ever since we showed up, tho'.

[delphonso]

Perhaps the most arbitrarily cruel aspect of California's slave firefighters other than the fact itself is that Californian law makes it illegal for them to become firefighters if they get released from prison.

"Thanks for the free labor, now go steal some bread so we can three strikes you and keep you for life."

Idiotic, if you ask me. You spend time and resources training your prison slaves, then when they get out, you don't encourage them to battle your yearly natural disaster?

[Jopax]

Ah but you'd have to treat them like humans then, and pay them, a living wage even!

Why go trough all the trouble of making a tool if you're not going to use it as a tool :V

[delphonso]

This is America! I'm sure we could find a way to not pay them!

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[delphonso]

Personally, I'd be very inspired to see Arnold fighting fires.

More seriously, I'm attempting to register as an overseas voter. My state's website has registration on it, but requires you to have lived in the US for the past 28 days to vote. Which means...there is no overseas voting, right? Why even have the button to click?

I've emailed the clerks for more information.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

You can definitely vote from overseas, regardless of what fuckery your state is up to.

[delphonso]

I'm certain of that. It's just the good old electronic systems around voting being a mess. I'd wager every state has this sort of thing.

It's like if you lose your phone in an Uber - you have to report it in the Uber app...on your phone...that you lost...

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[WealthyRadish]

Nothing more secure than relying on phone number for synchronisation they sure got our best in mind. Gmail regularly tries to lock me out of my own accounts to nudge me to give them a phone number or just something pleaaaaaaaaaase tell us something about you

I wouldn't be too worried, I'm sure they already know it.

[anewaname]

They already know it, because they ran a comparison to a database they are not legally allowed to use for profit or resale, but if you would just kindly confirm it, then they could have it from a different source, so they can get on with the business of selling it.

[Starver]

Looking for a source on something else, I came across "Remarks [at the] Council for National Policy meeting".

Reads like the loud guy who climbed on the table at a frat-house kegger, only longer. But apparently official government business.  No, not surprised.

[Reelya]

Looking for a source on something else, I came across "Remarks [at the] Council for National Policy meeting".

Reads like the loud guy who climbed on the table at a frat-house kegger, only longer. But apparently official government business.  No, not surprised.

Trump's boasting about cutting red tape for infrastructure, specifically highways. But that's the old infrastructure. The deal here is that you can't eke any more productivity gains by just building or rebuilding the previous generation of infrastructure. You have to invest in new infrastructure that shifts the paradigm.

Just adding more roads are specifically limited by things like Braess's paradox. I'd argue that these sorts of negatives start to outweigh any positives the more you're trying to use them to push productivity past specific limits. Boasting of a fast time to approve extra roads sounds like something that would be rife with corruption opportunities, bad planning and only make other problems worse. Roads especially are things which need careful planning before deciding to put more in, or more usefully, rip a few old ones up. Fast-tracking planning means developers giving kickbacks to local politicians with promises of higher capacity to communities which are strangled with traffic bottlenecks. More roads is not in fact the answer.