Nate Cox @ natecox @programming.dev

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The incentive that works is "Get treatment or go to jail, pick one."

Prove it. Show me studies that jail time is an effective deterrent to drug use. Peer reviewed, actual research.

I’ve worked with former addicts for many, many years; I have never had one of them tell me that jail got them straight, but I have had many tell me they came out of jail more addicted than they went in.

The solution is social welfare programs and a focus on mental health, job placement, and relocation assistance. Give the vast majority of people health care, stable employment, and a safe place to live, and they will thrive.

The solution is not cramming people into prison labor and ripping their constitutional rights from them.

I really don’t understand how this isn’t obvious to everyone.

I can’t help but notice that you really like to cherry pick only the parts of comments you think you have a simple answer to.

How about responding to the meat of the argument rather than trying to just move the goalpost?

Did you miss the entire part of the article talking about how this effectively locks up the court system, deprives US citizens of their constitutional right to representation, and does effectively nothing to actually get people off drugs?

Tell me more about how you like punishing the poor for being poor, though.

Green, the DA, said he felt deflection was a better path to treatment than the criminal system, which can be a slow process, and that the fact that only some people were succeeding was a good sign: “We didn’t make it] too easy or too hard. We really found that sweet spot.”

Oh fuck you. 70 or so people deflecting out of 1200 arrests is not success you pompous prick, it’s failure.

By finding him guilty but not punishing him, he will be made to feel guilty and the chance of him reoffending will be prevented, without socially impairing the man

What a load of horse shit. “Letting him get away with rape penalty free will ensure he doesn’t do it again” is some crazy fucking logic. Seems like knowing there are no consequences for your actions would make repeating the offense significantly more likely.

I’ll believe it when I see it, but that would be cool.

Why are you attacking me?

Future generations are going to look back on us and giggle at how fucking stupid all this is.

They’re really going to have to go to school and learn about how the fascist bigots took over the US and cried about everything being “woke”.

This is the legacy we are leaving behind. It is so stupid I just want to hang my head and weep.

I’m having analysis paralysis over which celebrity I most want to tell to fuck off.

Scrolling by at a glance I thought it said something else and I was ready to be very offended.

The irony of choosing the most pedantic way of saying that they’re not pedantic is pretty amusing though.

The problem with being like… super pedantic about definitions, is that you often miss the forest for the trees.

Illegal or not, seems pretty obvious to me that people saying illegal in this thread and others probably mean “unethically”… which is pretty clearly true.

(God I hope the /s isn’t necessary)

I guess I don’t understand the mastodon/twitter style feed, I’ve always found that I couldn’t seem to get a feed interesting enough to come back to.

GOP: “We only want to deport the illegals, if they want to be here they should do it legally”

Immigrants: “ok, we’ll come on this program specifically designed to allow a legal pathway to citizenship”

GOP: “No not like that!”

No they’re Mennonite, I’m pretty sure they worship a zombie.

It’s totally legal because workers have surprisingly few rights in the US today. You can still find good companies that will treat you with dignity but it’s not because they’re required to.

SCOTUS declaring full immunity for anything done as an official presidential act is probably why this term feels less hollow; last time around he had to be careful not to end up in prison, this time he has nothing to fear.

Yeeeeesssss background jobs! I think I can finally move nearly full time to nu now.