Prison labor is a problem we need to address soon.
Convicts in prison should have to work like the rest of us.
You mean like slavery?
No, we’re giving them 3 meals and a bed, at our expense, while they just sit around and watch TV. They should have to work!
Right. Like slavery.
It’s not like slavery!
Can they leave?
No.
Can they refuse work?
No.
So how exactly isn’t this slavery?
We DO pay them!
Do we pay in accordance with labor laws?
No. We pay them between 33 cents and $1.41/hour with a maximum daily wage below $5, then take up to half of that as room&board fees and victim compensation.
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I’d also like to add it’s not just private prisons. It’s also private detention centers where ICE keeps the immigrants.
-fae
The constitution even acknowledges that it’s still slavery
Fun Fact: the US military is actually EXEMPTED from safe-disposal and antipollution laws, and this is actually how we ended up getting official confirmation of the existence of Area 51 under Bill Clinton; the Air Force was forcing soldiers to handle without safety gear(!) and Burn(!!) Toxic Waste(!!!) and, Of Fucking Course, that gave them all sorts of exotic cancers which killed them painfully, leading to a lawsuit from their families.
So… THAT is the sort of shit the US government uses all that UFO malarkey to coverup, which I’d humbly ask you to consider the next time the History Channel breathlessly tells you the Navy is “Confirming” UFOs exist.
please stop with the “anyways we stan x” posts when a creator gets outed for doing something horrible. stop the pattern of putting online people on pedestals and stop acting like the biggest issue is that you can’t watch them anymore rather than the fact they harmed people
like it feels like you people don’t actually care about holding people accountable and care more about finding the next popular person to ogle over
I love the context of this though - because Tom is fucking with him. As mentioned in the notes, it’s super unlikely there are any mice on a starship, especially when the federation can detect life-signs from orbit. However, Tom is a pilot and navigator. That’s his entire reason for being on the ship, which means he’s probably got a solid foundation in astronomy, and thus is almost certainly aware that this ‘badass’ alien tracker? Is full of shit.
Collapsed stars, or neutron stars, are some of the densest objects in the universe and also some of the hottest. A neutron star is usually more than a hundred times hotter than the sun at the start of it’s life, post collapse. Unless some bullshit combination of those stellar shields the enterprise tested AND phasing tech are being used, that silicon based life form was incinerated as soon as he got anywhere NEAR the ‘mantle’ of the star (which is also bullshit, neutron stars don’t have discrete layers like that, it’s why they’re so dense).
So Tom’s reply about the mouse is 100% as impressive a feat as tracking the silicon life form, in that neither of them ever happened.
