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WCDT strips 4301-4305 (6th July to 10 July 2020)
chris73:
--- Quote ---For anyone that doesn't follow penal euphemisms, "corrections officer" means prison guard. By the way, I'm terribly sorry that you're in the sucky position of having to work for a prison.
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Its a small thing but the correct term is Corrections Officer and its not a euphemism for a prison guard (prison guard is not a term used anywhere in NZ).
I'm only speaking for NZ here but the term prison guard has connotations that are mostly incorrect (thanks Hollywood) as most of our day is spent keeping our prisoners (or Paihere if you prefer) safe (from each other), fed and occupied (with work or courses), any actual what you would consider guarding is a very small part of the day
Is it cold in here?:
One prison worker I knew made the mistake of participating in the ring that was bringing drugs into the prison. Her job had been supervising inmates. It was interesting to watch her vocabulary change over the course of her sentence. Her first letters referred to "C/Os", but by the end it was "guards".
She was in a US Federal prison and the Bureau of Prisons is plagued with problems. She was unimpressed by the personnel in charge of her life.
By all accounts, there are people who do their jobs without abuse or overreach. I respect their work -- it's obviously difficult. On the other hand, there were the people on CorrectionsOne saying "We're not happy until you're not happy".
In particular, I'm glad you are keeping them safe from each other. There have been many cases in US prisons of the authorities doing the opposite. I don't know how I would handle wolf/goat/cabbage problems with hundreds of participants.
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: Farideh on 10 Jul 2020, 01:37 ---Personally, I quite like happy endings. The world is a scary place, and I don't need the webcomics I read to be all doom-and-gloom. I want them to make me feel better, if only for a little while.
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That reminds me of what one of the trans people here said about how happy the Marten/Claire relationship was, answering criticism of it going unrealistically well.
I think it was ZoeB.
Something to the effect that if we can't have it in reality, we at least want it in fiction.
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: N.N. Marf on 10 Jul 2020, 14:42 ---[SNIP]
--- Quote from: JimC on 10 Jul 2020, 07:46 ---The BLM activists didn't want funding removed from the groups you mention, they were simply so far off their radar that they didn't consider them at all.
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Practically, there's no difference. Sure, their intentions might be clear, but if the result is funding goes from other issues to their issues, they're effectively taking that money from the other issues. Sure, it's not their fault that who they get money from simply redirects the funding, but if their intent isn't to take the help that others would have gotten, then that should be something they consider.
[snip]
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Please see aforementioned posts regarding social engineering and the deliberate breeding of mistrust between groups by manipulative bastards trying to protect the status quo while pushing it even more in favor of themselves.
That funding cut choice was very deliberate. And you've demonstrated the exact goal of the choice that was made; resentment.
Redirecting even a fraction of our country's incredibly bloated military budget could have paid for BOTH programs in their entirety.
EDIT: fixing spelling and formatting
chris73:
--- Quote ---That reminds me of what one of the trans people here said about how happy the Marten/Claire relationship was, answering criticism of it going unrealistically well.
I think it was ZoeB.
Something to the effect that if we can't have it in reality, we at least want it in fiction.
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I see it somewhat differently, when they first started I thought it was going to open up new storylines for Marten, exploring the issues, seeing how Marten feels after the honeymoon period wears off etc etc instead we get a relationship that is boringly generic and instead we get some made up nonsense about Robots/AIs and humans
I do want Marten to have a happy ending I'd just like to see how he gets there is all
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