@Popehat I truly wish this would be the start of a movement using imprisonment as a last resort. The US has a rate of imprisonment 10-20 times higher than other Western countries and incarcerates one-quarter of the world's prisoners. About one-quarter of young adults report having a parent being held in detention and one-quarter of African American children will have a parent spend one year or more in state or federal prison. Source: These are stats from 15 years publishing on this topic
@chrisisgr8@jensorensen The Daughters of the Confederacy come to mind,with their dedication of monuments and sponsorship of programs supporting white supremacy.
@Popehat White chair-hitting-white person, though, is a misdemeanour in Alabama. But, for any black chair, that would result in becoming a hanging chair at the nearest pole.
I was just traumatized by an explicit porn ad on Twitter that was, er, "gritty." I am now grateful for non-explicit ads randomly popping up on my feed.
@Popehat Back in my day, we just hired a domestic servant to play and sing. Beethoven was particularly good, but he would just play whatever struck his fancy, pretending like he couldn't hear us.
@Popehat What percentage of these paragraphs could be written by ChatGPT? The language is exceptionally general and does not ground itself in specific details and facts. If I had graduate students write an essay like this, I would grade it as a C-.