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Building from zero after addiction, prison, and a felony

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Re: Building from zero after addiction, prison, and a felony

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Post by s1artibartfast »

hluska wrote: post #377
_heimdall wrote: post #308

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This question jumps past the more fundamental question of whether policymakers, and the government in general, should prevent people from making their own choices. Education is a very different story which ends with letting people make their own decisions after (hopefully) having more information about realistic outcomes. I don't personally want a government preventing me from making my own choices. That line is blur…

The question was simply how to avoid people falling through the cracks. That was it and while not worded all that well, it was a noble question. It didn’t need that level of sermon. Every reasonably educated person got your point after the first sentence.

Best way to keep people from falling through the cracks to put them all in prison

Re: Building from zero after addiction, prison, and a felony

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Post by s1artibartfast »

ndcnncbf wrote: post #378
_heimdall wrote: post #374

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We already have laws for theft and similar crimes. You don't need a government creating more rules preventing entire categories of choices from being made, especially if they already can't enforce the laws on the books.

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I don't see how you are saying anything different.

You seem to agree that punishment and violence is the primary tool of American government, and then you want to use it to control more choices. Call me cynical, but I expect that's how it will be approached. Theft and vagrancy is already a crime. Maybe it was the punk music that led to those so let's criminalize that as well.

Re: Building from zero after addiction, prison, and a felony

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Post by ProllyInfamous »

stevepotter wrote: post #203
phs318u wrote: post #124

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I’ll second this. Back in the 90s when my addict brain was in full flight, I had a street bike for a year. There was not a single ride when I didn’t massively exceed the speed limit and ride recklessly. I loved it! Lucky to be alive. Lucky I had a partner who convinced me to sell it after our first child was born. Having said all that and despite being in recovery for many years... I still lust after the feeling of c…

Same. I got spooked after a car pulled out on the country highway I was doing 160 on. Then ran out of money and sold it. I just rode my Dads Harley, first ride in 20 years. Was nice but I’m good. I have a longboard and a little hill once in a while gives me the occasional adrenaline rush I crave.

>first ride in 20 years. Was nice but I’m good

This, is wisdom.

Glad we both made it (so far).

Re: Building from zero after addiction, prison, and a felony

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Post by ProllyInfamous »

qmr wrote: post #202
ProllyInfamous wrote: post #166

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>but also besides the point. Hard disagree. Both pedestrians and motorcyclists are raw to the elements , entirely. At least when on roadways an automobile provides a chassis/rollcage.

When vulnerable road users are killed in other countries there is strict liability. That is, the driver is assumed at fault unless proven otherwise. In America it's the perfect crime. "I'm so sorry officer I never saw them." Case closed Lou.

~>here in America

Which is why yesterday, in my mid-sized Southern City: after a motorcyclist hit&ran off the Interstate (dead, into a guardrail; 35, helmet'd/licensed, obeying traffic laws), the local biker clubs put down their swords and rallied in the median well after the accident occurred (as my local newspaper noted).

With all these millions already-spent on Flock cameræ, and T-DOT having dozens more (of their own)... you'd think we'd'a'already caught these guys.!?

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It's so sad that lack of accountability results in fleeing manslaughterers... but here we are.

Re: Building from zero after addiction, prison, and a felony

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Post by ProllyInfamous »

embedding-shape wrote: post #183
ProllyInfamous wrote: post #166

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>but also besides the point. Hard disagree. Both pedestrians and motorcyclists are raw to the elements , entirely. At least when on roadways an automobile provides a chassis/rollcage.

You disagree with me agreeing with what you just wrote about it being more dangerous to go with motorcycles? The "besides the point" is that the point I was raising was how common motorcycles are, globally. Is that what you're disagreeing with?

Let me read both these comments some more, because after this one (above): I'm even more confused.

Quickly: we seem to agree that motorcycles are dangerous and worldwide their predominance is mostly correlated with poverty (unlike US outlaw/biker culture). I had associated your beside the point with a biker being more-safe than a pedestrian -- is that what you meant?

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I have done 120mph in both vehicles, car and motorcycle – and won't ever go over 55mph on a dirtbike (only, offroad); never again on-road riding.

Re: Building from zero after addiction, prison, and a felony

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Post by embedding-shape »

nunez wrote: post #379

> Working at Techtonic was the best possible early-career experience I think anyone could have had. They did contract development, a lot of which was greenfield Saas MVP launches, across various tech stacks. There was not a lot of time for mentorship so it a very "trial-by-fire" experience -- either figure things out and ship stuff, or get the boot. I *always* tell older people looking to switch into tech to start at…

On the other hand, people with that sort of experience tend to have the worst instincts when it comes to actual maintenance and long-term development of projects. They're great at starting projects, and fast too, but rarely considers the design carefully enough so you don't need a full rewrite once every year just to continue being able to add features. Slow is fast in those cases, and the people who are experts in "greenfield SaaS MVP launches" basically operate with short-term expedience traded for long-term maintainability.

Not to say they cannot learn that, but worth being aware if you're building something long-term and does hiring for that sort of project, to be upfront that the development process will likely be very different compared to what they're used to.

Re: Building from zero after addiction, prison, and a felony

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Post by jubilanti »

khazhoux wrote: post #44
arthurofbabylon wrote: post #11

“ No part of the prose was machine-generated. You will not find machine-written prose on this blog. I consider it deeply disrespectful.” <3

Writing articles by hand isn’t just smart— it’s important. No shortcuts. No filler. No excuses. Key insight: relying on AI for writing assistance helps neither the author nor the audience.

> Writing articles by hand isn’t just smart— it’s important. No shortcuts. No filler. No excuses.

You're absolutely right! Would you like to delve into more issues like this one?

Re: Building from zero after addiction, prison, and a felony

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Post by ProllyInfamous »

komali2 wrote: post #221
ProllyInfamous wrote: post #111

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I absolutely love statistics – be careful with inferrences, though. This rider (I described above) was ~sober ~helmetted (fully faced) ~licensed

Well since we're doing anecdotes, I'm a sober, fully helmeted, geared rider with 8 years and tens of thousands of miles under my tires. I've had two incidents: 1. I fell over at a stop sign on a canted hill while stopped because the rented Harley was so fucking big. I immediately returned it and will never ride a Harley again, those things suck. 2. I stupidly stopped just before the crest of a gravel road because I c…

>Exploring the world on a motorcycle is just amazing.

I agree. Among my fondest (and 3rd-most-painful) memories is sitting atop my Honda XR80 – FREE – pondering what my adolescent mind might eventually wish to accomplish.

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>all activities I personally know someone who has been severely injured doing

My twin's friend, an experienced multi-pitch climber, recently perished in a freak-drowning accident (while leading amateurs) on a simple repelling expedition (single-pitch, lots of attention-to-safety). Somehow he slipped, fell into rainstorm-capture... and nobody knew how to help him quickly enough.

Obviously he should have had another experienced buddy, but it apparently "all happened so quickly" that nobody thought otherwise (was possible).

#RIP, assailedclimberbro

Re: Building from zero after addiction, prison, and a felony

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Post by red-iron-pine »

nunez wrote: post #379

> Working at Techtonic was the best possible early-career experience I think anyone could have had. They did contract development, a lot of which was greenfield Saas MVP launches, across various tech stacks. There was not a lot of time for mentorship so it a very "trial-by-fire" experience -- either figure things out and ship stuff, or get the boot. I *always* tell older people looking to switch into tech to start at…

> It doesn't pay well, and the work can be brutal (nights and weekends; on-call) but it's a great way to get the experience needed to get the job that does if you're starting from zero.

sadly that's a non-starter for a lot of people in this economy. doubly so if you have kids.

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