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1

Thanks for the song you posted, itā€™s just what I needed this morning. However I regret to inform The Stranger that as much as I would love to live in the fantasyland they inhabit, here in the real world I shall very UNaccidentally ā€œvote for someone who thinks jail is a viable solution to crime.ā€

2

pardon me but it seems the
Mariners are not quite
Finished as of Yet

& much like you cannot
Arrest your way outta
the Drugs Epidemic

ya don't Lobby
for the Planet you Have
you Lobby for the one you Want.

it's all about
WEALTH Inequality

and the Harvesting
of the Citizenry
solely for the
Profiteers.

anybody wanna
buy a Kidney?

3

"I know weā€™re all excited about that time people put shoes on their head at the Marinerā€™s game, but is anyone excited about the Mariners' new Hatback Sports Bar and Grille?"

You guys need to decide whether you want to treat Mariners as a singular or plural possessive. Doing it both ways in the same sentence makes you look like all those morons in the comments who don't understand how to use an apostrophe. I mean, yeah, readers already have super low expectations for the editing here, but at least make an effort every now and then.

4

I know we need the rain, but I'm loving this extended summer. Except for the Bolt Fire smoke.

I actually know someone who's paid to get frozen at that AZ lab - over 100K. I don't think it's going to work and that he's getting scammed, but I'll never know, will I?

5

Man, the cryogenics shit really is pretty fascinating and wacky. It's worth noting that to date, noone has ever been unfrozen. Seems like someone should probably volunteer for that first, just to see if it's even a viable option from a biological standpoint or whatever. It sounds like there's not a consensus there among those who've researched it.

6

@4,

Gah, somehow didn't see your comment before posting mine. You should ask that person if they'll allow him/her to volunteer to just go for a temporary freeze, come back in a decade or whatever. You can let them know they'll be able to skip over 10 years of disappointing ends to Mariner seasons.

10

or they can self-immolate
I know a few I could Recommend
and some'd be a Shoo-in for Crowd funding.

11

spooky it is
hearing how trumpfy
watched and cheered as the Mob as-
cended while he kept the National Guard AWAY.

these House Hearings
are Amazing. fuck
what a LOSER
djt Was

12

IS.

13

@10 ā€œIā€™ve got a little list ā€¦ theyā€™d none of ā€˜em be missedā€

14

3.5
weeks
til Midterms

repubs're
gonna Dump
Billions on our Airwaves
the innernet and foreign* Trolls

small Wonder Big Media
LOVES the MkKkonnel Court
all that Free Speech buys a LOTTA
boats. & votes! long live Un-bridled Capitalism

*& Domestic your
Home-grown types

15

@13 -- some
Wakes
can't
Wait.

16

The carceral system isn't a "solution" to crime. It provides a disincentive to commit crimes based on individual perception about likelihood of punishment and, to a lesser extent, severity of that punishment. It may well be that crime can be brought down by addressing the "root causes" we so often hear referenced by the Stranger, but the even most optimistic take on those approaches is that they would take a generation to have a noticeable effect on crime rates.

(And if "address the root causes" means "re-make society from top to bottom, eliminating economic inequality" then it would be safe to assume it will take ... considerably longer.)

17

meanwhile over at the House:

"'Itā€™s just horrendous, and all at the instigation of the president of the United States,' Pelosi says on the phone with Gov. Ralph Northam of Virginia, watching footage of rioters breaking into the building."
--Emily Cochrane

as the hordes screaming came in
egged on by the World's Biggest Loser
in what wouldda been djt's Greatest Moment

"Among the attempts Trump and his allies have made is to try to diminish how frightening it was that day for people inside the halls of Congress, and the sheer scope of what they were dealing with."
--Maggie Haberman

tonnes More
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/10/13/us/jan-6-hearing-trump

another nothing burger

if FOX Ever saw one
and they've depos-
ited Quite a Few
in Fact that's
ALL they do

lousy Opinion to the Planet
but News to the Disciples
whilst Rupert Leads the
Free World into Nazism

@3 -- hear here!

@probsloved:
repubs gonna Outlaw
contraception ban abortion
and when the Crime Wave follows
they'll have all the Prison Labor they Ever
Dreamed of. welkkkome to 'Republican' utopia.

21

@20 hmmm if only we had a place, like a building where we could separate them from society so they no longer have the opportunity to prey on innocent people. There are plenty of opp in jail where prisoners can better themselves or get treatment but you canā€™t make them accept it or want to get better. Until then the best we can do is keep them somewhere where they cant hurt themsleves or others. If you find that somehow cruel than so be it.

23

"There are plenty of opp in jail where prisoners can better themselves or get treatment"

This is patently false. Why do you say stupid over confident shit like this as if you are any authority or know anything about this?

https://www.aclu.org/news/prisoners-rights/prisons-refusal-provide-adequate-opioid

Almost 65% of US prisoners have drug or alcohol dependency issues (SUD). There is not enough funding, beds, medications, or councilors for 65% of the 1.3 MILLION US prisoners to get adequate addiction treatment or mental health counseling. Christ. Most people on the outside can hardly get treatment. And this is only been made worse by the ravages of the pandemic.

While drug addiction treatment program certainly do achieve success when they are available and done correctly there are not enough of them and funding is constantly placed under the axe. (the 'ol Heritage Foundation notoriously lobbying against funding these programs as a matter of pride, FI).

This is also belied by the wide availability of drugs INSIDE US prisons. Which often the caretaker establishment is easily and casually bribed into smuggling inside.

Now. If only there were well known articles, books and documentaries about this topic...

24

@23 oh yes I guess since there isnā€™t the quality of care similar to what celebrities get down in Malibu that must mean there is nothing and we should just let everyone out to commit more offenses until we can provide premium care along with a condo in Belltown. You and the rest of your progressive friends are so full of shit. The good news is more and more people are seeing through it now and realizing your ā€œsolutionsā€ are worse than the actual problems. There ARE programs in prison

https://www.doc.wa.gov/corrections/programs/default.htm

If they donā€™t meet your standards thatā€™s your problem and again if those whose choices led them to prison are unwilling or incapable of taking advantage of them then Iā€™m ok with letting them sit there to protect the rest of us.

25

"The alternative
is an argument for
universal death penalty
for anyone who commits crime... "

and you'll get No
Complaints from
a few folks here.

got A Problem?
Hire up an Ex-
terminator:

"NO problem
too 'small.'"

26

"... with
the expectation
that being treated like
garbage will redeem them... "

nah. Redemption
ain't what they're After

it's the Punishment they Crave
knowing their Own bad thoughts'd
prolly qualify Them for some Hard Time

so's they can Have
their Cake and
Eat it too.

Bring Back
the Whip.

and the Stocks!
it's "Republican" Utopia!

27

Is there a reason this cryogenics stuff is currently making the rounds? Cryogenics (and alcor) has been around for decades and decades. Are kids just learning about this now or is there some new element to all of this?

Also, why is yesterday's PM just one long post with comments turned off. Is that how Slog will be from now on?


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