I’m genuinely having trouble thinking of a consumer product where the most widely sold brand or version is the “best” (highest quality, most durable, most features, best flavor, or whatever meteoric would be used).

I can think of a number of products where getting the “best” is a case of steep diminishing returns compared to the increasing price, and for the purposes of the “average” person the “best” product isn’t any better for them than the mainstream one. The “best” versions of some products are only better for those with the skills to make use of them or the need for the “best” quality or features.

I’m not here to argue on the situation. What I am saying is that if you discuss this with somebody neutral or opposed to you, it matters to make sure you position yourself well. Otherwise you can get completely sidetracked over words, as we are currently.

If you say “prisoners are being forced to work”, that can turn into a losing discussion quickly when you have to get into an extended discussion about how prisoners aren’t actively being dragged to work against their will. Actively being dragged out of their cells and put to work would be the initial connotation, as I’ve even seen in this thread. Once that connotation is shown not to be what’s happening, you’ll lose people quickly.

If right out of the gate you say prisoners are being coerced to work with the threat of an unfair parole hearing, you are on a much stronger foundation that people can’t truthfully pick at.

I get the feeling you feel so strongly about this that you might not care about what other people initially think initially or that you don’t want to give ground on what qualifies as forcing something, but if you want to get your message across, making it more bulletproof helps it.

I’m not justifying or agreeing with it, but I think accuracy is important to minimize holes people can poke in discussions when you bring things like this topic up. It isn’t precisely being threatened with more time than the initial sentence, it is being threatened with not successfully getting a shorter time through parole.

It’s a whole series. The older videos were even on GameSpot’s channel before they started doing them on their own channel.

I have no way to crop it that doesn’t have the background of where I live in view, so no cat pic here.

According to the AP article it isn’t forced per say, but it is highly leveraged onto inmates using early release/parole as a carrot.

Turning down work can jeopardize chances of early release in a state that last year granted parole to only 8% of eligible prisoners — an all-time low, and among the worst rates nationwide — though that number more than doubled this year after public outcry.

AP article.

I’m pretty sure this is actually my exact crop of the meme (I cropped out an ugly ifunny logo).

https://lemmy.world/post/41780741

But you know, I stole it from somewhere else anyways.

Checkmate.

https://lemmy.world/post/41780741

I’m not sure what you’re communicating, but it would be proper to take this down out of the pic community and put it up in one of the various meme communities or somewhere else it fits.

This is not a photograph, which makes it the wrong community for this post.

Here I go again.

It’s not a “Christian game”, its a game where the setting is a violent, fractured place and Christianity has a large in-universe footprint, influencing factions.

Iron Tower Studio games makes quite good RPGs.

A notebook at home would suffice, but it’s not great for the same reason as word based passwords.

I’m aware. I’ve explained it elsewhere, but having dealt with irrationally tech adverse older people myself, I’ve learned sometimes decent solutions they’ll actually use are better than great ones they’ll resist. I’ve found that any new software, like a password manager, no matter how user friendly and logical is treated with suspicion and disdain.

I’ve been rewatching The X-Files. I just finished the ‘Tempus Fugit’/‘Max’ two parter. It is one of my favorite non-comedy episodes. It is wonderful in having a conspiracy within a conspiracy, intersecting character motivations, and dead serious stakes and presentation. It works as a mytharc, sequel to a stand alone episode, or just a stand alone story on its own depending on how you want to watch it.

The visuals are honestly haunting.

Sure the NRA are also a bunch of corrupt, self-centered boomers. Looks less like funneling money and more like peddling connections, which isn’t any better.

My point above by calling them an industry lobbying group is that they present themselves as a rights group, but when it comes to firearms related causes they have a history of speaking up loudly when it will affect the domestic gun industry and saying very little when it is a firearms issue that won’t negatively affect domestic gun companies finances.