Well, hardly ever.

idkfa

Prisons serve to remove a person from society (in the civilised world).

Removing a person from society has two subtly different justifications:

1. Prevention: their offence against society is such that society must be protected from them.
2. Punishment: their offence against society is such that society wants them deprived of society.

Consider the difference between violent crimes (1) and nonviolent crimes (2).

Note that some societies expand (2) to include more punishment than just separation from society.

James Doohan was missing the tip of one/some fingers on one hand, so he always stood off centre from camera so he could hide his hand behind his body.

how 99.9% of all public figures, “philosophers”, inventors, important rulers, generals, diplomats, and so on were all men?

Men got the credit for them, no matter who actually did the work.

It’s not convenient, it’s survivor bias.

Not hypothetical. Ours is cursed already.

“Plot”? Like some evil villains?

Potentially faster installation

Particularly when you’re flashing the ISO you downloaded from MS to USB and it doesn’t work unless you use MS’s magic tool. Thus dropping you into the bootstrap paradox.

Especially because it gets partway through the install before failing to load NVMe drivers complaining there is no installation media to load them from.

It turns out it’s faster to install Ubuntu and download one of MS’s windows VM’s and use that to download and flash a USB than actually install Windows 11.

Or never even purchased!

Common parts are available and easy to get, relatively cheaply.

Specialist parts are somewhat more difficult.

You may as well just bring your existing gear.

That’s what I was thinking too.

I’m pretty sure he’s credited as [executive] producer or something

Because they have the means (money) to squander it gambling, similarly squandering it on any other vice: self gratification.

It’s incredibly selfish, it’s probably money that could have made an employee’s life better, or a charity more effective.

The Lord’s work.

At this point, in the US, it’s “stab myself in the gonads to spite my face”.

Mainly the blood though.

/thread

Boo hoo. Poor little USA getting its feeling hurt.

Grow up.

Imma bend the rules:

Thunderbirds.

I’m terrified of rewatching it and it not living up to my nostalgia.

The new she-ra is rad.