Northern Weird, Quixotic TRPG Vorthos

OpenAI scraped the entire web. All of which had been a labor of love from humans. Wikipedia is the backbone of a lot of LLMs, and that was volunteer human labor. They stole it and now they're selling it back to us.

i saw that jank ass post about the autism beast with a smile and i had to reestablish the cosmic balance.

we really do love a worst of both worlds don't we. we can't rehabilate them because it costs too much money, but the magistrates have to prioritise rehabilitation anyway in sentencing by law! so we end up with a catch and release program for youth offenders, even of quite violent crimes, and some of them admit they intentionally reoffend because being on remand in a youth detention facility is more stable than their home life!

now the problem with the title is that it is an editorialisation for clicks,

when really as the article itself identifies, it's kids who can't get out on parole waiting for about two weeks for trial. most of the kids here are just waiting for their day in court. not exactly the greatest thing in the world but, you know, either we decide everyone gets on parole, we hold same day trials, or we hold some people, some of whom are minors, on remand waiting trial. most of them won't face jail time if convicted anyway! and again, the article spends time bemoaning that the time on remand is too little!

Of course the back half is about what we should be doing, which is both simple and not "easy" to fix. kids can't meet bail conditions cause their families are povo and/or dropkicks, there needs to be more and better rehabilitation facilities, poverty is not good. I'd be willing to be my life that the majority of kids in the centre come from our west, where everything is scarce and impoverished. And Scotland, Spain and New York all lack the issue of a vast geographic area of dispersed poverty, but I'm willing to bet mostly the issue is we aren't quite trying.