Guessing the same, though to add another element into this that you bring up, private prisons are not included in the data that USA Today obtained. It also doesn’t appear to include any federal prison data either. Just local jails and state prisons.
Just to pull info from the article in case others don’t care to read, the vast majority of these deaths are still attributed to “natural causes” like illness, old age, or pre-existing conditions, though these are undoubtedly exacerbated by the conditions of prison life.
The point of concern though is that “unnatural causes” are generally on the rise during this period. Unfortunately, given the fact that some of the data is almost 10 years old at this point, it’s hard to say if the situation has gotten any better or worse since then.
Something like this would probably work well:
I like the political optimism, but where was this huge shuffle of politicians you describe that ousted the moderates? Most of the people in office now are the same as before.
Not in this lifetime for me, though the world has generally forgiven the auto brands who helped run the Axis Powers war machine like BMW, Volkswagen, Mitsubishi, etc.
Tesla could do a complete about-face, oust Musk and his cronies, start adhering to better market practices, and build themselves back up as a reputable brand. But not for a long while.
Better that there actually be a better path to take which could lead somewhere in the future, otherwise they may as well double down on his stupidity and profit while they can before the whole company just implodes.
I feel like there’s probably about 50 different directions that one could take that idea, and the story very clearly paints that act as a Bad Thing™ to have done.
But to play devil’s advocate (just because I have also been missing this type of discussion), one could argue that experiencing love would compromise Miquella’s plans for his planned age of compassion. An age of compassion would be one which treats everyone equally, to try to universally end worldly suffering.
Love, on the other hand, is what allows one to play favorites, and is also something that cannot really be controlled. Having a stronger attachment towards some people over others because of love would result in discontent, and sabotage the type of egalitarian compassion Miquella wanted to create.
Marika’s reign became rocky because there were conflicts between those she favored and those she shunned. She absolutely played favorites, and did not love everyone equally. Her solution to break the cycle of suffering was to simply remove death from the world entirely, but as we saw, that just ended up making its own whole host of problems.
So I think Miquella was trying to avoid making that same mistake of favoritism we saw under Marika, but ended up making another mistake which could have been just as potentially consequential as his mother’s decision to shatter the rune of death. A dispassionate “compassion” wouldn’t really be compassion at all.
Generally no, but it depends on how you handle the interaction.
This whole situation seems a bit odd and I can’t help but feel like we’re not really getting the full picture. But at a surface level, if someone takes what is really just a misunderstanding or miscommunication and turns that into a character assassination against you without giving you the chance to explain yourself, that is not something you should feel obligated to just accept.
But it depends a lot of how you handle it. If you just take the opportunity to fire back and make this a “them” problem, knowing they have some mental disability that could have caused them to misread the situation, that would be ableist.
What you could do is simply respond along the lines of “I can understand why you’d feel this way if what you believe is true, but I think I didn’t explain myself clearly, and that’s on me.”
I would rather argue the motivations of a souls boss
Miquella did nothing wrong.
Honestly that is much more likely how he’d say it.
“John Marshall Roberts has made his decision, now let him enforce it.”
our system has yet to fail.
It’s already failed.
Acht and neun.
Neun sounds like English nine, and acht is like October, which used to be the 8th month.
English, Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, Japanese, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Latin, Classical Greek.
That makes 11, I guess.
I’d more assume it’s because it’s approaching the end of the school year. If ever there was a time for a student to have a psychotic break, it would be right before finals.
Being gay or bi has nothing to do with this, so why bother mentioning the fact?
I wouldn’t go that far, I think it’s a very relevant detail for OP’s situation.
Internalized homophobia is a real and unfortunate phenomenon for people who grew up in restrictive environments, and it can result in a lot of self-hatred and mental distress, including diagnosable disorders.
And the worst part about it is the shame some people feel about the whole thing might have them feeling that talking to a doctor or therapist is simply not an option, as they are not prepared to be “out” to others, even under the protection of medical confidentiality. The very idea of being out can be internalized as a failure, especially if it would burn bridges with bigoted family members (which is easy to say from the outside looking in that bigots aren’t worth your time anyways, but not so easy when that is your entire support network and every happy memory you had since childhood).
It’s definitely not simple, at any rate.
Luckily digital signboards will always be an option to replace TVs with if the situation becomes truly dire. The sorts of no-frills displays corporations buy to display whatever media they want in store.
Might not come with sound, but you can pick up a cheap sound bar and it will still be better than whatever cheap speakers commercial TVs try to cram in there.
It was never about big government versus small government. Big government was only a problem when it benefitted the “wrong” people.
I just wish her views on the Israel/Palestine situation were better.
There’s always hope. The feeling you are experiencing is what the people who are causing all of that want you to feel.
Now if everything seems bleak and hopeless all the time, that’s also a strong indicator of depression, and may also be worth talking to a professional about. Or if not a professional, at least people in your life whose perspectives matter more than random internet strangers like me.
If someone had 3 eyes, would they trink?