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   Kagan MacTane (kagan@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 27-May-2024 02:48:47 JST Kagan MacTane

   "Your brain isn't fully formed/you're not really an adult until age 25" is not really supported by neuroscience - and this factoid is doing harm to people. We need to drop it. https://slate.com/technology/2022/11/brain-development-25-year-old-mature-myth.html #neuroscience #science

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     Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE (timwardcam@c.im)'s status on Monday, 27-May-2024 11:08:40 JST Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE

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     @kagan One version of that is the observation by the police that some young men can be a right bloody nuisance from the ages of about 16 to 26 after which they settle down and become at least tolerably well behaved citizens.

     "So, at the first sign of trouble, how's about we lock them up and release them at age 26 when their brains have matured?"

     No, that won't work, say the police. Because what turns these lads into decent citizens is that they get involved with a woman who says "sort yourself out or I'm off", and there's no opportunity to meet such a woman in prison.

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     Kagan MacTane (kagan@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 27-May-2024 11:08:45 JST Kagan MacTane

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     • Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE

     @TimWardCam My goodness. Your diction makes the suspect you're British, right? Well, the idea that your police over there would actually discourage locking people up is just mind-boggling to this USian. Over here, our police tend to advocate longer and longer sentences for everything.

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 27-May-2024 11:08:45 JST clacke

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     • Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE
     @TimWardCam @kagan Unless you have directors and chiefs of the "if we don't use up our budget we won't get more next year" type. 😐
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     Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE (timwardcam@c.im)'s status on Monday, 27-May-2024 11:08:46 JST Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE

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     @kagan The police I've dealt with (quite a few, I was a councillor for a number of years) were mostly pretty pragmatic. No point in doing something that costs money and doesn't actually work.

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     Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE (timwardcam@c.im)'s status on Wednesday, 29-May-2024 03:41:42 JST Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE

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     @clacke @kagan I don't think the police or prisons have any such problem - "how do we spend this excess budget?" - in the UK.

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