mekka okereke :verified:
@digitalrodent @wonkothesane @BrentToderian
A resource for Daimler Benz drivers, 1905:
1 Make sure you mix your fuel octane correctly or the engine will knock!
2 Depress the clutch before engaging the gears, or the engine will stall!
...
999 Remember to mix oil into your fuel in the correct ratio!
A resource for BYD U9 drivers, 2024:
1 The car is Electric, so no fossil fuel or engine oil needed
2 Press this button to turn it on. This pedal means go faster. This one means slow down.
3 The end
mekka okereke :verified:
@mastodonmigration @digitalrodent @wonkothesane @BrentToderian
The US population is less than 1/3rd China's population, and yet we have more people working in prison labor camps than China.
Most US prison labor camp employees, are innocent. As in, haven't been convicted of a crime, and are in jail pre-trial because they're Black and poor.
One of these pictures was taken during slavery, on a cotton plantation. The other 2 were taken a few years ago, on a "prison farm"
https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/111666235105229571
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@mekkaokereke @digitalrodent @wonkothesane @BrentToderian
The only problem with the U9 is that unbeknownst to you, it monitors your thoughts and locks the doors and auto-drives you to a prison labor camp if it determines you are impure. Other than that it is a great car.
mekka okereke :verified:
@mastodonmigration @digitalrodent @wonkothesane @BrentToderian
The US has the largest slave population in the world.
Locking an innocent person up under threat of death, and forcing them to work for you for free for years, is slavery.
While California was feeling smug about ourselves for voting for Harris, we also rejected a ballot initiative that would have prevented prison slave labor. We like enslaving people.
mekka okereke :verified:
@mastodonmigration @digitalrodent @wonkothesane @BrentToderian
Ah! My bad, I missed that.
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@mekkaokereke @digitalrodent @wonkothesane @BrentToderian
Sorry, not commenting on anything to do with China, so it is a bad analogy. The point you seemed to be making was that new better simpler to operate things are more attractive than kludgy complex things, like Mastodon. And, no argument that is absolutely true. And in many ways Mastodon is deficient, absolutely agreed. The point, and joke which obviously missed, is that those attractive things can come with strings attached.
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@mekkaokereke @digitalrodent @wonkothesane @BrentToderian
100%. And it is about to get a lot bigger. And corporations turning over information from people's use of social media is going to be a big issue. Sorry, again for the confusing post above. The point was not about the relative incarceration regimes, but rather the risks associated with rushing to embrace the new shiny corporate social media alternative.
Legit_Spaghetti
While California was feeling smug about ourselves for voting for Harris, we also rejected a ballot initiative that would have prevented prison slave labor.
@mekkaokereke Yeah, that one is just wild. Like, the wording was so amazingly clear: Vote yes if you want to abolish slavery. And like 53% of people were like, "Nah, let's keep slavery around."
We are nowhere near as enlightened as so many people like to pretend we are.
mekka okereke :verified:
Now you knew before you typed that, that of course we are.🇺🇸
Alabama uses the organs for medical students and pathology tests, without the prisoners' or family's consent. The University asks the prison that killed them for permission, and the prison always says yes.
And Massachusetts tried to let falsely imprisoned people buy down their jail time by donating organs. Proposed by Democrats! 🙂🙃
Medea Vanamonde
@mekkaokereke at least we are not harvesting organs from inmates.
Yet.
Robert H
@mekkaokereke @mastodonmigration @digitalrodent @wonkothesane @BrentToderian
I'll get behind you if you show me verifiable stats on the population of Chinese Uygur camps.
Please distinguish jail and prison. You go to jail before you are tried. There is no jail labor. After you are convicted for a term over a year, you go to prison. Yes, there is labor there.
mekka okereke :verified:
@Stinson_108 @mastodonmigration @digitalrodent @wonkothesane @BrentToderian
🤣Why would I want a default elephant "behind me?"
I don't need weirdos confidently wrong in my mentions, presuming that their 3 second Google searches matches decades of scholarship and lived experience.
Look up "unconvicted incarcerated labor," and stop wasting my time. Go read up on how many unconvicted people in jail report being de facto forced to work pre-trial.
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