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Prison Facts "They" Don't Want You To Know About
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Kevin Trudeau is finally going to jail.
"Kevin Trudeau, the television pitchman and author who amassed a fortune telling consumers his secrets about how to get free money, how to lose weight and how to cure a number of illnesses the natural way, is headed to federal prison.
Trudeau, 51, was sentenced to 10 years on Monday for criminal contempt for violating a 2004 federal court order that prohibited him from making misleading infomercials and misrepresenting his weight-loss books. "
I hate this guy, I mean really really hate him. His books are nonsense that prey on peoples' worst fears. I relished explaining to people why his books weren't in the library and I hope he has the worst possible prison experience.
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With people like this, however, I always wonder if they are 100% evil or just extremely misguided.
Uh-oh I accidentally deleted my signature. Uh-oh!!
Because it's bullshit
I was thinking the same thing, but on the bright side con men are equally bullshit.
Some people seem so desperate for hope that they turn to the metaphorical snake oil, no matter who's selling.
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Now that I've gotten that out of my system the thread can be about anything you want. I can talk about how the US prison system is bullshit all day.
Never understate the level of ignorance the average person can achieve
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It's been trumpeted many, many times but the Dunning-Kruger effect is a widespread problem.
Also, yes. Prisons the world over are a mess, and in considerable need of reworking. Exactly what action needs to be taken regards them is a source of ongoing argument though. It gets into peoples biases, because in a lot of ways you're asking 'should prisons be for punishment, so criminals suffer for their crimes? Or should they be for re-socialising these people, so that they don't stay criminals after release?'. Seems like an easy choice to me, but a lot of people will argue with you about that one until you're both sick of the conversation. That's not even considering the other problems such as privatisation and societal cost, etc.
I think that the problem isn't so much understanding just how ignorant the average person can be, rather it is understanding that you too are an average person.
Having said that, prison pulls in a lot of otherwise decent people who did one bad thing and turns them into serial offenders and/or monsters, so I'd say my cousin's story might be an outlier. Either way, that is my anecdotal story about how the prison system has affected my family.
No, at least 1/2 of us are above average.
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No family members have been incarcerated, I've never personally been to prison
But it's right up there with income inequality for me as something we need to fix yesterday
http://nypost.com/2014/02/23/film-details-teens-struggles-in-state-detention-in-payoff-scandal/
Besides, remember Socrates: the only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Nope, America
Except I said average.
Also remember Sir Tommy Lee of Jones in his historical epic MIB said "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals, and you know it".
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not necessarily
what if there's one person who is seven billion times more intelligent than everyone else on earth, who all have approximately equal intelligence
then the average intelligence is twice as intelligent as just about everybody!!!!!
http://www.audioentropy.com/
theres as a whole nother page to this thread and someone made a more intelligent version of my jokey nitpick
WELL WHATEVER
EDIT: no wait this isn't a new page at all people just posted while i was writing that WELL DOUBLE WHATEVER
http://www.audioentropy.com/
Then statistically there will be some window licker who is 1 / 7 billion times more ignorant then the average person to fuck up the grading curve.
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I know that guy
I always thought it was "the wisest man is he who knows nothing"
... guess I need to make some changes to my resume
You shut up about my mother
Every time I find a new interest it happens to me again. Something piques my interest, so I go and do some reading up and watching of videos/technical demonstrations etc. online, then I try and do it myself to learn a bit about it, if I enjoy it I do it as much as I can and start to think I'm getting my head around the subject, then I scratch a little deeper trying to find the bones underneath all the meat, and suddenly there is so much to learn in a huge new universe full of subtexts and tangents and supplementary resources that it is almost impossible to know where to begin.
And then it happens to you in your chosen career, and suddenly you now have Imposter Syndrome.
This is a thing I really hate. [nerd]It makes me want to go all Orochimaru and live forever just so I can learn all the things.[/nerd]
Alternately, you (not you in particular, just the generic "you") are a pseudo-intellectual and the Dunning-Kruger effect hits you with full force.
I am eternally ridiculously grateful that one of my favorite professors not only actively guided people towards that whole dose of mental cliff-diving, but guided them through the process so they emerged without the horrible wealth of dysfunctions that "holy crap, I could spend five lifetimes on this and not scratch the surface" has such a tendency to inflict.
Every place I've seen talk about this seems to have a different quote and I have no idea if any of them are accurate. I assume that's the practical lesson.
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
HOWEVER
in cases where a woman is raped, they typically only report the assault about 50% of the time, while men report only half as often as THAT number
so, in reality, that 47% is probably much, much, much higher.
ps if you ever think it's cool to make a prison rape joke just cuz olol prison YOU'RE STILL MAKING A FUCKING RAPE JOKE
But they broke the social contract and so they aren't a person anymore and therefore deserve it
That is an actual argument I have seen and heard more than once and it makes me close my eyes and pinch the bridge of my nose every time it happens
some states even have for-profit, offender-funded probationary systems, under which probationers are assessed a charge for the cost of their probation (think of the our savings!) by the company administering the sentence.
If they are unable to pay the fees it is considered a breach of probation and they can be jailed.
so
USA! USA! USA!
and people wonder why we have such moral authority in the world today!
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On the other, 10 years in federal prison is a pretty stiff sentence for a non-violent crime.