I was liberal until 2017 and I didn't realize that year after year, decade after decade my worldview had been warped by the propaganda of endless episodes of tv cop series and tv legal series that I consumed without thinking. I had no idea...
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For the poor - bail is a jail sentence.
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The right to a speedy trial is a lie.
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Even when I was a boy and a teen - jury trials were already uncommon. NYT: "In 1980, 81% of federal convictions were the product of guilty pleas. Now [in 2016] the percentage is about 95%."
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Plea bargaining in the US is a disgrace. There was a transfer of power from prosecutors to judges.
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Etc.
You can see this by watching even five minutes of a cop show on TV. They do "the law is going to prevent us from carrying out justice" so frequently in cop shows.
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One time I was in group therapy and the new guy was a cop. Picture a blond refrigerator squashed to 5'9" in a car crusher. Broke down and wept revealing he had been assaulted. I broke protocol and ran and hugged a weeping hulk. Took a lot of courage to break through cop level machismo, I admired that.
I haven't been abused, but I gotta tell you the difference between going out in boy mode and girl mode is like night and day - I've never been more "accidently" touched or groped in public in one day until I put on makeup, a skirt and a scarf. I knew it was bad before I transitioned but it is like a whole other universe when you gotta live it.
That's an insight that seems obvious but I hadn't considered before. I try very hard not to touch anybody who isn't engaging first or someone I know closely.
Not the same person, but when I was a kid I asked my dad why some train cars had smaller boxes than other train cars. He said they melted and shrunk in the sun (lol), I thought that was true for like 20 years and then had a sudden epiphany that that made no sense.
I'm having a hard time remembering mine, but I know I have them. Lots of"knowledge" that just goes unaddressed for ages.
I think my dad told me prosecuted meant executed and that stuck with me for a while
Okay ngl I’m curious what some of the other examples are cause this is a really wild one
still don't think this one's true. i think the horse people are lying
I learned this only a few months ago. Still kind of bummed about it, pony sounds cuter than baby horse / foal
The extent to which anti-communist propaganda was baked into my high school education.
We read 1984 and Animal Farm and for the longest time I thought it was just cool political reading to get us thinking, until I learned that Orwell was a snitch and a class traitor and it was all just "socialism bad".
Orwell wasn't even really a class traitor. His family was somewhat upper-middle class for the time (his father was a government officer doing opium trade stuff in India), and he even went to Eton (on scholarship, because his family's not rich rich, I guess). And then he went and became a colonial cop in Burma.
If anything, he's just a fed and a larper (famously, Orwell purposefully lived in working class areas in London and Paris, dressed like a tramp).
What is the current science on Eliza-like therapy chat bots?
Do they still have some sort of "placebo" therapeutic effect or has that been disproven?
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=7%2C39&q=eliza+therapy&btnG=
No idea, but I am of the firm opinion that a huge portion of therapy is just the honest, private, and judgement free communication with another person. I don't think that replicate with a ai. You may be able to trick the logic part of your brain into thinking you are talking with someone, bit there is so much non verbal communication that is just absent.
Yeah this is largely unavailable to yanks I think. But like, while 10 free sessions a year isn't enough for a therapeutic relationship, it is enough to try a couple different therapists and find one that works for next year.
Unless you earn too much to qualify in which case I hope youre earning enough over the threshold to still be able to make it happen> mfw preindustrial humans actually had surprisingly good dental health with[out] regular dentist visits because their diets didn't contain nearly as much sugars and other complex carbohydrates
i haven't double checked that this is true, feel free to repeat it also without checking, or else to tell me i'm wrong, as is your wont
Bourgeoisie society is more concerned with delegitimizing you than legitimizing you (assuming you are a prole)
as a dumbass american, it's incredible to me to think that there are in fact cultures where vegetarianism is the norm, and not just a personal consumption choice that is regarded by everyone else as quirky at best and threatening at worst. like i still meet normal, progressive adults who believe that it's not possible for humans to get enough protein from a vegan diet.
People could be genuinely interested in going out with or doing stuff with me. I guess I just had real bad self esteem but it wasn't until I was 19 when I thought people could be into me.
I always feel like I'm putting in the most effort in all my personal relationships. :/
"A person gets told a lot of things over the course of a life. Who they are. Who they should be. Amateurs, lecturing a professional."
I remember a fact going around school that snapping your fingers was actually something other than the sound of your fingers snapping against your palm. Someone must have confused it with knuckle cracking.
This is pretty inconsequential, but I thought Ben Kingsley was 100% white and his Ghandi performance was accepted because it was super respectful and well done and “it was a different time”.
As a kid I really struggled with the idea of an unreliable narrator. I remember reading The Telltale Heart and taking everything at face value.
