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Well like I said below I maybe hoping for something that doesn't exist. I assume enough legal action has taken place to figure this out but I wouldn't really know. However, I agree that the application of the punishment rather than the punishment itself can be cruel and usual (depending on how the punishment is defined). I fail to see how the second case example relates if the first is true. What is cruel or unusual seems unrelated to the crime severity because cruel and unusual is a separate concept like the first example seems to show or so I thought. Crime severity and severity of the punishment should be related though. This is why, in my opinion, solitary confinement can be called might be cruel and unusual. It's categorically different from prison. I hope any of that makes sense.

Maybe I'm hoping for a more thoughtful legal system than is actually in place. While your example would be unusual it's only unusual now. Meaning you're basing what what is usual on the length of the prison sentence can gradually increased over time as long as it never appears to be usual compare to the "current mean". Much of this is legislated which implies to me that unusual would fall outside of what has been legislated.

Forcing someone to eat a box of baking soda would be unusual to me because it's in a totally different category of punishment. Like fining, community service, or death instead of prison.

The definitions of cruel and unusual are independent of crime severity.

Well articulated.

you failed to understand because you didn't pay attention to the context

That is a terrible article to base an argument on. You come off more as anti-american than open minded.

This turned into a semantics conversation pretty quickly!

This is very cool!

If the massive success of air travel in the US, which Boeing is a part of, is a product of 21st-century capitalism, THEN SIGN ME UP FOR MORE OF THAT! This article seems a bit myopic.

I doubt it's like this every where but it's certainly like this for many across the country.

I know these people. Some are family. I live in the Cinci metro. This article illustrates the reality of life for what I think is most of the country. They are constantly on the edge of financial ruin. Living everyday under that kind of stress is hard and hard to watch.

I love that podcast! I look forward to it every month.

I'm glad I'm not the only one that has a problem with this phrase. I feel liberated to start mentioning it now.

This article is fundamentally absurd

no

I spent a minute sorting out that double negative headline.

I agree! As a man, you're in for a really hard dating life (and life in general as a result) if you're relying on these apps. Meeting women in person, an increasingly rare opportunity, is far more likely to result in a positive outcome.

At some level I hold the apps them selves responsible. I think they create some kind of negative loop in the dating world. I don't believe the results of these apps are a net positive for society but my perception is colored.

This seems pretty great!!

I like the way you think

I agree that it's conspiratorial but I do like the attempt to analyze this shift in a sub-section of men's fashion. So many men are "operators" operating operations nowadays. I get the attraction to the aesthetic but it just seems so out of context in every day life.

Neoliberal microeconomics is just a model of markets? No model is perfect. All models are all far simpler than reality and probably perverse in some way. If they weren't they wouldn't be useful as models. Don't blame the model, blame the people that abuse it.

You should check out RS Bakker or Peter Watts. https://rsbakker.wordpress.com/ https://www.rifters.com/