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I'm gonna sign off from news and social media for the rest of the weekend and just enjoy this good feeling :)

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Yeah, it can be hard to be objective when it comes to seeing people suffer from the aftermath for years if not decades.

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MALK NOW WITH VITAMIN R

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On Anders Breivik:

The three judges found that, as his psychiatric condition had not changed, there was a clear risk he would repeat the behaviour that prompted the murders carried out on 22 July 2011.https://www.bbc.com/news/wo...

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He didn't pass his first parole hearing. I don't expect him to pass any.

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Highways induce demand. You literally cannot build enough lanes for them to be empty until you run out of people. So I guess you're right, there are still too many people in the USA.

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Norway copied several of its prison and schooling techniques from techniques first used in the USA. And then the USA turned to the dark side while Norway kept developing the techniques.

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The Stanford Marshmallow test does better as training than as a test, I think. But the test is still valid.

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Declaration of human rights, Article 25.1

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I really should get around to reading that.

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One step at a time.

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That sickens me. It has nothing to do with this prison though, nobody is saying that these prisoners get to pressure or force their victims to meet them.

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Being a prison guard is really just being a part-time prisoner. I could never do it.

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At least the Army gives you training, a lot of which you can use upon release.

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There are two maximum security prisons nearby that are always hiring, but no schools nearby to learn to be an electrician, plumber or truck driver. Whoever said America was a great country obviously never lived in rural Missouri.

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