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doesn't matter if they lose their job, doesn't matter if warehousing them wastes the taxes paid by 10 productive citizens. We've been trained to treat shareholder value as an unconditional good, but whole industries can work like a crackhead ripping copper out of air conditioners
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That jump in private prison stocks was investors pricing in the likely policy result of the 2024 election, and suddenly the quotas and the arrests of legal immigrants like my friend make perfect sense: all that matters is that someone is detained, doesn't matter who they are,
doesn't matter if they lose their job, doesn't matter if warehousing them wastes the taxes paid by 10 productive citizens. We've been trained to treat shareholder value as an unconditional good, but whole industries can work like a crackhead ripping copper out of air conditioners
A friend is being detained indefinitely by ICE, so TIL that ~80% of detainees are held in private prisons for which our government pays $190/day = $70k/year! Interesting how the two biggest players got a stock bump around 2024. Who'd want to make the process more efficient?
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21. june '22, met these young Korean guys in Mexico, now they were keeping a pact they made in 8th grade to road trip USA together and happened to be within 60mi of me, so i gave them a very American experience and took them canoeing, they loved it and were 🔥 at skipping stones
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20. found tranquility and charm that can only be seen at walking speed, met a woman who got me to give a talk to her girl scouts troop, chatted for hours with an Amish guy, camped in the llama barn of an abandoned fairground thru a storm where i feared for my life, great country
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19. may '22, broke an axle in Frostburg MD, started learning Turkish to translate Sufi poet Yunus Emre, by the time i reached Ohio i had published a book of 26 of his poems (you can get it at https://t.co/4uygHUlEMx), planned a trip to Turkey for the fall, watched the steam train
20. found tranquility and charm that can only be seen at walking speed, met a woman who got me to give a talk to her girl scouts troop, chatted for hours with an Amish guy, camped in the llama barn of an abandoned fairground thru a storm where i feared for my life, great country