The Internet was out all night and day š
It sucks and I couldn’t help the paranoid thought–"Why did the police cut out the Internet? What are they doing?"–that popped in my head.
I hate that they’ve been so entirely awful at their jobs that my first thought is starting to always be "What did they fuck up now?"
And it’s like, I think our local police department are okay.
But I don’t know if the police I’ve dealt with have been purposeful nice guys that were chosen for their public-facing customer service work. Maybe the rest of the department is a blazing clown fire. I don’t know.
Like, there’s a lot of local government people getting arrested for some truly heinous crimes.
And I know, some people are like "They’re all getting arrested for awful shit! That means they’re getting away with lying and cheating their way into office!" but I’m kinda like "They caught them. Good." I’m always just really hopeful that they get epic prison sentences and crippling fines.
Stop them from being able to use the power of their money to circumvent what’s right.
I feel disappointed when they get a slap on the wrist and no prison time when a person without so much money gets sent straight to prison. And I’m not like "Good! Lock up the dude! Nobody should have a means of lessening a minor sentences." because they didn’t commit minor crimes.
It sucks that people have spent so much time and effort to change the laws to favor the rich and punish the poor.
I hate the current prison system. And I side-eye the government system that is propping it up.
Someone with money can pay money to get out of prison and have their record purged of serious crimes like physical assault, sexual assault, and "I didn’t know it was murder"-murder. While at the same time, a woman pre-pandemic wanted her daughter to go to a better school district and I think she’s still in prison today. Like, where the fuck is the governor or whoever hands out the crime forgiveness certificates at?
People should have their right to vote returned if the "big felony" they committed was like smoking or selling weed 30 years ago. Why is that person still in prison? Why are you continuing to torture them and their family for stuff that’s no longer a crime? You should free them and offer them some kind of "rehab therapy?" where they are taught how to adapt back into a world they haven’t been a part of.
Recidivism happens because someone that has been kept in a cage for months and/or years was then released with no help to adapt. I mean, some people are straight up evil. If they’re going to be violent, they’re going to be violent. But others are people that were in prison during the entire rise of smartphones and maybe even of computers.
A dude that doesn’t know how to sign up for an email address because the last one they had was a Hotmail account.
"Here dude. All consequential transactions are now handled online."–Like, WTF? Even for people that haven’t been to prison, it’s a terrible way to run things.
The credit card system went down because the Internet was out.
It was very inconvenient to buy milk today. But if the Internet was out long term? And someone depended on their own card reader to get paid?
Soft-forcing people to have to use cards is bad enough. But then to charge people for spending their own money?
Anyways. The Internet was out. And a lack of necessary infrastructure was very difficult to deal with in a regular moment. I don’t know what it would be like in a war zone.
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My Internet depends on a wireless router from my DSL line, so it’s out whenever the power is out. And Ozark Gas & Electric’s infrastructure is held together by bailing wire and chewing gum, so every time it sprinkles more than three drops of rain it’s like when a leaf falls on Hans Moleman’s car.
I’m deathly paranoid of cops. There’s no police force in Winslow, because there’s only 400 people, so the county sheriff covers us. But more than once, my driveway was unexpectedly full of sheriff’s dept and state trooper cars with their flashers on, and I wondered if it was some kind of thing about my online politics. (Both times it was a manhunt for a neighbor who’d skipped out on parole).
Remember that woman who got a felony prison sentence for mistakenly voting in the wrong place?