I get the same white background on Windows, Chromium and Firefox. Checking settings, I see FF is set to “Automatic” light/dark mode. When I manually select Dark mode, I see the dark background.

Hmm, and what about fish?

I used to be subbed to several local subreddits, including a [mylocation]-social.

The difference in tone between people I knew from the `social meetups vs. the people in the generic city/state subreddits was truly amazing.

Quark is a beauty, and that’s the plain unvarnished truth!

Efficient at confusing people, perhaps. Personally, I have no idea what you’re on about.

No, it’s incredibly misleading. When you said that, I expected to find something like 80% of prisoners are there because of drugs. Instead, I find that it’s less than half.

Okay? I don’t understand what point you might be trying to make with this statement, even if it were true.

But the actual figure is 45% for drug offenses. That is the single biggest category, but I find it disingenuous to characterize “less than half” as “overwhelming majority”.

But the important thing was to tie an onion on your belt, as it was the style at the time.

Trying to offset the cost of a societal need by charging fees to prisons (sic) doesn’t even make any sense.

Sure it does. It costs $$$ to build jails and prisons and more $$$ to run them. Why should I, the victim, have to pay twice? (once for my car, which the thief stole, and again in my taxes to fund the legal system once the thief is caught)

I can very much entertain an argument like that (counter-argument, pay prisoners minimum wage for whatever work they do and charge the $20/day from that).

But that’s not what’s going on here.

This is about a collection agency figuring out how to profit from a captive audience. It deserves the same regard from us as prison phone operators do.

It’s really just another form of predatory bullshit.

The prisons themselves say they aren’t a significant revenue stream

This is crucial here, IMO. We could put whatever we want on the bills – hell, we could charge a million dollar fee for each sentence! That would fix the funding problems – but the simple truth is that most of the prisoners don’t have the money.

I read the wiki page. Pretty barebones, but it did link to https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34705968

In theory, I could entertain an argument about having criminals repay some of the costs of dealing with them, that’s not what’s going on here.

The sum that is able to be collected doesn’t go straight into the county coffers, either - the jail contracts with a company

The jail gets 30%, the company gets 70%.

It really just looks like just another way to exploit prisoners for profit.

Not obvious to me, but “acting” does make sense now that you say it.

potential downsides to a developer actively like an ass

Did you accidentally a word?

What do you get when you cross Family guy with BTTF?

1.21 giggetywatts!

I enjoyed both Primordia and Technobabylon.

Eh, depends imo.

Civilization? PC all the way. Ratchet & Clank? God of War? I had a lot of fun playing them on consoles. IDK whether they would have worked as well on PC.

Knights of the Old Republic? I played on PC in spite of the awful UI port from console mode.

Nice thread necromancy

What facility?

No, order of magnitude is 10x off. You can’t massage the numbers enough to get there with any reasonable assumptions.

Obviously the average household size is not 10 people, but let’s be generous and say that it’s 5 people, so you’re looking at 2 million houses. Rooftop solar installation costs between $10k and $30k per building. Frankly, in this context, $15k is generously low as a cost estimate.

Also, go back and re-read my original comment in this thread. The context was the idea of spending $30 billion on installing solar panels everywhere instead of building the nuclear plant. Flippant, sure, but – actually, the numbers aren’t far off even with these sandpaper-rough estimates.

More than one person lives in a building generally.

Gee, really? I never would have guessed /s

More seriously: It’s very quick to search “population of GA”, so that’s what I did. If you have a different figure you’d prefer to use, feel free to post it.

It’s more like $15,000 to install 1kW of solar

Uh, what? $15,000 = $15k which is what I wrote. I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make here.

10 million people. $15k per solar installation. Eh, not too far off.