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Also, care to share more of your story? I'm curious
There's also the problem of actually purchasing one, the fairphone website only ships to EU
OR
You can spend $300 on a burr grinder $150 on one of those neat vacuum brewing devices, and who knows how much for fair trade single source coffee beans roasted in your back yard
Or you can find a balance that gets you things you care about (fair trade beans, good roast, a nice grinder for flavor, whatever your taste might be) at a lower price than going all out
When it comes to underwear or other clothing items, I'm generally willing to pay a bit more if I know that I'm avoiding plastics and pollution and the workers who make the items aren't working in sweatshop conditions
It is this attitude along with treating the justice system as purely a trafficker of punishment instead of taking people out of society to rehabilitate them to interact better
There's a reason the Nordic system has far lower rates of recidivism, because they actually try to rehabilitate people for reintegration in society.
In the US, as you state, it marks people for life. This prevents getting legitimate work and forces people who may have made a mistake once to commit further crimes just to survive.
Add that onto the fact that US prisons are shitholes where there is no structure or activities and people just teach each other about how to get better at commuting crimes
Its the US system and attitude that's dogshit and could be changed. But we have too many people in this country with a boner for retribution and the suffering of the other
You lead your comment with this statement. From this, its apparent to me that you're basing your hypothesis on the difference in educational performance between the sexes based entirely on this supposed difference.
My comment was pointing out that men are also highly driven to reproduce, therefore your point is invalid
What are you basing your assertion on?
People literally just can't understand the perspectives of others in most situations
So people are reporting tons of emails as spam instead of just unsubscribing
On HN?
The US must have missed that memo
Minor changes in neural regulation can provide substantial differences in perception. That's saying nothing about trying to understand the perspective of a completely different species, which the differences are even greater
On top of this, all of our definitions are generally based on human experience