[–] [S] 3 points 18 hours ago*

The terrain is a former factory right next to the downtown of Den Bosch in the Netherlands.
It's one of those areas they are in the process of revitalising. There is a few food establishments and an arcade now.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 week ago*

    You are running from the assumption that anyone who is locked up in these prisons is also actually guilty of having been involved in gang violence. However there is a lot of indication that a significant portion of innocent people have been swept up in the prisons as well, without access to a proper legal defence.

    And, in my opinion, the Salvadorian prison system is so horrifically barbaric that accidentally innocently locking people up is akin to violating their basic human rights.

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  • [–] 46 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    Annoyingly it also turned the word "lobby" into a contaminated dirty word, even though lobbying is a healthy and important part of a functional democracy.

    Any group collectively arguing in favour of their interest to the government is a lobby. That group can be anything from employers, to unions, to civil rights advocates.

    The problematic part is the bribery, not the fact that there is interest groups lobbying the government.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

    I can open the image in Thunder (Android) but it is not embedded

    Edit: Also, I propose we pronounce the file format as "jixel"

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