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The War on Drugs and Mass Incarceration 🚨
This article from RehabNet.com, discusses how the “War on Drugs” in the US has drastically increased incarceration rates. It highlights how drug offenses and associated court costs contribute significantly to the prison population, with a disproportionate impact on racial minorities.
The article contends that incarceration is ineffective in deterring drug use and addressing addiction, viewing addiction as a treatable medical condition often inadequately addressed in prisons. Finally, it advocates for alternative approaches to drug-related crimes, such as drug courts, community policing, and diversion programs, emphasizing rehabilitation over punishment as a more cost-effective and humane solution. Let’s think
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Essays On Life
Why We See Outrage, How Hope Helps And Handling The Stressors Of Life
True heroism is minutes, hours, weeks, year upon year of the quiet, precise, judicious exercise of probity and care-with no one there to see or cheer. This is the world. ~Â David Foster Wallace
Why Vulnerability Is the Ultimate Superpower in Life and Leadership
- Discovering the Power of Vulnerability A few years ago, when I discovered Brené Brown through her books and her podcasts, something shifted in me. I had been asking myself a lot of questions on staying true to my nature and finding alignment in how I acted in...
If I Die Tomorrow, Let This Be My Final Message to You {Audio}
https://youtu.be/rSxE2YtgbvI - Want To Listen To The Article Instead? - A Love Letter to Living Fully Someone once told me, to them, I feel like an unexplored abundance of everything. I hope you choose to live that way too – full of wonder and...
News for the Unemployed: Kris Jenner Got Plastic Surgery and Now Looks Like Kim’s Twin. LMAO.
- In a classic “I don’t know what I was thinking” moment, I once wrote a crash course on the Kardashians. And even wondered what Nicki Minaj was referring to when she was talking about the Anaconda in her song. By that time I already had two kids, but you know,...
Let Final Words Celebrate Life and Not Fear Death – A Love Letter to Living Fully
Listen To The Article - A Love Letter to Living Fully I’m writing this in case I die earlier than expected. Don't worry, I'm fine. It's just that if life takes an unexpected turn, I want my final words to be about living, not about dying. I’ve always liked the...
If You’ve Been Searching for Joy, Read This
- Chasing Permanent Happiness Many years ago, in my early thirties, I started asking myself why I wasn’t truly happy. A vital relationship in my life was in shambles, and a series of unfortunate misunderstandings had left things hopelessly deadlocked. But,...
Most of Us Only Become Remarkable by Dying Too Soon: Lessons on Life and Legacy
- The Untimely Remarkable: Valuing Life Before Loss Many years ago, I wrote in a poem: “Only untimely deaths make most of us remarkable.” What I meant was that, too often, our brilliance is only acknowledged if our life is cut abruptly short. Here's the truth....
Meta AI Scandal: Leaked Guidelines Allowed Chatbots to Flirt With Children
https://youtu.be/tSgvsXe-cwE - Want To Listen To The Article Instead? -​ Meta AI's Perilous Child Chat Guidelines 🚨 Multiple news outlets are reporting on a controversy surrounding Meta AI's internal guidelines for chatbots interacting with...
Smartphones Are Destroying Young Minds Faster Than Any Technology in History
- Smartphones: A Civilizational Threat to Human Cognition 🧠📵 An opinion piece by Colby Hall in Mediaite, titled “Alarming New Study Finds Smartphones Ruining Our Brains at Unprecedented Speed,” is going viral. And rightfully so, because it warns that...
How To Reclaim Your Mind And Keep Your Agency In The Age Of AI And Distraction {Video}
- Want To Listen To The Article Instead? - Reclaiming Agency: Mind, AI, and Digital Distraction 🧠Hi all, I've used AI to generate this video, but please note, I haven't outsourced my thought but only my task to create this. My original script that has been...
Reclaiming Your Mind: How to Keep Your Agency in the Age of AI and Endless Distraction
- Losing Agency Voluntarily I remember the first time I said the word “Agency” out loud. I was in my mom's kitchen in our village of Poranki looking out of our balcony. Fifty feet across in our neighbor's balcony, an old woman was getting bathed by her son and...
It’s Your One Brilliant Life — Are You Putting Up a Good Fight?
- Questions About Life Allow me to sound fatalistic before I get to the bright happy point of this essay AND our lives. The more I ponder life and the point of our existence, I draw the same few conclusions every time. That the duty of every human being is to...
ChatGPT Wrote a Story in my Voice and it is Scary Accurate
- I Asked ChatGPT To Write A Story In My Voice When I heard author David Baldacci speak at the Senate hearing this past week about copyright laws becoming obsolete in the AI age and how we must do more to protect the rights of content creators, I wanted to do a...