Inmate firefighters are indeed inmate labor, but the issue is whether inmate firefighters are slaves. I don’t think that they are, and I also think that lumping them together with other forms of inmate labor (particularly those that benefit private interests) is misleading and hyperbolic when discussing that point.

I think you’re conflating the general issue of inmate labor with the particular issue of inmate firefighters.

But in this case they are volunteers. They specifically applied to the firefighting program.

There’s certainly cause for discussion about the ethics, etc. but calling it slavery or involuntary servitude is hyperbole.

1. No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia.
2. Be respectful, especially when disagreeing. Everyone should feel welcome here.

From a national security standpoint of the government, it absolutely does matter who has the data.

TestDisk and PhotoRec. TestDisk can recover broken drive partitions, PhotoRec can recover deleted files even if the partition table is borked.

There’s an entire Star Trek instance (startrek.website) that followed the /r/daystrominstitute community from reddit during the Exodus.

Left4Dead2. Infinitely replayable, multiplayer without being toxic (except Versus mode), simple enough for n00bs to not be a burden most of the time.

A large bottle of cologne. Plausible gift that makes them think they smell bad.

You can collect unemployment after quitting if you have a good cause for quitting.

I’m the building superintendent.

My landlord pays me to live in my apartment rather than the other way around.

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The Voyage Home is the first movie I remember seeing. I was around 3 years old and my parents took me to see it at a drive in theater. It remains my favorite Trek movie.

Because that would violate the prime directive.

Shut up and keep looking apologized to.

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“Here come the test results: ‘You are a horrible person’. That’s what it says, ‘a horrible person’. We weren’t even testing for that!”

I just use Everything desktop search and let the files fall where they may.

Just lemmy in a browser for me. Never used facebag or twatter or others besides reddit.