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I have heard of copper theft but I never looked into the profit margins on it. Since it's usually mentioned in the context of drug addicts, like you've done, I thought it was shit money that only the truly desperate would stoop to.

That's a good point.

I've never held any illusions that black people would ever be made whole from any of the multiple abuses done to them by the USA. Black people have never been "economic peers" to levy expected, financial obligations, just resources to burn through.

So, I'll admit that I was unclear and came in with undeclared preconceptions: no, I don't think black people (in slavery, newly-freed, nor in the prsion system) are expecting to be done right by their incarcerators. So no, there is no "expectation" of payment that is being unmet because the US barely pretended it was a trade.

Someone else mentioned the colonies reneging on French debts, which is an example of the US making a deal with and witholding (re)payment.

Huh, today I learned steel is cheaper than chips.

Is copper more expensive than steel?? Why else would you do this?

Is there anything saying that Jedi mindtricks are permanent? You can trick them for a moment, but it'll fade and you're back at square 1.

LLMs are only more efficient when you don't even know how to start doing a thing. Once you have even a primer on any subject, you'd probably be better off muddling through to a solution on your own.

But providing the existence of a counter example is the foundational detraction to all-encompassing claims like "all land is stolen", in logic.

But those tacitly aren't expected to be reimbursed for labor, so that wasn't what I was asking about.

Does the US, as a polity, have a history of non-payment after rendered services?

That's more famously a Trump staple.

She prompted it and I accepted because what are you going to do? Stay in a one-sided relationship?

Honestly, it was the right call even if I immediately went into emotional triage to figure out when I had fucked up.

Oh boy, do I ever!