Where I’m from, it’s interchangeable.

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Frankly, I think you could make the argument that prison labor is more valuable based simply on the fact they can pay them less and get similar results. While also lining the pockets of the people running the prisons.

My question is who pays the wages of the prisoners? The state? The Feds? I highly doubt the prison is paying them directly.

Yes

“My guy won, fuck you” - US voters

Except this isn’t an American thing. The whole world is slowly sliding to fascism. For fucks sake Germany is on route to elect fucking Nazis again. Haven’t seen how their elections ended but it wasn’t looking good.

I started typing something else out and decided I didn’t care.

That’s about how it worked for me when I first tried giving it a go about a year ago. Wasn’t until today when I saw that Reddit post talking about paywalling some subs that I decided to give it another go.

In fact that post had a pretty decent write up of how to set up Lemmy and what it was. Probably the only reason I managed to kinda figure it out.