• DicJacobus@lemmy.world
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    Congratulations to Brainrot for defeating Humanity

    the insects turn is coming up. Probably sooner than we think. Thats if the AI doesnt get them first.

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    Wasn’t one alleged point of DOGE was to reduce government waste? Alcatraz was closed due to it being a ridiculously expensive prison. Much more than any other prison at the time.

    It was this, not the famous escape of 1963 that caused it to close.

  • InverseParallax@lemmy.world
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    You’re all missing the point here:

    California isn’t giving proper respect, they have to be taught a lesson.

    So, end the global film industry, put a nightmare prison right in sf bay, and just gradually make it clear they can’t ignore Trump and pretend he doesn’t exist.

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    Nothing meaningful will happen with this during Trump’s lifetime.

    Time for the next dead cat.

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    I’m tired of just seeing random Trump ideas without any kind of deeper thought or plan behind it. Alcatraz hasn’t housed a prisoner for a long time. Needless to say, it’d cost a lot of money to get it back up in action. Is this money worth spending? How much is it? What’s wrong with our other supermax prisons in the USA?

    It’s embarrassing this guy can just throw out these off the cuff ideas and STILL finds fans in the USA.

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    Alcatraz was originally closed because it was extraordinarily expensive to run and it wasn’t very useful given the alternatives.

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    Alcatraz closed as a federal prison in 1963 after just 29 years of operation because it was too expensive to continue, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. The per-capita cost of housing prisoners there was substantially higher than other correctional facilities. In addition, corrosion from the salt air of San Francisco Bay means the facility requires additional maintenance to sustain that prisons in other locations don’t.

    I thought we were trying to save money

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    Someone go jingle your keys in front of the orange dunce…

    He must have saw something on arcatraz lately and his stupid addled brain got stuck on it. Good god I hate this timeline.

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    Things that won’t happen.

    The salt from the ocean has corroded the bars, a good kick likely would open the windows. To secure the place would take years of rework or just outright tear down and rebuild.

    The place hasn’t had proper upkeep since the late 1960s and honestly very likely before then too. It wouldn’t serve to secure anyone that various places out in the Midwestern desert regions wouldn’t do multiple times better.

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      Alcatraz is a derelict. Getting it up to a functioning prison standard would almost assuredly take knocking it down with heavy equipment and starting over from zero. You could probably, unironically, finish high speed rail for the same time and financial cost, but then you couldn’t try to impress people by showing everyone that you’re the world’s only banana republic dictator with no drip.

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          I’m not sure if you took my meaning. Alcatraz is inoperable. If we moved to cars as a metaphor, we’re not talking about “it can’t pass smog”, we’re talking about “Boomer’s fixer upper that’s been untouched in the front yard for forty years and is basically unusable as even scrap metal”.

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      You think they won’t give out a contract worth tens of millions to update a math balled prison to someone they know?

      This is America.

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        Pretty sure that’s the entire point of this whole thing. Give an insanely overbid contract to someone who will then launder back a sizable portion of it in campaign donations or crypto meme coin purchases. Continue grift until the money runs out.

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      The strength of the bars was never Alcatraz’s selling point. It’s the location.

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        This is still about the location, but not in the way you’d expect. It’s near Hollywood so movies were made about it and it’s the next most notorious American prison after Guantanamo that Trump has heard of. I guarantee this is his Plan B after Guantanamo didn’t work out.

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    “They’re trying to build a prison!”

    “For you and me to live in!”

    “They’re trying to build a prison!”

    “FOR YOU AND ME!”