hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
1hr ago
Clan based societies actually don't use the death penalty very much- they punish serious crimes with fines, that the entire family of the guilty pays into. Feuds happen when the two clans can't agree about it. The death penalty tends to be a feature of states.
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
Texas did put police in the way of the open border and Biden just... let them.
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
Ukraine isn't a client state- they get weapons from all sorts of countries(Turkey, the USA, Poland, etc) to continue a war that they fully intend to keep fighting until their entire male population is dead or Russia gives up.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
The homily at mass this morning began with a metaphor to the crac des chevalier, a crusader era fortress which successfully repelled assaults by artillery and aircraft having forces in the Syrian civil war. This got me thinking- what’s the longest continuous use of a not-uprgraded/remodeled fortress in active military service(to rule out things like the kremlin and Tower of London which are old fortresses used today for non-combat purposes)? I’m doubting the crac des chevalier is it.
hydroacetylene
7hr ago
Far more likely that they’ll change the law to allow nitrogen asphyxiation.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Strangulation hanging is the low tech version, it was superceded in the commonwealth with the development of long drop and then adopted by other modern users of hanging.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
TIL Taylor Swift is right wing.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
It's a classic high-low alliance. The outcasts and dregs of society will be kept outside and used as enforcers- a better deal than polite society usually gives them.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Because unlike Oklahoma, Tennessee has not defined statutorily that the use of nitrogen asphyxiation rather than veterinary medications is an accepted method of execution. Why this is is probably because Tennessee doesn't execute people very often and so never felt the need to change their method.
Most US executions are carried out in just a few states- Texas Georgia and Florida(the three big southern states), and Alabama and Oklahoma. Texas and Georgia have political reasons for being unable to change anything about their death penalty. Alabama, Florida, and Oklahoma have alternative methods enshrined in law.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Nitrogen asphyxiation is currently only used in Oklahoma. Lethal injection is the method used for most executions in the US and it's typically done with either a drug cocktail or an overdose using veterinary drugs.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
IIRC there's two methods of hanging, and the US used strangulation hanging which is genuinely inhumane. The commonwealth and many oriental countries use(d) long-drop, which is not inhumane.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Uh, renaissance painters were a bit, shall we say ... fruity... themselves, and may have been importing their own preferences into their art.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
There won't be liters upon liters of blood gushing out. There will be blood, yes, but most of it will remain inside his corpse- .308 rounds do not kill by exsanguination.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The current system for the death penalty in the United States actually requires this baroque procedure- Gary Gilmore still had to go through a lengthy process.
It does this less about concern with executing innocent people and more because elite consensus is anti-death penalty but abolitionism is too unpopular to actually do in most of the country.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Apparently it's legally impossible to whip out a sidearm and blow her head off, since you can only kill people in the exact way and time that a judge finds pleasing. Otherwise it's something like murder, so that woman has to be rushed off to hospital to save her from the death she was supposed to suffer.
The relevant law is a state statute defining the method of execution. Utah has used a firing squad in the recent past(Utah has a low crime rate and population and does not execute very many people), because the state government chose to define that as a legal method of execution. It's not about 'cruel and unusual' it's 'compliance with state law about carrying out the death penalty'.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Executions are generally attended to by a cleric of the condemned's faith, a journalist from the associated press, and a doctor as well as prison officials, right?
hydroacetylene
1d ago
In the days when people had to kill their own meat, they prized it more. I can tell you that taking little kids hunting does not stop them from eating backstrap.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
US gun laws are written as a compromise between people who hate guns too much to know anything about them and people who just don't want the laws to work.
Specifically, the National Firearms Act put a tax stamp and registration requirement on a lengthy set of firearms categories on the basis of 'gangsters using them in the movies'. Over time that registration requirement became an odious six month process, because bureaucracy. Short barreled rifles/shotguns are also now unrestricted.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I doubt the Norwegian parliament is any bigger of a fan of Iran's leadership. These are not braindead American college liberals just because they're progressive and don't like republicans.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
We don't know that.
Abolishing the death penalty has never passed a popular vote test. It's still unpopular, years after the fact, in many of the places where it's abolished. In all likelihood this guy will be shot and then slump over like a perfect shot on a deer, the 'unnecessary suffering' or 'cruel and unusual angle' just won't be possible to run with. People who watch looking for gore and brutality will come away disappointed, and the people will say eh, he's a bastard, at least they made it quick.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
For reference, those fifteen states are Alaska, Colorado, Michigan, Georgia, Minnesota, Connecticut, Mississippi, North Dakota, North Carolina, Montana, Nevada, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Washington and Wisconsin.
For those who don't know, a silencer does not work like in the movies. In real life, it takes the sound from 'permanent hearing damage' down to merely 'very loud'. The proximal effects of this law will be essentially nil; criminals will continue to mostly use nine mils that they hold incorrectly.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Harry potter and the second amendment is a meme for a reason.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I haven’t read Harry Potter recently but it’s not like your best friend’s slightly younger sister having a crush on you is at all unrealistic. Is there an indication that she’s mostly after his fame?
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Isn’t the Harry Potter worldbuilding issue something that’s pretty easy to retcon with ‘the viewpoint character is a teenager’?
The church does not align perfectly with woke lib-left talking points. They merely happen to oppose the death penalty, as is elite consensus in Europe, even on the right.
It's generally best to model the Catholic church as having similar policy positions to the Europe's conservative elite- because by and large, that is who makes up the upper church administration. Bishops in the Roman curia are mostly from elite, conservative families in continental Europe. That means that yes, they believe in global warming, don't have vibes based opposition to immigration(because that's not an elite thing), oppose the death penalty, don't support the right to bear arms, etc- but also have hardline sexual morality views, are generally opposed to socialism, tend to be bioconservative, support gender roles, etc. The RCC is run by elites and has official positions which tend to be shifted towards elite consensus.
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