hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
1hr 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
1hr ago
Isn’t the Harry Potter worldbuilding issue something that’s pretty easy to retcon with ‘the viewpoint character is a teenager’?
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
Methods of execution are set by statute and at the moment Oklahoma allows nitrogen asphyxiation but Tennessee does not. Most executions in the US are carried out in states that allow only lethal injection- although that’s likely to change soon.
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
internationally recognized nation state, only via terrorists and cartels
Red China has done it in the relatively recent past.
I am somewhat morbidly curious how this is going to be streamed. I can't imagine any of the existing platforms wanting anything like this anywhere near them,
The government might well have its own streaming platform for c-span or something. And there’s always streaming on X.
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
Death penalty eligible criminals have the option to waive their final appeals and get it over with. Almost none of them take it.
I don’t think the death penalty is deterring, because it isn’t used often enough. But it’s sure not deterring in the other direction- the actual reality of execution is spending twenty years in a maximum security prison and then dying.
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
But then why go for something as tame as a firing squad?
Federal law prescribes execution methods quite specifically(and for state executions normally this is also prescribed by statute)- the military is allowed to use firing squad, lethal injection, or the method of the state the military prison hes being held in is located in.
If Hasan specifically requested to be locked in the tiger cage at the San Francisco zoo, like many a dumb stoner, then the Supreme Court would likely rule that he has the right to pick his own manner of execution(they have repeatedly used this as an answer to cruel and unusual punishment claims in the past). But in the absence of that, hegseth is stuck deciding between a short, set list of methods.
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
I’m not planning on watching this. It will, if I’m not much mistaken, make us the only non-Muslim country to carry out a public execution this year, and I have no real interest in watching a 60 year old paraplegic die, no matter how bad he is.
Firing squad is an ipso facto normal thing to do here; military members who swore allegiance to a faction their country was at war with and opened fire on their comrades would be executed even in many countries that formally don’t have a death penalty. I don’t particularly like the public execution spectacle because execution is too rarely used to have a deterrent effect. Being executed in the United States isn’t a matter for common murderers; it requires aggravating factors. Making it less cruel is better, not more cruel, because there is no real deterrent effect- it’s a rare tail event.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
It’s been a long time since I read Harry Potter, because I was in middle school the last time I read them.
But I don’t remember the characters being much like you’re describing. I remember Luna as being someone who was probably fairly moonbattish rather than a right wing Twitter enthusiast, although I suppose she’d be sharing schizo conspiracy theories(not racist ones in particular) there. Not crime stats. Malfoy came off as a true believer who got in over his head- and there were lots of those in the books. Mcgonnagal came off as a very serious career teacher. Etc, etc.
hydroacetylene
21hr ago
No, they will literally ship you a free pony that they rounded up in the desert. It causes a public outcry among the sorts of people who keep track of government programs to cry about when they euthanize them or sell them to quebecois butchers.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
There’s cursive script(not the same thing) used ornamentally very heavily, but most people in the west never run into calligraphy. Ever. You can hire an artist to do calligraphy for you if you’d like, but it’s quite rare.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I mean they can do that too, but it pays much worse and requires retraining.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
That was already the status quo for artists, though- they were already waiting tables.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
No, there’s been a free pony program for a while. The bureau of land management has free ponies if you want one.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I suspect that the drone will fly itself by AI long before there is a robot that puts bombs on it, rather than someone doing his four years to pay for college.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
As /K/ will soon be saying- run out into your backyard screaming. When the neighbors are screaming back, grab your shotgun and start shooting at electrical infrastructure feeding into datacenters.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Idaho? (forgive the Brit please)
Idaho is actually very expensive, like many western rural states.
'Move to Ohio' is a reasonable answer to those who can't afford New York, though- the purchasing power will actually be higher, even given lower average salaries.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
OTOH, when manuscript traditions and horses went obsolete, we didn't make this stuff major competitions. Calligraphy is now an art form that most people never encounter and horses are a luxury despite the government giving them away for free.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Can't mathematicians who don't make it in academia just become actuarials or high school teachers, depending how they weight work-life balance vs compensation? I literally don't understand why they think it's completely hopeless. You didn't get what you wanted, in a longshot career path. No need to rope. Just take the backup plan.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I should point out that a challenge to mutual combat is in fact legal. They could have a boxing match or something. Of course nerds don't know that, but they could.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
AI X risk is just this round of global warming catastrophism(we're going to be underwater by 2000 2012 2020[oh wait, that was a different ridiculous hysteria we'd all be better off ignoring]) because seriously, datacenters are fragile and require constant inputs from outside that we can just cut off. Like against Skynet we can take some collateral damage if we've got to. It's not worth worrying about, it's just another made up problem to justify giving ridiculous people more power. In this case, a literal sex cult.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Does his support for Putin actually do anything?
hydroacetylene
3d ago
She was in a sorority. Definitionally, her job is to be a member of the elites.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Thé disinvite was at the request of her sorority, which was worried about their reputation. Sorority sisters are not supposed to do groupsex. It was probably also an attempt to cover the frat’s rear end.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
And it’s small enough that you can just… go through it, and not need a guide to make sure you don’t miss anything.
Harry potter and the second amendment is a meme for a reason.
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