So basically the bit in Succession when Mattsson tells Tom he wants to fuck his wife and is looking for “a pain sponge”

the best answer I can find is that the Olympic committee protested that it would affect whether the Olympics would accept attendance in that city if they allowed it, maybe someone can do a deeper dive.

Of why it’s coming back - a) Trump repopularized execution, b) Pfizer caved to public pressure to stop producing lethal injection drugs and c) electric chairs aren’t humane and suffer the same issue as firing squad that executioners suffer PTSD, it’s not very humane - being painful, long and often taking multiple attempts until the victim has a heart attack, which they of course experience and then die.

It seems like the answer I can get is that nobody really likes killing people, those that do suffer PTSD, and the messier the method the more unpopular it is.

Probably, with a bit of reflection, many people don’t actually like the death penalty when it comes to being present at it.

Due to blood being produced I believe that’s disqualified. Otherwise a .22 caliber bullet followed instantly by a .22 hollow point to both the brain and the heart simultaneously would be the fastest and most humane experience for the victim.

However, very few people want to build and operate such a contraption.

my wife got a few hundred bucks from a feminine hygiene product, unless you count that as “cents on the dollar” meaning a percentage of the final amount - in which case, that’s the case in every settlement.

not to mention like fucking Nestlé, Montsano, Blackrock, Northrop Grunman

let me say it real slow

gaaaaay

frooooogs

yeah. 5 mins. Thats all you play. Definitely not 3 or 4 hours just disappear the moment you load it up.

The war on drugs is a euphemism. Ending It doesn’t mean stop drug legislation, it means stop putting parents in jail for 10 years and putting their kids in care because they smoked weed and the kid accidentally told a cop when the cop visited their school and told them if they didn’t rat out their parents something worse would happen.

People wanting to kill themselves probably take care to do it.

Anesthesiologists won’t do it. That’s why they had so much trouble executing the guy in the first place: its not a doctor doing it, just a prison guard.

getting a note from your doctor requires time off, and costs money from the doctor and potentially lack of pay.

I started a new job 40 days ago, I can’t have any time off for another 50 days.

“Luckily” I can attend a dentist appointment by working late that day

what hasn’t been mentioned so far is that his main business plan is get little children into gambling

Automated a copywriting gig on an extremely locked down terminal entirely in Excel VBA.

It would open my email, download the list of tasks, open a browser, extract the official product copy, RegEx it into bullets, I would add a few verbs and conjunctions, hit a button it would upload it to the CMS. Turned an 8 hour day into 30 mins.

Consider this: I pick up a tennis racket and a tennis ball, so does my wife, we go to a tennis court, I hit the ball to her gently, she hits it back: Are we playing tennis or not?

If we are not, what are we doing?

And yet it’s nowhere near the level of Serena Williams, or even the local semi Pro tournament, or probably even the local tennis club.

why does it have it be good, or more accurately for this conversation- why do you have to like it for it even to exist and have a name?

I dont particularly care for The Wiggles, or for Machine Gun Kelly, but both of them produce music. Just because I don’t like it, or think it’s not good doesn’t mean it’s not music. Even a child slowly, shakily playing a basic C major scale and getting it wrong is still “music.” Its not Mozart but it still exists.

There is no “point” or “value” you can attach to tennis, music or sculpture - or other forms and media of art, entertainment, sport, science etc that means it suddenly becomes that. Art you don’t like is still art.

ah yes, being able to survive being hit with a hammer, what everyone is looking for from art.

The sun is a mass of incandescent gas

A gigantic nuclear furnace

Why hydrogen is built into helium

At a temperature of millions of degrees

Is it normal to know anything at all about your local Sheriff?

I had to do three google searches and then scroll down for a while to even find my local one, then their bio was so dull when I looked it up it was difficult to pay attention to it.

…distinguished career in law enforcement includes experience with various law enforcement agencies serving the metropolitan area. … going on to serve with both the City and the County Police Departments. In 2008, applied that experience to the creation of the public safety office for the rapidly expanding College …became the Assistant Chief of Police and…

really a mix, pop, death metal, jazz, alt, edm… although if I need to concentrate it needs to be a song that I don’t know if it has lyrics as otherwise it’s distracting

Previously known as RAGE - Retire All Government Employees - this is funded by Peter Thiel who believes that the government should be run like a business and when the leader changes they fire everyone they can and replace them with their own staff.