Honesty is a tough one, especially when living in a world that expects people to tell employers what they want to hear just to get decent work.

I can’t fathom why anyone would want to live in the US as a life choice.

It boils down to what it always does. Some places are worse and those places have people that want something better, while there are also places that are way better but they mostly have immigration laws that are just as strict as our own while almost all of us have family ties in our country of origin.

If I had been capable of getting a PhD in my hard science of choice then went on to make bank after college, you better believe i’d be residing in one of my (pipe)dream countries around the EU.

Boo! Hiss!

…affecting any sort of progress.

how do you want them to affect progress?

Oh, hypothetically speaking, I’m not even certain that would qualify as cruel & unusual anymore if they were to run out of alternatives.

The giant meat tenderizer is a nice touch.

It sounds pretty freakin cruel to me but I’ll just post this quote and link:

source: Discover

“The physician concluded based on his observations that a severed head could retain consciousness for 25 to 30 seconds.”

It is said that it has to be both {cruel && unusual} simultaneously to be unconstitutional. The more they carry out these “new methods” like nitrogen gassing the more ‘usual’ it becomes.

I find all forms of capital retribution to be barbaric, in addition to having the problem of killing potentially innocent people. Add to that it’s hard to argue that a justice-system can even exist when a prosecutor can just dangle the death penalty over a defendants head if they don’t sign a plea.

-With all of that in mind I’ve always found the idea of a firing squad to be the least unappealing option out of all of the multiple unappealing options. Guns were specifically designed to effectively kill people with hundreds of years of iteration built into them. Our military and our Allies military sometimes even use them to kill children. a skilled shooter and a stationary target can make it quick. -At least, that’s what I can imagine.

The second the tarriffs were first announced I was notified the 3-4 of the products I had on my Amazon “Save For Later” list had simultaneously increased in price, and they were all things that were expected to ship from outside the country.

yeah, but do we really need a 1000+ page book to learn that absolute power corrupts absolutely?

Created flashpowder from 70% Potassium Perchlorate, and 30% 400-Mesh German Dark Alumium powder then subsequently blew shit (mostly earth) up. I also set a lot of stuff on fire. I created Molotov Cocktails out of gasoline and styrofoam and threw them at a block wall of a barn-ruin in the back yard. I also remember creating a Napthalene charge(think cardboard paper-towel roll stuffed with ground up mothballs sitting atop of some Black powder) that was suppose to create a big fireball and though I had no black powder prepared, I did have some excess flash powder I needed to get rid of so I used that. -For the briefest, loudest moment my buddies and I lit up the night sky.

–It was dangerous back then but it was before 9/11 and a visit from the feds was highly unlikely. Afterwards it became much harder to acquire German Dark 400 Mesh Aluminium Powder and today I would wholeheartedly expect a visit from an Alphabet agency. I did scald my face when nickel(bottle)-rocket fuel (made of carmelized sugar and potassium nitrate) ignited in my face as I was melting it together.

hmm, I knew of neither of these issues before buying a membership just last month. That sucks.

scientific hubris is the underlying theme of almost all of Crichton’s sci-fi books.

One of those “I’m joking” but not really jokes. -I hate those. It show’s a lack of self-awareness on those that make the claim.

“Donald J. Trump, in an alternate universe.”

Are you suggesting that there’s a universe where society rewards honesty?

Wasn’t banned. left due to Corporatism.

Cool, does it run on a Galaxy Xcover6 Pro with a Verizon plan? I bet it doesn’t, nothing does besides the big-2 OS’s it seems.

I always liked using this on the premise of privacy-through-obfuscation. If the powers that be must get information from me, then i’d prefer to give them garbage information.

1 point. I’ve never sent a postcard… I bought one with a shifting hologram on the front for the purposes of sending a Thank-You note. I just never got around to sending it.

I still do a lot of this other stuff with some regularity.