[-] abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

Good. Let's go, round two baby, ride this wave all the way to the bottom

[-] abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

I have a friend who open carries everywhere as well. We do not live in a dangerous area at all and he carries this thing to the grocery store.

I call it his "big boy gun" because it makes him feel like he's a big boy now, like a kid who wears his "big boy" pants with no diapers.

[-] abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

I'm interested, but can someone provide more context? What is this document, who wrote it, who is actually pushing it, etc.

Like if you went to the RNC and a presenter said "here's the plan" and everyone in the room erupted in applause that's one thing, but if one crazy person wrote this up wearing a tin foil Nazi maga hat and said "LISTEN THIS IS THE PLAN" to himself and posted it on Twitter then that's a whole different deal.

[-] abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

One could only dream

[-] abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

As someone else said, recovering alcoholics, but also they market towards sustainability. Infinitely recyclable aluminum instead of single use bottles and all that. I'm still just gonna drink from the tap most of the time, but I'll pick one up on a road trip or if I'm going on a picnic or something

[-] abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago

Mine is Succ Boi

[-] abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago

I feel like even the smart ones who built rockets and bombs saw us killing nazis and were like "yeah that's probably for the best"

[-] abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago

Linen cloth, time to start making bandages again.

[-] abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago

Is that a neo-mazi hand sign? Looks like he's just doing the devil horns or something to me.

[-] abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

It's not about being accomplished for most of them anymore. It's about not letting go of their power. They won't admit to themselves that they're old or the world has changed. They grip desperately to their seat and their power because they "can still do it", and they "know what's best".

People who have had a senile friend or family member have seen similar stuff plenty of times. Older adults who can't even close their hands all the way or remember that they dont have shoes on will argue and fight, sometimes violently, that they can still do something. For example, still cook with an open flame despite catching their house on fire three separate times. Or that they can still drive despite not seeing past their fingertips and not knowing what city they're in.

There is a thing called aging gracefully that involves accepting the difficulties of getting older and passing the torch, and clearly a large number of politicians are having a serious problem with it.

[-] abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

Without going on a whole dissertation, there are a lot of aspects that have to be figured out for a government sanctioned execution to occur.

You could in theory just have an officer whip out a shotgun and bang, problem solved, much like you mentioned with suicide. But when it's sanctioned by the government you have to be very discerning with a lot of different details.

Why are we ending this person's life

Because we have deemed their actions excessively heinous and do not want them to drain further on society by being incarcerated

In ending their life should we be causing them pain?

Huge debate, but the main reason we use lethal injection or gas executions instead now is to end their life without pain or torture. Ideally a person would just be turned off like a light without them even noticing.

How can you be sure you got the right person

Big question, but we are talking execution

What if the execution fails or goes incorrectly, now we've maimed someone and caused undue suffering, which as a people we have decided we wouldn't do.

Exactly. That's why there are so many issues surrounding lethal injection chemicals and sources. How do you create these chemicals properly and precisely, without spending excess money or profiting off govt sanctioned murder.

Why not carbon monoxide?

Short answer, it's flammable and dangerous to the people performing the executions. That's why nitrogen is a decent possibility for something like this, it is inert, common, and can be acquired and vented away with little issue.

[-] abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago

Oh man I just had a thought. If they require an ID for auth, someone at the news agency has to validate their ID. If that person gets fired, and decides to use their ID to validate ownership and change the password on the account, malicious activity ensues.

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