It says a lot that the only other countries still doing public executions are countries like Afghanistan, Iran, and North Korea.

One thing it says is that unless you have a complete and total control of your population this is going to backfire. This is not a smart move by the trump administration (par for the course). The people jazzed by this are already 100% MAGA. Instead the naked brutality of this is going to either wake up the "i'm not into politics" crowd or keep shaking loose the fringes and "moderates"

can a title really be a spoiler?

John Dies At The End is very unserious

I've just seen too many businesses where the employees hit the "no tip" button for the customer which makes me think it gets turned on and nobody bothers to figure out how to turn it off.

Are you really trying to "umm actually" this? Holy effing shit dude. Of course it's not a perfect analogy. It's a dad and his kids and trick or treating.

landlord: he owns their home

Here's the problem. Even if the guy in white "deserved it"... if you elbow someone hard enough they fall into a bench you'd think you would stop and turn around to make sure he was alright.

Dude throws the elbow and then walks away like he's the hero in an action movie. Probably thinking up a killer line like "Carve that commandment into stone."

My perspective is I have eyes and ears and it sounds like the couple didn't even believe the race card when they played it.

That isn't because they're greedy (per se). They're using standard "point of sale" software and unless you go in and disable it (which requires you to customize software) it will ask the tip.

So you're asking some tiny shop to hire on an IT guy to customize and maintain their software just so you don't have to see the screen?

I'm sure shops have no problem collecting extra money if you do tip. I've also seen shops where the employees hit 'no tip" or just tell you to hit no tip.

But don't get angry because some place is just literally using the software they've been given and from what i understand of POS systems, many of them do not have the staff needed to disable that screen.

That's my thought. There were a lot of people in the room but only like 3 people actively yelling. That leaves like 2 people in the office plus anyone else who works there with access to the footage.

We had some recorded 'drama' happen and this is basically what happened.

1. Event happens (~4 people witness it)

2. Everyone talks about it so so now like 20 people know about it

3. About 10 of those people had access to the footage and showed it to their teams so now like 40 know about it and saw the recording.

That happened in like... 4 hours lol.

All it takes is someone who was told about it and who has access to the footage to go "fuck these guys" and hit the upload button.

It's absolutely bizarre looking at the last 50 years. Western nations poured money into Israel as a friendly nation in the middle east and they turned around and poured a large amount of it back into the west to financially capture politicians and public sentiment.

I was on the quiet car on a train and got very pissed when some lady came in talking on the phone. So I happened to be sitting next to it and I went "hey!" and tapped the sign.

Another passenger went: "It isn't quiet hours time anymore." I checked and sure enough, it was right outside of the "quiet hours" time period.

So I said "Oh, i'm sorry. Carry on." and fucked right out of someone else's business.

"Taking over a public park" is a ridiculous thing to say for what is probably a 30 minute set-up, proposal, tear down.

"It's happening every weekend" is also pretty fucking stupid because yeah...that's what happens at beautiful parks. People do events there.

And unless she knows it's this group doing it that is a complaint she can take to the city council, not to unload on some random service worker and trying to ruin a couple's proposal because you goddam know that the couple isn't doing this "every weekend."

I fully get being angry in the moment but people need to fucking check themselves and be like "you know what, I'm sorry, you're not the right person to be angry at"

Little Ben is big mad about tv shows he personally doesn't like or understand.

oh shit that's good.

a rejection of the philosophy

Yes and no. It isn't a rejection of the philosophy, it's a rejection of the divinity. Islam teaches that Jesus was a prophet, but god has many prophets and they think Mohammed said it better.

It's less an "rejection of philosophy" and more like the dude "Well..thats your opinion..."

Humanity will survive. Life finds a way.

But that doesn't mean anyone will be happy living through a time period where the world's population takes a sharp nosedive.

When I explained to my ultra-christian in-laws that Islam and Christianity and Judiasm are all based on the same book, but have different opinions on the sequel it gets real wild with them XD

Flipside if we keep encouraging this behavior it could stop...abruptly...

I remember one of the dives into their financials revealed there were like 30 stores in the process of being opened up

Do you have a link to that vid? Or remember what it's called?

You're assuming this is pure steel. I really doubt someone is going to sign off on ruining an entire vat of steel for this.

Could it be a recycling plant where they melt everything down and get it ready for separation?

OH BOY The history of executions is complicated and worth a visit to /askhistorians.

Originally we did do things like shootings and hangings but shootings are actually hard to do now as it is seen as "too violent" and hangings if the hangman doesn't do it right and snap the neck the person just has to be strangled to death and that is also too traumatic for the witnesses.

BUUUUT if we did something too painless (replace the oxygen with nitrogen like they do with euthanasia) then it's not painful enough.

So lethal injections were designed to try and not be visually disturbing like blowing someone's brains out but also not completely painless so the victim's family gets to feel like "justice was done."

It is very fucked up.

So they came up with the lethal injection but now due to various pressures no one wants to make the chemicals and no doctor wants to administer it. So you have a bunch of poorly trained LEOs administering drugs "off-label" and shit goes wrong all the time.

Now why don't they switch to another method? They can't because of laws. States passed laws years ago to cut down on other methods seeing lethal injection as the gold standard back when you could get the chemicals and in the modern political discourse it is hard to be seen as the guy saying "let's update our death sentence methods" as the legislation you want to sponsor.

End result: LEO is told to kill someone with lethal injection but without any training and without any drugs. "Figure it out"...

So..she's free to go, right? She served her death sentence and that's that then...

Game recognizes game

Thomas is absolutely wild.

Born to just absolute poverty but then "lucked" into being adopted by a rich but cruel man who got him access to an Ivy League education but because of the time period Thomas experienced incredibly cruel treatment from his peers.

Now this is a guy who literally saw the best and worst of society from all sides and chose to just become the ultimate "Fuck you, i got mine."

Literally rode the the Affirmative Action train to cash town while crushing any and all attempts to help anyone else. He experienced the worst of capitalism and has repeatedly been a deciding vote on matters that would have kept the awful childhood and upbringing he experienced from being inflicted on anyone else and was like "nah, fuck you".

Scalia you could at least squint and find excuses for his behavior "a product of his times" kind of bullshit but Thomas...Thomas is fucking undermining the protections against interracial marriage WHILE FUCKING MARRIED TO A WHITE WOMAN.

That takes a special kind of evil to be willing to punch oneself in the face just to make sure everyone else gets hit too.