Emergency situation like fires or bad weather? No, a prison should have robust protocols for handling emergencies.
Failed state? Still makes no sense to me as a situation for the death penalty. A state is dying and what, with their last gasps of power they’re going to kill all their violent prisoners? Instead of letting whatever leadership that takes over after them take care of the prisoners? That sounds like something a horrible autocrat would do.
I’m against it. It does nothing to protect people that a life sentence doesn’t do. It’s permanent, there’s no correcting for mistakes. It’s about punishment, not deterrent.
Killing even a killer when there’s an option to lock them up instead is unnecessary. It smacks of religious/moral judgement that is beyond what a justice system should be focused on. If an afterlife exists and is run by some supernatural deity(ies), they will take care of punishment.
Not to mention different economic classes. Like people for whom travel to a different continent would be a luxury beyond their financial capabilities.
Mike Flanagan was slated to adapt the graphic novel *Something is Killing the Children" for Netflix. It fell through, I believe. It could have been great: Buffy-esque without the creepiness of Joss Whedon. I like almost everything Flanagan has done. I would also just accept Flanagan adapting anything more in the similar vein as Haunting of Hill House and of Bly Manor.
I think it’s dumb how much cultural weight the Nobel Peace Prize is still given. It’s a popularity contest judged by 5 Norwegian politicians.
Obama getting the prize less than a year into his presidential term, only to airstrike Libya two years later. And the entire EU winning the prize in 2012 for existing.
I’m similarly unimpressed with prestige awards elsewhere, like the Oscars for film.
I don’t have photos but used to have two cockroaches that I thought were both female but whoops, eggs laid and hatched into way too many more roaches.
I’m in design and manufacturing aerospace systems/components. And before that, design and manufacturing of laboratory instrumentation. Both were similar: options were 1) default Windows build for engineering functions and 2) default Windows build for non-engineering functions, or 3) an act of god to get something else approved. Security, monitoring, retention, I’m sure were all reasons. Also just simplifying the number of builds IT would have to accommodate.
Ive know one person who managed to get a Linux box approved. It was so they could use a particular aerodynamics software package, iirc. IT made them keep it off network and would not support it in any capacity.
I went on a 10 day backpacking trip with no reception. I deleted my reddit apps and bookmarks before I went. So got over the withdrawals during the trip, and there was just enough friction to reinstall when I got back that I never bothered.
I was also very mad about them killing the API for 3rd party mod tools and the resulting slip into AI slop and misogynist claptrap on the sub I helped mod. It’s an empty Internet wasteland now; just bots and MAGA incels yelling at each other.
Jesus, yes. And I’m a lady so I get the extra layer of dudes trying to gatekeep their “manly” hobby. I can go for a hat trick of perceived emasculation while I’m at it and tell them my deadlift form is better than theirs and that I know the best way to clean a trout.
Yep, over a dozen of 'em. Want one?
There’s no buildabear OS stuff in my industry. If I replaced the OS on my work laptop with Linux, I would 1) not be able to access anything, or 2) if I got access I might get arrested at worst and have a serious talk coming from HR for security violation at best.
Personal: Linux with a secondary, occasionaly used box for things that only seem to work on Windows. Would just do a VM if I didn’t already have a spare hand-me-down box.
Work: I’m not fighting that battle. If they deploy Windows, I’m using Windows.
Going 100% Linux, even just in personal use, is still not feasible for someone who doesn’t want to make it one of their primary hobbies.
I think it’s really difficult to completely avoid any sort of financial ties with companies or countries that are human rights abusers. I think we need to extend a lot of grace to people who try to continuously improve.
But when it’s widely known beforehand what accepting a paycheck to perform for a country like this means, but they decide to accept that big paycheck anyway, I think they deserve all the social backlash they get.
If some performer said that about my country, “no thanks, I won’t perform in the US , whose government is helping fund genocides”, then I would cheer for them for standing on their principles. I wish we saw more of that.
Having something under my lower back sounds awful. Head and knees, yes, but back?
28-32. Brain is past the stupid teen hormones and is fully developed. Recovery time after injury, hard exercise, or a night out hasn’t started getting longer yet.
Depends on the mechanism by which I can’t die. Maybe an invisible force stops me from doing dangerous things. Maybe I have just really good luck for four years. Maybe I am literally immortal for four years, like shoot a gun point blank at my cheat and it bounces off the skin.
Potentially start a mega church / cult as the second coming of everyone’s god(s). Readjust some beliefs to start from a baseline of every single human being having human rights. Rake in money from the rich fucks who think they can buy their way into some sort of heaven.
I wanna see that tattoo in 5+ years when it settles. Seems like fine detail is going to lose its sharpness regardless of whether it’s a human or a robot on the other end of the needle.
Ben & Jerries. I’m not a real believer though, I’m only in it for the compensation in product. Tubs and tubs of ice cream.
Door handle design that makes it intuitive whether it requires pushing or pulling to open.