I wouldn’t mind it if they’d stop fucking oppressing people

There’s also a risk in the fact that it’s scalable, cheap, and stomachable. Lethal injection (current method is very bad) has to be a pain in the ass, as does hanging, and most other forms of execution. Nitrogen? You can pack a bunch of criminals in a room and press a button and tell yourself you’re just “putting them to sleep”, you don’t even have to tell them that they’re being executed now. Which is not a hypothetical in the realm of gas based execution by a far right government.

Like, it’s really easy to get hung up on the pain aspect and not talk about the fact that this is a small step from gas mask execution to gas chamber execution.

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Yeah but a republican might. You have to understand that they’re ideologically opposed to the government having and using money. Even in places they demand government attempt to turn a profit like USPS and Amtrak (which I’m theoretically not opposed to them doing if they provide vital services at a good price and quality) it’s with the ultimate goal of spinning them off into private companies

Because of Al-Kwarazimi. Hindu-Arabic math is base 10 and Al-Kwarazimi developed a really good method for doing math as well as inventing algebra. Base 10 spread with his methods. It looks like the Chinese were also using base 10 as far back as during the Shang dynasty. Meanwhile Europeans and their cultural descendants still use base 5 for ceremonial purposes (yes, even in MMXXV)

As an engineer life would be easier if we all thought in base 12, for my wife as a computer scientist life would be easier if it was in 2^n. 10 is a really convenient sized number for arithmetic and algebra though. Babylon was insane i genuinely can’t imagine trying to teach children the name and order of 60 digits to the point of instinctive mathematical understanding

Yeah it does. Firstly, outside the former confederacy segregation wasn’t as sticky of an issue. That’s not to say we aren’t racist, we’re just less comfortable announcing it. In the Midwest people of his generation would be using euphemisms. Like I’m in my 30s and spend most of my life in Ohio and never heard an old person in that region call for segregation even when they’re shitfaced, instead they talk about drugs, crime, “inner city types”, and rap music when they want to be anti black.

American bigotry has very regional flavoring and southern is notoriously shameless.

The other big thing is that the Christianity he’s rejecting sounds like southern Christianity. Every region of the US has it’s vibes of what they mean when they say Christian.

So yeah it’s everything he reads as foreign to me as an Aussie. The mason Dixon line feels to many Americans as much a cultural divide as the border with Canada, though ontarians have always seemed more reasonable than southerners.

Here’s the last archive.

CW: everything but misogyny, it’s remarkable how little misogyny there is in a schizophrenic screed against Jewish, black, queer, and educated people

The time cube is the most southern schizophrenic thing I’ve ever read

Not arbitrary, pretty close to 1/40000 the N-S circumference of the earth

Base 10 is also cultural. Babylon used 60, ancient Egypt had 12 (they counted on the bones in their fingers), Rome had 5, and my wife just spent 10 minutes arguing for 8

An inch is just a special term for 2.54cm used by Americans (but not our government)

“Wait you all started with base 60 and left it? It took us millenia to realize that it was the best choice, and once we did we never looked back”

Yeah in 2019 we even managed to get the pesky kilogram defined by a natural constant.

I thought the joke was calling the person a dumbass because the speed of light is a constant and therefore having it be 1 makes a lot of sense when looked at from a universal scale. The only reason a meter isn’t a clean division of the speed of light is because we defined the meter before we decided to make it a division of c.

Because states rights has long been a bigoted dogwhistle. Early on it was states rights to have slavery, but rejecting states rights to declare every person on their soil free; then it became about Jim Crow, then abortion and gay issues and to a lesser extent cannabis, but only when the federal government was considering banning the bigoted option. The people chanting states rights about abortion aren’t anymore and are cracking down on the rights of pregnant people to leave their states to get an abortion.

Refusing to breathe is the instinctive response to being unwillingly hooked up to nitrogen as a means of execution. This causes co2 buildup in the blood and an agonizing death.

There is no humane form of execution.

What the actual fuck‽

The fact that you don’t weed is also good. Barring invasive species most weeds are native species that local fauna rely on.

If I’d bought a home in ohio where I grew up i wanted to look into mint as ground cover and plant some wild strawberries.

That could very well just be early stages. Very few fireflies means not many to reproduce