Oh, it occurs from time to time. Jones will shotgun tons of contradictory predictions, then quietly drop the ones that don’t work out and never shut up about the one that actually happens.

Not only that, but trust from a self contained community is not the same as safe for the general public outside of context. Imagine asking for a summary of the Gamestop shortsqueeze and getting an answer from Superstonks.

honestly, not sure I -ever- found a useful answer on Quora.

Reading them taught me one thing, Quora had/has a weirdly strong hardon for Steve Jobs and is/was all too happy to talk about anecdotes of him buying the authors’ lunch or reconciling with his estranged daughter. The only time I read criticism of Apple or him was when the question specifically asked for it.

There’s ways to rate limit, like increasing response time per IP address per hour to make rapid, massed requests slower and easier to handle. Taking them all down at once is an extreme move.

The author is the host of Behind the Bastards, and produced a pair of episodes to accompany the article on the same subject: https://pca.st/episode/96a1d3d1-7966-412b-bc8b-492c817b9f93

but yeah, why wouldn’t they just use standard anesthesia gas? or nitrous oxide?

Because the suppliers don’t want to be associated with executions, so they won’t sell any to the state for that purpose.

Okay yeah, but that’s not the discussion. You’d might as well say all methods are equally bad because it’s the act itself that’s the problem, and at that point the state can break out the human mincing machines knowing it’ll get just as much or little pushback no matter what it picks.

Funny, I remember nitrogen gas being promoted as far more humane than lethal injection or existing gas execution. For years it was touted as the solution no one was using because of I guess sadism. Now someone is using it, and of course it’s instantly denounced. You just can’t win…

a firefox extension that does this automatically?? removing the redirect/tracking link and convert back into normal link)

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/utm-eraser/

Be sure not to leave fingerprints!

I highly recommend you watch Netflix’s Downfall: The Case Against Boeing.

As a free alternative/companion, I would also suggest the PBS documentary Boeing’s Fatal Flaw, which features the CEO subtly throwing the pilots under the bus for one of the MCAS crashes.

Pale Lights, an ongoing web serial set in the pistols-and-sabres era. The first book’s already out for you to read! The author previously wrote A Practical Guide to Evil, which is completely finished.

I think that ‘Star Trek - The Next Generation’ covered this very dilemma with (S2E18) Up The Long Ladder. …The one where the crew execute the clones that Planet A were making of them to make up for their lack of genetic diversity, and forced them to marry into Planet Ireland instead?

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How authentic is this on Mayer’s end? He’s set up cameras, lighting, probably got the owner’s permission…he’s not ‘just happening’ to sit there on Zoom.

…that’s not hypocritical at all. Hates one because / so he uses the other and is used to the luxury.

Soon to be followed by “Spain should be Russian”, “Czechia should be Russian”, and of course the old favourite, “Germany should be Russian”.

I believe autism was linked to gut bacteria a few years ago. Let me check: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9355470/

There’s a separate ceremony called Confirmation to let the person choose to believe when they’re older, in both Catholicism and Protestantism. Usually at the age of eight to twelve, so it’s not exactly a choice then either, but they could theoretically choose not to.

I swear the courtroom sketch artist has a grudge, he looks downright ghoulish in the article’s picture.