Yeah it’s a weird confidence in the justice of the afterlife.

If you want the maximum amount of suffering for the perpetrator (something the US justice system seems eager to) then killing them only with it if there’s a Satan grilling his ass. If their existence just ends it’s rather merciful.

So even if you are hell bent on having a punitive sentencing system (even though it’s proven to be unhelpful for everybody involved) the death sentence doesn’t make sense at all.

A life sentence where the perpetrator is kept alive for as long as possible, against their will (which is ironicall supposed the merciful thing according to the pro life folks (who also overlap with pro death sentence folk, interestingly)) is technically the most severe form of punishment.

I caused a minor diplomatic incident between the development organisations of the Netherlands and Germany in a small African country.

I was working for the Dutch organisation as an intern. There was a little get together of the organisations at a local bar. When introductions were made I used a WW2 term to describe our boss. I said ‘this is our ubersturmbahnfuhrer’.

This was not the right thing to say, as the leader of the German team was an ex-east German and staunch antifascist with little sense for my perceived ‘humor’. He felt personally insulted by being compared thusly and I had to shamefully go down to their offices and profusely apologize.

How does this subsidy work? Asking for my dad, who lives in France.

Yes, consciousness is described as a constant feedback loop by Douglas Hofstadter in his book ‘I am a strange loop’.

Well with the read it you want to explore this though a bit further.

I think Dubai should be high on the list. A vapid city without history that only attracts people because of being expensive.

It’s thriving die to slave labor and violent racism.

He’s just spent a couple of days being fellated by the entirety of NATO countries, including the Dutch royal family, so he feels like he’s the top dog in everything once more.

Just be like China and ignore his hollow threats

Anna Karenina. There’s no better pshychological character study of upper class Russian culture (but at the same time, about people in general).

Brain drain away!

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There was too little to go around

I wonder why we don’t just give Ukraine a single nuke and plenty of delivery missiles.

The reason they were attached was because they have up their nukes over empty promises.

We don’t want them to start a full blown nuclear war, but want them to be able to threaten with their single nuke.

That’s why you make them work, so they are profitable. They can regain their freedom that way.

We could put them in a place that has a sign that says ‘Work will set you free’ over the gate.

::: spoiler /s for those that failed to pick up on the extreme sarcasm.

Brain surgery?

Whale oil beef hooked

I’m on a campaign to only use the name he got from the idot that spwned him: James Donald Bowman.

Ofc he’s now simping for another asshole called Donald.

He knows but part of the major economic benefits for the city are already in his pockets

Full Self Destruction

Thanks for dismantling the rage bait!

I, too, would appreciate a succinct tl:dw of the proceedings.

Counts as a bath in my book