Jesus Fucking Christ!

You know, sometimes you read a story and it’s like “There is no punishment too cruel or unusual for this monster”. Killing the kid? Yeah, that’s bad enough. But forcing their siblings to live in the room with their brother’s decaying corpse for months until it’s just a skeleton?

There’s an old English execution method where while the person to be executed is alive the executioner slowly runs their intestines inch by inch over a candle. Maybe we should bring that back.

The whole “while upending the economy” thing is really obnoxious.

I’m so sorry that your illegal wage slaves are going away and you’ll have to offer legal residents living wages. My heart bleeds purple piss for you.

The other thing I find insufferable is the whining about billions of dollars in cost. The federal debt in the US is 32 Trillion dollars, or 32,000 billion dollars. Every presidential administration for 24 years has increased the federal debt every single year, and for the most part the media doesn’t care one lick. But suddenly it’s something they don’t want and they’re hyperfocused on the cost. It’s like “Hey Ace! A trillion dollars of the federal budget went to the banks to pay for interest on all that debt! Why do you only care about the cost of things once?”

Although it’s sad, it is correct that he be charged, and he probably shouldn’t be pardoned by either party. He didn’t release such documents for the good of the world, he did it to feel special in a discord community. Doing stuff like that needs to have severe consequences or all kinds of hell breaks loose.

I’m surprised – it seems to me like the opposite of traditional Chinese society to take a personal tragedy such as a divorce and make it so many people’s personal tragedy. Societal harmony is a key piece of their ideology and Communism hasn’t really beaten that out of them as far as I know.

I suppose that if you were at the end of your career and you thought you’d have enough to retire and suddenly you were facing social and financial peril like that, every society has people who might react badly and do things that normally wouldn’t be tolerated by society, especially in a society that’s so focused on family bonds.

It’s sort of interesting the little picture into a different society at the time. Of course this turned out tragically, but I can’t imagine a woman hitchhiking like that today in our lower trust society.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJUNTcOGeSw

FEMA isn’t horrified. It’s a faceless bureaucracy. It’s like a Large Language Model. The organization released a statement saying it was horrified because the model stated it should release those particular words in this situation.