Hyperreality

Read the article, not just the title.

There's a BBC documentary about it, I think this one:

How to Kill a Human Being

It's been a long time since I watched it, but I think the inert gas route is very pleasant. He even gets slightly high/happy from it.

Key takeaways:

• there are surprisingly easy ways to kill people humanely.
• many in the US doesn't want to kill prisoners humanely, they want it to hurt and be a punishment, not die in a euphoric high

edit: found it:

https://www.documentarytube.com/videos/how-to-kill-a-human-being-2/

Rendered unconcious within 15 seconds, dead within a minute.

In testing pigs would happily stick their heads in a space with pure nitrogen and munch on apples till they lost consciousness, fell over, then stick their heads back in the space with nitrogen to eat some more apples.

A boring dystopia.

I bought particleboard furniture from a German company ten years ago. One of the planks weighed more than an entire new IKEA book cupboard.

IKEA quality has gone down hill significantly.

It used to be cheap but relatively good quality.

Now it's often (but not always) overpriced low quality stuff.

Europe? Second hand.

High quality but modernish oak furniture? You can often collect it for free. Paint it white if you think it looks too dated and attach a few new knobs.

Want to pay a bit more? Antique cupboards over 2 meters are invariably easier to dissassemble/reassassemble than an IKEA cupboard. You need less bolts if you make stuff from actual wood. Often just 4 bolts for a huge antique cupboard or no bolts at all just wood clamps/pegs. The top decoration can also often be removed. I've transported a 2.4x1.8m cupboard in the back of a VW Passat. But people don't know that and are scared it won't fit in their house or car, so don't buy them.

Wood is also easy to repair. I've bought early 19th century biedermeier cupboards for under 50Euros that now look like they just came out of a palace. The 16th century cupboard I bought, literally came from a castle. 100 Euros. 2m40 tall. Scares people off, they don't realise it's easy to dissassemble and that the top bit is usually detachable/extra, or they want ikea crap because it's what the neighbours have. People will tell you how much they paid for them(often thousands), then thank you for buying them at less than 10% because they simply don't sell and they would otherwise have been forced to chop them up for firewood. Often old people downsizing and moving to a retirement home. They'd be forced to pay hundreds in storage fees for each month it's not sold.

Some of them look bad when you buy them. I either use a (dark) furniture bees wax or pledge furniture renovator. Not a bit, but a lot of the stuff. Quality wood and you can rescue something that's been stuck in a damp shed and covered in pigeon shit for a decade, and make it look like new. Cracks? Two planks, some wood glue, some bricks. Holes? If the bees wax doesn't fill it, there's filler or wax for that. Etc. etc.

Some of my furniture has no screws, all dove tail carpenter stuff. Some has handmade screws, because they're from before industrialisation.

Only thing to avoid is wood worm, unless you have a large sauna, are willing to take a gamble on the wood not cracking as you cook it, and want to spend an entire day filling tiny holes afterwards.

In Qatar's case it's in large part due to immigration. Loads of young men for the building industry, for example.

Population size more than tripled from early 2000 to mid 2010s.

“When she carried on her whoring so openly and flaunted her nakedness, I turned in disgust from her, as I had turned in disgust from her sister. Yet she increased her whoring, remembering the days of her youth, when she played the whore in the land of Egypt and lusted after her lovers there, whose members were like those of donkeys, and whose issue was like that of horses. Thus you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when the Egyptians handled your bosom and pressed your young breasts.”

Ezekiel 23:18-21

“So they got their father to drink wine that night also, and the younger daughter went in and slept with him. Again he was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up. So both of Lot’s daughters became pregnant by their father.”

Genesis 19:35

Prostitution, horse sized dicks, breast fondling, incest and rape.

Should Americans under the age of 18 be banned from reading the bible because it is arguably pornographic?

Or is it important that we define what constitutes pornography and what constitutes a child, so that banning the bible isn't possible?

And don't think this is me simply being funny. The bible has been been banned in some schools and for some ages, thanks to these kinds of overly broad and poorly written laws.

Well, shit.

I'm not.

He has a young daughter. Poor daughter having such a shit father.

Honestly, she's probably better off without this failure of a human being in her life.

it helps if you spell UCMJ correctly

JCUM

Poor daughter. Imagine having such a failure as a father?