Warehousing a person for decades as just a vessel for the life you intend to eventually take is competitive with the brutality of any torture I’ve ever heard of.

They share a dormitory with other inmates in a prison notorious for bad conditions. By American Standards.

I love you Philip Morris this is not.

The individual explosives were probably 15 or 20 grams of material that could be disguised as part of the case, components, or battery. Plastic explosives can be molded, painted, and wired to resemble almost anything.

IDK for sure, it could be as you describe, but I doubt it because the pagers were in place for months and many of them were likely disassembled/repaired in that time.

I hope he does run: for inmate trustee of the month.

There has been a lot of coverage about how state Republican organizations have been taken over by MAGA. The result has been incompetence, mismanagement, and an alienation from the “elites” who we used to call the “donor class”.

I’m too old to be optimistic, but Trump sure looks like the leader of a loosing campaign.

Meanwhile, Putin is going to visit Twitter (formally X) to thank all the people who are helping his war effort.

There is no amount of training, experience, or ability that can prevent gun accidents.

Other activities that are life/death like surgery or airline piloting use checklists because they know that training, experience, and ability are not enough. Making rules like “a gun is always loaded” or “careful where you point that thing”, are not sufficient because instead of solving human fallibility, they ignore it.

I’d go further and say that these “rules” are more mantra than procedure. A kind of protection spell that’s spoken more than it’s followed. These spells are cast in a flurry every time someone has an accident. Not to reinforce the lesson, but to reassure that we’re not going to get hurt.

Is there a way to learn this power?

This isn’t a rule. Some bureaucrat was mistaken.

The same thing happened to another girl a couple weeks ago.

Why does this article make the US sound like a battered wife in the situation? We’ll just go along and hope for the best!

This isn’t a partizan issue, just like immigration, Democrats are fucking horrible on homelessness too.

The problem with this “econ101” thinking is that it insists that the whole system runs on the choices of actors in a deterministic system.

Keanu must really believe in this stuff because we know he’s no good at pretending.

If you read the article, this is minor plagiarism. Four sections, of about 2 paragraphs each have been shown to be copied. However, the content copied were factual: dates and definitions, not ideas or the thesis. It’s reasonable that all of this is explained by the bad sourcing of an ameture author.

MURICA: Civic pride in the local shooting.

In defense of jargon:

coming up with new ideas and expressing them to others requires new vocabulary. You can’t simply say things in “plain English” especially when you want to communicate with peers.

This is why academia is so often refereed to as a discipline; you must train yourself in new ways of thinking. Making it accessible to the layperson is the job of scientific communicators, not scientists at large.

And it’s not like this is a unique issue with acedemia, every organization I’ve ever participated in had special vocabulary if it was necessary or not.

He’s so transparent. The internal polling must be showing him getting murdered among women, prob worse than the national polling shows.

That or he’s just stung by the implications of being unpopular with women.

I’d rather have an Israeli pager than an NFT Tamagotchi.

FYI: Defibrillators don’t start the heart, they stop it.

The heart doesn’t stop in many heart attacks. Instead it just beats erratically and in a way that doesn’t pump blood well. Shocking the heart to stop it (what a defib does) causes the nerve cells to “reboot” and start beating regularly again.

Shocking a victim who’s heart has stopped is useless and automatic defibrillators won’t go off until they’ve detected the arrhythmia.

When are publishers going to realize there is only a market for like 2-3 Live service games at any one time?

You cannot underestimate the stupidity of games publishers. I’d be willing to accept that sunk-cost alone is the explanation for this outrageous budget. It probably started out as “what’s $200m for the next Fortnight?” and just went in $5 or $10 million dollar increments from there.