Pleeeease! Twitter is broken and embeds have stopped working half the time.

I have. Quite a lot. I think they actually made things worse just to spite me.

It’s not clear to me how SpaceX has managed to do things for cheaper. Are they cutting labor? QC?

did you mix up uranium and urine?

This sounds like snake oil in response to snake oil

The main source for this is Amnesty International page 76. The relevant text:

In an effort to improve cost-efficiency, Chinese provincial authorities are introducing mobile execution vans in which convicts are given a lethal injection, replacing the traditional execution method of firing squads. Eighteen mobile executions vans, converted 24-seater buses, were distributed to all intermediate courts and one high court in Yunnan province in 2003. In December of the same year, the Supreme People’s Court in Beijing urged all provinces to acquire execution vans “that can put to death convicted criminals immediately after sentencing”. The windowless execution chamber at the back contains a metal bed on which the prisoner is strapped down. Once the needle is attached by a technician, a police officer presses a button and an automatic syringe injects the lethal drug into the prisoner’s vein. The execution can be watched on a video monitor next to the driver’s seat and can be recorded if required.

And I think barsquid’s point is that China is keeping their imprisoned-per-capita low through executions. Even if that’s incorrect, China does use execution more liberally than the U.S. And execution is evil.

Jesus christ.

Upload is also good.

I’m currently trying to retrieve my local gym’s Facebook feed as RSS so I don’t have to be on Facebook. It bites.

That data is a very good guess, but not appropriate for legal application.

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Escape into Meaning, and The Andalite Chronicles. I think after I’m done with Tomorrow, I’ll pick up the third Mistborn.

Which of the dead kids were responsible for building weapons?

No, it was just commentators. They saw “unknown trader” and filled in their own biases.

My first exposure to this story implied it might have been western traders, not Hamas.

They want the writeup, because the claims are too vague to falsify.

I also use inoreader. I’m always keeping my eye open for a better reader, though.

Thank you for introducing me to this joy.

omg, getting others on the bidet train would really help me. My roommates plow through TP like Bolsonaro plowed the rain forest.

China wants the Republic of China to align itself with the People’s Republic of China? This is so hard to keep track of.

It will always be peanuts, regardless of negotiating.