See, the nice thing about the c4 hat is that it turns all your neurons to vapor in a fraction of an instant, certainly faster than your brain can form a cohesive thought. Ideally (and I’m not sure if the c4 hat qualifies) the best method would destroy all your neurons faster than a signal could be conducted from one…

I think people frequently confuse gruesomeness with inhumane-ness. Lethal injections clearly aren’t necessarily that humane, they just have more of an appearance of civility or peace for the people watching.

They’re probably not going to be ridiculously ugly, but they probably won’t be George Clooney good-looking or Amal smart. Regression to the mean and all.

This is off-topic, but a judge just halted the immigration ban nationwide.

A judge just halted the immigration ban nationwide.

A judge just halted Trump’s travel ban nationwide.

A judge just halted Trump’s travel ban nationwide.

Maybe if the Apprentice ratings get bad enough, Trump will be willing to swap with Schwarzenegger.

Or the girls pay attention to their performance in class and thus fewer of them are willing to identify themselves as “really, really smart” because they’ve realistically appraised their smartness versus that of their classmates, whereas the boys are either more clueless or see the question as a veiled insult…

Did nobody tell him about the mirror? Or could he just not wait for the shutter noise?

It sounds like a Stand Alone Complex, from Ghost in the Shell.

Allies threatening to “sever all ties” wouldn’t have made a difference. He basically campaigned on severing all ties. He’s America’s version of Brexit, which was a direct referendum on severing ties that won.

Because if you ban them, then some other neo-Nazi party will pop up and do the same stuff. That’s why banning speech and/or political parties is dumb. Racist/fascist/whatever sentiments arise in populations pretty organically when the economic and social conditions are right for them, and then find a figurehead in…

I just remember hearing a classmate who used to live in a Spanish-speaking country tell me about how when he was first learning English, he said that the teacher who annoyed him was “molesting” him.

Circle gets the square!

Are you arguing against them living in the palace, or against Britain having a monarchy at all? Because if it’s the latter, I’ve actually seen arguments for constitutional monarchies being more stable than other political systems, with the monarch’s lack of democratic legitimacy being paradoxically useful (http://www.v…

Still. Can you see Donald Trump accepting any risk of death or imprisonment for the sake of his political aims?

I think it’s important to remember that Hitler began this book when he was in prison for a failed putsch. Unlike the fascists of yore, most of our current crop are soft as baby shit.

That’s going to be an awkward first day.

Getting married and having kids because you want companionship and the experience of raising kids isn’t selfish, because it results in kids being raised by people who want and love them.