Right? “As long as we have time to make an emergency landing, this airframe is good to go”. Jesus.

We are saying the same thing. The procedure has cost in mind rather than safety. Otherwise they'd take the airframe out of circulation at the first warning.

We have arrived at the crux of the issue, I think. At the question “how much violence is the state allowed to use with our tolerance and for our protection”.

Except it has happened before. There are procedures to check airframes when a pressurization alert triggers. The problem is, you need to take the airframe out of service. And that means costs.

Dear (not) Alaska Airlines, “pressurization alert twice doesn’t trigger a response, only three times” doesn’t mean everything is fine. It means YOUR PROCEDURES ARE CRAP.

All rape is (also) psychological abuse. I don't see your point. There is no good rape.

It’s not “counterproductive”. It is an abomination. Again, I understand the sentiment, but we must decide to not be like them. Not to forgive, fuck forgiveness. Certainly not to forget or excuse. But we cannot become like the rapists.

Perhaps I misunderstood you. When we, as a society, agree to do horrible things to “bad” people, we leave the door open to wide interpretation of the word “bad”.

Look, we can talk about the death penalty. But there is no “rape penalty” - and there shouldn’t be. There shouldn’t be, because it then normalizes rape, a thing which is not normal and has no justification ever. I understand the hate and revulsion, I feel it myself. But this narrative of “haha, you’ll go to jail and…

What is the golden rule?

Hunters just want something massive to kill with their big rifles and put on the hood of their large trucks, because something else is very (very) small.

There actually was an episode of the X-Files where exactly this happened.

Checks out, as Discovery is not a Star Trek show. All good.

Rape is rape. There is no good rape and bad rape. It is all bad. Rape is not a tool of reformation or an instrument of revenge. We are not Tate.

DAYS later and the Nazi tears keep coming. I love it.

I made no assessment. It is a fact. We have enough games featuring white male saviors. There is room for other protagonists. I do enjoy all the grey Nazi tears, though.

I don’t disagree. I still think the word is overused and abused.

To be fair, no one wants to get on the bad side of the flying spaghetti monster.

You’re not wrong, but one thing: the term “narcissist” has been overused and overstretched to the point where it has lost a lot of meaning. Everyone’s ex is a narcissist, everyone’s dad, mom, brother, uncle is a narcissist. They are not. We all can exhibit such traits, they are - for better or worse - part of human…

The Nazi tears keep coming in. I feel good  :)