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We're still struggling because of DOGE.

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Ironically this comment is entirely against the concept of the guillotines which were invented to ensure equality in executions. Whether noble or common we all got the quickest death, beheading. No more of the terrible, cheaply made hanging stands which wouldn't break the neck thus slowly strangling the punished.

Much less wood needed for a guillotine as you don't need a platform for the drop. Less metal working, as nails are harder to make than a single large metal blade. Less workers as it can be assembled by one guy. Much less chance of it failing too as once built human error has little chance to cause problems. Pull the lever boy (Gronk). Previously, the hangman could fuck up on the knot which had to be custom to each that died. Weight, height, neck strength, length of the rope, all mattered. Easy to fuck up.

Equality In death.

Edit: assembled, not built. The blade was made by an expert the rest could be made by anyone with experiance working with wood.

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We're still struggling because of DOGE.

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Ah shoot, thanks for the correction. I was told by a history major a while back that casting the blade would be cheaper and easier than the nails needed for a hanging platform so forgive my lack of knowledge. Your explination makes sense apologies for the likely misinfo

Last thing, as for sharpness, they were supposed to be sharpened and maintained sharp by the excecutioner. I assume that this wasn't always the case but it was the standard. Executioners even usually owned multiple guillotines so that they could cycle through them when they wore down, repairing and maintaining the ones not in use

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Psychedelic Truth

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Nope. Bad trips exist. I was sat laying down in my bed the entire time crying while my mind was spiraling down shitty paths that after the trip made zero sense. I was disguested with myself. I couldn't make myself move. Not locked in but zero motivation. Like that feeling when you need to pee but stay in bed because you're too tired to move cranked to eleven. I screamed in my head to raise my hand and it took way too much effort to do so.

I tried to cheer myself up thinking logically about the shit going through my head. It made it much worse. I wanted to die. That's not hyperbole. About three and a half later I finally got out of bed and into the shower to cry there. I remembered everything I thought of and that I hated myself but it all wasn't true. Completely illogical and mostly nonesense.

What did I gain from this? Nothing. You can say whatever you want to pretend there's some underlying massive rebelation or positive that trip should have given me but I reject that whole heartedly. It just made me feel awful for about 5 hours fucked me up for about a week and made me hesitant do mushrooms again. Didn't work though as shrooms are delightful most of the time

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Team Car!

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When they have their own lane and space cars still just use it. They park on the bike lanes, move into them if somebody's passing on their left, or try and pass cars on their right if they find space during slow traffic.

Absolutely needed but people in cars will still cause issues and when they cause issues, it's a multi ton vehical hitting some aluminium and flesh.

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That time the US did Human trafficking

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Its more like going to the rapist who took the rape baby after the rape and saying that they really shouldn't have raped that person and though the issue with stealing the rape baby is bad a good solution would have been to not rape.

If America didn't invade, no orphans. Really weird you'de equate not invading Vietnam with raping a person

Edit: to clarify, no, the other person didn't say "just don't get raped" or the equivalent. The analogy was wrong. This is my point

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That time the US did Human trafficking

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I agree, but that person did not say "just don't get raped." The analogy doesn't work, and is weird to say while being destructive to the conversation.

That comment I replied to made this equivalancy which is table flipping, fuck you I'm going to paint you in the worst light, type behavior.

No, the guy didn't say "just don't get raped" he said "we shouldn't have been raping"

Ok, solution wasn't the proper word, the commenter was talking morality. Taking the babies was wrong and America shouldn't have done it, nor should they have gotten involved afterwards.