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@MennoWolff

As for being prone to fuckups.. its hard for me to see how. All of the messups for lethal injectionsa re easily forseen by anyone who has given an injection. I honestly cant think of too many ways N2 could could fuck up.

@stux

@MennoWolff

Sadly the news is almost always wrong in 80% of the content in any article. Reading hte news these days is the best way to be uninformed.

Chances are, as with all news articles, it made no effort to actual explain to you the facts. Instead it likely had some agenda it was trying to sell you on and make that point. Likely either how much america sucks, or how offended we should be by the death penalty. So actually explaining it honestly wouldnt have served whatever the intended purpose is.

@stux

@georgetakei

He was the only host of tbe daily show i ever really loved.

@gnate

If someone just made the general argument that the "war on drugs" has been used immorally to and disproportionately to attack and lock up peaceful minorities, then absolutely. As long as there is racism in a society there will always be unfair application of laws, particularly laws that outlaw nonviolent acts. So no doubt there.

Only thing i call BS on is the specific content of this post and the quote provided. The content of the quote is factually and logically wrong and clearly not a truthful interpretation of the genesis of drug laws.

@Oggie @MelodyCooper

@lowqualityfacts

Little known fact. I once held the world record for being the youngest person in the world.

@MennoWolff

> You're right. I forget which state this was, but they screwed up several times, with this SAME guy!😲

Indeed, and with other people in different states in a similar way. Thus the main reason for moving to gas, to prevent these sort of fuck ups and reduce the suffering of people we kill. While I cant approve of the death penalty if we are going to have the death penalty this is the correct and more humane way to do it.

> But the availability of the drugs does play a role. Some states stocked up before suppliers stopped delivering.

Yes and no, there have been drug shortages in the past, but nothing that is related to whats going on here, and was very trivially resolved. You are thinking of the fact that sodium pentathal used to be used as the sedative component of lethal injection which had supply issues in the past, largely because it isnt used for much of anything. All they did was switch drugs to pentobarbital which has no real supply issues.

There are plenty of lethal injection options, most of which are trivial to obtain.

> This is the biggest irony to me: they look to big pharma companies to supply the drugs which are made with the best quality control, because they are not allowed to ask a local redneck chemist to make some of the same drug. That would be "unsafe" 🥴😵‍💫

There is some irony there indeed :)

@stux

@MelodyCooper

Also you are missing the point it is literally factually wrong and the actual events that took place are the exact opposite... namely, that heroin was illegal for 44 years before nixon and that Nixon actually **lessened** the penalty for simple possession, he didnt increase the criminality he reduced it.

@MelodyCooper Not ignoring or misunderstanding it. The statement here is explicitly stating it was done because of Nixon's enemies. So any long term effects beyond Nixon are moot given the proposed reasoning here.

@MennoWolff

No thats not the issue, many states are still doing lethal injections and have had no trouble with supply. The issue is that we have had many lethal injections that didnt work either because a vein couldnt be found or other issues, often resulting in undue suffering. They are moving over to nitrogen gas to reduce suffering such as those unfortunate incidents.

@stux

@Oggie

Dude the narrative itself is a lie, the idea that Nixon criminalized narcotics isnt true. It was already criminalized heavily and completely 44 years earlier.

Under Nixon he passed a law that actually made drugs **less** criminalized, causing simple possession to go from a felony to a misdemeanor.

Literally not only does the reasoning in the post not make sense, but the stated facts are bald faced lies too that can easily be checked.

@MelodyCooper

@ech yea woke is far more common than this sort of racism. Obviously more subtle racists are quite a bit more common.

@MelodyCooper

That doesnt make sense. If it was done for attrition purposes the effects wouldnt benefit Nixon until well after he is out of office. If done simply as an excuse to target leaders, then those people werent drug users. Which means the drug charges were made up, which means there was no need to make drugs illegal to do it, you could have just as easily made up a similar heinous charge and used that to justify the arrest.

The logic here makes absolutely no sense.

#QOTO sometime in the next few days we will begin the process to finally execute the first stage of update. The first step will be to migrate servers, that will be the big one and may result in as much as a day of downtime.

After that we will do the first upgrade, this will mostly just update some security stuff, no major changes. Once that succeeds we will start adding the other updates on top one by one.

This will be a rough one but I assure you we will be back up on the other side and will mean a more steady stream of updates and new features in the future.

@ech if it assumes as a given that racism is bad then it is antiracism (against racism). It just assumes the audience is alrady antiracist and therefore isnt trying to "sell it" :)

@grrlscientist No, not unless that felony is attached to their presidency. Someone being guilty of a miss deed shouldnt erase their pay check from a past job they did. They already did the work.

@black6

Thats exactly my point, as someone highly trained in breathing in nitrogen rich environments and someone who watched someone die from it, I can tell you it is clearly one of the most humane ways to go.

Thats why this guys post about it being inhumane is highly questionable, especially the blurb about "many scientists" without an actual study to back it up.

@stux @W_Lucht

@lonelyowl

They arent criminals, since its legal. But I think what you mean is immoral or perhaps a murderer, If that is what you meant then we agree, yes, an executioner is a immoral murderer.

@amerika @W_Lucht @stux

@W_Lucht

A friend of mine commited suicide on nitrogen gas. I can say, with remorse, I have witnessed a man die on it once. It was evident to me this was one of the most peaceful ways to die.

If you want to argue that nitrogen is a stressful way to die, please post the study, news articles are not valid sources of scientific opinion (in fact they are quite bad)

@stux

@KimPerales

Immigrants even illegal ones tend to add to our economy not take away. So generally other than giving them a more sane path to get here I'd say there isnt too much to fix (although that is a big glaring issue).

That said, I dont see democrats really fixing immigration either, quite the opposite their position seems to be to lay into open borders and let the problem get worse by passing what little process we already have.