WoodScientist @ WoodScientist @lemmy.world

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I guess he could be trying to provoke mass unrest so he can declare a national emergency and start shooting people.

He's running the Hitlerian playbook. Why do you think he's engaging in mass persecution of various minority groups? Behind hatred, his real goal is power. If you put the screws on people hard enough, eventually people start setting off bombs and executing reprisal shootings. If you ruin enough people's lives, some are bound to respond violently. Then you can use that violence to declare an emergency. And as we saw after 9/11, nothing increases a presidential power like acts of terrorism.

The outcome of a system is its purpose.

The goal is to create a slave class. We never got over our societal addiction to slavery. Slavery in the US never ended, both de facto slavery and legal slavery.

The goal of our immigration system is to create millions of workers who will accept low pay, long hours, and poor conditions with little options or recourse.

I mean, there could be a worse answer.

You know what, this would be easier if done in person. I have your address as ____. I'll be by in ten minutes.

Granted, you have to tell/text me to find a time that works for both.

My nightmare: when I ask someone what times they are good for, and they give one specific time on one specific day.

How to really be Satan: send an important video note. Make it recorded outside with a lot of wind and background noise. Then, just to be fun, slow the video down to 80% playback speed, reencode it, and send that!

What if I send you a link to a video message I recorded and posted on YouTube? Also it has ads on it.

BUT, it is also pretty clear that direct speech is the most efficient way of communication when you don’t need a written record

That is simply not true. I've had many phones calls that would be far more efficiently done with a text or email.

This seems something done by the servers. The managers, let alone corporate, don't care about the tip amounts. Why would corporate design a system to enrage customers, when corporate isn't the one receiving the money?

And they're perfect for this kind of thing! What better way to punish rude tip demands? Despite how rude it is, you don't want to throw someone in jail over this. A fine? You risk the fine being so low it's just a cost of business or so high you just ruined some service worker's life. This is exactly where the pillory shines!

Demand a tip like this? To the stockades with you! Spend an afternoon chained up by the sidewalk, while people throw tomatoes at you. No real harm done. Just public embarrassment.

We need to bring back the public stockades.

Even better, add emotions!

Season with salt until it tastes angry.

I prefer milligallons myself.

Microacres^(3/2)

Anesthesia is different from sleep.

My question that I keep coming back to, but I have yet to hear answered:

Where is Luigi's workshop?

Screw it! We need to go younger. That's right, it's Logan's Run time! Everyone over 30 gets euthanized. And I say this as someone over 30 myself.

Screw it. Take away the right to vote from both men and women. Only those born intersex will have the franchise!

Now there is an interesting thought experiment. What would that kind of government look like?

I mean, I'm just going to go with the most obvious grift. Ulbricht is going to go right back to operating a crypto street pharmacy. Hell, he'll do it on the open web now. He'll call it "The New Silk Road" or similar.

And then there's an agreement for the feds to not go after them. In exchange, Ulbricht uses a good portion of his earnings to become the largest single investor in Trumpcoin ever. If asked, the feds can either ignore the question or hide behind some fig leaf excuse they come up with.

It's not like Trump didn't run blatant undeniable cons in the last administration.

That's it. Time to bring back crucifixion.