lemonmelon @ lemonmelon @lemmy.world

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Just know if Trump wins, you very well might not get that option.

That's not a bad point. We consider what Maine and Nebraska have implemented as proportional, but it isn't truly. It's a better system than WTA, but it still essentially nullifies a significant number of votes.

Now do the same for the only other viable candidate in this election.

Oh! Oh I've seen this one in another thread!

"I wouldn't vote for either of them."

That's not an option in this exercise, you have to pick one or the other.

"I don't see why I'd have to choose. I pick neither."

Again, that wasn't the question. Harris or Trump are the only acceptable answers. If you have to choose one, which would it be?

That's how the exchange generally went. It shone a really nice spotlight on the ridiculous mindset at play.

"Take a look at this video, which should convince all of you that trying to convince individuals is a failing effort."

Do you even read what you post?

"My moral values allow me to vote against my best interests and the welfare of anyone who doesn't align with the christofascist right. I have such a difficult time with concepts like "logical thinking" and "cause and effect" that I can rationalize such a terrible decision and even pretend that I'm the solution!"

Are you voting for the only other viable candidate?

No?

Then you're supporting the GOP.

What an unwarranted insult to the noble equine!

This Shadowfax is a cheap, flawed imitation. A dollar store replica. A sad, sad doppelganger.

FPTP plus winner-take-all. WTA needs to go away at the same time FPTP does.

I don't think water hammer would apply because there's no abrupt cutoff or change in direction of the flow.

Damn, did I touch a nerve?

So you're ditching one fussy infant for another?

Neither does "sexy".

Yup! Spirare is the Latin root of a lot of words, most likely due to how pneuma was believed to be the human soul. Breath and soul were one and the same, so it shows up in a lot of places.

Puncturing the skin has nothing to do with it. Human skin normally has high resistance, the palms and fingertips more so due to their skin being thicker and more likely to be calloused. Saline will always lower that resistance, though possibly not enough to allow for painful shocks across the width of your body from fingertip to fingertip. That's quite a lot of resistance to overcome. There's also the matter of the resistance provided by the terminals, but we'll handwave that.

How often would you try to shock someone's palms in a torture situation? How often do you expect to see current routed from the left hand all the way over to the right hand? And how likely are you to use just the lead battery terminals? Generally, you'd administer the shock across a shorter span, minimizing the most resistive part of the circuit. Any area with thinner, more sensitive skin is likely to experience thermal discomfort from a high amperage current, especially with lowered resistance. Even at 12V, it wouldn't exactly be pleasant. The resistance is lowered even further by using thick copper cables, which are much more conductive than the lead terminals.

The picana makes it all so much worse. Ohm's law tells us that current is equal to voltage divided by resistance. The rheostat in the picana allows the resistance in the circuit to be manipulated further at the turn of a dial. Cranking down the resistance means more current is applied, and that current is flowing through two copper conductors that are typically pretty close together. That means you have even less skin to serve as an insulator against the current, which ultimately results in more pain for the unlucky person being tortured.

That fight between Piper and Keith David was amazing, though.

They said the neighbors, not the police. I figure it means that consensual bondage time was interrupted, so they took matters into their own hands.

Okay, neat. Fire a rifle with the stock held just in front of your floating ribs instead of welded to your shoulder and get back to us.

This is completely ignoring amperage and lowered resistance via saline. An automotive battery with sufficient CCA applied to sweaty or salt-water-doused skin wouldn't be fun to be on the receiving end of. And if they're using a picana, which they often are, things are going to be even worse.

Verbal diarrhea from Dysentery Donnie.