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He's sentenced to death because he committed a capital murder in a state with the death penalty and a jury found him guilty. "I did it for money" is not exactly a legal defense. An innocent person was still killed, and arguably doing it for money is worse. Fuck him.

The other guy involved in the killing has already been executed, over ten years ago. It's a well documented case and took me about a minute of Googling to figure out this guy isn't particularly being singled out for death and the other got a lighter sentence.

I personally don't believe in the death penalty, but also if he didn't want to be executed for murder, he shouldn't have committed murder in the deep south.

Sure, but as long as they have the death penalty, it's probably best they do it as humanely as possible.

Some states are bringing back firing squads, which definitely feels like a huge step back. If they're going to kill someone, using an actual painless option instead of lethal injection or shooting them seems like as much of a step forward as we can get up to actually not executing people.

All you have to do is look at the times the government has got it wrong on convictions of people who turned out innocent to realize maybe the government shouldn't make the decision to kill people.

Look up the innocence project.

Because he accepted money in exchange to brutally beat and stabbed a person to death. "Just following orders," has never been an acceptable excuse for an individual to commit a crime, but especially when it's not an order in a military hierarchy, it's payment and a voluntary agreement. Fuck him.

Sennet Sr. committed suicide the moment the police started to investigate him. That's why he's not about to be executed.

Indeed, that's about 10 to 100 times more accuracy than other automakers. Those tolerances just aren't necessary so no supplier is going to have the tools or infrastructure in place to make parts to such a high degree. Body shop alone sees fluctuations in millimeters because industrial robots can't do any better than half millimeter accuracy, if they're brand new.

Also, his purchases of alcohol may have made it to an advertiser. He may simply not have noticed he was getting ads until his wife talked to him about drinking too much.

The whole "phones are listening all the time" thing could be true, and wouldn't surprise me, but to my knowledge no hacker or privacy monitor has ever found evidence that they do. Always just seemed more likely to me that people just expose information without realizing these systems are much more ubiquitous and complex than just microphones illegally listening.

Why are they getting credit? It was capital police who finally opened fire when the rioters got to the hallway with the congressional offices.

Uh, huh. So 2009...?

Any reason beyond he was a billionaire and you're apparently Very Smart?

Thinner people are healthier in that they won't suffer from the same medical issues that plague the obese. A thin person might have high cholesterol, but they're not going to also have the same increase chance of heart disease an obese person will see. No individual who's 300lbs is healthy, obesity in and of itself is the disease. The fact thin people suffer from other, non-weight related diseases doesn't mean there is not point in not maintaining a healthy weight.

Food insecurity is not a solution to the obesity epidemic, but eating a couple hundred calories per day less than maintenance is also not starvation. And ensuring healthy foods and produce are more affordable than unhealthy and high-processed alternatives is a great way to kill two birds with one stone.

Lol. This was Season 1, Episode 4.

The problems with their shitty-ass script certainly weren't budgetary.

It's a risky idea but it's a common formula to help ground a sci-fi series.

1. Name a relevant historical figure fans should know.
2. Name a relevant living figure fans may know.
3. Name a relevant fictional figure fans should know.

That's pretty revisionist. He's an asshat now but wasn't always seen that way.

In 2017, Musk was still pretty popular with liberals. He advocated for a carbon taxes, a universal basic income, and AI regulation. Tesla was still leading the game in EV production. SpaceX was re-supplying the ISS and set to free the US from Soyuz. He supported Hillary in 2016 and quit Trump's advisory council because he withdrew from the Paris Climate Accords.

It was only around and after COVID he took a hard turn and became particularly unpopular with the left. When this episode came out it made sense, and also fit well with Star Trek's typical formula of "past historical figure, current notable figure, future fictional figure."

Some might think so.

I remember a guy on reddit a few years ago arguing vehemently that their hand was better than an actual living woman's vagina, to say nothing of a Fleshlight.

The denial was strong in that individual's case, but if enough incels are already in that deep it's probably gonna be enough for many of them.

They certainly can and do use a tracking system.

I get notifications from Delta every time my bag moves once it's checked in - loaded, unloaded, what pickup.

There's nothing really wrong with barcodes. NFC/RFID would be a logical upgrade though, and just has to integrate into the existing system.

This isn't. Toyota is claiming they'll have a solid state battery production ready in a few years, which is a substantial improvement over even what this article is claiming.

Toyota's is being developed largely in house it seems, and while they do have prototypes, they're not really expecting them to be in consumer vehicles until 2027.

This article is talking about the same old liquid technology with just an improved chemistry.

That's not really an honest comparison though, and also kind of simply doesn't matter.

Most vehicles will have some expensive component fail well before the engine, and after ~10 years almost any major replacement will cost $5k or more. My suspension gave out at year 8 and it would have cost me $5k to repair my Ford valued at $5k. Who's going to want to spend that - on an engine or otherwise - on a 15+ year old car unless it's a particularly well regarded model by enthusiasts? The average consumer doesn't care.

The average consumer wants a new car after a decade simply for new features (like sensors or safety), change of lifestyle (like going from a sedan to a van for kids or an SUV to a sports car), or even simply styling and aesthetic. If the battery lasts 5+ years than the average consumer wants the car in the first place, it won't matter.

Not to mention that in the coming years, the price of replacing battery packs will likely drop, while the price of replacing engines may likely increase, as OEMs ramp down engine production and ramp up battery production.

Of the nine that have seen trial so far, seven have been found guilty by a jury of their peers.

Actual lawyers and the justice system have not found what the FBI did to be entrapment, despite that attempted defense being used.

That's not to say the FBI doesn't do any wrong - they have and probably will continue to do so - but these guys weren't innocent victims caught up on overblown charges just playing pretend. They were plotting to do actual harm and the planning was serious enough that it was their own recruits who defected and informed. It wasn't some FBI honeypot they all stumbled into.

Facebook tried with Threads but overcoming ecosystem inertia is hard.

And as if they didn't already subpoena that information before actually filing charges either. They were already investigating for months before Musk bought Twitter.

This is one of the dumber conspiracy theories I think I've ever seen. Why are we attributing some clever political maneuver to Musk when it's clear he just made an unprecedentedly stupid business decision?

I don't know we can really blame MSM. It certainly is contributing to a degree, but for one, online misinformation is arguably a greater problem than, and for another, people were terrible and unreasonable before mass media was ever a thing. It's not like slave holders thought slavery was great because the 17th century mainstream media told them it was fine that black people weren't people.

There's been systemic cultural problems forever.