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What's the situation with the Istanbul mayor today? Haven't heard much about that

Yeah it's a weird confidence in the justice of the afterlife.

If you want the maximum amount of suffering for the perpetrator (something the US justice system seems eager to) then killing them only with it if there's a Satan grilling his ass. If their existence just ends it's rather merciful.

So even if you are hell bent on having a punitive sentencing system (even though it's proven to be unhelpful for everybody involved) the death sentence doesn't make sense at all.

A life sentence where the perpetrator is kept alive for as long as possible, against their will (which is ironicall supposed the merciful thing according to the pro life folks (who also overlap with pro death sentence folk, interestingly)) is technically the most severe form of punishment.

They should take a page from China's playbook and up the ante. Trump will back out.

I feel like idiota would be overcrowded

From the hacker news comments:

https://archive.is/TJy20

I caused a minor diplomatic incident between the development organisations of the Netherlands and Germany in a small African country.

I was working for the Dutch organisation as an intern. There was a little get together of the organisations at a local bar. When introductions were made I used a WW2 term to describe our boss. I said 'this is our ubersturmbahnfuhrer'.

This was not the right thing to say, as the leader of the German team was an ex-east German and staunch antifascist with little sense for my perceived 'humor'. He felt personally insulted by being compared thusly and I had to shamefully go down to their offices and profusely apologize.

How does this subsidy work? Asking for my dad, who lives in France.

Yeah ofc

It's weird that Deus Ex isn't in this thread yet. Such a well made game with quite a few prophetic moments.

Yes, consciousness is described as a constant feedback loop by Douglas Hofstadter in his book 'I am a strange loop'.

Well with the read it you want to explore this though a bit further.

If you can't get enough of Satie, are you insatieable?

I think Dubai should be high on the list. A vapid city without history that only attracts people because of being expensive.

It's thriving die to slave labor and violent racism.