I don’t have problems with murderers being killed. I just don’t have faith in the system to prevent false positives.

No. Perhaps that they are doing it is horrifying, but the way is very humane. It is literally getting loopy and falling asleep, over a very short time period.

No. With the notable exception of rodents, animals generally can’t detect oxygen deficiency directly (though they may get loopy).

Nitrogen asphyxiation basically makes you loopy, then unconscious, then dead. It’s experientially equivalent to exposure to normal air at extremely high altitudes. Military pilots are often exposed to this (in a controlled manner) precisely because it’s so hard to recognize, and doesn’t induce fear. Like, epic levels of hard to recognize, as in “Hey Bob, it’s time to put your mask back on to keep you from dying!” Bob: snickers and clearly thinks this is a great joke, until the person straps his mask back on, and he realizes how serious the situation is

You can make a trough for a (non-starved) pig that constantly releases nitrogen gas (which it breathes as it’s eating). The pig puts his head in the trough to eat, then passes out from lack of oxygen (this pulling it’s snout out of the trough), then is like “what was I doing? Oh look, food…” …and goes right back to it, passing out again.

This is completely different from the reaction to carbon dioxide asphyxiation, which the body has sensors for, and induces all kinds of panic. Try the same trough experiment with a pig using carbon dioxide, and it will stay the fuck away from the evil trough of death.

They can kill an animal (including a mammal) if they become entangled and give up out of suffering, though.

This is pretty rare, but can happen.

It’s virtually zero risk to a human, though, who can cognize things like getting their hand disentangled from a string (even in a panic situation), or to most mammals, which tend to jerk backwards on contact.

Oh. Here’s your fix:

A longish piece of green grass. Hold it by one end, then slide it on the fence wire like the grass was a violin bow, getting your fingers closer and closer to the fence. At some point you notice a pinging, or your fingers are touching the fence.

You can use this to gauge, very roughly, how powerful the charge is at that point.

Absolutely.

Heh. I was kinda playing at being a Debian elitist.

But yeah, none of the major distros get there without reason.

Nope, that bastion couldn’t tolerate the existence of mutant powers. This bastion, not only has no problem with mutant powers, but downright enjoys them.

Yeah, I’m about to give it a go, next I have tinker time.

I looked. The guy is pretty normal.

RawStory faces immediate arrest for spreading disinformation and falsely representing ongoing legal situations!

Day 4 assuming the egg is at chicken body temperature.

That is, you could be at day 14, and the egg is still fresh and fertile, so long as the eggs haven’t been at chicken temperature.

As soon as they sit at chicken temperature, they start to develop.

A chicken can lay eggs in the same nest for weeks, then start to sit on it, and they all start to develop once she sits on them.

Simply tax it as if it underwent a buy/sell/trade. Capital gains and losses are accounted for in that at the time the value is utilized. They are tracked, and you don’t pay them later.

Reasonable home ownership (only home) could be exempted.

Yep. And it is easily rationalized as doing the right thing, until its too late to do differently.

Not a bad plan.

I don’t agree with unrealized gains taxes in general, but the instant they are used as collateral, or if value in any way is extracted from them (even loan value), they become realized gains, and should be taxed.

The irony is when you see people who are so capable, in some senses, of intelligent discourse on the matter, but still can’t see through the issue well enough to reach others in a similar situation, but settled in a different set of ideas. In the end, we don’t like it, it’s up to us to resolve those emotions. It may not be easy, but it works - whereas anything else defers the issue.

It’s natural for you to say “who welcomes me? Who attacks me?” and go with those who welcome you.

That doesn’t make it effective at making the overall situation better.

Totally get that. I’m not at saying they’re not going to socially attack you. I’m just saying that ridicule in return is ineffectual.

But so is being overly soft.

Absolutely. Well played, I think that’s a great example of the self-referential bullshit feedback loop of sardonic behavior. No actual trigger intended.