It’s actually super easy to kill someone if you’re not a pussy about it. Humans do it every day. But it will never be “clean” or “painless” and it’s a fantasy to think there could be a way to kill someone that is entirely free of guilt.

The problem with the death penalty is that the accuser calls for the death penalty (on paper) and a judge sentences the accused to death (on paper) and then they don’t do it right away, but put them in a hole for 40 years. Decades later, some pencil pushers process the stack of papers and have to go get a wretch out of the hole to kill them. At that point no one has the motivation to actually do it, so they try to think of ways to honor the stack of papers without actually feeling like they murdered a defenseless old hole dweller who hasn’t done any harm for 40 years.

I also think the death penalty is stupid. If you kill them right away, they don’t have the chance to change. If you kill them later, they have already changed too much to justify actually killing them. Just make them work the mines for a couple years and reconsider once everyone has calmed down.

It would be easiest to get a complete ISO file and just burn that to a DVD of course, but barely anyone is dealing in ISOs these days, if they even exist at all. You can take regular MKV or MP4 files and structure them into a DVD format with DVD Styler.

For a lot of anime at least, look for releases tagged Dual-Audio or Multi-Audio and find the one with the dubs you want. Subtitle tracks are a crapshoot, because they’re so small and easy to edit, so you have to look at descriptions to figure out which ones are included and from which sources (official, fansub). This is less of an issue for non-anime, you’ll usually get every sub track from the original source.

You might have to use Handbrake or ffmpeg to get your MKV source files in a format that DVD Styler accepts. (I saw it doesn’t list MKV support, but it is just a container format for all the things it does list.)

€500: Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation

Es forziert die Produzenten energieeffiziente Geräte herzustellen und nicht über “Leistung” zu konkurrieren.

There is one widely published instance of a woman almost losing custody of her two children after a court-ordered genetic test returned a mismatch. Had to be pretty confusing to hear that the guy is indeed the father, but… Objection! You are not the mother of these children!

In the stripped club straight up
rumpansching it

and by ‘it’ haha well
let’s just say. My ekelhaft

Well, despite what many Germans might think, chiropraxy is quackery. But stretching isn’t.

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Help, at one point I was younger than Shinji, but I am older than Misato now. But seriously, 30 is too young to be a cougar right?? She’s a young woman, an older sister to Shinji and Asuka.

I don’t quite understand what you mean in that first paragraph. Are you talking about people who justify clearly bad behavior with religion? Or the opposite, people who are uncertain about good behavior because it contradicts their religion? Or both at the same time, people who give up trying to define good and bad and just do whatever, because God will forgive them anyway?

I worry about being good though, not for spiritual reasons, but because the world is created by the tiny choices we make each day and I worry about making the world worse out of complacency.

Vocaloids aren’t AI, they’re digital instruments.

Fuck, I failed the test. I have to wonder if they’re full unsupervised generation though, because one of them had a recurring motif that I know an algo would have a hard time to keep track of. None of it was really my genre anyway, but it still got me good.

Yeah, I guess, but I figured the mistake was obvious and no one cared enough about Nltimes’ reputation to defend them.

Nltimes is an English-only website targeting expats/immigrants who want to read Dutch news. They have literally one job, which is translating Dutch news articles into English for their English-speaking audience. I expect a certain level of care, especially when this translation error makes it seem like the banner was part of the vandalism and not the target of the vandalism, completely reversing the meaning of the act:

the building’s facade, entrance door, and sidewalk were smeared with white and blue paint, and a banner displayed the message, “End the genocide now.”

But Parool opens the article with “the banner was smeared with paint” and “MSF placed the banner after consulting with Joods Cultureel Kwartier” (which I assume is a Jewish organisation).

So this “nltimes” website couldn’t even properly translate the article they copied? What a waste of digital space.

Are you getting paid overtime past 8 hours though? Because there’s a big difference between getting double rates for those extra hours (incentivizing your boss to hire a second worker) and demanding everyone work double shifts for normal wages.

Not directly, but once the law allows for it, employers start demanding it. Individual workers have very little bargaining power to refuse at that point. So before you know it, the 13 hour day is normalized and labor protections have taken a knock back into 1920.

Atypical is pretty good, it’s a coming-of-age about an autistic teen. It managed to evade the Department of Premature Cancellations for 4 seasons and even reached a satisfying conclusion.

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This always (and only) happens to me in big company meetings and it’s really hard to get out of those or to find a coping mechanism that would be socially acceptable. So last time I kinda freaked out right before I reached the assembly room, grabbed my stuff and went home. I don’t even think anyone noticed, everyone goes home right after anyway.

I really enjoy the Donki, it’s just cramped enough to make cozy nooks for me to hide between the Pikachu bath towels and the Love Live soap dispensers.