Manjushri

Cupid has judged your meme and found it wanting.

Hmmm, right you are. I blame my oncoming senility. Thanks.

From the Eagles, The Last Resort. I love the whole song but this verse hits me hardest.

Who will provide the grand design?  
What is yours and what is mine?  
'Cause there is no more new frontier  
But we have got to make it here  
We satisfy our endless needs  
And justify our bloody deeds  
In the name of destiny  
And in the name of God  

No it’s not. I’ve known lots of people with bad hair and acne who are not sadistic monsters that torture young girls. As it happens, appearance actually has nothing to do with antisocial behavior. That sort of thinking is the very foundation of racism and discarded pseudosciences like phrenology.

I love that you’re getting down-voted for pointing out something so obviously true. Why the hell would anyone bother to attack this lunatic for his appearance rather than his sadistic, antisocial behavior? The man used psychological torture and threats to manipulate young girls into physically torturing themselves and animals but the best that poster could come up with is to mock the guy’s hair and complexion.

The general rule for a DA is that you have to cause your own death or sterilization in a spectacularly stupid and hilarious fashion. Getting kids killed, while spectacularly stupid, is never hilarious and still leaves the idiot parents free to continue breeding.

Right. Man, this thread just reminded me of the old days (for me) hanging around on the Darwin Awards forums when they first opened up a decade or two back.

There have been endless arguments about what should qualify or exclude someone from consideration for an award. The existence of existing children doesn’t exclude one from getting an award because death by stupidity still prevents you from having any more children. But getting your own kids killed due to your own stupidity does though. The children didn’t cause their own deaths (or sterilization), and that is one major key to winning an award, self selection.

If anyone cares, there are actual rules at the forum that have been getting hashed out since this all started in usenet groups in the mid eighties.

Heh, true. But however the numbers change, you can be sure that the game remains the same.

That tracks, considering at some American sports stadiums you can buy a regular (20oz) beer for $4 that neatly fills up the cup for a large beer (24oz allegedly) that costs $7. Humans in general, and Americans in particular, are not good at judging beverage volumes.

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100% correct. Back in the late 70s/early 80s I had an uncle, technically my grandmothers brother. He’d never married and she was widowed so they shared a house together. In retrospect, I think he was probably a closeted gay man.

Anyway, All through my young years he was a very kind and generous man. Smart too. He bought a Commodore home computer when they first came out and let me play games on it. He used it to write up a family history of everything he knew about our family’s past. He also make a cookbook of all my grandmother’s recipes. He printed both of those out and gave a copy to every household in the family. He had a shocking level of technological aptitude for a 60ish year old man in the early 80s.

Then one day he changed. I was young and nobody told me exactly what it was. Maybe a stroke or something. From that day on he was as mean as a snake. He’d rip into anyone over anything. Not violently, I don’t think, anyway. But he’d scream and swear and slam things and be generally viscous. It was as if my uncle just died and was replaced by a scary, mean old-man who looked just like him.

While this woman may have been a bitch all her life, I’ve known plenty of healthy, young people who were no better than this. She might also have been emotionally disturbed and no longer the person that she was. Without more information, we’ll never know.

ICE plans to spend up to $20 million to purchase thousands of “conductive distraction and de-escalation devices” for officers and agents by March

Distraction and de-escalation? Gee that sounds very reasonable.

Compliant Technologies says the devices function as a normal pair of patrol gloves until officers press a switch to activate their electrical mode. The gloves must be applied directly to someone’s skin to deliver a pain stimulus that typically helps an officer gain compliance within seconds, according to the company.

Ah, so not so much a de-escalation tool as a compliance enforcement device. I’ll give ten to one that within a month of deployment we hear stories of them grabbing some poor sod by the nuts with them to make him unlock his phone.