A lot of people are focused on this quote:

Witness Reverend Jeff Hood told reporters he saw a man ‘struggling for their life’ for 22 minutes as Smith became the first US death row inmate executed by nitrogen asphyxia

Which says to me that from the time they brought him in and strapped him down until he died lasted about 22 minutes and the murderer struggled physically against the restraints the entire time.

This quote farther down suggests from the time they started administering the gas until he died only took a couple of minutes:

But, witnesses said Smith appeared conscious for several minutes, shaking and writhing on the gurney.

Several could be 25, and he could have been shaking from pain and agony, but it seems more likely he was holding his breath and shaking out of fear while trying to fight and get free.

Keep in mind that the first quote is from his anti-death penalty spiritual advisor and this entire article is brought to us by a magazine with an "end the death penalty campaign".

I'm generally anti-death penalty myself, but nitrogen asphyxiation seems way better than electrocution, lethal injection, or hanging. They could probably do it better by using some kind of general anesthesia to render him unconscious and then flood the room with pure nitrogen, or even just get rid if the death penalty all together. Unfortunately this is the world we live in and so fae this is the least bad option we've seen.

You might be interested in Pathfinder Society.

Basically they're Pathfinder pickup games with a pre-approved set of rules run at game stores and conventions. The games tend to be focused almost exclusively on mechanics and puzzles with almost no role play.

The paid proton accounts let you use several custom domains, although I'm not sure if you can combine custom domains with email aliases. For random sites the email alias with the stand @proton.me would probably suit your needs.

After about 3 years of use I've been very happy with proton's spam filtering.

My friends and I all use Simplex and have been very happy. There's an annoying feature where messages in group chats are sometimes delivered out of order, but it's easy enough to live with.

The cocaine came through Arkansas and Clinton had something to do with it? You got a source for this?

Why isn't 4 enough "years ago" to count?

Not only are corporations buying up houses to rent, they're actively preventing new houses for purchase from being built through "build to rent" schemes. They use the already scarce construction resources and divert them to building housing with the sole intention of renting them out.

So they're keeping the supply houses available to own down, and then preventing new supply from being created. It's a giant fuck you from corporations and shitty local government for letting it happen.

None of that really provides any evidence that Bill Clinton was involved. Is Clinton being the governor germane or are you just stating random facts?

My personal theory is that a lot of advocacy for working in-person goes away when you remove:

1. People that financially benefit from office culture (office land lords, restaurants near office buildings, janitorial services, etc.)
2. Social vampires that view the office as the best place to gossip and share their boring personal lives with a captive audience
3. Managers and executives with poor leadership skills and low self esteem

I think this is the main reason people don't use it in America.

Public transportation doesn't exist for most Americans.

If it does exist, it's really bad. Buses are the most prevalent in America and they just suck in most cities.

Bus routes are pretty sparse, so you end up having to walk a pretty decent distance to catch the bus and then again when you get off the bus and go to your destination. It sucks because it adds and extra 30 minutes to the trip, but the exercise is nice so for me the walk is something I can deal with.

What I can deal with is the fact that buses are hardly ever on schedule. A late bus sucks because you're waiting forever for it to get there. An early bus can be even worse; if you get to your stop 2 minutes early but the bus was 4 minutes early you've missed it and now you're waiting another ~20 minutes for the next one. If that bus happened to take you to an infrequent connecting route you're going to miss that connection too. Now instead of being 20 minutes late you're an hour late because you missed your connection.

I'd love to take public transportation instead of my car, but I don't want to waste hours of my life waiting around because the bus is never where it's supposed to be when it's supposed to be there.

Of course it's PG&E. Maybe if those clowns would stop burning down the state they'd enough cash to invest in infrastructure repairs and keep the power on.

From the article:

Among children and young people aged 0 – 19 years in the US, COVID-19 ranked eighth among all causes of death; fifth among all disease-related causes of death; and first in deaths caused by infectious or respiratory diseases.

Unless I'm reading that wrong covid was never the leading cause of death for people under 18.

I've been using Proton pass for about a week and it's okay so far.

Importing passwords from another manager is pretty easy, except that it can only be done from the browser extension. I had to dig out my laptop to import my passwords which was kind of annoying since I rarely use it.

Proton Pass also doesn't work great on mobile, it rarely recongnizes username fields in my browser. This means I have to manually copy/paste my username and password from the app to the browser to login, which is annoying.

I really like that Pass automatically generates a private email address for each website, but I'm not sure how useful that is in terms of privacy because I still have to get things shipped with my real name and address.

Another nitpick I have is using the same password for my email to also secure all of my passwords and generate my TOTP for 2FA. If my Proton password gets compromised then all of my passwords, my 2FA, and my email are compromised. Seems like a pretty serious security risk, but I'd really appreciate it if someone who knows more about security could explain to me why this is actually okay.

Interesting, I don't remember that at all. Did you just make it up?

Not necessarily. For example north east could have 3 people, north west 4 people, south west 3 people, and south east 4 people.

North and south each have 7 people, east and west both have 7, but the 4 quarters aren't equal.

There are degree's of response to genocide. If you think you Trump will have a harsher response towards Israel's genocide than Biden, then you should definitely vote for Trump or not vote for Biden.

But make no mistake: not voting for Biden isn't a condemnation of Biden's response to the genocide, it's an endorsement of how you think Trump will respond.

It takes you more than 10 minutes to make a cup of shitty office coffee at home?

Your job is so strict that you can't afford to step away from your computer for the 10 minutes it takes you to start a coffee pot, go back to work, and then step away again to get the coffee when it's ready?

That's already been hacked by the NSA

I play about 75% of my games on Foundry and let the automation track them for me.

When I GM in person I really like to use the path builder 2e encounter builder, it works amazingly well

https://pathbuilder2e.com/encounters.html

This guy was an angry and violent kid who did something terrible for unknown reasons. He most certainly isn't an angry kid anymore.

What he is now is a person who had 8 years to grow and change.

What's important is how likely is this person to commit another crime after he's changed by being in prison. If he has a low likelihood of reoffending then from a societal perspective it makes little sense to keep him in prison.

This perspective doesn't address the revenge, punishment, or vengence aspect of incarnation which seems to be what you're most concerned with.