#Boeing is killing whistleblowers like they're #Russian dissidents, so please DO keep with the #guillotine imagery. The oligarchs are afraid. That's why they're killing us. They need to be more afraid, though.
As far as #Boeing executives go, we're past the point of intimidation. Some Boeing execs and probably some #shareholders need to die to make this right. They aren't going to stop killing us otherwise.
Do you think this speculation is probably correct or incorrect? If you think I'm incorrect, then what are you worrying over, those billionaire necks will be fine.
If you think they DID have the whistleblowers killed AND you agree that the U.S. justice system won't pursue these crimes, come again with what you think is hard to take?
This story about prison tech/tablet providers bribing sheriffs nationwide to stop in-person visits, making big $$ from tablets, has been on my mind since Alec K and Civil Rights Corps broke it last week.
Beware of geeks bearing gifts. When prison-tech companies started offering "free" tablets to America's vast army of prisoners, it set off alarm-bells for prison reform advocates - but not for the law-enforcement agencies that manage the great American carceral enterprise.
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Dr. Martin #Kulldorff, Who Posted Pictures of Guillotines and Promised #HerdImmunity Would Arrive 3-6 Months After Lockdowns Ended, Fired for “Clinging to the Truth”. | Science-Based Medicine https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/fired/ “Dr. Kulldorff, who threatened besieged public health officials by posting a picture of a #guillotine, extolled the virtue of “civilized debates” saying: (1/2)
On June 17, 1939, serial killer Eugen Weidmann was guillotined in Versailles as hundreds gleefully looked on - captured here from above. The near riotous behavior of the crowd and the spectacle that ensued caused the president of France to ban all public executions.
However, that was far from the end for the #guillotine popularized by the French Revolution. In fact, the last execution by guillotine in France happened after the first #StarWars premiered.
@virtualbri "The S&P 500 is a mood ring for rich people." - unknown
Also: with the ugly ascent of financialization, a company doesn't even need to turn a profit for the stock price to climb. It just needs to create the illusion that its stock is desirable through buybacks, PR, regulatory capture, etc., ad nauseam. And the primary share holders, CEOs, and board members make bank!
It's definitely all magic thinking at this point. #Guillotine
Les invités de Macron à Versailles avec Charles III se sont régalés du menu étoilé: « C’est le meilleur truc que j’ai mangé de ma vie », assure Adélaïde de Clermont-Tonnerre. « La nourriture était invraisemblable », s’extasie Yann Arthus-Bertrand sur Inter. Le coût de ces agapes reste secret en période d’inflation. Aucun média ne s’est réellement penché sur la question… #Politique#Versailles#CharlesIII#Macron#Diplomatie#Inflation
@Radical_EgoCom every time a CEO says something completely evil, everyone cries out for the #guillotine. But guillotines are only useful once you've already won. They're a tool of revenge.
But what revenge is a quick death? I want these people to see the world they prevented. I want them to be utterly powerless in our utopia, like we have been completely powerless in theirs. I want the malignant narcissism that drives them to have to face the fact that they were never the brilliant people they thought they were. I want them to live in a world built for everyone by everyone, instead of a world built by them for them, and understand every day that it's fundamentally better.
Everyone calls for guillotines, but there's no number of guillotines you can build that will get us closer to a better world. If you hate these people, build thing libraries, plant food forests, create shared pantries and free thing dispensaries. Channel that anger into building a world where guillotines are unnecessary.
Guillotines don't make them afraid. Us building a world without them is what they really fear.
@jeff@cliffwade
🥥 Eye don't wish to be the turd in the punchbowl, Jeff, but as someone formerly in the pitchfork, torch, tumbril, and #guillotine industries who now subsists on meager #SocialSecurity, I'd like to politely encourage entities like ProPublica, The Conversation, et al., to increase their donations to @newsie.social, if they can.
PS: Hey, #SteveForbes, if you've got a minute, could you kindly check your sofa and pass the change you find there on to Jeff?
M'kay?
TKS. 🥥
#FuneralFactFriday: Joseph-Ignace Guillotin
Born May 28, 1738 (Saintes, France)
Died March 26 1814 (not executed)
Buried: Pere Lachaise Cemetery
Many assume that Monsieur Guillotin invented the guillotine. He did not!
He was actually a physician who OPPOSED the death penalty. Executions at that time were gruesome and prolonged: axes and swords (reserved for nobility) often took several blows, hanging (for commoners) relied on lengthy asphyxiation rather than instantly breaking the neck, and it was highly unpleasant to be boiled, dismembered, broken on a Catherine Wheel, or burned at the stake. His attempts to abolish capital punishment failed, so he instead proposed a more humane method: fast and painless decapitation by simple mechanism.
Guillotin wrote a six point proposal to encourage a fairer system (it also discouraged crowds from hungrily watching public executions by making them boring):
All punishments for the same class of crime shall be the same, regardless of the criminal (i.e., there would be no privilege for the nobility)
When the death sentence is applied, it will be by decapitation, carried out by a machine
The family of the guilty party will not suffer any legal discrimination
It will be illegal to anyone to reproach the guilty party's family about his/her punishment
The property of the convicted shall not be confiscated
The bodies of those executed shall be returned to the family if so requested
His proposals were accepted, becoming law in 1792. The beheading device was invented by the King's physician (Antoine Louis) and a German engineer (Tobias Schmidt). Use of the guillotine in France continued until its abolition in 1981, with the last execution having been performed in 1977.
A letter published in 1795 cast doubt on the effectiveness of the guillotine. It claimed that victims survived for several minutes after being beheaded, though the only evidence is anecdotal & not supported by medical science. Unfortunately, Guillotin suffered knowing that rumor & regretted sharing his name with the device.
In 1997, Jorn Barger coined the term "web-log" to describe his website "Robot Wisdom," where he logged his journeys around this exciting new digital space called "the web." Two years later, @peterme shortened "web-blog" to "#blog":
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This doesn't just make me want to stand up and salute - it makes me want to build a barricade (or a #guillotine).
On to "Reddit Data API Update: Changes to Pushshift Access," a #Reddit thread where the volunteer mods are discussing another #enshittification move: Reddit's pre-IPO API shut-down that has broken all the mod tools that volunteers use to shovel out Reddit's Augean Stables, getting rid of spam and catfishing and fraud: