Gordon Calhoun

They like the money, but they LOVE the attention. A lot like toddlers in that regard. They’ve got irrational tantrums down perfectly, too.

Bro has a serious drug problem

The dude could shoot any of his cult followers and as long as they survived they’d still love and vote for him. They’re empty shells shaped like humans and more loyal to him than anyone else. It’s the most bizarre thing I’ve ever seen.

Yeah, but do any of his brainwashed disciples love anyone as much as they love him? He’d be replaced, but it’s hard for me to envision any replacement garnering the same quality of blind devotion.

I call it Exported Thought. Or Lazy Braining.

I will admit, though, that its image generation gimmick has been entertaining and useful one or two times when I wanted to quickly create a meme in my earlier days of experimenting with it.

America has been impaired for a while now, you’re right. https://aphelis.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/ASIMOV_1980_Cult_of_Ignorance.pdf

However, what prevents them from combining the two? Some drug to knock you unconscious, and then use nitrogen to finish you off?

Yeah, seems like a sensible approach. I’ve heard about hypoxia chamber trials for pilots and honestly that doesn’t sound like a bad way to go, either. Same with carbon monoxide.

N2 is still my preferred way to go if I gotta go. Either that, or go the complete opposite direction on a novelty-seeking thrillfest by opting for absolute maximum pain possible just to see what it’s like. When it’s all done, it’s not like I’ll care anyway and maybe the final curtain drop will present the ultimate relief.

What a delightfully morbid discourse :)

Superficial Intelligence fits. Synthetic Intelligence sounds kinda cool (probably too cool for what an LLM actually is). Sloppy Intelligence. Stupid Intelligence. 'Snot Intelligence. Or maybe just Subliminal Infiltration?

https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25/25A1381/413139/20260611160350393_25A1381 Brief of Amicus American Thoracic Society.pdf

Link found from https://www.npr.org/2026/06/11/nx-s1-5855742/supreme-court-alabama-execution

Apparently it’s inhumane.

Yeah, guillotine was the inspiration, but it has baggage in the form of post-drop lingering consciousness for a few moments.

Seems like as good a place as any to ask…there doesn’t seem to be any great way to kill a person. I used to think asphyxiation by nitrogen was the ideal for a dignified and gentle death, but I guess that has issues. So has anyone anywhere developed a method that isn’t so terrible or unreliable?

What about something super instant and imperceptible…like being given general anesthetic and having the head (or entire body) placed into some kind of superfast pneumatic crushing machine that works in a fraction of an second and has a self-cleaning feature? Guaranteed death that no one has to see or clean up and isn’t felt by the executed person?

That being said, I’m opposed to the death sentence. Not because I don’t think there are crimes for which a person deserves to die, but because of the potential for a false accusation.

Our species is so heinous.

But did he “grab her by the pussy”?

Very few were ever taught what to do and how to do it if the government were ever radicalized and performed a hostile fascist takeover feom within. Most were indoctrinated to trust the system to be fair. No one is at all prepared to act, least of all the military.

But yeah, quite a few are just focused on their own little lives and hoping the system just works.

Congress are the true criminals in all this. It was their responsibility to check the balance of power and they failed miserably (and intentionally). Complicit spineless sycophantic fucks. When he finally does succeed in forming the Citizens’ United Democratic Republic of American Sub-States, how many of them do you think will avoid his (literal) axe?

Superficial Intelligence.

They’ll do anything and everything to win, except trying to make anything better.

At least now it’ll shut up about not enough statues are being made of it.

If I survive to see a day when this sad excuse for an ape loses its ability to convert oxygen to carbon dioxide at will, the wave of relief and joy I’ll feel will be tantalizing. I’ve never been great at delayed satisfaction, but in this case it’ll be well worth it.

Malpractice lawsuit in 3…2…

Shocking how wrong/right Qanon really was about the whole pedophile cabal thing. Like the schrodinger’s cat of accurate prediction.

Glad he was finally able to get the shot he was after. Too bad it’s kinda noisy and soft.