iirc this was just an engine that could run on most combustible hydrocarbons, a small gas turbine and some elaborate digestion setup I seem to remember, and the press really stretched a badly worded explanation of how it worked into ‘it eats corpses’. Which is fair, humans are mostly made from tasty biomass, but still.

edit: here’s a couple sources about it, it sounds like it does indeed run on vegetable biomass.

Looking forward to the WTYP breakdown of what happened here, seems like a huge clusterfuck of events that had to line up for this

With 500 mass shootings/year, that’s a whole lot of mass casualty events happening every day here that we just dont hear about, I guess? Even if these are drivebys, thats a whole lot of people standing around in the street where it happens. Idk, without digging into the methodology of the study this seems pretty suspect.

To be honest, that there was any win at all is pretty shocking.

FAFO is the new ACAB, got it.

I’m not weeping over this asshole dying, it’s just tough to cheer for vigilante justice when… well, when its the police doing it.

Why in the fuck are we suddenly cheering extrajudicial killing just because, for once, it wasn’t someone from our side?

… Oh, yeah okay, it wasn’t someone from our side. For once.

Is it really that excellent? Big “how do you do fellow kids” energy with this one. They all look like they could be the star of a gritty animated film noir feature about anthropomorphic animals set in wartime 1940s brooklyn. “The primal inside me”, get that triple entendre going for it.

So, yeah, I understand what you’re saying.

But can we maybe start calling these people monsters because of the choices they make, not because of a disability they may or may not have? The popular idea that being a sociopath automatically turns you into the lovechild of a heartless CEO and jack the ripper (with a dash of narcissist mother in law) is just… wrong. There are plenty of sociopaths out there in the world trying really hard to fit in to society and who by any regular measure aren’t bad people. Hell on top of that, it’s a spectrum disorder - plenty of sociopaths out there can feel affection for other people, it’s just harder for them to do than the average.

I guess it’s just kind of tiresome to constantly be scapegoated as to why these people are awful. “Oh, they must be sociopaths, that’s why they’re like this”. No, listen, they’re like this because they are awful people. Being a sociopath makes it easier to be an awful person, but the guilt still lies with them and the choices they make, not because a disability made them like this or some sort of genetic fatalism.

Uh… what. Yes they do. Where on earth did you get the idea they don’t?

Seven people died, and this is all that happens??

The assassin was a pre-existing condition, a condition caused by his last workplace, clearly.

10% of the country is gonna be one hell of a perp walk.

Well since he keeps saying he’ll end it, this seems reasonable to worry about. Hopefully they have family abroad, becasue nobody is going to do shit to actually prevent this.

Yeah agreed, and that really should have been the headline.

This headline seems like there’s a bit of sensationalizing going on - A french weapon system, sold to the UAE, is installed on vehicles the UAE has subsequently sent to sudan.

[Amnesty] says the Rapid Support Forces militia is using vehicles in the Darfur region supplied by the United Arab Emirates that are fitted with French hardware as it battles the army. It says the Rapid Support Forces militia is using vehicles in the Darfur region supplied by the United Arab Emirates that are fitted with French hardware as it battles the army.

“If France cannot guarantee through export controls, including end user certification, that arms will not be re-exported to Sudan, it should not authorise those transfers,” [Amnesty] said.

Clearly they need to get their shit in order, but the french lack of a response seems more understandable given that it does take some amount of time to ex: check twenty years of arms sales for similar export control violations.

Oh just go fuck yourself.

I really wish any of this mattered.

I really wish this mattered.

Even more complicated, it was two probably innocent men recently executed. It’s getting to the point where we need a chart to keep all this awful bullshit straight.