• 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.social
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    24 days ago

    I would argue that “instantly killed in a horrifying way” is oxymoronic. I don’t care that I’ll be torn to pieces by rabid centipedes while being boiled alive in a vat of acid, as long as it’s an instantaneous death. Horrifying, maybe, to observers, but any instantaneous death makes the means irrelevant to the killed.

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    24 days ago

    Looks fake.

    The voltage difference between the two terminals would be minimal so no current flow, the back plate should be non-conductive. The other reason is there are no scorch marks or other signs of burning.

    Now if the mouse had gone between the green and yellow (where the terminal separator is); then we would see a big voltage difference.

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      24 days ago

      Lmao, what make you so sure there would be minimal voltage difference???

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        24 days ago

        Generally same coloured wires are at the same potential.

        It is extremely bad practice to have different potentials on the same wire colours. Especially since they are in same terminal block.

        I don’t know which country this picture is from, but yellow/red would be safe to assume line voltage, green would usually be earth potential.

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    25 days ago

    No matter where you are on the planet, you’re never much more than 100 km away from the Kármán line. Death is (generally speaking) always just overhead.

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      25 days ago

      Going by that logic, just a meter deep is a crushing death. And right where you are you could smash your head against something… which is at least also something that happens all the time, no need to look at theoretical far-away things when the boring truth is far worse.

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      25 days ago

      You don’t have to get to the karman line to asphyxiate, the karman line is only relevant if you are trying to move faster to generate lift. The Death Zone starts at only 8 km altitude.

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          24 days ago

          Because that love was lost. It’s not those who perish that suffer longest, but those who endure after.

          You just wished that something, in addition to this bygone creature, also experienced loss— and, very likely, had no idea what event precipitated the disappearance of their beloved. That something would have been left wondering, to the end of its days, if its would ever return.

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            23 days ago

            Sorry, but experiencing loss is a necessary part of loving and being loved. It may be that I’m getting older, or it may be that I’ve lost a LOT of loved ones, but I look at it this way:

            Picture everyone you know- as a light in your life. Some of them will be brighter, and some, dimmer. Some will start dim and then brighten with time, some remain constant, and some, sadly will fade away with time.

            And when the lights of these loved ones slowly begin to flicker and then fade out one by one as you age- rather than scream out at the darkness, instead, remember how lucky you were then, and are now- to have had their light in your life at all.

            Love can’t exist without loss. Never deny yourself one just to spite the existence of the other. Doing so flies in the face of one of life’s most precious gifts…