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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • “Excuse me. Is anyone cool with sitting next to a dead body?” isn’t going to end well… and all but guarantees you get the kind of people who shouldn’t be allowed near a corpse to volunteer.

    They could have asked if anyone had medical experience, then followed up with the spiel about there being a body on board and needing someone who can handle it. The pool of potential volunteers would be narrowed down to those who could provide some basic postmortem care and then respectfully stay with the body through the rest of the flight. The potential for abuse would still be there ofc, but it’d be way lower than just outright asking who’s cool with hanging out with a corpse for a few hours.

    …honestly, saying that, it might not be a horrible idea to have a “I’m a medical professional” checkbox when buying the ticket. Even as ‘just’ a tech, I could handle some basic emergencies and wouldn’t be horribly traumatized around a body. Shit, throw in a free flight in the event that some kind of emergency intervention is needed, and I’d be down to have my name added to some kind of short list of volunteers for every single flight.





  • It’s from the side bar to this sub - if you’re on mobile or something it might not be showing, but the rule states:

    Rule 6: Memes, spam, other low effort posting, reposts, misinformation, advocating violence, off-topic, trolling, offensive, regarding the moderators or meta in content may be removed at any time.

    Hoping for the fatal removal of a few literal supervillians is significantly less violent than allowing them to run rampant on the world, imo, but I’ve been temp banned a few times over “advocating for violence” by pushing for the less violent of the two options. I’m kinda tired of being told to just sit quiet and pretty in the face of a surge in neonazism though, so… fuck it.

    I’m not asking people to go full Inglorious Basterds on MAGA or anything… but if you’re one of very few people with the means and opportunity to take a shot at Hitler… please don’t miss.





  • Against the government - no of course not. Against the handful of people driving it into the ground - absolutely.

    … and what’s ‘fine’ is at the mods’ discretion. I’ve been temp banned several times for having basically this conversation. Thing is, the options on the table right now are sit quietly and let the Nazis continue to take over the US government (shit tons of violence on a massive scale), or in the absence of any form of checks and balances to include effective peaceful protests or voting: cut the snake’s head off (still violence, but the least violent option we have). …but pulling that trolley lever to take the less violent path is still ‘advocating for violence’ here.

    We’ll find out soon if this comment crossed the line.