I'm never gonna forgive tech for how I've wanted to talk to computer ever since I was a wee trekkie and they finally let us talk to computer but it's bad and evil and now we'll never get to talk to computer because even if someone made talking to computer good people would rightly go "but is it tho"

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And it is not lost on me that this particular case is probably getting so much attention because the state's victim is a white woman. One of the horrors of the death penalty in the US is how extremely disproportionately it is used against people of color, especially Black people.

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Whether it "goes wrong" or not, execution by the state is not consistent with a humane, morally sound society.

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⚔️ the hill-clans of Dunland have been narrowly defeated by ⚔️ the horse-lords of the Riddermark near a rocky outcrop. Rohan is victorious.

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The correct heuristic for how you should treat Russia apologists (and handwringing peaceniks are absolutely included in this) is "how should I have treated Nazi apologists in 1939?" and if your response is insufficiently firm I can only say "they hanged Lord Haw-Haw."

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