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We Talk Friday

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This is a semi-regular series that I will run on Fridays to hold discussions on a current topic from the week gone. The aim is to keep them light and conversational, though some might be heavier - regardless of the content topic itself though, just have some fun engaging and discussing with whoever happens to put in the effort in the comments section below.

We Talk Friday Ep. 73:

1. How hard is it?

I don't get it. Every day in the US around 133 people suicide and there are about 60 murders each day also. Yet, it seems nearly impossible to kill someone with a "lethal" injection. Christa Pike would have had the dubious honour of being the first woman put to death in Tennessee for 200 years, but they botched the procedure and she not only lived, her condition might be too bad to put her to death again. Like what?

Around 190 overdose deaths in the US every day.

Now, rather than using past the use by date pentobarbital as the lethal injection, why not just use a healthy dose of fentanyl instead? It is pretty effective as people die with just a small amount laced into other drugs and I am sure it is cheaper to buy and can be bought on many street corners.

Problem solved.

Note: I am not a death penalty supporter. (Soon we will be encouraged to end our lives so the rich may live richer)

2. Putin huylo, Oi Oi Oi

Finland played Belarus in a "controversial" football game in Helsinki, due to Belarusian support for the Kremlin and its war in Ukraine. Ukraine's ambassador wanted the game cancelled or shifted, but then we would have missed out on scenes like this tifo from the fans:

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko as a cockroach.

The crowd was also chanting "Putin huylo!" throughout the match which is Russian for,

Putin is a dick!

I am not a fan of politics in sport at all, especially when the sportspeople punished are coming from autocratic and violent regimes. Even if they wanted to, they can't speak out against the regime out of fear for themselves and families, but if they don't they are treated as supporters. That is bullshit.

The game ended 0-0

But 100% - Putin is a dick.

8===D

3. We got them

"We had them under view for a long time, and we got them."

This is what Trump said about the people who were captured in the UK near an airport and he also claimed that they were planning to do "big damage" - he does have a pretty impressive vocabulary. Apparently, the US and UK had been working closely together which led to the arrests.

However....

The call to emergency was from a local woman on her way back to her farm and police arrested them about 25 minutes later. So if they were being watched by the US and UK anti-terror units and the like, where were the agencies? Perhaps they were hoping the attack would go through and they could drum up some more war support.

However, all they had in the back was some petrol apparently, with "no viable explosive devices" at all. And then, due to the lack of whatever was necessary to hold them, they had all been released oon bail the next day, which means they aren't seen as a threat to the public.

More political nonsense, by the looks.

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Comments · 10

@videoaddiction(72)· 3h
I think it is fair to question things when they don’t add up, although it is also easy to fill in the gaps with our own assumptions when we don’t know the full story.
@fieryfootprints(75)· 7h
I don't remember if I said this in the past. A while back our favorite neighbour's granddaughter's dog was hit by a car. The dog had to have a costly operation but she recovered. Yesterday our favorite neighbour herself was hit by scooter and hit her head so she was taken to the hospital. But it seems that she is feeling well enough and should be released home today. It is interesting that both the family dog and one of her owners were hurt in such similar situation and both survived. Also I wonder how fast that damn scooter had to be going?

but they botched the procedure and she not only lived, her condition might be too bad to put her to death again. Like what?

It is quite weird that a person can be in a condition so bad that he can't be killed.

Putin huylo

that chant is quite popular here in Lithuania as well.
@seattlea(78)· 11h
I think Russia should be completely isolated, kind of reverse iron-curtain, if that was implemented the regime would implode by itself... But no we are going to be playing with the oppressive regime until it goes completely insane and decides to launch a few tactical nukes towards the waffling European capitals that can't really get their shit together and really help out Ukraine to put an end to this debacle...
@jacobtothe(77)· 11h
There was a recent sportsball game between Israel and Ireland, with considerable disdain shown in public commentary for the Israeli team. I detest the government of Israel, but I am deeply uncomfortable with extending that distaste to the citizenry, or even state-sponsored athletes. This provides a lot of cover for actual antisemitism, or other forms of racism/nationalism as the case may be. That said, sports is one of the few venues where public outcry cannot be easily silenced either. More government "leaders" should be represented as vermin, too.
@mortezayousefi(68)· 12h
Trump does everything to justify the war
@favour20045(69)· 12h
I really wonder the cause of all this death, here and there. My uncle said a huge percentage of death-rate is encouraged by the changing of the world, and I agree with his words.
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@riverflows(82)· 13h
I love how people pointed out it wasn't a lethal injection in her case, but just an injection. I think it's wild that she could be in jail that long and they only finally get around to it now. The American justice system is just mental.

Yep, seems like fentanyl has a good track record for killing people.

I wonder what happens now. Despite the horror of her crime, I don't think she 'deserves' to die at this point, but then, what kind of life is it on death row? I'd choose the fentanyl.
@deirdyweirdy(72)· 13h
I’d never heard of Christa Pike, but the botched execution doesn’t surprise me in the slightest. That’s government for you!
@tarabh(57)· 14h
Was the Finland v Belarus as controversial as Ireland v Israel. I'm not a football fan, but I'm disappointed the Irish team didn't have more backbone, at least they won, but black armbands and hanging ur head for the Isr anthem are rather weak gestures imo

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