Comment on Why do we still joke about setting up old wooden guillotines?

Typotyper@sh.itjust.works ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• bizarroland@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Don’t log splitters work incredibly slow?

  That’s not really gonna chop people’s heads off, rather it would inexorably pinch their necks until their head falls off.

  That’s pretty fucking gruesome.

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  • Typotyper@sh.itjust.works ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Most wood splinters do move slow but that one (Large valve and accumulator) would make it faster.

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  • NABDad@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If we’re going for gruesome, how about we build a huge version of one of those slicers that they feed vegetables in, and just feed the oligarchs into it.

    Gives you the option to feed them head first if you want to show mercy, while still being able to feed them in feet first for someone like Musk.

    Then they are cut up into small, easy to compost pieces.

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    • Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Wood chippers exist and are pretty much this

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      • NABDad@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        While I appreciate the composting efficiency, I was thinking something like this for maximum gruesomeness:

        youtube.com/shorts/c7lSg0T0dJ0

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• FaceDeer@fedia.io ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  so things last longer.

  Sadism is a negative, not a positive.

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  • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I thought they mean it for the equipment, that it does not fall apart so fast

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    • FaceDeer@fedia.io ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If your execution equipment is wearing out from overuse then that raises further questions that a society should probably think about.

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      • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        well I don’t know how many uses it takes to wear out a decent guillotine, from my part it could be good if it can do 5 turns. no idea

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  • Typotyper@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    “Last longer” was referring to the machine life not the execution. The accumulator is there to make it painless.

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