usualsuspect191

Good. We need more of these! Where's my bare-bones EV for $15k? 150km range or even a bit less, just for around town

Same. I was getting really curious about this Amish group in India

I read this in Mulaney's voice

That's a good point. My phone keyboard has the superscript so I used that without thinking too much

It's probably more like the 50th is considered northern really. 60th is into far north territory

Thought experiment:

Put them in a small sealed room with airflow you control. Using a randomly generated number to pick the start time (within some maximum that's deemed appropriate), you then throttle up the nitrogen and throttle down the oxygen.

The time spent in the room would still be pretty terrifying so I doubt it'd be much better than the mask... Maybe the room is their cell and it's a randomly chosen day within an execution "week" where you make sure they're asleep first?

Probably best just to not kill people of course, but if you're gonna do it, do it the most humane way possible.

My understanding is that we can't detect oxygen deprivation, but we can detect CO² buildup which is the idea behind nitrogen asphyxiation. Wouldn't regular suffocation (like, something obstructing your airflow) be quite agonizing then in comparison due to CO² buildup?

Nitrogen asphyxiation should be effective and painless, but not if the person fights it. Which means it'll be hard to use as an execution method (unless you surprise them with it somehow)

Yeah, in a fair world that'd be his entire base flown in from everywhere

Why do you even need to know what the numbers mean in relation to time of day?

For travel, for contacting people for social purposes, for a shared global cultural association

I'm in one of those more northern areas so maybe that's why I prefer DST. In the summer the sun is up so early and sets so late that it doesn't matter, but in the winter DST would mean at least some evening light when more people have free time than dark at both ends.

Yes, this is the first thing I thought of. Great analysis