Nitrous oxide, aka. NO2 or Laughing gas, would let the bastards go out laughing their asses off. Then there would be no debate about the cruelty of the death penalty method.

Actually, it doesn't make you laugh, but you space out a bit. If you want to try it, just buy a can of whipped cream at your local supermarket. DO NOT shake the can. Hold it the can upright, stick it in your mouth, press on the dispenser thing, and inhale. DO NOT exhale immediately. The effects will last about 30 seconds, during which you will have all sorts of dreamy thoughts about how huge the universe is.

If a death penalty candidate is given a steady flow of this, he will be asphyxiate, because he will be some deep in his dreams, that he will forget to breathe.

Central Europe.

FTFS:

So, by their model, life, unchecked, will keep continents growing until the continents cover the whole Earth! And their will be no more oceans anymore! That would be a major blow to the surfing and beach vacation industries.

In order to fix this, we should start destroying a bit of life to keep the continents in balance, according to their model.

Gee, I thought Über's Surge Plan looked like this:

1. Über calls in a bomb threat at a major train and subway station.
2. The station gets evacuated and locked down.
3. Thousands of rail commuters are stranded, with no way to get home.
4. Everyone calls Über.
5. Surge!
6. Profit for Über!

You might say the calling in a bomb threat is illegal, but does Über care if the things they do are legal? It's just a new business model, that old folks do not understand.

Why don't you ask the Germans how they have manage to do this already . . . ?

Well, it seem to me, that living in a hurricane zone increases your chances of dying in a disaster.

So, if you are worried about lack of FM support on phones . . . just move somewhere else.

Jokes aside, most of us live in areas that are not prone to hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, or Godzilla. If you do choose to live in such places, it is important to be prepared, and have an emergency kit. In which you can just pack in a good ole' FM battery.

Oh, if you are a criminal defense lawyer, this is a gift from Heaven. I see a flood of requests for appeals and retrials on the horizon.

Just the headline shocked me: That Josef Goebbels has an estate? Does Adolf Hitler have one, too?

And what else does this Josef Goebbels estate do? Sponsor charitable picnics with a dubious subliminal political message? Maybe burn some swastikas on hilltops?

In my opinion, the estate should have been liquidated in the early years after the end of WWII, and the funds distributed to victims of concentration camps.

This truncated headline would have been more pleasurable.

Let me ask you, in which countries have you taken taxis?

I am American, but live in Germany. I have traveled on business to many different European countries. I have rode in taxis in England(Winchester,Southampton), the Netherlands (Delft), France (Nice, Paris), Belgium (Brussels), Greece (Samos), Switzerland (Zurich), Turkey(Istanbul), and just about every which where in Germany. I have never had a negative experience.

I am always polite to the driver, never condescending, and friendly. Guess what? The taxi driver always pays back in kind.

Missionary? More likely "Missionary Style"! What is the first thing that they do, when an advanced culture meets a primitive culture? They mutually exchange sexually transmitted diseases!

Who knows? Maybe the villagers were visited by some folks, who didn't want to tell the government where they were, and what they were up to? Like, drug dealers, illegal good miners or illegal loggers?

Or how about contamination that occurred during the testing? People working with Ebola patients were supposed to how to isolate themselves from getting infected. And gee, looked what happened?

Maybe the folks in the universe before us turned out the lights before they left . . . ?

Just like with an automobile, the biggest danger is "a loose nut behind the steering wheel."

Well, if a catastrophe occurs, and half the human population on the planet dies, then we will have a butt-load of human corpses. Can we somehow use them to generate energy? There be lots of fat in those critters.

And, well, for the survivors, we could enslave a bunch of folks to peddle on fitness studio bikes hooked up to dynamos. Hey, all the electricity you will every need, but you will need to hire the whip guy out of Ben Hur.