[Happy splashing noises]

I’m not an authority on the story, but I interpreted it to mean that those who reject the button/refuse to press it are not eligible to be killed by it. The first person to use the button might kill a random person (although I like to think that it just doesn’t take a life then), but after that, it just kills the previous button presser.

A one-time button for only one person at a time. If you press it, someone you don’t know will die, but you will receive ten million dollars.

Then the button moves on to the next person. Someone you don’t know.

[Ominous music]

Damn, that’s a way better answer. Wish I’d thought of it.

Just like the industrial revolution! So much sharing after the jobs declined!

I think it’s the sound a confused frog makes.

I, for one, am shocked. I just thought Epstein and Maxwell were two lone pedos with unrelated connections to teen modeling agencies and other known sex predators. Sure, the FBI found 300gb of data which later turned out to be dozens of terabytes, including video, which were later hacked, but the FBI said the data wasn’t compromised, so no foul there. It’s a shame he and so many of his clients died of totally natural or self-inflicted causes in such a short time afterward. I bet the discovery phase in court would have confirmed that his associates were blameless and that he was just maintaining a 20-40 terabyte collection of porn for personal use. The whole thing was so unrelated and random that they had to move Ghislaine Maxwell to a low-security prison despite her convictions for some of the worst and highest profile felonies in recent history.

But now there’s evidence against another person whose name was all over the files and who has also bragged about inappropriate behavior with minors? Consider me shell shocked. Still, having been born yesterday, this is my first real day on earth, so what do I know.

Yeah, if this is the US, it’s not like you get to choose the response as the caller/complainant. PSAPs are generally police-oriented, with Fire/EMS as separate and secondary call screeners. It varies by PSAP. Some are even private contractors. Regardless, if someone calls 911 and there’s an iota of suspicion about risk to responders, the police are going to engage first.

Oh, now I vaguely remember seeing him before. Never actually watched an episode, though.

Cool. I had never heard of him before.

This one?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beast_Boy

Orangutan would be extra fun in forests. They’re way better climbers. You’d essentially be an unusually strong acrobat.

YFW power plant desk

A gorilla so I could still use human technology, but I’d be 200 kgs of muscle.

Yeah. I thought it was bizarre when some people complained about a black actor playing the little mermaid. We could list Americans of northern European ancestry playing almost every other race, ethnicity and nationality without anyone blinking an eye and we could do it for days without being close to a complete list.

Thanks for the support. I’m grateful for the feedback I’m getting from Lemmy/The Fediverse.

No offense taken, and thanks for the advice!

Yeah, how would we even know if we were using it right now?

Hmm. You might be onto something. Perhaps some kind of universal protocol that would allow for a federation of independent social media nodes, a fedi-verse, if you will.