"Torture is totally useful you guys"
"Torture is totally useful you guys"
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Lmao just put them under oath
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This guy should have went on to open a chain of sex toy shops.
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Or a happy meal toy for adults
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As you know, when atoms are split, there are a lot of pluses and minuses released. Well, we've taken these and put them in a huge container and separated them from each other with a lead shield. When the box is dropped out of a plane, we melt the lead shield and the pluses and minuses come together. When that happens, it causes a tremendous bolt of lightning and all the atmosphere over a city is pushed back! Then when the atmosphere rolls back, it brings about a tremendous thunderclap, which knocks down everything beneath it.
Looks legit to me
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"Mistakenly by coincidence", in this case.
What he really described was... a capacitor. Except for the lead part. And one that would melt itself. But whatever worked.
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Elmo loves torture, and he's a billionaire so it totally must work great!
/s
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Japan would have fought until they all died regardless. The nukes gave the Emperor an excuse to override the military leaders and ordered them to surrender. This satisfied the Japanese code of "honour" because a God told them to commit a disgraceful act of surrender, not themselves. Even then, many still commited seppuku.
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This is a pop culture myth. There was some resistance to the idea of unconditional surrender in the Japanese government (partly because of the emperor), but at the time the bombs were dropped, the Japanese leadership had agreed on surrender as their course of action and were attempting to strike a deal with the Soviet Union to mediate the terms on their behalf.
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Almost like torture is a really good tool for getting people to talk, and a very bad tool for getting them to tell the truth.
Torture's 'appropriate' use case is to ask multiple people questions and then compare the results to find commonalities. Torturing one person is essentially useless.
Thanks, will try that next time
You should watch The Torture Report with Adam Driver. It's a very good examination of how torture programs start and then continue due to a need to prove they were justified in the first place.