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[–] [email protected] 82 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Remember: even if we find this story ironic and laughable, torture is a despicable practice that no human should ever experience.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah it's like when you hear about playing baby shark 24/7 at a volume to deprive people of sleep and some people are like "hahaha baby shark isn't that funny" but you can pick any song in the world and if you play it long enough, loud enough, keeping people from sleeping, they will go absolutely clinically insane.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not even one song. My neighbours had a party until 3am when I had work that day. I was ready to die for some sleep

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I was on a flight last night desperate for sleep after a few weeks of a few hours a night and no naps (boring story, too many personal details to relay here). I desperately wanted to sleep. The guy behind my was doing a single, extremely loud, harsh bark/cough every 9 or 10 minutes. I would just drift off and bam! Another cough. I was so tired that I would jolt awake. The adrenaline would subside, if drift into a liminal state, and bam. At the three hour mark I snagged a black coffee and got it into me as fast as I could. If I didn't, I was pretty sure I was going to freak out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tape down an air horn and throw it on their roof or tree. Repeat if necessary. Problem eventually solves itself.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Then tape that airhorn to a brick and yeet it at a window

Preferably the window of a house owned by some corporation asshole

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I dont see how that is related to anything

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Iraq getting their torture methods from Nathan Fielder

https://youtu.be/Jfogv2OxSZI

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Sometimes, it feels like everything mankind invests can be used for toture…

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