Fun fact most “medieval” torture devices were invented much later in history
As bad as everyone thinks it is, this is one of the most peaceful times for humans. You’re just bombarded with news 24/7 of how shitty the world is. Can you imagine if it was like WW2, the world powers are CAROET BOMBING major cities. You think a stray missile hitting a school of 150 kids is bad/evil? Lol, try dropping thousands of tons of dumb bombs a day hoping you hit something important. Entire cities were leveled.
And if that wasn’t enough, a significant portion of bombs had a time delay trigger. They’d only explode once people left the bunkers an hour or 2 days after the bombing. However that delay was caused by a chemical reaction which pften failed, meaning a lot of the bombs are undetonated but active even now some 80 years later.
Look, I remember the “good old days“. It was 1994, and I was doing my best to pirate Adobe Photoshop 2.5 so that I could make fake IDs and print them out on my new-fangled Canon “BubbleJet” 250C printer.
The early 90s… The “digital age”…, New York State was the first to make “digital ID cards“ and they were crap. Extremely easy to make fake ones, and I did — for years.
It was a while before New York State finally started producing ID cards and drivers license licenses that weren’t garbage. But those early days… I made some good bank making fakes. It was very very easy.
When did you saw into someone’s head
Red hat Linux memories
Omg, yeah, right about the same time, lol
My first encounter with Linux was spending almost 3 days downloading the source code for Red Hat 2.0 and then spending another two or three days compiling that shit into 9-13 floppy images. Then trying to install it.
Then, a few months later, red hat 2.5 comes out with pre-compiled binaries. I was so fucking pissed…
Imagine trying to start the cut without the saw blade slipping off. F that.
How else were they going to sell flex tape? By sawing a boat in half? Get real.
Not my chairs, not my problem
Seahorses
Foreva!
Guy in the middle must have a splitting headache
They did what they could before aspirin
I saw what you did there
Ha ha, because he is in the middle, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Wait, what do you mean that’s not the joke? Cut this guy next. Ha ha ha ha ha.
”Please sit upright and completely still while we proceed to cut you in half”
Look, a fortune-teller told me that that man was full of gold, what was I supposed to do?
No, I mean the old, old days.
Like in ancient China where they would flay you alive and let you slowly die of
spoiler
___hypothermia in most cases, believe it or not. Without your skin to insulate you, it only takes about 30 minutes. However, without your skin, I’m sure it feels like much longer.
This isn’t punishment, it’s medieval mental health care. Oh, you have a headache? We have to let the spirits out. Johann, help me with the saw will you.
Hm? Oh, nothing to worry about. I’ve done this plenty of times, and never had a single complaint.
Sadly, People can be just as violent today and regularly are.
…from the groin up!
It’s probably a funny depiction of trepination, right?
The drilling, sawing or scraping of holes in the skull is one of the earliest medical procedures we have evidence for. It relieves pressure and brain swelling. As gruesome as it sounds, it was quite survivable and people survived multiple trepinations deep into prehistory.
Once you get hospitals in the medieval period the survival rate drops - don’t be in a room of sick people when your skull has a hole in it.
Cool! Yeah the depictions there look more realistic than this unbound guy just chilling as he is executed.
Ha, I wish they’d saw me in half starting with me skull! I’m going on the breaking wheel tomorrow, you lucky bastard! Lucky, lucky, lucky bastard.
Where do you think we got it from?
It’s inherited!
