This thread led me down a bit of a rabbit hole, so I suppose I’ll post some of my meager findings.

Of course, the Wikipedia Article On The Guillotine includes a brief history documenting the evolution of it’s invention, but is sparse on the technical specifications, which online searches also turned up a bit sparse.

I did eventually land on this technical schematic PDF of the Guillotine from archive.org.

Somewhat amusing to find, you can also pay for the blueprints to creating a historically accurate replica guillotine here.

As a morbid aside, the Wikipedia article details under the Controversy Section the dispute as to whether a decapitated head remained alive shortly after the beheading and the eye witness account of someone witnessing the staring of a decapitated man’s eyes after calling out his name multiple times. The description is deliciously macabre.

Don’t think this really answered your question OP, but nevertheless, this was intriguing for me to look into, so thanks for sparking my curiosity with your post!

EDIT: Fixing various small typos.

The meaning of life is to search for the meaning of life.

Well its been a while, but it looks like proxygram no longer works. Guess stick with imginn.

Its not perfect, but you can anonymously browse Instagram using imginn.

There is also proxygram, which is similar to imginn, but if you don’t want to set up your own instance, you can use others via the Libredirect extension.

So…so many.

Politics:

• Some More News

• The Kavernacle

• Adam Connover

• Tom Nicholas

• Molly White

• Rebecca Watson

Sociopolitical:

• Salari

Trans Rights/Philosophy/TV Reviews:

• Jessie Gender

• Sophie From Mars

• Aranock

• Lilly Simpson

• Bennie Carollo

• Council of Geeks

Anarchist Philosophy:

• Anark

• Zoe Baker

• Andrewism

Tech:

• The Primetime/The Primeagen

• Casey Muratori

• Tsoding Daily

• Wittcode

• Low Level

• TJ Devries

• Veronica Explains

• DJ Ware

• NeetcodeIO

Animation Reviews:

• KittyMonk

• Georgia Dow

• Offbeat Kiki

• Johnny2Cellos

• ToonrificTarique

Philosophy/Pop Culture:

• Jared Bauer

Niche Product Reviews:

• Ben Vallack

Horror Movie Reviews/Synopsis:

• Ryan Hollinger

Comedy:

• Dr. Jordan Breeding

• Michael Swaim

• Barry Kramer

Chemistry/Psychedelics:

• Hamilton Morris

Worker’s Rights:

• Joshua Fluke

SciFi/Fantasy Book Reviews:

• The Book Guy

Tabletop RPG Reviews:

• TheBurgerkrieg

Star Trek Analysis:

• Orange River

Privacy:

• The Hated One

Musicians:

Country:

• Adeem The Artist

Synthwave:

• White Bat Audio

JRock:

• Asian Kung Fu Generation

Ah. Thank you. Decent work around, still more steps sadly enough, but it’ll have to do.

Any NBA Team, The CCP removed.

I have a list just in case one goes down, but my usual is https://invidious.kavin.rocks/

I’m 40 and I still sleep on a futon. My back hurts if I use a normal bed…

Oof, if Lemmy started selling data, I’d be downtrodden. It has been a godsend to me that this place took off ever since Reddit shit the bed. I had an account from a while back and was able to essentially resume seamlessly.

I do all sorts of craziness to avoid my data being sold, but like most here, I do have some exceptions.

I keep my Google account for work, but use protonmail, invidious with/sponsorblock and yt-dlp, ddg lite/teddit for search, librewolf, ublock/noscript/etc. All on a Linux desktop with Mullvad VPN for when I need extra privacy (argh, matey).

Phone is Pixel with GrapheneOS and as much Fdroid over sandboxed Google Play as possible.

Exceptions made:

• Google: Account for work and edge cases, (ie buying Pixel directly from them to leave OEM unlocking available).

• LinkedIn: It’s just too prevalent for job hunting in my area, and Microsoft owns it and my data.

• Github: Not much to say here, if you write/pull code, you use it, and Microsoft takes some data.

• Steam: Again, not much to say, Id prefer offline, but triple A titles don’t do that as much on PC no more…

• Meetup: Similar reason to LinkedIn, networking platforms.

• Waze: I try to use OSM as much as possible, but Waze has better adjusting based off of Google owned traffic data.

• Amazon: I actually use them less and less these days, but some things are just easier to get through.

Given Up:

• Instagram: I’ve given up Instagram, which was hardest as many old friends and online acquaintances are on there. But I wasn’t posting any more and interaction was less and less.

• Reddit: Gave up reddit for all the reasons for you’ve heard already. I actually used the official app and didn’t have a problem with it. But the politics of it rubbed me the wrong way. I’m still hoping the fediverse becomes the standard for social media online.

• Microsoft Windows: Oh man, and Linux is king. MUCH better experience.

• ios: Yeah, GrapheneOS drives me back to Google in a way, but it’s just a better experience for me than my old iPhone which is just far less customizable and limiting.

Ive been on Graphene OS for a few months now and can confirm that banking apps work, but Google Wallet does not. One of my banking apps required me to toggle off hardened malloc in favor of Android’s standard malloc though, which definitely had me raising an eyebrow.

Huxley even pointed out why his vision of the future was more likely than Orwell’s

Michael Pollen wrote a audible book about how modern capitalism wouldn’t have been possible without the invention of the light bulb and the abundance of caffeinated beverages as it facilitated a 24 hour economy. Literally titled Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World.

So what would happen if the government illegalized caffeine? I’d say they’d be more likely to prohibit literally any other drug including alcohol and tobacco. But if I were to indulge this hypothetical scenario, I’d say other new stimulants without any legal status would be invented to replace caffeine.

I know I associate Neo-Nazis with Pigs… I wonder why.

That’s very kind, but I doubt I would be able to moderate should it become even remotely popular.

The only thing I miss from reddit is the ability to use lemmy as a supplement to stack overflow. I still use teddit to occasionally find old posts on places like r/learnprogramming

I’m a junior web dev so I still benefit from old posts that answer basic questions, but I do wish I could just do a ddg lite search and be able to type in ‘lemmy’ and get the answer to my question.

Otherwise there’s just certain subreddits I wish there was a corresponding community here on Lemmy like specific Indie Video Games. These are small issues and I hope Lemmy popularity grows. Not just for my personal wants, but just cuz I like decentralized alternatives as their simply more authentic imho.

The ruling class is seeing the end of capitalism. They’re getting desperate and making it obvious.

Thanks for this extensive reply. Not the OP, but I’ve been slowly doing my research on this, and this gave me a good base of things to look into. Cheers!

My interests/politics:

• Brodie Robertson
• Jessie Gender
• Wisecrack
• Some More News
• Jared Bauer
• ThePrimeAgen
• John Hammond

I use a charcoal lined floss in a reusable glass container. For whatever reason I could never find a water flosser I liked.

I’d add a copper tongue scraper to the dental hygiene kit. That thing made my general plaque build up significantly less/reduced. Now I somehow feel unclean without it and a toothbrush on the tongue just doesn’t even come close.