• A Wild Mimic appears!@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 day ago

    It was pretty common to put a small board a little bit above the butt, placed so that you can’t really sit on it without hurting your feet, but preventing that you die too soon.

    I read up the current wikipedia article for this, and apparently suffocation isn’t thought of as cause of death anymore since 2023! @BorgDrone@feddit.nl @IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world @Sludgeyy@lemmy.world

    In 2023, an analysis of medical literature concluded that asphyxiation is discredited as the primary cause of death from crucifixion. There is scholarly support for several possible non-asphyxiation causes of death: heart failure or arrhythmia, hypovolemic shock, acidosis, dehydration, and pulmonary embolism. Death could result from any combination of those factors, or from other causes, including sepsis following infection due to the wounds caused by the nails or by the scourging that often preceded crucifixion, or from stabbing by the guards.

    • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today
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      If this was done back then, think what they will do to all of us if they get ahold of a godlike AI. Some Googleplex years of literally unimaginable torture that would make hell look like a cakewalk.