In my manuscript, I included chapter on the French Revolution and execution technology,

whereby people were categorically exterminated.

That's the first time that's happened at industrial scale.

And, you know, the guillotine machine came out of that that same exigency because it's not

really easy to behead somebody

you know you can't train swordsman

let me let you know I read that chapter

yeah it's fucking disturbing

yeah and uh

you know but after

when swords started falling out of favor

I mean just because of battlefield

tech and stuff, there's fewer and fewer men who would wield a sword.

So most executioners were trained on with an axe, you know, and an axe, an axe is heavy,

it's unwieldy, and it's got a uniform angle.

You're like, Mary Queen of Scots, I read recently about her execution, it's horrible.

The executioner had a strike her neck multiple times, and it still didn't finish the job.

So he ended up having to saw the remainder, like, with the X.

And even people who wanted to see the old woman lose her head were disgusted by it.

And they started like heckling the executioner.

It had to be like rushed away under guard.

But the genus of the guillotine was the blade was at a 45 degree angle.

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