there are physical laws that cannot be broken, every action has an equal and opposite reaction. therefore attempting to restrain a higher power only ends in self restraint. have you considered that the best approach is to go on strike, depriving the higher power of something of yours, whether that be labour, or progeny.

actually there was a chinese serial killer that used a technique like this. He had a septic tank and threw his victims in along with the dead bodies of his previous victims and would only let them out if they brought more victims from a train station. article is partially paywalled but is the case in question. https://archive.is/QxBDr https://medium.com/crimes-by-mr-o/this-teacher-was-thrown-in...

the school to prison pipeline is talked about a lot.

or that the leaders of our society have consistently elected to increase the birthrate in the hope that attrition will prop up the status quo rather than making a social contract with their populace to achieve what they mutually want from life.

If you had requested your code be rolled back to an earlier stable version as an alternative way of fixing the bug rather than merging unstable code you may have come to a compromise.

most lathes have a hole in the chuck to feed the work through. so if the material is ground down by hand to a diameter small enough to fit in the hole then to be turned and then removed and flipped over it's possible.

or "The Summer of code in Pyonyang"

Laughed out loud

most commerce sites allow you to buy a product and ship it to a different address than the billing. it's an ok way to buy stuff if they agree to barter.

i dare say archaeologists have multiple depictions of the lighthouse, considering how famous it was.

the actor that played gandalf ian mckellen? had a minor breakdown on set after he was made to stand on a greenscreen for multiple days.

That was on the set of The Hobbit, not LOTR, which used far less CGI