Regarding a conspiracy or prior knowledge, I don’t have strong beliefs either way, so I’m asking this question sincerely. What would it look like to respond appropriately to this information? Don’t these agencies have a list of 1000 potential threats at all times?

Exactly. The article doesn’t explicitly make that point, but it’s like… Lots of people are willing to pay higher rent for an apartment complex with a pool, even if their neighbors also get to enjoy the pool.

This seems like a good thing.

Alex Gibney has covered Enron, Guantanamo, Wikileaks, Scientology, Theranos, Netanyahu, etc. He has never played it safe and has very good lawyers.

If it helps, Alex Gibney has made some of the best documentaries of all time, about some of of the most important crimes and scandals. Enron, Guantanamo, Wikileaks, church sex abuse, Scientology, Theranos, opioids, Netanyahu. He never misses.

But I accept and respect your position.

No problem. It’s Episode 10 from 5/26/2020.

There’s an episode of the Drug Science Podcast about using MDMA to treat alcoholism. It was a small sample size, but the rate of sobriety at 1yr post-treatment was something like 85%, compared to 15% with treatment-as-usual.

Bless you for thinking of the music!

I’m imagining the scene in Succession where Kendall’s on the phone, trying to play hardball with an investor like his dad did. Turned out he wasn’t good at it, and the investor never appreciated being hardballed in the first place.

You’ll have to be more specific.

“We have concepts of a plan”

If public transport is important, CityMapper can’t be beat IMO.

I agree that’s the ethically correct way to do things. To your first point, in the US we’ve found a workaround where we pay poverty wages and tie health insurance to your employment, so when you get sick, you’ll return to work out of necessity so you don’t lose your job.

It was a joke.

I thought I read years ago that airlines responded to Skiplagged by penalizing people who didn’t complete every leg of the trip they booked. I’m not sure why they would care.

I love this movie. The premise is so silly, but the pacing is perfect and we get some surprisingly great performances. It’s also full of all the mid-2000s tech and military tropes. So much fun.

Moral and successful? Even if this guy was addicted to meth (which you don’t know) it’s one of the most addictive drugs on the planet. Being an addict doesn’t make anyone less of a person.

I saw an IG post that said, “He died like he lived. Deserving to get shot in the neck.”

There are enough reasons to hate him. You don’t have to judge people for what they look like.

I think a lot of the Malört hate is hype. People love talking about how disgusting it is, and that’s just become the thing to do when anyone mentions it. The first time I tried it I thought, “I can understand why people don’t like it, but it’s just an herbal spirit like many others.” I tried it a second time years later and said, “Ah, okay. This really is disgusting.”