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.”

Jesus christ dude. A few years ago we were marching hopelessly towards extinction, and then a handful of psychopaths decided we should be sprinting. One day a more intelligent lifeform will read our story as a classic tragedy.

Angie Craig voted to increase ICE funding AFTER they murdered two Minnesotans. What a ghoul.

There’s an excellent documentary from last year called Predators. The director is a survivor of CSA, and he was very pointed in confronting Hansen about the show creating more problems than it solved.

The show didn’t need to exist in the first place. If the police wanted to run a sting and arrest people, they could do it without a primetime show. They had young adult actors playing the “bait” kids, and the actors were traumatized from witnessing people’s lives being ruined. Many of the “predators” were borderline vulnerable adults, and the producers relished in filming people having nervous breakdowns, realizing their lives were ruined. Many of the “predators” admitted they had a problem and asked the producers for help finding treatment, but there was no support. IIRC the vast majority of cases resulted in no jail time, and sometimes no punishment at all.

The show was cancelled when they surrounded a guy’s house and he shot himself. Since the cancellation, Chris Hansen has created several iterations on increasingly obscure channels, and the show sparked tons of vigilante copycats who just create nightmares for local police.

After one of the murders in Minneapolis, Jacob Frey was asked if MPD could arrest ICE goons. His response: “Legally speaking, yes. Practically speaking… it gets a little hairy when they outnumber us and have bigger guns. We don’t want to create warfare in the streets.” God I fucking hate that man.

I agree with every single thing you said.

Sorry, I didn’t mean to imply that we continue allowing the states to deliberate. I’m implying that “federal intervention” with the current administration would look something like auctioning off the Colorado River.

I’m so tired of this cynical take. Black people have never had a fucking break from being systemically and systematically disenfranchised. Voting is non-negotiable for me, but I can also understand the apathy when there are two candidates and neither of them seem interested in improving your life.

federal intervention is expected

Oh good. That should help things.

That’s the one episode I haven’t been able to listen to. The video was so traumatic as a young kid. Haunting.

Ooh, Casefile did a great podcast ep on this. Episode 306. (If you’re not familiar, Casefile is the gold standard for true crime. It’s not exploitative or voyeuristic. Just stories of notable crimes and their investigations, with plenty of awful police work and miscarriages of justice.)

I think he’s a repulsive person, but in my opinion he’s been electric in several roles, like Requiem and Panic Room.

Prisoners is one of my favorite movies of any genre.