quicklime

A day or so after I first read about this, I saw The Independent’s coverage of the same story. They dug into the assailant’s background and he turns out to be the leader of an Ayahuasca (plant-based shamanic psychedelic) ‘church’ in Florida.

They also gave further confirmation that the attack appeared to be completely unprovoked, and that there was no known relationship between the attacker and victim, nor did they even seem to know each other.

Also the victim appears to be a person who is deaf and does not speak, if I remember the article correctly.

Sink like a stone – float like a feather 😥🎶❤️

upvoting for well articulated nuance

I don’t know what your definition of “working” is here, but he’s been conning, grifting, and cheating in real estate all his life for sure.

Surely the GOP could come up with a younger, more vigorous candidate who could lie at least sixty times per hour. That’s gotta be like some kind of basic minimum.

Yes! And businessmen are always the best people to run a government because governments and all their services should be run for maximum profit and no other purpose!

We’ll find someone, I’m sure.

Could we make it Uranus?

He’s not worth the fuel cost :\

I can’t afford fast food anymore. This article must be about the vanishing middle class and above.

and that’s just the psych side. It’s blatantly obvious that in terms of physical health he has one and a half feet in the grave.

Now is that better or worse than being raccooned by up to 100 hounds?

The trick is learning not to hate what you live, but to live what you hate.

No, I get what you mean. It just depends on what we mean by “breaks everything”. I’m not saying we’re looking at human extinction in ten years, or the complete loss of advanced industrial civilization in ten years. But I do expect in that time span massive and permanent decreases in the average standard of living and the availability of goods, services, and information.

I don’t understand who’s downvoting this article, except for maybe those who didn’t read it and are only downvoting the headline.

If anyone’s downvoting it after actually reading the whole piece, I wonder what they found objectionable about it.

Fuck it. YOLO. Only got 10 or 20 years until the water wars or WW3 or climate change breaks everything anyway.

psst… don’t look now, but it’s less than ten years.

All of those numbers are teeny tiny in comparison to the number of Americans killed by America.

Watch this riveting documentary to become permanently disgusted with the US’s handling of Peltier’s case.

Incident at Oglala

Robert Redford narrates this documentary about the Pine Ridge Shootout on an Oglala Sioux reservation in South Dakota. On June 26, 1975, two FBI agents are searching for tribesman Leonard Peltier, wanted in connection with an assault. They are killed after coming under heavy fire, presumably from Peltier and his accomplices. However, proponents claim that the FBI botched the investigation by tampering with and suppressing evidence, and that Peltier’s imprisonment is a miscarriage of justice.

“miscarriage of justice” is an understatement.

You may have forgotten, in this party, winning is less important than pleasing the billionaires.

The replies make sense, and I should have realized. I guess I was thinking any deposit large enough to cover all the possibilities would be more than anyone would agree to, but I can see how it’s to both owner and guest’s advantage to make it work.