It's really amazing. Literally everyone in the US would have continued to not know or care about these people until this blew up - and it's all their own doing! It's like the Streisand Effect, but without the subjects already being in any way already known or noteworthy.
ArtieShaw
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Hoping that they don't learn about "inside the box spring." That's where the real 3am magic (aka cat fights) happen.
I really want to see both characters and actors swap shows.
"Back on Meepos, Unlcle Kalvash would reconfigure the deflector relays to reinforce phasers at random intervals, thus disrupting the enemy's shields. That certainly keep sheep on their toes!"
"Cousin Larry, before you approach that woman I must inform you that your chances of dating her are approximately 1.78X10^48 to one."
I would watch the hell out of that. So many wacky mixups!
I like trains and I'm in favor of them, but the majority of the US isn't suited to them. The future may change that, and I hope it does, but if we want something that can make an impact right now smaller cars nationwide are the best "good" but non-perfect answer.
Every area is different, so I'll just go with what's local to me right now.
Where I currently live (rural rust belt Midwest) the logical right of ways for railroads already exist and they run between cities and significant towns.
The problem is that these right of ways - which used to be railroad right of ways - are all bike paths now. In one respect, it wouldn't be too much trouble to convert them back to rail. We wouldn't need to break up neighborhoods or demolish much infrastructure. Just lay rail and add crossings and stations.
On the other hand it would also destroy one of the few things that makes life bearable around here. It's free public space and it's used by walkers, joggers, skaters, and cyclists. I live within view of one. Every day and in all weather, I see an incredible variety of people pass by. Elderly, young families, people on horseback, those road cycle-bros, cycles with camping gear, mothers pulling kids in wagons. Sometimes emergency services use it to bypass a slower dirt road when they're needed at a remote community nearby.
They're safe and well maintained. They're like linear parks that also offer a safe non-motorized transport option between towns.
Back when I was on Reddit I lurked on the local city sub. Whenever a potential migrant would post an inquiry about "nice things in your area" it was literally one of the only things people could recommend.
"Most of the city is a food desert and there's a lot of condemned buildings and heavy metal contaminated soil, but there's an annual Bluegrass concert and the bike trails are AMAZING."
~~-I'll add some further comments in a reply to this~~ actually, no. It's too long
The companion story: Hospital bosses ignored months of doctors' warnings about Lucy Letby suggests that not only did hospital management ignore the problem for almost 9 months, they had no interest in involving the police or outside investigators. They even required two of the doctors to apologize to her for their accusations.
So I guess she was getting away with it just fine.
There's a wiki article on the subject of nurses who kill their patients. It contains some general speculation on motivations.
The motivation for this type of criminal behaviour is variable, but generally falls into one or more types or patterns:[4]
Mercy killer: Believe the victims are suffering or beyond help, though this belief may be delusional.
Sadistic: Use their position as a way of exerting power and control over helpless victims.
Malignant hero: A pattern wherein the subject endangers the victim's life in some way and then proceeds to "save" them. Some feign attempting resuscitation, all the while knowing their victim is already dead and beyond help, but hope to be seen as selflessly making an effort.
In 2009-ish my local US House rep had his bio edited from an office in the Capitol building. Repeatedly, in fact. I've always wondered it was done by him or an intern.
Based on the blisteringly dumb things he'd say in public, and the fact that he was one of the vanishingly small minority of Republicans to get redistricted out of his very safe seat in Ohio by his own party - I'm betting that he did it on his own time. Not that I think his "retirement" had anything to do with the Wikipedia bio. It's just something that would fit with his ideas of "having a cunning plan."
I've seen this happen so many times and it's always so embarrassing. There's a lovely template that you can slap onto an article that says something along the lines of "this article appears to have been edited by someone with a close association with the subject." It's truly a marvel in how close it skates towards saying, "the subject of this bio didn't like parts of what people were saying, so they edited it to suit themselves" without saying exactly that. It's subtly brutal.
Fortunately for the feelings of people who edit their own wiki bios, I suspect that they probably don't feel the sense of shame that I would if I were in that position.
You know, I never even wondered that until you mentioned it. Maybe I'll check it out because now I'm irrationally curious! I bet it's pretty nice!
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Issue 1 would have fundamentally changed how citizens can interact with our constitution by making voter initiatives almost impossible to pass.
Honestly - I think it was about both, but the November ballot initiative was absolutely the catalyst. Why else would lawmakers call an August election (something recently abolished), out of a seemingly new concern about ballot initiatives? A power grab was absolutely the goal, but there's a reason they tried for it now.
My mom saved all of our baby teeth. They're in a box in a hidden drawer in her dresser. I found them 35 years ago when we were doing a cleanout/reorganization and I happened to open up a box full of teeth.
"Mom? Are these teeth? Why are you saving teeth?"
"Those are your teeth. Yours and your brother's."
"But why are you keeping teeth?"
"I can't throw away part of my children."
It would sound sweet if it weren't also more than a bit Bates Hotel.
I bet they're still there. The teeth. She's 80 now. I wonder if my brother knows they're there. I wonder who will inherit the teeth.