Seriously, did he hit on her early in her career and she turned him down or something? This is outright obsession. She must have rejected him in a way so emasculating and demeaning and humiliating, and categorically undeniable with such confidence and self-assurance that he has gone full comic book villain. She’s his origin story. He’s still bullying her so hard I think he still wants her. He’s the high school kid who got rejected by his crush and so he becomes her persecutor. Bullying and ostracising at every opportunity - and with a brain so underdeveloped (demented) there is no sense of self-awareness or self-control. He’s basically at the stage of school shooting.

All the more reason why a) They needed that coordinator role filled by someone capable with experience. And b) why the camps should have had their own emergency protocols for the eventuality that a general warning should turn into something emergent.

If there wasn’t something in place it sounds to me like gross incompetence and negligence. These people had a duty of care to children - not having a direct means of communication for an emergency seems inexcusable if they didn’t. I mean what were they going to do for the venomous snake bite or a severe injury, or even a missing person. Heck it’s in Texas right by the border, I’m surprised they didn’t have a plan for a Brown person sighting with an assumed motive of abduction. God, maybe they did - but 27 young girls all armed with semi automatic weapons doesn’t save them from a flood…

Okay this is getting dark, even for me.

I hope there is some investigation into the procedures and emergency protocols of the group(s) running camps in the area.

The article doesn’t discuss the safety measures in place should the region’s most predictable natural disaster occur on river banks nicknamed “Flash Flood Alley”. It’s an obvious question to ask with hindsight. The article gave the impression that there really wasn’t much - word of mouth from people further up river in a place with patchy cellular coverage - I’d be surprised if these camps could even get insurance without something more concrete in place. It’s Texas and this was a Christian camp - it occurs to me to ask, did the religious nature of the camp allow some exemptions or avoidance of administrative scrutiny such as safety standards which otherwise may have been applicable?

This is an unbelievable tragedy and I’m horrified at the indiscriminate culling of institutional knowledge that’s taken place. I’m left with the nagging wonder - had the warnings coordinator role at the weather service still been filled and the warnings been better broadcast - how different would the outcomes have been for those 27 kids and the survivors who will never be the same. I hope some learnings will come in this area too, either to implement or reinforce emergency management for these camps and similar organisations.

Until someone knocks out big bro. Or he gets annoyed and tells you to rack off. or someone retaliates while he’s not around…

Kind of how Australia has been know to chase big bro USA into a fight, then stand behind him, pointing its finger and antagonising the other side from behind the big bro shield?

Pyne’s voice enhances punchability by a factor of at least 10. Embodiment of the word snivelling.

Do you have an app that does anything at a specific time or a fixed interval eg weekly? Eg. Remind you to go for a run, or prompts you to log an activity like timesheets?

Particularly any new apps or ones that need to access system time and/or date?

*remaining brain cells. And they were already a threatened species at birth.

Farking lol. It’s not even minimal effort, they’ve gone into the red and we’re now seeing negative effort. Every action now detracts.

And that’s how we found out the world was round. You walk away from your sworn enemy so far that you wind up back where they’re standing.

Or you know, stopped clocks… blah

A hotel in a mining town, one of a few contractors stay at when they can’t get accommodation on site. Mining town = lots of alcohol abuse = occasional fights and violence. They’re never well-appointed places, people always come and go with filthy clothes and boots from site so there’s a level of dirt that could never be cleaned. Didn’t care too much about that if the sheets and towels were clean, but the room was on the outside facing the main road and the door frame was recently (and very poorly) repaired after someone very clearly had booted the door in. Slept with the tool bag open by the bed in case the owner of said boots didn’t get the message that the prior occupant had left town.

I too love Good Will Hunting

I’m thinking as well that there’d have to be a significant number of crashes where it’s just the driver in the car (also a chunk of those where there isn’t another car involved). I’d be interested in knowing the # of occupants, and single vehicle stats given Waymo is removing the driver from that equation. I’m not sure it would change anything and I don’t think the data is being misrepresented - just curious if it would inform my perspective at all.

Comparing Waymo to taxi/uber services would be a direct comparison I’d like to see.

I think Mallrats is very in this vein - just more PG than Clerks.

But you do have Mt Hood and the Columbia River and the coastline to console you. 😍

Yeah, Russian flavoured consequences for the muskrat.

It holds up. Geena Davis is a straight up bad-ass boss mutha fucka!

Shades of The Martian are coming to mind for me.

Jeeze, I’m an outlier - my first thought was the beautiful spiral of a pine cone. Anything that has the Fibonacci spiral, but picking up a pine cone from a quiet, rain-soaked forest path where every footstep is cushioned by fallen needles and leaves. There are many types of cones, but the hard ones that have spread all their seeds form the most beautiful and uniform spirals. To a non-believer, it feels like one of the greatest arguments for the existence of an intelligent higher power

Last episode of The Simpsons Season 9