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 😥🎶❤️

Let us now palpate this irony.

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.

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.

There are hotels that allow dogs in the rooms? I don’t see how that could work in the long run without requiring deposits that most people wouldn’t want to pay.

you get half an updoot for the shittymorph reference

That information is very widely and readily available with a basic web search. His voice was fine until (I forget) years ago when a weird illness damaged his vocal cords.

I’m sorry I have to ask, but, serious or kidding?

I get for vacation areas this is less of an issue but for places like ny city, San Francisco, etc it’s taking homes out of use.

It’s every bit as big of an issue for vacation areas / areas where tourism is the primary driver of the economy.

Take Tahoe or Mammoth Lakes for example: until the early 2010s it was still possible to move there without knowing anyone or having any other inside track, get a job (not your favorite or first choice, usually, but something to work from while you get established) and find your crappy first apartment or half-a-cabin or rundown shack or basement or ADU to rent.

That scenario is almost completely gone now and has been for ten years, plus or minus – depending on where each person sees the line that divides difficult from impossible. People making far less than a living wage now commute to both of those areas from an hour or more away. The sense of how “connected” or privileged one has to be to make it or even just scrape by in areas such as these has relentlessly risen to a level that has had an enormous impact on mental and emotional health and life outcomes in these areas too.

All of these factors were already big in the negative column balancing the very real positives of living so close to nature and preferred sporting activities, before the rise of the short term rental blight. But nowadays those negatives are practically off the meter.

holy shit. everybody should read this.

Meanwhile, what they serve at Chipotle is not worth even half of what they charge for it.

It’s a projection, naturally.

Also weird that just one of their archbishops can be described as an ally of sex abuse victims, instead of all of them.