I’m not mad at you at all. I’m mad at the motherfuckers who think they have a right to my attention.

But to respond - it’s not better, because either option is detestable. I reject both.

You correctly called it that we’re answering different questions. I reject the question you’re answering, because I do not accept advertisements in my vehicle, that I own, as a foregone conclusion. You accidentally’d a step in accepting their bullshit.

I literally would rather threaten legal action, or show up outside their advertising executive’s house with a megaphone to try to sell them some scammy bullshit while they expect privacy. Maybe I’d even read off the advertising I get on the console. (Not that I’d ever buy a RAM truck, but still.)

New Business Idea: Buy unzoned property that can be used to block scenic overlooks around the homes of scummy advertising executives. Put up billboards.

It’s tricky, because the dates are sort of spread out, and we don’t know what their life was like.

My sister separated from her husband a few years ago. They’re still on good terms. They’re great friends, in fact, and each other’s closest confidant. I don’t think either actually want to divorce or ‘move on’ - She’s in her early 50’s, and he’s in his mid 60’s. They now live separately but have dinner together at least once a week, sometimes more. They do cook for each other, too.

Anyway - the dates for the poisonings are several months apart -

• November 2021 - Tupperware of pasta
• May 2022 - Curry during shared camping trip (The one that nearly killed him)
• September 2022 - Vegetable wrap during a vacation together
• February 2023 - He’s already suspicious and did not eat a batch of cookies that were left for him
• June 2023 - He skipped out on the meal that killed his parents and aunt, after warning his dad. (He assumed they would be fine.)

I could see if they were still taking vacations and going on trips that were friendly, perhaps he really didn’t suspect her. Or, perhaps more darkly, (and purely speculatively) either she didn’t want to let go of him, or he refused to divorce her or leave her life.
We just do not have a clear picture of their dynamic based on this article, which tells the facts given in the trial, as well as some information regarding evidence not admitted about her efforts to poison him, but offers no information about their reasons for splitting, or social life after the split.
Wondering heavily if perhaps there’s some unknowns here that would have altered the prosecutions case, had motives for the wife trying to poison the husband been established.

Not yet…

But if a device you can make or buy lets criminals hang out at a parking garage for stadiums, entertainment venues, or airports, and either rummage through vehicles unimpeded or steal cars while their owners are unaware and pretty much guaranteed to be indisposed for a few hours, then it’s a near certain ROI with pretty low risk for them. (I know, cameras - but - hats, masks during winter, etc.)
And just wait until some unscrupulous vendor mass produces single-click solutions that do this - no display - interface simplified to a few button clicks. No fancy software defined radio. Bare-minimum chip. Then the ROI for criminals is really good.

We’ve seen an uptick in criminals using the CAN-BUS vulnerability to target specific cars. This is way easier and less obvious.

Absolutely fucking not.

My attention is not free and they have no fucking right to my attention.

And second, fuck them for thinking they do.

Last panel: looks like off-panel character is on the ground. Like they fell or sat. (I know, it’s a reference to an Instagram trope, but the eye sees what the eye sees.)

Rookie mistake. You forgot the cardinal rule: if you’re visible to someone in a food service setting, whether you are interacting with them or not, you have to loudly and performatively introduce yourself in a clearly false southern accent, tell them an anecdote about your childhood, physically caress them at least once, and call them “darlin’” while performing an act of emotional labor.

They are!

Claire’s was a publicly-traded company listed on the NASDAQ in 2005, but was taken private by the private equity firm Apollo Global Management in a $3.1 billion leveraged buyout in 2007.
Wikipedia

After a period of rapid (dare I say, irresponsible) expansion, they underwent their first bankruptcy in 2018 to discharge the debt from the poor management choices. Shortly after exiting bankruptcy in 2021, they claimed record earnings and announced plans for an IPO that never happened. Now they’re bankrupt again.

Google search trends identifies concerning uptick in “how to give yourself cancer” as a search term.

WhAt iS TrUmP GoNnA Do, DeFuNd tHeM AgAiN?

Use the FCC to revoke their broadcast licenses or even engender claims they violated their existing licenses to draw them into expensive litigation so their residual funds are sapped. Use the IRS to take away their tax exempt status and audit them to empty their coffers. Target their employees and donors with the IRS, FBI, DHS, and who else fucking knows?
Maybe the EPA will claim their buildings are on protected or environmentally sensitive land and spend hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer money to drag them to endless hearings. Maybe the FTC will threaten payment processors and banks so that NPR will be prevented from receiving donations from anyone.

Oh, he absolutely is a ladder puller and an absolutely despicable human.

My hesitation has less to do with respecting him as an individual, than it does with broadcasting an idea that is generally disrespectful of a group of people who, writ large, he would abandon to the gutters rather than provide social support for.
I’ve got fucked up morals, I know. As Marc Marin would say, I’m a buzzkill.

I literally thought they should steal his wheelchair.

I deemed it too mean of a thought to share unprompted, but, well, I was prompted.

I guess if the U.S. is bound and determined to become a corporate controlled religious theocracy, then at least we could come up with some really surrealist political protest before the collapse and genocides.

What do you expect the article to say?
Realistically?

I mean, if you’re going to be mad at them for not explicitly spelling out what you wanted them to say, I want to know what you expected them to say here.

Because if they had said that this is being done so in an effort by the Trump Administration to conceal greenhouse gas data from the public, a claim for which they have no official source on record backing up, you know the media circus that would have occurred.
The fascists in this administration would have absolutely used this as an excuse to minimally draw them into expensive lawsuits, or to potentially target the nationwide broadcast licenses of both public TV and public radio via the FCC.

Sometimes people or organizations have to fight the battles they are capable of fighting. NPR can only cast so much light in these dark times.
And without an ounce of nuance, here you are, bitching that they aren’t throwing themselves into the fire to make more light.

Noo, lets be mad the messenger isn’t shooting themselves.

But they’re jawa21! That’s got to count for something!

He also gave an interview about the experience of failing to upload his selfie. I think you’re right about him not caring about his privacy.

Some people just don’t appreciate complementing a woman on her cooking.

I can understand. It can be reductive if that’s the only characteristic we value someone for. I, myself, value a great sense of humor, but preferences, like seasonings, are to taste.

Tell your sister she has delicious looking thighs!

I first learned of this shooting via chat, and was lacking some context. I also didn’t know Blackstone INC was a thing.

I got so confused about why someone would target the CEO of a griddle company.

Weirdly they don’t care about all those vacations Clarence Thomas received from Harlan Crow.

“See. This is why I prefer rubber gloves instead of nitrile. That way I can keep doing the exam while they defibrillate, and my fingers don’t go numb!”

It’s a spoonula!

They’re great for all sorts of things in the kitchen. The black ones, however, do not belong in the kitchen.
Not because of the black plastic controversy, but because if you’ve ever thwacked someone/something/yourself with a spoonula, you know that you need one in the bedroom, and if you only use black ones for that purpose, then you never ‘cross the streams.’ A … uh. friend introduced me to that rule over a decade ago, and now I bequeath that knowledge to you all.