IdleRich
IdleRich
Serial killers seem to have made a bit of a come-back recently though (at least that's my anecdotal take on it from reading headlines).
The Madness of American Culture
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There was that other guy who wrote under the name "jack green" and spent his time attacking critics of William Gaddis too. I think some people even thought all four - Gaddis, Pynchon, Green, Tinasky - were the same person.
craner
Beast of Burden
There was one in Leamington Spa recently. He got caught when he fell asleep in a car he'd stolen.
WashYourHands
Cat Malogen
Very friendly.
IdleRich
IdleRich
I doubt we'll see that era of people like Ian Brady or Ted Bundy again - you can't get away for murder for ages with DNA and CCTV and so on. I think with Ted Bundy they had loads of lists of potential suspects but they couldn't compare them properly and then someone says "Hey police we've got this you might want to use called a database" and so they stuck all the info into that and there were only five people on all lists with the right car, fitting the description, living in the right area and so on.
beiser
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this is, de-facto, our euro-american relations thread—something I've been fascinated with lately is the comments section in the FT, and especially on pieces about antitrust suits against american tech giants. Every time, it devolves into a food-fight, with the Europeans alleging that the Americans are brutes, who would allow people to prostitute out their firstborn children if it raised GDP, and Americans alleging that the Europeans are engaged in a sort of covert trade protectionism, where they make up for tax revenue with a sequence of arbitrary antitrust rulings, as a substitute for building an actual domestic tech sector.
the most fun is of course when the Europeans claim there is a perfectly healthy tech sector on the continent—what about Wirecard, they would say? Or Skype?
Hard to say if it really is equity structure, or just some kind of pathological decelerized brain-state, or perhaps something cultural. I have quite often wondered if Europe would benefit from taking on—in the style of the Chinese cultural revolution—a grassroots movement to destroy their monuments, to burn down cathedrals, to raze the museums to the ground, in order to create the space necessary to create a new culture. Perhaps that's too much, perhaps it should just be locked away, but truly—I think it's the shadow of the past that makes it so hard to create a new future.
the most fun is of course when the Europeans claim there is a perfectly healthy tech sector on the continent—what about Wirecard, they would say? Or Skype?
Hard to say if it really is equity structure, or just some kind of pathological decelerized brain-state, or perhaps something cultural. I have quite often wondered if Europe would benefit from taking on—in the style of the Chinese cultural revolution—a grassroots movement to destroy their monuments, to burn down cathedrals, to raze the museums to the ground, in order to create the space necessary to create a new culture. Perhaps that's too much, perhaps it should just be locked away, but truly—I think it's the shadow of the past that makes it so hard to create a new future.
beiser
Well-known member
there are no parties, there have been no parties for years, and we're in a lockdown, you know? you just tell people there are parties, it's the oldest trick in the book.
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
It's just a fuckload of cold, salty water. You're not missing much tbh.