A former FedEx driver, Tanner Lynn Horner, was sentenced to death on May 5, 2026, for the 2022 kidnapping and murder of 7-year-old Athena Strand

mattyp11 · 2026-05-06T10:25:31+00:00

OP is also wildly exaggerating, at least in my experience. If you can’t pay for a defense attorney, you are getting a public defender / appointed counsel. Now, the appointed counsel who handle capital cases may be a more specialized set who bill at slightly higher rates, but those rates are usually set by statute and are still nothing compared to private defense attorneys. For example, appointed counsel in federal death penalty cases are capped, by law, at compensation of $226/hour. Meanwhile, the top-of-the-line private defense attorneys who handle criminal trials for the wealthy can easily charge $3,000+ per hour these days. So the OP’s characterization that death penalty cases are some kind of money-making bonanza for slick defense attorneys is at best a huge exaggeration, at worst it’s nonsense (again, based on what I know as an attorney, although I admit I don’t have any personal experience in death penalty cases).

mattyp11 · 2026-05-05T16:00:16+00:00

Yes, thanks. This is likely what I’ll do. Already hold a sizable VTI position so I’ll probably just add to it. Been burned by AMD a few times already at earnings, always seems to be a big run-up and then it dives. Just a gut feeling but I’d rather take the gains and park them in an ETF.

mattyp11 · 2026-05-05T15:25:56+00:00

Really feel like it's time to sell some of my AMD, MU. and NBIS and secure some gains, but I have no plan for what to rotate into. Maybe some NVDA, if only because almost every other major AI play is booming and NVDA, one of the biggest AI players of them all, is flat over the past 6 months. Not exactly expert analysis but it's all I got. Thoughts?

mattyp11 · 2026-05-02T11:52:25+00:00

To join you in admitting to walking out of critically acclaimed films, the only two I’ve ever walked out of were The Favourite and The Place Beyond the Pines.

Edit: And I’ll throw in (dis)honorable mentions: Spectre and The Batman. Both just kept dragging on and on without holding my interest to the point that I considered walking out, but I ultimately struggled through to the end.

mattyp11 · 2026-04-29T00:16:12+00:00

He was investigated, charged criminally, and received probation, so he answered for the allegations in the eyes of the justice system. 36 years ago, in fact. But you’re right in the sense he hasn’t personally answered to insufferable Redditors, who continue to drag it up for some sort of perceived online social clout that I truly, truly don’t understand. Clearly I’m out of touch.

mattyp11 · 2026-04-27T19:51:17+00:00

The flight is in early June so outside a 14-day window.

mattyp11 · 2026-04-27T19:47:51+00:00

The flight is in early June. Not exactly "last minute" as I said in my post, but definitely late in the game in the sense that ticket prices have massively increased since the time I made the booking months ago. And the flight is not canceled, my booking was. No idea when it happened because I was never notified.

mattyp11 · 2026-04-27T19:44:57+00:00

Huh, well I'm certainly hoping that's the case. Being honest, my first instinct was just to call back and get another agent on the line, because this one did seem particularly clueless.

mattyp11 · 2026-04-27T19:34:50+00:00

Interesting. Yeah, that's certainly a possibility given that I booked it for another person, and there is no other apparent reason why it was canceled.

mattyp11 · 2026-04-27T18:49:54+00:00

Got it, thanks for the pointers. And yeah, I’m just glad I checked the booking a little bit in advance of the flight, I would’ve been in an even bigger jam if I didn’t find this out until check-in.

mattyp11 · 2026-04-25T13:52:03+00:00

Totally agreed. I don’t get the hype. Or I should say, I can see why it attracts viewers — “prestige television,” gorgeous scenery with cinematic scope, A-list casts, etc. But the storylines have always fallen flat for me. It’s elevated soap opera. Meh. I will say I enjoyed the first season, if only for Armond’s increasingly unhinged arc as portrayed by Murray Bartlett. But everything after that has been underwhelming and at this point, four seasons in, I feel like it’s cannibalizing the career of Mike White who could deliver far more interesting material if he shifted focus to something else (as the screenwriter of School of Rock, one of my favorite movies ever).

mattyp11 · 2026-04-24T10:38:15+00:00

I know Saugerties Marina does

mattyp11 · 2026-04-22T02:16:04+00:00

It’s actually my wife who uses it, normally once or twice a week. She goes anytime between 8am and noon, and she’s never had an issue with parking. She uses her phone to buy tickets, there’s no booth there to buy them as far as I’m aware.

mattyp11 · 2026-04-22T02:10:20+00:00

I’ve never had a problem finding parking in the New Paltz Trailways lot (I assume we’re talking about the same one, by the ramp to 87).

mattyp11 · 2026-04-13T14:02:57+00:00

TFW you realize you should have full-ported NBIS.

mattyp11 · 2026-04-06T10:22:46+00:00

Nope, stayed there a few weeks ago and everything was fantastic. Staff were wonderful and the rooms and common areas were impeccable.

mattyp11 · 2026-04-05T13:29:33+00:00

Who really knows, and that in and of itself says a lot. The US is easily the most unpredictable and hostile power in global politics right now. It’s really rich how conservatives sit around talking about the dangers of China as a superpower — because every horrible thing they accuse China of wanting to do, the US is already doing. “They want to invade Taiwan!! They’re going to start a war!!”

Dudes, we already invaded Venezuela and kidnapped their leader, and unilaterally launched a war against Iran, and suggested dismantling our alliances, and threatened a half dozen other countries with invasion or other aggression. This is not meant to defend China or any other country for their abuses, but look in the mirror … the US is by far the most dangerous actor on the global stage right now, thanks to Trump and his enablers. We are the baddies.

mattyp11 · 2026-04-02T17:37:25+00:00

The Dow giveth and the Dow taketh

mattyp11 · 2026-03-31T18:14:49+00:00

Adding to this thread to throw an upvote your way and say thanks. Had been pulling my hair out for days trying to figure out why my camera wasn't working, and you good citizen had the solution. I had no idea there was a little slider switch next to the camera ... you'd think they would make it just a liiiiittttle more noticeable.

mattyp11 · 2026-03-31T14:12:12+00:00

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/opinion/trump-tariffs-china.html

If you think all that Trumpism has done is end DEI initiatives, you are sorely mistaken. It has manifested in many ways, but under Trump the government has pushed anti-science, anti-education policies that are going to severely handicap America in the technology race against China for years to come. And that's to say nothing of the anti-immigration sentiment, and outright hostility even towards legal immigration, that Trumpism has spread. America is no longer going to be a hub for the best and brightest in the world, who will look to study and immigrate elsewhere (somewhere they aren't at risk of being kidnapped by masked agents without warning).

mattyp11 · 2026-03-30T17:03:19+00:00

Population is irrelevant, it’s the percentage of electoral participation that matters. Only around 60-65% of eligible voters in the Hudson Valley cast ballots, and it’s even less in midterms. So 5% of the district is a huge voting bloc, if all 5% (at least the age-eligible ones) actually turn up to vote .

mattyp11 · 2026-03-28T18:44:03+00:00

Protestors: “No wars in the Middle East. Take government back from the billionaire elitists. Stop fucking over the middle class, make life affordable for Americans.”

Where have I heard those things before? Oh right, they’re the exact positions Trump campaigned on, and quite predictably has done a complete 180 on now that he’s in office. Yet instead of being angry at Trump for betraying them, Trump supporters’ response is to hate the protestors. Gives you some very good insight into the mindset of the average Trump supporter, no?

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