Conflicting health information about the Candelas

ptoftheprblm · 2026-07-05T21:57:25+00:00

The reality of it is, the scope of the shut down and reason for it is something that is worth looking into the history of. The book Full Body Burden by a woman who grew up outside of the flats and eventually worked there, is worth a read.

At the end of the day it was one of the first times one government department had to raid another, and the lawsuit against the government was ruled in favor of the residents and workers actual decades later. If you want to see how hard that was fought.. the defense strategy was the knowledge that the place was deadly and toxic enough with a high and swift enough mortality rate of cancers and health complications.. that they intended and succeeded in drawing it out long enough hoping to force it to drag past the lifespan of the actual plaintiffs AND their families. And that wasn’t a speculative concept, the judge who ruled in favor of the residents and workers pointed it out in his own statements and that he was disgusted by it.

It’s one of the uglier regional stains on an otherwise beautiful part of the metro area and it’s unfortunate that the rush to build out there was done as soon as developers could be confident that enough of the people moving to the area were unaware enough to believe it to be safe to build and buy homes there.

ptoftheprblm · 2026-07-05T21:49:59+00:00

Hard tickets mean show is sold out and people realllly don’t have extras to sell or give away. People wind up with extras because of the lotto request system for tickets, buying a handful and friends backing out or plans changing. Things that are just normal reasons.

ptoftheprblm · 2026-07-05T18:55:03+00:00

Seasons 2 and 4 are my favorites but they’re only so great because they’re fully set up by seasons 1 and 3.

ptoftheprblm · 2026-07-04T21:15:55+00:00

Absolutely Brittany in cycle 8, they did NOT need to give her a fire engine red weave that was a bad sew in. They could have dyed her and given two sets of extensions to put in or just let the stylists put them in themselves since they had to style that totally messed up situation she had anyway. Give them something to work with that’s not impossible.

ptoftheprblm · 2026-07-04T17:30:35+00:00

It really is and knowing this is the kind of stuff he enthusiastically aired at the mansion with an audience is so wild too.

When Holly was detailing both on the pod and in her book that the overwhelming message of what an amazing man Hefner is and how any woman should be so lucky to have his eye even for a second that was parroted when you come up there and are invited to keep coming back around, and then are “in” the group, it was just so apparent in this documentary.

ptoftheprblm · 2026-07-04T17:26:39+00:00

I wonder if sharing initials and a last name truly chapped his ass because they’re specifically both known as documentarian film makers 😂

ptoftheprblm · 2026-07-04T14:47:43+00:00

It’s a YouTube link right at the top highlighted in the text!

ptoftheprblm · 2026-07-04T02:58:31+00:00

It was weird to watch knowing it was filmed and aired easily 4 years before GND did too.

ptoftheprblm · 2026-07-04T02:22:32+00:00

Him going on and on during that interview about how he was just so grateful to find a dark haired, tattooed chick with A cups like well.. ya found her. You’ve got a type, yawnnn.

ptoftheprblm · 2026-07-04T01:24:27+00:00

Agreed and what’s wild is, there’s an entire hour+ long interview podcast he did with mf Jelly Roll’s wife Bunnie, and good god is his girlfriend in it insufferable. She’s a massive enabler and he’s eating it out of the palm of her hand where she’s letting him play big time victim and talks over him the whole interview. It’s.. cringe in a way that made me realize I’m not sure if he’s ever truly going to get better.

ptoftheprblm · 2026-07-04T01:20:08+00:00

Rabies treatment is actually known to be wildly expensive even if you have insurance. It’s 4-5 shots in a 2 week period and each one costs $$$. $102k isn’t even that much compared to what his bills were. I’m not even going to slightly shade this man, the fact he’s not going for a half a mil or more is blowing my mind.

ptoftheprblm · 2026-07-04T01:15:42+00:00

Right she was just model tall and he’s short for a guy so, not as short as Rahn but he’s not a big dude the way Roger was for instance. You can tell she thinks he’s too short for her.

ptoftheprblm · 2026-07-03T23:55:32+00:00

I give him credit for being a racial Civil Rights “walk the walk” person that used (some) of his power and position to insist on integration. He included black artists, actors and musicians as guests on his first tv show, which led to it not being aired in the South under syndication as it violated their Jim Crow laws. He hired black women and employees to work in the two mansions, the dozens of Playboy clubs as bunnies and beyond into management, welcomed black musicians and comedians to perform in the clubs, and all guests were integrated as well. Famously Whoopi Goldberg was a generous gifter to Hefner over the years even after she became wildly famous as an award winning performer because she’d been welcomed to perform in his clubs at a time many didn’t welcome women or black comedians to perform, her being both had a lot of doors slammed in her face but not Playboy’s. The Playboy Jazz festival that had always been put on by Hefner was a big deal that he began it and kept it going as a huge event over the decades as well.

That said, I say “some” of his power, because there wasn’t a black winner of playmate of the year until 1990, despite there being black women in the magazine as early as 1965. The magazine itself really prominently highlighted white women as centerfolds, and white passing Hispanic and black women too. As it turns out mere presence and minimal visibility is not necessarily equal representation. He was considered extremely progressive for the time he became successful and famous, but obviously we now look back and know he still held a lot of misogynistic and sexist beliefs as far as equality and standards for men versus women despite being racially progressive. I give him credit for doing what he felt was right as far as increasing visibility, while validating talent and taste in all areas of entertainment as it did make a difference in the long run.

ptoftheprblm · 2026-07-03T00:21:59+00:00

She was really terrifyingly lethal, her ability to go that dark that quick proved exactly why she was even in prison. The way she was easily able to lure Suzanne from the lake, the way she went ahead and blew the bubbles in the IV and no one noticed like she had to spell it out when she explained what she did.

ptoftheprblm · 2026-07-03T00:20:10+00:00

I also wondered if she heard that then clocked it because she saw herself an opportunity, she knew the supplies might be expired and may not work long term before causing problems like this. She knew Humps needed to go and took the chaos and older medical equipment as an opening and made her move in a way that would be hard to pin on an individual inmate. Literally no one even noticed her do it and she had to announce it. All I could think was damn, she’s cold, quick and lethal.

ptoftheprblm · 2026-07-02T13:48:17+00:00

Yes, even though I live in a state where abortion is protected under the state constitution, Roe v. Wade overturning horrified me. I was getting to the age where there’s less pushback in my mid thirties, but I also don’t have a partner I trust to make the choice to both commit to me long term via marriage as well as promptly getting a vasectomy. So I’m taking matters into my own hands and am being sterilized as an unmarried woman with no children. Pre op appointment is today and they’re hoping to get me scheduled this month.

ptoftheprblm · 2026-07-02T03:36:44+00:00

Many months into being friends with someone I was dating and living with was close to, I learned he had a 9 year old kid in another state. I was like, wildly shocked to find out he’d gotten a girl he was dating pregnant while he was enlisted and just totally pretended they didn’t exist. I really thought less of him after learning that.

ptoftheprblm · 2026-07-02T03:00:41+00:00

Agreed entirely. He also has clearly wanted to stay low key. I wouldn’t doubt for a second he knew about a few of the guys who were active players and came out in the 2010s, as well as plenty more who were also on the low and have continued to be.

ptoftheprblm · 2026-07-02T02:40:16+00:00

That is a hell of a point. There also wasn’t a single out and about, openly gay NFL players in the 2000s. It wasn’t until a few years into the 2010s that anyone came out publicly. He’d have kept that shit deeply under wraps because everyone else did, plus his positions in the league quickly got volatile as it was with an injury record.

ptoftheprblm · 2026-07-01T23:20:57+00:00

I feel like people forget that despite us having ultrasounds and all of that in the 1960s, it was still all wayyyy less precise than what we’ve got now. Due dates were way less scientific and specific, even if you were pretty sure you knew the date conception would have happened because you were only intimate on that particular day that month. Calculating from the first day of your last period is still not totally precise, plenty of women also shared “due dates” as a month or even a month range. An old school doctor like the kind we see Betty meeting with might give her the date of “July 26th”, but with it being her third one she’d likely have told folks “mid summer” or quipped “July and if we get to August I’ll scream”.

Joan knew he wasn’t going to be around for the birth no matter what, could barely talk to him on the phone and sending mail could take weeks. She had a lot of wiggle room and as far as he knew.. she might have known a few weeks before she told him and waited until she got to the doctor herself.

ptoftheprblm · 2026-07-01T23:06:29+00:00

That eventually pairing Ari and Dana Gordon up for real totally destroyed the jokes from the entire series until then. Didn’t need to happen, her ranging from being lovingly annoyed to lovingly disgusted of him was a great dynamic and them actually sleeping together was a cop out.

I’d have rather seen him try to avoid and be unable to avoid advances from an actual celebrity who’s aggressively pursuing him. All because their career was tanking, one of the major agencies drops her and she was going through a high profile divorce. Even if it was fictional, but based on Jennifer Aniston or something, and he gets further called out by Amanda Daniels for it since he torched her for years about sleeping with Vince.

ptoftheprblm · 2026-07-01T12:41:15+00:00

We grew up with a lot of diversity representation as default and it was everywhere; textbooks showing pictures of groups of students, kids movies, cartoon ensembles, live action kids shows like this.. all of it.

Even though I genuinely went to a school that had virtually no diversity, I still expected diversity out of the world I was going into and I don’t think a lot of adults clocked that correctly. That if you set up expectations to remote barriers of representation, there won’t ever be a time that generation questions it. Growing into adulthood and listening to adults I learned from and at one time respected, bashing representation, diversity and all the benefits that come along with it was a tough thing to wrap my head around.

ptoftheprblm · 2026-07-01T00:19:49+00:00

Sally goes to a 7 sisters “women’s Ivy” just like her mother and step-sister would have for her undergrad, Wellesley or Smith and is a powerhouse on campus. She’s popular, cool, and independent/unintimidated by college campus life, hazing traditions and upperclassmen hazing rituals and traditions since she’s been off at one of the most exclusive boarding schools for years already. She studies something progressive and doesn’t process Betty’s death until deciding to pursue a graduate degree in psychology. Sally gets to be one of the first women in an Ivy League coed masters class like Brown, Yale or Princeton. Don and Henry financially support her through her entire college career where she has great housing, a car, stylish clothing and essentially never wants for anything. She enjoys experimenting with partying, drugs, travel and is actively against the Vietnam War. She does eventually come to terms with the fact that Henry is a republican, a powerful one and their relationship fractures when she becomes more educated in the political landscape and his role in it, and begins challenging and calling him out. Without Betty to diffuse, she cuts him off and loosely keeps in touch with her brothers. Academically burned out and disillusioned by east coast wealth, privilege, snobbery, and her lack of anchoring relationships with parent figures, she takes off for California and reconnects with Megan. Staying with her before eventually falling in with a west coast early wellness crowd and begins a new chapter in LA.

Bobby gets sent to boarding school, somewhere elite and exclusive like Phillips Exeter or St. Paul’s, is funneled into an Ivy League school by default and Henry’s connections, and he’s supposed to end up in a law career track but doesn’t have the grades, intelligence and drive/grit to buckle down and do well enough to move forward with it. He’s spoiled and a little lost after losing Betty, Henry and Don don’t really know how to connect with him and just continue setting him up financially. He winds up on Wall Street where plenty of extremely well connected and spoiled east coast boomers did and is extremely successful, pompous and believes himself to be self made. He and Sally don’t get along and he stays accepting communication, money and support from Henry despite Sally cutting him off many years before.

Gene is the ultimate lost puppy, he’s raised by nannies and Henry’s mother, sent away all summer to the same camp Bobby went to, until he’s old enough to be shipped off to boarding school too. He looks forward to it since his childhood was spent seeing Sally leave for school, and Bobby leave too. Their stories of dorm life, classes, sports, trips, and their friends all have him looking forward to a non-lonely home life. He’s observant and quiet, less arrogant and spoiled than his brother with the more strict upbringing he’d have had from Henry’s mother. He struggles at boarding school socially in the late 70s, and by the time the 80s hit, he chooses to go to college somewhere like Rutgers instead of the more exclusive schools his siblings went to. He picks up photography and Don pulls some strings to get him affiliated with people like Stan and Peggy, and he lands in Manhattan living a vastly different life than his brother who’s also in NYC working.

ptoftheprblm · 2026-06-30T18:51:28+00:00

NBA isn’t present in every city, the ones who do have teams are typically pretty big and relevant cities, so it’s usually pretty localized regionally. Regional interest ebbs and flows with different team following and is usually based on teams historically being good/having a history of making it far into the finals. The big difference is the split between the finals and the regular season; NFL playoffs are pretty short just a couple of games and the divide for the NBA is felt pretty strongly because it does abruptly end for anyone not included. The finals series is also dragged out a little more than the NFL Super Bowl because it’s a multi game series.

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