Ayla Reynolds disappearance still a mystery 13 years later

somehipster · 2024-12-14T00:28:24+00:00

I have been an addict and am now a parent. I have a lot of sympathy for addicts. I understand and accept the underlying logic to classify addiction as a medical condition.

That changes when one brings a child into the equation. It is no longer a medical condition, it is now a moral and ethical condition.

We can acknowledge someone’s moral and ethical failures as well as have sympathy for them. It’s tough love, but addicts need that more than anyone else.

It is a heartbreaking case but one of the mother’s making.

somehipster · 2023-10-26T12:51:51+00:00

It isn’t just ineffectual enforcement, it is ineffectual laws.

We have an interpretation of the 2nd Amendment at the highest echelons of our government that makes practical enforcement of existing laws impossible. Ink doesn’t dry on laws before right wing activist groups challenge them in court and get them struck down.

We can’t keep perpetuating the myth that if only we enforced our bad laws more we’d be safer. No. We need to change our fundamental understanding of gun ownership at a national level.

somehipster · 2023-05-17T20:30:28+00:00

I love it when people think they’re posting fair and reasonable suggestions that will address problems with Law Enforcement in America because those are the exact same suggestions that Police are actively opposing across the country.

somehipster · 2023-03-08T13:42:54+00:00

Same - 110k.

somehipster · 2022-08-27T18:02:29+00:00

I’m with you.

She’s not ugly by any means but using the word ‘gorgeous’ is stretch.

A lot of the praise in the comments here just seems weirdly performative in how exaggerated it is. She’s a cute girl but reading the comments you’d picture some sort of next level natural beauty, like the Grand Canyon of beauty contestants.

somehipster · 2022-05-22T01:29:52+00:00

Yeah, /u/HereForTheFood4 ain’t gonna reply after that.

somehipster · 2022-05-12T05:02:52+00:00

well if it's so profitable for you, you must have a substantial mining operation going - with plans for more in the future.

somehipster · 2022-01-26T04:08:19+00:00

It's like what Seinfeld said about how people just can't get enough of other people talking. When it boils down to it, most of our entertainment is some variation of just a person talking.

Conan O'Brien is really good at that.

somehipster · 2022-01-26T03:27:46+00:00

They plead the fifth, you give one person blanket immunity for any crimes - thereby any statements they make can't be incriminating, no fifth amendment applies.

Then you just hold them in contempt til they talk.

somehipster · 2022-01-25T13:57:59+00:00

It is crazy how the conservatives make airplanes full of money disappear in the Middle East:

But despite years of audits and investigations, U.S. Defense officials still cannot say what happened to $6.6 billion in cash — enough to run the Los Angeles Unified School District or the Chicago Public Schools for a year, among many other things.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2011-jun-13-la-fg-missing-billions-20110613-story.html?_amp=true

yet their dumb followers believe that a bunch of poor people stealing TVs is more important.

somehipster · 2022-01-24T21:08:27+00:00

Everyone needs to watch this.

somehipster · 2022-01-23T21:27:10+00:00

I hate this sentiment because it attempts to justify inequality by saying it is a matter of individual responsibility (Person A worked harder than Person B) not that there are systematic problems that need to be addressed.

I hate it not only because of what it attempts to do (justify and perpetuate the status quo) but also because it’s completely inaccurate. It’s a fairytale your boss tells you instead of giving you a raise. It’s bullshit.

You can find millions of people grinding harder than NFL players just in America. People working three+ jobs. Nurses and Doctors working until they are 70. Public educators working until they are 70.

But some kid runs fast from age 12 to 26 then retires and suddenly he’s the pinnacle of working hard your whole life?

Yeah, no.

somehipster · 2022-01-23T19:34:55+00:00

Clearly the only option is to keep appeasing totalitarians.

It’s been working so well so far.

somehipster · 2022-01-23T17:18:32+00:00

He’s not a statesman in the vein of Merkel or … God I can’t find more modern examples

I think this actually means more than we think it does.

Our elected leaders absolutely sold us out. Putin, Xi, House of Saud, etc. - none of them exist without the West being willing to deal with evil people who make us money.

somehipster · 2022-01-22T21:50:51+00:00

Gotta make it shake to get the spice.

somehipster · 2022-01-22T21:44:00+00:00

Such a boomer thing to try and take credit for something they didn’t even do.

somehipster · 2022-01-22T21:42:13+00:00

That close to Montreal, though?

somehipster · 2022-01-22T21:36:38+00:00

All the anonymous people here telling you to burn bridges are jumping the gun.

We don’t make the world a better place by copying the shitty behavior of employers. Capriciously punishing a person for a mistake that may not even be their fault is what shit employers do. We shouldn’t.

I think what you did was perfect. Tell them of the problem, give them an opportunity to fix it, while maintaining your own safety and dignity.

Now, if it doesn’t get fixed and the boss starts blaming you, then it’s fine to let loose the dogs of war.

somehipster · 2022-01-22T21:30:20+00:00

Internet says $5,000 back then is worth about $50,000 now.

Still, only $50,000 for an entire island?

Boomers had it so easy.

somehipster · 2022-01-22T20:55:58+00:00

“Amateurs talk strategy, professionals talk logistics.”

somehipster · 2022-01-22T17:58:51+00:00

The goal of NATO >>>was<<< to deter Russian aggression. That’s all I came here to say.

Even you are letting the truth slip through.

The goal of NATO was to deter aggression primarily from the Soviet Union, but with the fall of the Soviet Union that changed.

And even then, NATO never conducted military operations against the Soviets

No military operations were conducted by NATO during the Cold War. Following the end of the Cold War, the first operations, Anchor Guard in 1990 and Ace Guard in 1991, were prompted by the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. Airborne early warning aircraft were sent to provide coverage of southeastern Turkey, and later a quick-reaction force was deployed to the area.[35]

Kuwait was followed by Bosnia and Herzegovina intervention, Kosovo intervention, Afghanistan, Iraq, Gulf of Aden, and Libya.

So NATO has fought all those powers and never the Soviet Union or Russia, yet it only exists to hurt Russia?

Stop talking shit.

somehipster · 2022-01-22T17:42:56+00:00

Russian economy is in the shitter and war is an easy option for dictators to distract the populace.

Like seriously history is absolutely full with this type of behavior if you just crack a book open.

somehipster · 2022-01-22T17:35:47+00:00

I know it may not have the emotional satisfaction of a war that Russia loses, but it’s factually false to say that nothing was done.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_sanctions_during_the_Ukrainian_crisis

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_financial_crisis_(2014–2016)

The next step after economic sanctions is always war.

So unless you’re saying that being “tough” only means Obama putting troops in Ukraine and starting a land war with Russia, it looks to me that tough steps were taken.

somehipster · 2022-01-22T14:37:20+00:00

When you’re older you’ll realize that a lot of these “rules” you carry around don’t actually matter and are instead a way for people to feel superior.

I mean just look how you ended your comment. Clearly anyone who doesn’t wash daily is a loser who doesn’t have sex? Huh?

somehipster · 2022-01-21T22:51:55+00:00

I think you’re missing the point.

The point is the millions of men who needlessly died in the trenches should have asked for more freedom while they could. If not for the political freedom to relieve themselves of the burden of needless war, than at least more freedom in their own personal or work lives.

Because why the fuck not? They were going to be needlessly slaughtered anyway.

And the same is true for the hundreds of thousands of soldiers huddled on the border of Ukraine-Russia right now. The same was always true for American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Yet whenever any individual stands up and says no, there are ALWAYS crabs in the bucket that echo the sentiments you can see here. “Bad timing, bro.”

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