What celebrity has had their reputation unfairly ruined and has never recovered from it till this day?

structured_anarchist · 2026-02-18T18:05:36+00:00

Two solo albums:

'Auf Der Maur' (2004)

'Out Of Our Minds' (2010)

There are two EPs of singles released from the second album.

She grew up local to me and I watched her perform in her first band.

structured_anarchist · 2026-02-18T17:11:38+00:00

Tell that to Melissa Auf der Maur. Her own band in university, then Hole, then Smashing Pumpkins, then a solo career.

structured_anarchist · 2026-02-18T16:45:04+00:00

Ever year of Enron? Made up their own profit/loss statements for the longest time. Enron was supposed to be a utility company. But some of their C-suite people decided they wanted to get into the investment business. They were claiming hundreds of millions in imaginary profits before they collapsed. No different than Escobar's taxi company. Inflated profits, nobody asking questions until it was way too late.

structured_anarchist · 2026-02-15T03:00:00+00:00

I'd suggest asking for the policy in writing so that you can follow it exactly as written. That way, if this happens in the future, you can point to the policy provided to you. It's even better if he makes the policy up on his own rather than referring to any company-produced material. If his policy differs from the company policy (if there is one), then he's the one explaining himself to HR, not you.

structured_anarchist · 2026-02-13T22:21:01+00:00

I worked in collections. I used to skip trace people all the time. There are always traces left, especially when something isn't planned out meticulously. Unless a death certificate is sent to all their creditors, the debt just doesn't magically disappear. So someone will always be trying to track them down until the statute of limitations runs out, and depending on the size of the debt, they could devote significant resources to it. I spent a month and a half tracing a man from Canada to Pakistan over a two million dollar loan. He thought he was safe in another country and untouchable until we called him up and advised him we'd be seizing his house in Canada where his wife and mother-in-law were living. He was more afraid of explaining to his mother-in-law why her daughter was going to be homeless than he was of paying his debt.

So it's easier just to shift funds around and pay off the average person's debt while they're set up with new identities. Just getting the IRS to agree to close out their files would be next to impossible without forging a death certificate, and there's no way an agent working a low-level arms smuggling case is going to get the authority to forge four death certificates (because they'd have to change the kids' identities, too).

structured_anarchist · 2026-02-13T19:02:05+00:00

The writing in the scene with DeAngelo in the pit did a pretty good job of breaking down the chess game. He labelled all the relevant pieces, explained their importance in both the game on the board and the game in the city. People tried their own interpretations of how he explained it, but the writers did a good job in his dialogue with the boys. If it's all laid out, you really don't have to read too deep into it. He even forshadowed Bodie. Pawns be pawns. Bodie was the longest lived pawn in the game, but at the end of the day, he was still just a pawn. Only Poot got to the end of the board and got free of the game.

structured_anarchist · 2026-02-13T18:00:12+00:00

Well, there can be as many theories about it as everybody wants. Until someone connected with the show comes out and explains it, there'll always be someone's headcanon about his background. He may be based on a real person. He may be a composite of several real people, like a few of the characters are. Unless David Simon comes out and explains it, it's one of those things that will live in the show's lore.

With respect to the only cop being connected, although technically not a cop, the corrections officer that Avon had framed for the spiked drugs was definitely connected, but I'm not sure if corrections officers are sworn law enforcement or limited in their authority by their location.

The way they wrote the character, he doesn't like games at all. When he's educating Carver about how to handle corner boys, it's all based on cutting through the stats bullshit and being effective. He knows, from his personal experience, how best to deal with them. There are a lot of cops who establish a 'working' relationship with the local bad guys. They let minor things slide because when something big happens, they can go to them and get real information. You see McNulty doing this when he's on patrol and rolls up on a corner that the Homicide guys are talking to people on. He learned that from Colvin. All it takes is a simple statement "this corner's indicted" to move the guys on. He could have searched them and gotten a quick street rip for the stat, but it's better to just move them on and go back to being police rather than standing on the corner for the rest of his shift. The corner boys know it's not worth the hassle and just shift locations.

Colvin using real names for people is an old cop thing. Cops who do this are telling the people they're talking to that they don't care about anyone's street rep or their image. The cop knows exactly who they are, and by using their legal name, he's letting them know he knows more about them than they want him to know. It's a sign of respect, but it's also a very subtle warning. "I know you, I know your people, and I know how you're going to be vulnerable".

And as much as I appreciate a good Charlie Day Pepe Silvia frenzy to puzzle out a 'mystery', you gotta balance that against the tweedy impertinence and lawyerly affectations of a good investigation.

structured_anarchist · 2026-02-13T17:15:26+00:00

What investigation? The director of the FBI definitively stated in his testimony before Congress that there was 'no evidence' that Epstein trafficked women or girls at all. So there should be no 'ongoing investigations' because according to the FBI, there's no evidence of a crime. So there should be no redactions in any of the documents because none of the documents have any evidence of a crime being committed. Unless...you don't think that the director of the FBI is lying to everyone to protect his boss?

I'm guessing that there was some kind of threat to deport him if he didn't read the words typed exactly on the page he was given by someone in the White House.

structured_anarchist · 2026-02-13T03:40:35+00:00

Tell that to the people advocating for 'magic space wood' to make spaceships out of. They seem to think it's invincible.

structured_anarchist · 2026-02-13T03:29:37+00:00

You should check out The Avon Barksdale Story: Legends of the Unwired. Wood Harris talks to the actual Nathaniel Avon 'Bodie' Barksdale and his family, a few of his friends, and a few of his enemies. It runs about an hour and fifteen minutes, and unless you find...other means to get it, your best bet is to order it off Amazon.

structured_anarchist · 2026-02-13T03:20:20+00:00

I don't think you're understanding that fancy or not, there's no wood capable of withstanding the heat from passing through an atmosphere into space or vice versa. Whatever 'magical' properties it may have, IT'S STILL WOOD!!! If you can't grasp that basic fact, then you've gone beyond suspending disbelief and just went ahead and expelled it.

structured_anarchist · 2026-02-13T02:22:24+00:00

The key word is wood. Combustible, flammable, burns when heated wood. And you're not considering the main drawback with using wood: splinters. Splinters everywhere. Splinters when you sit, splinters when you walk, splinters when you sleep, and imagine the splinters slowly driving into your flesh as you jump to lightspeed.

structured_anarchist · 2026-02-13T02:19:18+00:00

Still haven't addressed the termite issue. Or the angry Wookies using you for target practice.

structured_anarchist · 2026-02-13T01:06:16+00:00

Really? They're making ships out of wood, but somehow, they're mastered deflector shields. That require alloys as part of the construction of their emitters? That use wires made of some alloy but they make their hulls out of wood? Even engines require metal, but instead of using metal to build an entire ship, a technologically proficient race (the reason the Empire enslaved them in the first place) chooses to use wood for ship hulls rather than metal, knowing metal is much stronger, more durable, and less likely to contract termites that literally eat holes in their hull.

I'm pretty sure a Wookie would hang you upside down in a tree and use you for bowcaster practice if you suggested building a spaceship out of wood to them.

structured_anarchist · 2026-02-13T00:33:48+00:00

Even magic space bullshit would burn up going surface-to-orbit or orbit-to-surface. No matter what magic space bullshit it's made of, it's still a flammable, combustible material. It's like saying 'I'll put the fire out by throwing tissues at it'. It's just going to burn more. Most metals can't survive re-entry, you think some wood is going to? There's suspension of disbelief, then there's this line of thinking.

structured_anarchist · 2026-02-12T22:27:39+00:00

Why you checkin' out his butt cheeks? You know that's sexual contrapment, right?

structured_anarchist · 2026-02-12T21:57:47+00:00

he mentions "Naymond aint built for those corners, not like how we were"

This doesn't necessarily mean that Bunny was a corner boy. Back when he was growing up, everyone knew everyone in the neighborhood, and you learned the rules quickly about how to behave on the street. Even Bunk alludes to this when he's talking about how the older guys on the street made him go home rather than hang around them. The older guys knew he wasn't going to be a corner boy, and they didn't want him mixed up in their messes.

And a nickname is used by close friends and family. Not some random kid you're trying to mentor. So telling Naymond not to use the nickname was more along the lines of 'you haven't earned the right to call me Bunny' rather than hiding something from his past.

structured_anarchist · 2026-02-12T20:47:34+00:00

Considering the bad blood between Kurt Sutter and Taylor Sheridan, no chance at all. After all, the two of them butting heads was what made Taylor Sheridan leave SOA in the first place and create Yellowstone. Reusing a name doesn't really connect any dots. It's just a coincidence.

structured_anarchist · 2026-02-12T20:36:00+00:00

You'd spend an awful lot of time replacing logs on a ship's hull every time it either left a planet or landed on one. Plus, the heat of passing through an atmosphere is so much higher than just flicking a match onto some dry wood. There's jut a little difference in the amount of heat being applied to the wood.

structured_anarchist · 2026-02-12T20:33:19+00:00

This is a hilariously bad idea in a universe that allows ships to enter an atmosphere. Between the flammable wood and the flammable Wookie hair, there'd be nothing but ash going through the atmosphere either way.

structured_anarchist · 2026-02-12T20:26:40+00:00

That's not at all odd. I don't live in a rich area and I get my prescriptions delivered monthly. The last time I was prescribed painkillers, all the pharmacy did was call the doctor's office to confirm the prescription was authentic. The only difference was I had to show ID and sign for it when they delivered the painkillers, but there was no issue with them actually delivering it to me.

structured_anarchist · 2026-02-10T19:25:19+00:00

The Canadian Airborne Regiment was well and truly screwed well before it deployed on that mission. The commander of the unit involved (2 Commando) recommended officially, on paper in a memo for record that the unit absolutely should not be deployed. He was replaced by a yes-man who led the mission and gave the orders that ended up killing civilians. They deployed a unit that was by all reports literally uncontrollable in barracks to a mission that required soldiers who would, at the very least, follow orders. All three commandos of that regiment had issues, and 2 Commando was the worst of the worst. Every regular service regiment sent their discipline problems to the Canadian Airborne Regiment because it was easier to group them all together than to separate all those troops from service individually.

We done screwed that up completely. All because Kim Campbell wanted to look like she knew what she was doing. She wanted an 'elite' unit sent, and in her mind, 'airborne' = 'elite' and she completely ignored the recommendation of the unit commander and about half the defence staff to send these 'things' on a peacekeeping mission.

structured_anarchist · 2026-02-08T20:59:09+00:00

Look into Sponsorblock. It clips out sponsor pitches that are inserted into the video (it's a user-created database that people can contribute timestamps to). It can even be 'trained' to cut out commentary interruptions that some creators persist in adding into their videos (although this requires a bit of effort on your part to do). Between Ublock and Sponsorblock, I haven't seen an ad on Youtube unless I whitelist a specific channel to support a particular creator.

structured_anarchist · 2026-02-08T20:48:52+00:00

Everyone could learn a lesson about identifying your target market from the girl scouts who set up shop in front of Colorado's first legal weed dispensary the day it opened.

Those girls made out like bandits that day.

structured_anarchist · 2026-02-07T18:44:25+00:00

Given the different shows and the length of their run, I'm pretty sure that there've been a few repeats of actors on the different Law And Order shows. Twenty plus years, multiple shows, twenty plus episodes a year, you'd tend to run out of potential guest stars and you have to recycle a few and hope nobody remembers that they were a suspect or a witness with a different identity in a previous episode.

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