CURRENT EVENTS - DECEMBER

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1moretimeagain said:
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I have a good friend— and do I love the guy— who comes from considerable wealth. Not billionaire wealth, but never-have-to-stress-about-finances type of wealth. Needless to say, he has lived a life of privilege. When he graduated from college, he got his first job through his father’s connections. When he decided to leave that job to open up a restaurant, his parents provided the money to do that. His parents always bought him nice cars, dating back to when he could first drive at the age of 16, and he was always able to have very nice things thanks to his family money.

Anyway, when the topic of the plight of the less advantaged would come up, he would shrug it off and say how life isn’t fair and if you want a better life you just had to work hard for it, even though he never had to work to get most of the things he was privileged enough to have. When he made those arguments, I would point out he was born into privilege, and he would respond with things like, “Yes, but it’s not like I was born as Michael Jordan’s son. I wasn’t born into that kind of wealth. But you don’t hear me whining about life not being fair.”
 
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I’ve read the story and it seems to have more legit support than most amateur sleuthing of this sort, but also plenty of detractors. The guy was a suspect in the Black Dahlia murder at the time and took off after being questioned, changing his name after moving to Chicago (which apparently used to be easy to do). But he also sounds like a PTSD-afflicted conman who could have wanted people to think he was a famous killer.

Still, it would be wild if this guy did the Black Dahlia murder and later became the Zodiac, got away in both cases and left a coded confessional artwork for his son. If so, folks in Chicago and Kansas might want to track cold cases from when he was there.
 
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“… buildup in pressure across the region is propelling wastewater up ancient wellbores, birthing geysers that can cost millions of dollars to clean up. Companies are wrestling with drilling hazards that make it more costly to operate and complaining that the marinade is creeping into their oil-and-gas reservoirs. Communities friendly to oil and gas are growing worried about injection.

… Swaths of the Permian appear to be on the verge of geological malfunction. Pressure in the injection reservoirs in a prime portion of the basin runs as high as 0.7 pound per square inch per foot, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of data from researchers at the University of Texas at Austin’s Bureau of Economic Geology….”




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Icky Mettle said:
I have a good friend— and so I love the guy— who comes from considerable wealth. Not billionaire wealth, but never-have-to-stress-about-finances type of wealth. Needless to say, he has lived a life of privilege. When he graduated from college, he got his first job through his father’s connections. When he decided to leave that job to open up a restaurant, his parents provided the money to do that. His parents always bought him nice cars, dating back to when he could first drive at the age of 16, and he was always able to have very nice things thanks to his family money.

Anyway, when the topic of the plight of the less advantaged would come up, he would shrug it off and say how life isn’t fair and if you want a better life you just had to work hard for it, even though he never had to work to get most of the things he was privileged enough to have. When he made those arguments, I would point out he was born into privilege, and he respond with things like, “Yesh, but it’s not like I was born as Michael Jordan’s son. I wasn’t born into that kind of wealth. But you don’t hear me whining about life not being fair.”
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And it's not just wealthy people who are like that, I've known some people with middle-to-upper middle class parents who fit that mold too, especially in rural areas. I have a relative about my age who is a lifelong diehard Republican and complains about people on welfare (especially minorities) a lot, but he's been lazy pretty much his entire life, inherited a house and a decent amount of money from his parents, and pretty much lived off his parents for decades - he's on family welfare, so to speak. I know for a fact that a brand-new Dodge pickup truck he bought about 20 years ago was entirely paid for by his mother. And most of the jobs he's gotten have come through family connections. But he'll sit there and complain about some poor person getting food stamps and whatnot. Just in total denial about the reality of his life. I suspect that a good many people are on "family welfare" and yet still complain about others having to use government welfare because they don't have the luxury of parents or grandparents who have enough money to pay their way through life or provide connections for jobs.
 
Reading the reactions to this appointment made me laugh and you know why:ROFLMAO:

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‘People will die!’ MAGA erupts over historic FDNY pick

Outrage rippled through conservative social media circles Friday after New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani announced he would appoint Lillian Bonsignore as the next FDNY commissioner, a historic selection that will take effect when he assumes office on Jan. 1.Mamdani praised Bonsignore...
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heelinhell said:
Reading the reactions to this appointment made me laugh and you know why:ROFLMAO:

www.rawstory.com

‘People will die!’ MAGA erupts over historic FDNY pick

Outrage rippled through conservative social media circles Friday after New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani announced he would appoint Lillian Bonsignore as the next FDNY commissioner, a historic selection that will take effect when he assumes office on Jan. 1.Mamdani praised Bonsignore...
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If there’s one thing Elon knows about, it’s how to make people dead through political choices.
 
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