Randomness

[cjbreed]

its a phenomenon that i have a hard time understanding. i can relate to the desire to rage quit life. i get it. but not the need to take a bunch of other people out with you. thats the worst of the worst of human impulses. completely and utterly destructive ultra-selfish mega-tantrum

[gregor]

^echoes my feelings

i can completely understand suicide, though the desire to take anyone else with you against their respective wills is one bereft of any humanity, really.

the pictures and information from his friends about him makes it even less understandable.

[eleves]

It's crazy how much someone can be a complete and utter mystery to the people that claim to know him or her. I find that the remembrances and acknowledgments of friends and colleagues regarding someone who commits an act like this almost never add mystery to a situation because it's always the same thing: an event out of the blue that no one sees coming. The whole situation is beyond sad, and even if he was the nicest person in the world, this terrible act was burning inside of him and I feel bad for anyone trying to hold on to any decent memory of him as he is a terrible person. I just hope that we don't have to witness another attack on others like this any time soon. Very very sad.

[malaesthetique]

Just shook Crispin Glover's hand while he was waiting in line for a Jamba Juice here in Honolulu.

[cjbreed]

john wayne gacy shaking hands with first lady of the united states rosalynn carter

*unrelated to previous post

[galia]

I thought this was funny: spurious correlations

[zen dog]

^ Really enjoyed that,galia. Funny and a good reminder that, in the quest to find relationships between events, a good deal of vigor must be applied beyond two things occurring at the same time. Autism/vaccinations anyone?

[gregor]

and they say there's no such thing as coincidence...

[deltapie]

well.. at least he didn't author it himself..

http://bookofyeezus.com/

[bukka]

I hate train companies. I hate public companies in general. All so arrogant.

[bukka]

Wait, do you mean "publicly held companies" (as opposed to privately owned), or "government-owned companies"?

We have private-contractors running the trains here, so ticket-inspectors have quotas of fines to hand out, and use force If you try to escape. Basically we get harassed by mercenary corporate pseudo-cops. Absolute filth. Nothing worse than policing for profit.

Sorry, I didn't know that the meaning of "public company" was different in english, I was talking about "government-owned companies". Like the Swiss Federal Railways or the Swiss Post. Yes, if those companies are owned by private-contractors, you will face this kind of issues. But it doesn't mean that we don't face it here. The main issue with having those companies owned by the government is that they have a monopoly position. They raise their prices like crazy whenever they feel like it. They have their quotas of fines just the same.
And when they fuck up, like they did for me this morning canceling my train to Milano, they don't bother explaining or assuming - you don't have any other option anyway. So here I am, buying another ticket to Milano, and another one to Firenze because I'll miss the one I was supposed to take.
The "no-explanation" part is what truly angers me. I mean, come on, how much does it cost (as cost is probably their only criterium) to announce to passengers what they have to do / where they have to go.

Edit: feel free to ignore me, all this feels very grumpy :)

[eleves]

The MTA in NYC pretty much sucks too. I think a lot of us are with you on this, bukka

[malaesthetique]

Bought some selvage drkshdw detroits on my habit a couple weeks ago. Didn't get to trying them on immediately but after a while I finally did, decided they might be a bit too tight and no size up available. Went to process the return, but since then the item was marked down and now listed as non-returnable. At the time of purchase they were returnable, so I called in to ask for my return authorization.

She said since its no longer returnable they were just going to credit me back the full amount ($200 +) and asked that I just "donate" the jeans.

[yay]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3YGtQ40Qvs how is this even real, it's like a more extreme version of a paul verhoeven commercial

[Faust]

Trapped inside a Tom Waits song