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Congo's Disease X: Could it be malaria? Initial testing results are suggesting it could be primarily malaria that's responsible, as 10 of 12 samples tested positive for that. Still potentially more than one disease involved. Kind of relieving news for the rest of the world should that end up being the case.

Where's the grift though? She's not fooling or tricking anyone; she's just sharing her viewpoints. If people want to subscribe or even pay her, or buy her books to read them, that's no different than subscribing to the local newspaper. There's absolutely no grift in any of that.

That may be a part of his animus, but I feel like it went quite a bit deeper than that. It sounds like it made him feel like his whole life was going off the rails a bit and that nobody around him could understand at all what he was going through. That type of feeling of sudden social isolation for someone, who from the sounds of it was used to having just about everything go his way up until then, had to be pretty jarring. There's also the intellectual views this guy had about society at large that this whole experience seems to have made him begin to question and start reevaluating. Ultimately it led him to look for someone to blame, and typical target when looking to assign blame is people in power.

Survivor

Mary Trump? A grifter? How exactly? Cuz she broke with the rest of her family a long time ago, and I don't recall her ever of having been accused of any kind of fraud.

Chris Wray announced he's stepping down as FBI director just before the guy who basically promised to fire him takes office. So much for do not obey in advance. No worries at least about anyone injuring their spines in Washington, since looks as if no one there's got any these days.

https://currently.att.yahoo.com/att/cm/freak-accident-turned-luigi-mangione-180522081.html Seems he had a spinal condition, spondylolisthesis, since childhood that got aggravated by something that happened to him during his first surfing lesson. Left him with intermittent numbness and a misaligned spine. He had surgery it seems, which seemed to help a bit but apparently left him with issues like not being able to sleep and IBS. Goes on to say he looked into psychedelics, but no evidence he actually tried them. Yeah, that's pretty much what I expected. Pretty tragic all right. I was thinking of that quote form the Joker, "All it takes is one bad day..." This guy had more than just a bad day though, and he wasn't crazy. Still, you never know what can happen. Sometimes the smallest thing can send your life hurtling in a whole different direction.

Very thorough analysis there. One has to wonder, if there hadn't been so much attention given to this case, would the guy ever have been caught? I mean, it took a public citizen recognizing him, and had the media not been covering this story so relentlessly, what are the chances of that happening? The thing I can't help thinking about is why then did this case garner so much fascination and attention from people? It's not that somebody got shot out in public. Happens everyday. It's not that the killer got away for a while. We're at the point now where less than half the murder cases in the country are solved. https://projects.csgjusticecenter.org/tools-for-states-to-address-crime/the-accountability-gap-unsolved-violent-crime-in-the-united-states/ https://www.themarshallproject.org/2022/01/12/as-murders-spiked-police-solved-about-half-in-2020 That's one of the worst clearance rates among countries in the industrialized world btw apparently. Germany consistently clears around 90% of their cases. So what is it then? Well, it's pretty obvious right. It's the fact that the guy shot was one of the seemingly untouchable elite. If it had been some Joe Schmo, outside of a brief story or two on some local news coverage that very few people anymore follow, nobody would have covered this, and therefore almost nobody would have seen this guy's face and been able to identify him. Hell, that's even assuming the police would of put the time and resources that they did into solving it without the added media pressure on them to do so and even found an image of the guy's face to put out there to begin with. So what does it all boil down to? I guess it just seems to be another instance showing that the idea of equal justice under the law in this country is really just that. It's simply an idea. A fantasy, nothing more. That's what's underlying all of this, and why I don't at all blame people for not having sympathy for Brian Thompson. He doesn't need our sympathy anyway. He's dead. His family on the other hand, I do feel bad for them, but only a little. I feel much worse for the loved ones of the victims who never get the closure that they're going to get. If there's anything this case should get us to be really pissed about, I'd say it's why is this country only good at this when it's somebody "important" that this happens to? Or why are we so far behind frickin Germany?! Oh btw, I couldn't help but notice, the worst state at solving violent crime in the US (as of 2022): Florida. Almost 80%. Seriously?! Why am I not surprised though?

Not as long as I live and breathe it ain't. Pretty sure it'll be gone with the wind when I finally croak though.

Damn, guy isn't just sort of smart, he was actually valedictorian of his graduating class. No real criminal record. Even said he wrote about the Unabomber that "“He was a violent individual – rightfully imprisoned – who maimed innocent people." Must of been something pretty tragic that happened to him or somebody he really cared about I'm thinking all right, cuz he doesn't at all fit the profile of your typical killer.

Mario's not gonna be happy. Sorry, I couldn't resist. It's literally the first thing that came to my mind when I saw the guy's name. Anyway, not a professional, but a fairly smart guy (an Ivy League grad I'm seeing) who had a history that gave him reason to hate the health insurance industry here. Reporting says he was upset about how a sick relative of his got treated. Also, read he had a photo on his X account showing four pins in a spine. His own? Not sure, if he had a personal bad experience as well, but in any case looks like it's more or less over now. Assuming of course they got the right guy, though it certainly seems like they do.

Grand Elder passing away at the perfect moment. A bit too convenient don't you think? But eh, it's anime.

Third wish: a magical lullaby to put Vegeta back to sleep.

Piccolo: "I recall no such promise." Poor King Kai. Seriously though, how did he not see that coming?

Porunga's been eating his spinach.

Kero kero!

Time to froggy with it. Always loved this part.

This shot is taking forever. LOL

Time for a little divine intervention. LOL

Godzilla Minus One 8/10 Ending was kind of overly predictable, but still loved it.

That's some serious firepower. Explomb though?

He's totally Sanjiing.

That reaction... ROFL And Mash just slapped him.

New dude's totally jelly. Wants to get rid of all the hot guys so he can get some hot chicks for himself. LMAO

This show really is making me hungry for cream puffs. Was looking around and saw this, and now I really want some. So cute!