This Is Fine

1:10 AM

> McKinsey Proposed Paying Pharmacy Companies Rebates for OxyContin Overdoses

3:10 AM

@TimStone one thing that one should definitely do when considering whether or not to destroy documents is to document that decision process via email

That way everyone knows why documents were destroyed and you end up with an adverse inference

(adverse inference is a possible remedy for destroyed evidence and the court pretty much just goes "well there's no way to know what these said now, but it must be pretty bad for you so we're going to assume that it was")

Tim Stone

4:40 AM

@Unionhawk Please see my fifty slide presentation on the pros and cons to covering up casually getting people killed

Jolenealaska

6:54 AM

Left here for comment. I'm exhausted. On November 3rd I would have at least considered trying to rebut a lot of that. Tonight it's all I can do to hope that someone out there is up to the task. (Edit later - Oh! I get it now that I have slept. She says in the into that this is her brother's writing!)

Jolenealaska

7:13 AM

The same columnist wrote this.

So now I'm just confused.

When I'm less exhausted (January 21?), maybe I'll be able to wrap my brain around how those two columns were written by the same person.

Nzall

8:22 AM

@Jolenealaska Those are the same links

Jolenealaska

oops

fixed

I meant it when I said exhausted. I'm in that 'too tired to sleep' mode.

I've read a fair amount of her stuff in recent months. It's only the "Left here for comment" link that reads like she's pretty proud of a Trumpist streak.

Jolenealaska

8:43 AM

***

In unrelated heartbreak: Remember Honestie, the little 11-year-old black girl in her own yard we heard pleading with police not to handcuff her in late 2017? Which of course they did? In YouTube-ready glory?

She died last week of Covid.

At the age of 14.

skillpatrol

9:55 AM

> Of 161,387 infected children whose race and ethnicity were known, 42 percent were Hispanic, 32 percent were white and 17 percent were Black, the C.D.C. researchers reported. Deaths among children were rare over all, but Hispanic and Black children were more likely to be hospitalized or admitted to an I.C.U.

:(

Jolenealaska

It's just heartbreaking. I distinctly remember my outrage when Honestie was handcuffed. It was just obscene. No little blond girl would be treated like that in her own yard. And now dead. At 14.

Officer's video (WARNING: GRAPHIC LANGUAGE)

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Warning

Very hard to hear

skillpatrol

Not suitable for blm

skillpatrol

10:22 AM

Oct 27 at 21:51, by Eddie Kal

BLM UK gains legal status and renames as Black Liberation Movement UK

this^ renaming takes away the children's lives

Jolenealaska

What was their main reason for not being Black Lives Matter or Black Lives Matter UK? I mean the name seems OK if there is a reason for it.

This is the first I've heard of it.

skillpatrol

I think, too many people claimed the copyright to it.

Jolenealaska

Black Liberation Movement is OK in an oddly white-bread sort of way.

Nzall

Trump paying 3M USD for a recount only for Biden to end up with 132 more votes must be the self-own of the decade

Jolenealaska

Yes :)

I needed the chuckle when I saw that.

skillpatrol

10:35 AM

When I hear "Liberation" I think of the PLO.

Or this

Jolenealaska

I can see why you wouldn't be a fan of the rebrand.

Jolenealaska

10:58 AM

I just had a very unpleasant exchange at my front door. It's weird how I feel a bit safer in a room here with y'all than if I were, you know, alone with my cat.

Jolenealaska

11:24 AM

British-only passport holders barred from playing Prince William in new film

> starring Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana

That's way weirder than William not being able to be British.

> “It’s one of the saddest stories to exist ever,” said Stewart, discussing her preparations for the role, “and I don’t want to just play Diana – I want to know her implicitly.”

Alrighty then

skullpatrol

The mystic of lady Diana lives on...

Jolenealaska

I never would have imagined her played by Kristen Stewart.

I guess it's a head start on 2021 Bingo.

hehe

> The story of Diana was previously brought to the screen by the Downfall director Oliver Hirschbiegel in 2013 with Naomi Watts in the lead role. The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw called it “car crash cinema” while the Mirror’s David Edwards wrote that “Wesley Snipes in a blonde wig would be more convincing”.

skullpatrol

11:40 AM

:D

Mad Scientist

@Jolenealaska The Crown is a more recent version with Emma Corrin as Diana

Jolenealaska

Yeah, I've caught some buzz on that. Netflix, right?

That's one I'll probably watch someday.

Napoleon Wilson

12:21 PM

@Jolenealaska "car crash cinema" is a bit unfortunate choice of words (although, I can't believe it's not intentional).

Jolenealaska

ugh

yeah

Napoleon Wilson

Kristen Stewart is a good actress, I don't find her playing Diana particularly otherworldly.

Jolenealaska

I sincerely would like to like it. I enjoy being surprised that way.

Really, though, I only know her from a role I never actually watched.

The photo in the article is the only way I've ever seen her.

Napoleon Wilson

Many people do. But those people have looong transcended this pet-hate of many. Well, maybe not Lautner, but certainly the other two, even more so Pattinson.

@Jolenealaska Well, welcome out of Europe, I'd say. ;-)

Jolenealaska

pretty much! I appreciate Brexit for not being ours.

Jolenealaska

12:47 PM

The Iranian Nuclear Scientist's assassination feels like a really big deal.

And that one smells like it is ours. At least in significant part.

Mad Scientist

1:12 PM

@Jolenealaska I'd guess Mossad, but probably with US knowledge

Jolenealaska

Nudge "knowledge" up to "complicity", I think. At least.

I truly hope I'm wrong.

Jolenealaska

1:36 PM

>The killing of Mr. Fakhrizadeh comes just two weeks after intelligence officials confirmed that Al Qaeda’s second-highest leader was gunned down on the streets of Tehran by Israeli assassins on a motorcycle on Aug. 7, at the behest of the United States.

The Qaeda figure, Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah, went by the nom de guerre Abu Muhammad al-Masri and was accused of being one of the masterminds of the deadly 1998 attacks on two U.S. embassies in East Africa. He was killed along with his daughter, Miriam, the widow of Osama bin Laden’s son Hamza bin Laden.

I'm not liking it.

Mad Scientist

the nightmare scenario is Trump ordering a direct attack of some kind on Iran to lock Biden in on a confrontation course

Nzall

@MadScientist let's hope the Pentagon will do the smart thing then and say screw you to Trump

like, I don't think we've had a lame duck president starting a war yet

Mad Scientist

@Nzall they don't really have an option there, if he orders an attack on something that is a legitimate target in general

Nzall

@MadScientist yeah

Jolenealaska

@MadScientist I'm sweating pretty much exactly that.

Nzall

1:44 PM

Yeah. It would be a huge violation of decorum and common sense. Exactly the thing Trump is known for

Eddie Kal

7:35 PM

@skillpatrol What do you mean?

skillpatrol

10:29 PM

I was referring to these numbers:

13 hours ago, by skillpatrol

> Of 161,387 infected children whose race and ethnicity were known, 42 percent were Hispanic, 32 percent were white and 17 percent were Black, the C.D.C. researchers reported. Deaths among children were rare over all, but Hispanic and Black children were more likely to be hospitalized or admitted to an I.C.U.

and this death

14 hours ago, by Jolenealaska

She died last week of Covid.

IMHO changing from black "lives matter" to black "liberation movement" shifts the focus

away from the children's lives

@EddieKal

12 hours ago, by skillpatrol

Oct 27 at 21:51, by Eddie Kal

BLM UK gains legal status and renames as Black Liberation Movement UK

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