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- RoseMorninStar
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That is just sick and twisted but I am not surprised. How awful.
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In an article I read, the Russian government appears to be taking the stance that he had a metabolic disorder that he lost control of. That could end up being true, in that some poisons cause liver damage.Frelga wrote:His family and doctors demanded a transfer for days, saying that he was kept in a small hospital that was not meant to treat his condition. They suspect that this was done to give the toxins time to dissipate so that they can't be identified.Inanna wrote:So, he’s in Germany now.Frelga wrote:Russian opposition leader Navalny is in critical condition and widely believed to be poisoned on Putin's orders.
Scary stuff.
Seems like it would have been cleaner to just shoot him.
When you can do nothing what can you do?
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Less 'deniable' though.River wrote:
Seems like it would have been cleaner to just shoot him.
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"Does anyone ever think about Denethor, the guy driven to madness by staying up late into the night alone in the dark staring at a flickering device he believed revealed unvarnished truth about the outside word, but which in fact showed mostly manipulated media created by a hostile power committed to portraying nothing but bad news framed in the worst possible way in order to sap hope, courage, and the will to go on? Seems like he's someone we should think about." - Dave_LF
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Oh please. People off themselves with gunshot wounds to the back of the head all the time.
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Perhaps 'clean' was not the objective. It sounds like painful torment was part of the plan. And may work as a deterrent for others.
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Some have taken it as a message to the opposition in Belarus. Or perhaps it's more effective to neutralize an opponent by making him very ill than to turn him into a martyr.
If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.
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- RoseMorninStar
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I was thinking along these lines. It was by design.Frelga wrote:Some have taken it as a message to the opposition in Belarus. Or perhaps it's more effective to neutralize an opponent by making him very ill than to turn him into a martyr.
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Apparently the official line of defense is that the state agents who followed Navalny's every step didn't notice anything suspicious.
If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.
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British PM Boris Johnson is subtly trolled by a school librarian.
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That's pretty clever.Túrin Turambar wrote:British PM Boris Johnson is subtly trolled by a school librarian.
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Terry Pratchett's Twitter account, run by his assistant Rob, had a caption contest for the photo. There were some great entries, many referring to Bloody Stupid Johnson.
Johnson was most famous, or rather most notorious. He was renowned for never letting his number-blindness, his lack of any skill whatsoever or his complete failure to grasp the essence of a problem stand in the way of his cheerful progress as the first Counter-Renaissance man.
“Wasn’t he the man who specified quicksand as a building material because he wanted a house finished fast?” he said.
“That’s right, sir. Usually the major flaw was that the designer was Bloody Stupid Johnson.”
If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.
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Well not everything he designed had some horribly fatal flaw... what about that thing we keep in the kitchen for peeling potatoes?Frelga wrote:“Wasn’t he the man who specified quicksand as a building material because he wanted a house finished fast?” he said.
“That’s right, sir. Usually the major flaw was that the designer was Bloody Stupid Johnson.”
You mean the one with a brass plate that says "Improved Manicure Device"?
The dumbest thing I've ever bought
was a 2020 planner.
"Does anyone ever think about Denethor, the guy driven to madness by staying up late into the night alone in the dark staring at a flickering device he believed revealed unvarnished truth about the outside word, but which in fact showed mostly manipulated media created by a hostile power committed to portraying nothing but bad news framed in the worst possible way in order to sap hope, courage, and the will to go on? Seems like he's someone we should think about." - Dave_LF
was a 2020 planner.
"Does anyone ever think about Denethor, the guy driven to madness by staying up late into the night alone in the dark staring at a flickering device he believed revealed unvarnished truth about the outside word, but which in fact showed mostly manipulated media created by a hostile power committed to portraying nothing but bad news framed in the worst possible way in order to sap hope, courage, and the will to go on? Seems like he's someone we should think about." - Dave_LF
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My mother removed the end of her baby finger with one of those 'improved manicure' devices! They can be wicked sharp!
When the night has been too lonely, and the road has been too long,
And you think that love is only for the lucky and the strong,
Just remember in the winter far beneath the bitter snows,
Lies the seed, that with the sun's love, in the spring becomes The Rose.
And you think that love is only for the lucky and the strong,
Just remember in the winter far beneath the bitter snows,
Lies the seed, that with the sun's love, in the spring becomes The Rose.
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Your mother owned an original Johnson!!
(Sorry, sorry - could not resist)
(Sorry, sorry - could not resist)
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Inanna wrote:Your mother owned an original Johnson!!
(Sorry, sorry - could not resist)
When the night has been too lonely, and the road has been too long,
And you think that love is only for the lucky and the strong,
Just remember in the winter far beneath the bitter snows,
Lies the seed, that with the sun's love, in the spring becomes The Rose.
And you think that love is only for the lucky and the strong,
Just remember in the winter far beneath the bitter snows,
Lies the seed, that with the sun's love, in the spring becomes The Rose.
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Meanwhile in Tel Aviv, there's a drone flying over the city dropping baggies of weed.
Israel decriminalized medical marijuana and is debating legalization.
Israel decriminalized medical marijuana and is debating legalization.
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And here in Colorado everyone's like, "Why didn't we think of that??"
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- Dave_LF
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I'm having trouble following the leap from "this product is no longer illegal" to "we should use drones to drop this product on people from the sky." But hopefully Israel doesn't choose to legalize pianos next.
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Pianos are illegal in Israel?Dave_LF wrote:I'm having trouble following the leap from "this product is no longer illegal" to "we should use drones to drop this product on people from the sky." But hopefully Israel doesn't choose to legalize pianos next.
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was a 2020 planner.
"Does anyone ever think about Denethor, the guy driven to madness by staying up late into the night alone in the dark staring at a flickering device he believed revealed unvarnished truth about the outside word, but which in fact showed mostly manipulated media created by a hostile power committed to portraying nothing but bad news framed in the worst possible way in order to sap hope, courage, and the will to go on? Seems like he's someone we should think about." - Dave_LF
was a 2020 planner.
"Does anyone ever think about Denethor, the guy driven to madness by staying up late into the night alone in the dark staring at a flickering device he believed revealed unvarnished truth about the outside word, but which in fact showed mostly manipulated media created by a hostile power committed to portraying nothing but bad news framed in the worst possible way in order to sap hope, courage, and the will to go on? Seems like he's someone we should think about." - Dave_LF