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Bullfrog said:
After listening to Serial twice, I was pretty convinced he was innocent. After doing more reading, I admit my confidence is no longer 100%. However, I'm 100% confident there was not enough evidence to prove him guilty. The conviction hinged so much on the testimony of that Jay? guy, who was clearly not reliable.
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I've gone back and forth on it a million times and for what it's worth I've read some stuff on Jay that pretty reasonably argues that his "unreliability" is pretty understandable for a young black man who was selling drugs and dealing with Baltimore police and that a lot of the exculpatory "evidence" presented on Adnan's behalf is similarly problematic.

After listening to Serial I thought Adnan was either guilty or he was the unluckiest guy in the world who happened to be the target of pretty unforgivable police and prosecutorial misconduct. After everything I've read I still sort of feel that way without really being sure which direction I lean towards. That said, I agree that on the strength of the evidence presented, he probably shouldn't have been convicted.
 
bustaheims said:
LittleHockeyFan said:
is Musk an American citizen? Asking, cause I thought he was from South Africa.
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Born in South Africa, came to Canada as a teen, and I believe is a US citizen now, yes.
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His mother was Canadian and he got citizenship in Canada that way. He went to Queen's University for a bit. You can read about that from his first wife's point of view:
https://www.marieclaire.com/sex-love/a5380/millionaire-starter-wife/

Went to the US as a student and the investors of his first company helped him get green carded, until he was naturalized in 2002.
 
https://twitter.com/business/status/1580693436747087873
Almost there; of course rich white guys are going to be penalized about as readily as Boston Bruins players, so...
 
This guy is getting away with murder as far as I'm concerned. He wants to be able to do and say whatever he wants whenever he wants without consequence. A king in any other name.
 
Arn said:
UK chews through another Prime Minister.

44 days this one lasted.
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Does this mean you're next in line for the job? Figure it has to be your turn at some point.

Man, what I wouldn't give for another season of The Thick of It right now.
 
Arn said:
UK chews through another Prime Minister.

44 days this one lasted.
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She seemed to be kind of terrible at being a leader, mind you the Conservative party seems to be a bunch of wild animals at this point so I'm not sure who would be able to control those idiots.
 
https://twitter.com/starbreaksnews/status/1583075189969293312
Not even refrigerated and left under lighting wow
 
Nik said:
Arn said:
UK chews through another Prime Minister.

44 days this one lasted.
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Does this mean you're next in line for the job? Figure it has to be your turn at some point.

Man, what I wouldn't give for another season of The Thick of It right now.
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Not entirely sure I'd want it to be fair. Certainly not if it required me to be a member of the Conservatives :D

As for The Thick of It, I think it's redundant now. Reality is trumping satire.

L K said:
She seemed to be kind of terrible at being a leader, mind you the Conservative party seems to be a bunch of wild animals at this point so I'm not sure who would be able to control those idiots.
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So so so far out of her depth, and in a party that is massively fractured I'm not sure anyone can unite it now.

The best solution is a General Election, however the house has to vote for that to happen, and based on the current polls the Tories would be completely wiped out (generally polls suggest they could drop from 365 seats to 48, with Labour going from 203 seats to 507). So they're obviously not going to vote to lose their jobs.
 
Arn said:
Not entirely sure I'd want it to be fair. Certainly not if it required me to be a member of the Conservatives :D
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I was reading that because of her 5 weeks as PM she'll get 115,000 pounds a year for life in addition to a driver, security and cash for an office. I can only imagine where I'd be if my spectacular failures in life were rewarded in kind.
 
Managed to tick one of my ?bucket list? roller coasters off the? well, list, at the weekend.


?Red Force?. It goes from 0-180kmh in under 5 seconds at 1.2G. Great fun and didn?t disappoint.

I think Kingda Ka was the original of this type and was the one I initially wanted to get to probably over a decade ago when I first saw it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PhKh8DMWhk
(Not my video, obvs)

Was definitely worth the wait, but lost a few marks for being quite short overall so hasn?t quite claimed top spot on my list of favourite.

Any other coaster fans?
 
I want to dunk on what's happened to and on Twitter since the ownership change, but it's too sad and easy and feels bad, man.
 
The US still confuses me.  I understand that mid-term elections generally do not go well for the currently elected party but I'm just baffled that losing the House to this Republican party is still being viewed as a victory. 

Raphael Warnock can't win an election against a guy like Hershel Walker.  How is this still a good thing.  The Democrats bar for satisfaction is so damn low.
 
L K said:
The US still confuses me.  I understand that mid-term elections generally do not go well for the currently elected party but I'm just baffled that losing the House to this Republican party is still being viewed as a victory. 

Raphael Warnock can't win an election against a guy like Hershel Walker.  How is this still a good thing.  The Democrats bar for satisfaction is so damn low.
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After obsessing over the past few elections down there (screw you NYT needle!) I unfollowed a lot of US politics-heavy twitter accounts so was pretty in the dark about most of this election both leading up to and during it.

Certainly a lot of very disappointing results. It was nice to see Lauren Boebert losing for awhile there, but she's unfortunately overtaken her opponent now looks like. Still hasn't been officially decided I guess.
 
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