Yep. I’m in the magazine business and I was laid off from one title last year after surviving the previous year’s round. I’d pick surviving the layoffs and keeping my paycheck/health insurance EVERY TIME. Being let go was devastating mentally and emotionally, and fucking terrifying in the practical sense as well. I am…

I’m not from there but know enough that “...understandably horrifying possibility to people who barely tolerate the visitors keeping them economically afloat” is not the issue, it’s the TYPES of visitors that have changed and infuriate the locals. Montauk survived just fine without them. That sentence gave me a…

The existing tension in Montauk is usually between summer tourists from the city, extremely rich people who own homes they infrequently occupy, and regular people making a living.

The only reality TV show set in the Hamptons I want to see is Ina Garten's friends secretly talking shit about her in between luxurious yet simple meals prepared by Garten's underlings.

It doesn’t help anyone to escalate a situation involving a suicidal person holding a gun and holding hostages. Words matter.

but rather a size 8 or 10,

I think that we live in a gun-crazy time with next to zero mental health supports, and everyone should know how to handle crisis situations. We can disagree, that’s ok with me. But I stand by my statement that it is never, ever advisable to anger a shooter in a hostage situation by telling them to kill themselves.…

To be fair: she totally could do exactly what he did, with the exact same result.

BURN IT TO THE GROUND.

I’ve maintained this since reading the book in high school: Christopher McCandless was a stupid, naive, unprepared dink who thought he could piss in Nature’s face and get away with it. He got lucky a few times, but sooner or later if you don't respect Nature it will kill you dead.

Might I recommend Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick? It is a compilation of stories told by defectors from North Korea, and really gives a very diverse look at North Korea (everyone from orphans to doctors) and what it is like to grow up there.

I think she may have been a lot more accurate than most foreign writers over there

People were like that until he died. He was Wacko Jacko and then was re-deified after he died.

Janet all the fucking way. I really didn’t think everyone ACTUALLY forgot about his being a pedophile, I thought everyone “forgot” he was a child molester.

White privilege

So, uh... Can we stop worshiping this shitbrick as some sort of legend now?

what.

Money

This. I am so confused.

Isn’t possession of child porn in itself a crime? Why wasn’t he arrested if the police found all that stuff?