Aristotle: ancient Greek thinker who thought the Earth was round.

Not him so much as the flat earthbound gawkers he might crash into when his rocket tips over when the engines fire.

Don’t be stupid. The Illuminati will shoot him down long before he smashes into the Firmament.

Hoping to reach a height of 1,800 feet

His rocket goes 1,800 feet, from which distance the Earth may still look flat. If he goes 15 - 20 times higher than that, he may actually see that the Earth is a ball while significantly lowering his risk of death and spend far less money.

And then he could launch his rocket from it!

Does he not know that he’s only a couple hours away from Mt. Whitney which is almost 10 times as tall as the elevation he hopes to reach in his rocket? If he doesn’t want to put in the work of climbing a mountain he could literally drive to the top of Mt. Diablo in the bay area and be more than twice as elevated as he…

The windows of planes aren’t windows, they’re actually video screens so you can’t see that you aren’t really flying, you’re just sitting on the tarmac waiting for your turn to be teleported to your destination.

I used to find flat earthers amusing, but as the forces of delusional ignorance and rampant idiocy have seized more and more power, it’s mostly just sad and scary.

Yeah that’s what’s fucking terrifying here. That somehow every set of adults involved, one after another, just decided that she was some kind of brutal murderer who would kill again, not a fucked-up kid in an impossible situation - this guy regularly threatened her with guns. She stole a bunch of money and guns from…

Many years ago, I learned that brown girls get charged with prostitution while white girls are victims of human trafficking. This case breaks my heart. This is cruel punishment. She should be free.

Not only that, but if it was an election year she probably got more time. There’s evidence that prosecutors and judges at the state level get tougher when they think the public may be paying attention, rather than more compassionate - and when they do show compassion, it is typically for well off white men/boys (i.e.…

Tiny or not, this is an injustice.
No child should have been sentenced like this. Especially her.

Well, I wish to set fire to the world. Granted, this feeling usually happens weekly, but my god. She was a baby and abused.

If she was a white girl, she would have been set free and have a made for tv movie.

“Pimps and child sex predators should fear for their goddamned trash lives.”

But she’s not white....seriously is this was a white girl they would have appauled her courage and she’d be free

She was a baby. How can those jurors look at her and not see a child victim? She could be their child, sister, anybody. Her life matters.

That’s fucked up, and I like the push they were using in the Bay Area to call these trafficked children, or child rape victims vs “child prostitute” which seems to stigmatize these kids, or make their exploitation seem consentual. These men and women who make their money off of children are absolute dog shit people.

Pimps and child sex predators should fear for their goddamned trash lives. We should be celebrating this girl’s amazing strength and resiliency to free herself from an unimaginably horrific circumstance, and yet she’s sitting in prison.