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Taking a plea deal shouldn’t be to avoid a punishment that doesn’t fit the crime. The punishment he’s been sentenced too should never have been a possibility.

I’m indifferent to the debate about it. My frustration with this entire story is with the journalistic incompetence of not giving the full context for why he was sentenced so harshly. The coverage seems to focus on contrasting a trivial mechanical failure to an over-the-top punishment, but they’re downplaying the

Where was he when there was a miles long Trump caravan on that same stretch of highway last year?

The brakes on Aguilera-Mederos’ semi-truck failed, and he crashed into stopped traffic, killing four people.

Stick it on a train.

it would be cool if my iphone’s facial recognition could identify me with my mask on so i could use apple pay in stores without entering a passcode every time i want to look at my phone.

For example - putting a bunch of pallets of concrete block onto a flat bed and driving at 80 mph over rough road. The driver doesn’t intend for anyone to die, but shedding those blocks shows extreme indifference.

Doctoral Student....    Grad school is really taxing on people’s psyche.   Slowly but surely wears you down.  Depression in graduate students is really high. 

Not cool.

Is there any chance he didn’t exit the plane intentionally? Like he was trying a barrel roll and fell out?

The doors are HARD (but not impossible) to open in flight. Try opening a car door (as a passenger) while someone is driving over 100MPH. That’s not accidental.

See he was reaching out the window to bang ice from the moving windshield wiper and fell out the window. (totally making a joke and only a joke before there are 50 comments  on how factually incorrect my joke is)

If you’ve ever tried to get into and out of one of these things you’ll know its not going to happen by accident.

Here in the US, if you hear hoofbeats, you should think horses, not zebras.  He was in the plane when it took off; he wasn’t in it when it crashed; he was the only one in the plane.  The most likely explanation is he jumped.  I don’t understand why people see the need to make up outlandish theories.

Still the best RV ever made.

I know this is kind of a tangent, but....motorcycles are legal.   As long as they remain legal, most car safety regulations just seem kind of stupid to me.   As long as the buyer knows what they are getting into and accepts the risk, these kind of vehicles should be legal.   (See the recent legislative attack on

I know I’m the minority here but I rather buy this than Tesla

There's a video of an early Ford Econoline pickup doing a nose stand out on the web. An FC Jeep is similar 

Am sorry they did that to you? I am. Am I surprised? Well, what do you think?

I don’t know why everyone is angry at you for writing about your experience. You go to a place. They say they can do it. If they can’t, at least you get an interesting story, right?