My mom is sensitive to wheat, not gluten, but the whole “gluten free” craze has led to a massive rise in foods she can eat, so as stupid as the people who are avoiding gluten for fantasy reasons are, they have actually made a positive impact on the market for those who are affected.

some sort of Catwoman who only robs dispensaries

Institutions are just warehousing the mentally ill, the undesirables, and the LGBTQIA+ community. Exposing exactly that is what Geraldo (I know, I know) on the map. Those institutions never actually helped anyone, they’re just places the atypical went to die.

This guys sounds like he was having a mental episode, which is tragic in and of itself.

The OP didn’t blame the flight attendant either. They just said this is all horrifying and the light tone used by the author is misplaced.

Most of the removed words would have caused an uproar if they ever actually popped up.

This is clearly a mental health situation and not a unruly passenger having a “Karen” episode.

Very different from your typical anti-masker or garden variety drunk.

Honestly it’s kind of hard for me to get mad at the NYT for not letting you guess racial slurs in Wordle anymore. When “slave” and “lynch” were the words of the day (and they were both going to be), don’t you think they’d look bad on social media? I get why they wouldn’t want that.

You think flight attendants are trained in how to subdue a person that is attempting to turn a champagne bottle into a weapon? I mean, come on. Do I wish the guy could have been handled more... peacefully? Of course. But I also don’t blame a flight attendant doing what is necessary to keep themselves safe.

I am not criticizing the flight attendant, in a hairy situation you do what you have to do.

This sounds more like a psychotic episode or a bad drug reaction than a standard “unruly passenger” situation. The paranoia, the detachment from reality descending into violent, panicked behavior... seems very different from the usual idiots getting upset about masks or whatever.

We need to fund mental health services better.

I was always under the impression that you simply couldn’t open those passenger / emergency exist doors while the plane was in flight. Maybe the plastic cover of the door moved a couple inches, but I doubt the door itself did.

And totally worth the sodium. :D Seriously, I had to stop doing that because it wasn’t helping my sodium levels, but I will remember it forever.

Let's just all decide as a planet right now that the Olympics suck and we shouldn't have them anymore. 

One of my favorite things to do was to make a plate of nachos with Spicy Nacho Doritos. On a large plate: a layer of Doritos first, a thin layer of shredded cheddar cheese, protein (either seasoned ground beef, seasoned ground turkey, or seasoned lentils—whatever I had), another thin layer of shredded cheese, chopped…

It’s not the apple. It’s what a horrible-person might stick in the apple.

I don’t put salt on things. I just don’t.

Well. . .when a need for cliched sex scene music and a low budget love each other very much. . .