You know who’s super rich and is meeting world leaders? Mohammed Bin Salman.

I feel like the book was a bit too generous with all the execs and ex-politicians who got wound up with Theranos. The author portrays them as duped by Holmes out of some daughter complex/Steve Jobs fantasy, but perhaps they knew what was going on and didn’t care. Companies like Theranos and Uber are their tickets to…

The entire subplot of how Elizabeth Holmes charmed all these weird old Republican foreign policy guys is such a weird, weird thing.

This is fun:

Say what you will about Juicero, the results of its widespread implementation was not going to actually kill people.

Given Steve Jobs’ reputation as impossible to work for and his less-than-stellar opinions on medicine, at least those parts of the comparison hold up.

You are also forgetting one key component of being a successful quarterback in the NFL. And it is totally out of the QB’s control.

And white people would line up around the block to bet on that shower curtain.

Such training in tactical patience allowed Paul Atreides to defeat Jameis, after which he became Paul Muad-dib. I would’ve never figured Floyd to be a Frank Herbert fan, but I have most of Dune series audiobooks, too.

We spent entire summers in the 80s searching around town and the two canyons that border us for the “Satanic Church” (Snake River Canyon and Rock Creek Canyon - SR is where the daredevil dude tried to jump the canyon, RC isn’t anywhere as deep/grand as SR Canyon, but it seemingly goes on forever, especially when…

The religious right was ascendant back then. For those courting them or within the religious right, opposing obviously-crazy actions based on their core beliefs...beliefs which formed the ideological basis of their mobilization...would have been political suicide. It doesn’t matter if the idea they’re promoting is…

Yeah, even Gloria Steinhem - an otherwise level-headed, intelligent person - totally, totally believed in it. Like, she was in way deep. She donated money to the investigators who railroaded the McMartins. In the 1990s, Ms. magazine continued to push the idea that Satanic ritual abuse was real despite most people…

Indeed! It really showed how much these people cared about punishing others compared to helping children when it was discovered the Catholic church was actually a giant child rape ring and everyone kinda shrugged and ignored it.

Just a reminder that there is no genuine track record of Satanist child abuse anywhere in the world.

Christianity’s record, however...

Hot take: Robocop’s sarcasm was true back then.

Robocop is #1

Lets also consider some differences..

Hell, just have someone say “We’ve been out here for days. We are going to run out of food!”

They could have established that the guys were sitting on that rock for a couple of days. Show two or three distinct nights. Use that to frame some of those personal conversations they had. Have them begin to get hungry as they run out of rations.

The problem is that the timeline could have worked.