My Dad once told us, “oh, my uncle died in Auschwitz.”

The examples just served to confuse me, because it seems like they’re equally composed of dudes who I crush on and dudes whose appeal I do not understand.

Letting a law student on the jury seems like a really poor choice. I can’t imagine putting any of the people I went to law school with on a jury at that point.

I was a juror in an attempted murder trial in Rhode Island. Loser #1 stabbed Loser #2 in the the upper pectoral above the heart. I thought it was open/shut case. Sadly, I was mistaken. 7/5 split for conviction because several jurors thought, “He wasn’t trying to kill him.” To which I said, “He stabbed him in…

Example 2: Dick Cheney. Multiple heart attacks. At one point was being kept alive by a battery pack because he no longer had a functioning heart. Still managed to survive.

I’m starting to think evil is a preservative.

No, the worst people, even though they look unhealthy, always end up outliving the nice people. See Trump for proof. Fat, high stress, spends all his time raging, yet he still hasn’t had a heart attack.

Has it occurred to you that the diagnosis of extreme social anxiety is incorrect? As a former psych nurse I can guarantee you that misdiagnoses happen all the time.

Oh my god. You are all over this thread speaking for the experience of people with antisocial personality disorders (there is no clinical diagnosis of “psychopath,” btw, which I’d think someone with your expertise would know.). I apologized for hurting your feelings. Take it or don’t but you can lay off the lecturing…

I’m sorry if my comparison was hurtful; it certainly was not intended to be. I was (clumsily, it seems) only comparing the “faking it” behaviors. Behavioral therapy can help both populations navigate social situations more smoothly, regardless of the difference in internal emotional experience. I am not personally on…

Same. I mean read the NYT article and we see that there are numerous texts that were not admitted into evidence where she was doing the exact opposite - telling him to get help. I’m obviously not saying that what she did in the end was right... it’s just that sometimes people really do want to end their life.…

You’re right. It’s not a deposition. If she hadn’t posted that statement to social media, without clarifying what she REALLY meant, and hadn’t vehemently defended the statement, without clarifying what she REALLY meant, and hadn’t posted a statement defending what she said, without clarifying what she REALLY meant,…

Literally the only joke I’m ever able to remember is a joke about the Holocaust. It was so terrible, it’s seared into my memory forever.

Right but part of what people are making fun of her for is her multitude of lazy low hanging sex jokes.

That’s a strained reading of her statement. She says “If I go for that low hanging fruit” describing how other female comedians’ material and then “Everything’s about sex.” The clear import of that is the low hanging fruit is making sex a subject.

That’s a particular type of comedy though. Just talking about society isn’t necessarily smart (btw, that Jim Jeffries bit where he talks about how his favorite thing is coming on women’s faces is BITING social commentary). Carlos Mencia talks about society all the time, and he’s an idiot.

I don’t think it’s a good analogy.

Off topic, but Sarah Silverman’s new special is all sorts of brilliant. Highly recommend it.

She’s always been that type of woman who “doesn’t have any girlfriends, all my friends are guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” Color me not shocked.

I don’t think the precedent is really about whether or not she physically harmed him. There are lots of manslaughter cases that would fall under that dynamic. You can get charged with manslaughter if you are a building owner and people die in a fire or collapse because you didn’t properly protect them from that…