(Sweats nervously)

Well, it’s...you know...it’s about cats.

What really gets me about this is there is a line in the book and the movie that says something like “What in important in life is that which we share”. It’s really affecting knowing it was written by someone who was dying alone, and it seems like the right way to celebrate McCandless is to take pleasure in friends…

I don’t get romancing the horrible and slow death of a confused young man, much less risking my own life and limbs to get to the spot and...what? Commune? Take some selfies?

Then there’s this: The so-called “Magic Bus,” an abandoned Fairbanks City Transit bus parked along the Stampede Trail near Denali National Park in Healy, Alaska, is where hitchhiker Christopher McCandless famously used as shelter for four months, before his body was found dead of starvation.

Government should probably remove the bus if so many people keep trying to reach it.

I really don’t like that nickname for the bus because Ms. Frizzle wouldn’t have let this shit go down.

If they had actually read the book they’d know McCandless got stranded at the bus because by summer the snow melt made the river impassable on foot 🤦🏻‍♀️

I think it is sad that a woman died. I also think that hikers or adventurers need to look at stories like that of McCandless as cautionary tales not challenges.

I get the appeal of trying to rough it in the wilderness and all of that but, jfc, be smart about it. This bus is famous enough that would be adventurers should know its not some easy Sunday hike. Why were they trying to cross a river at midnight? Is it light out in this part of Alaska at this time of year?

The jerks who owned the Tesla said they were visiting a friend when they realized they were out of power

Wait, so they were “visiting a friend” when they noticed they were out of juice, and their friend wouldn’t let them leave the car there to charge? 

Joule thief!

It's like one side saying "Let's kill this guy", the other says "Hey, maybe don't?" and you, the reasonable centrist, decide the best solution is to cut the guy in half.

This is very good. And while I disagree vehemently with Dr. Wen’s non-inclusion of the trans community, I am not opposed to emphasising the health aspect of choice. The anti-choice agitators seem to believe (or convince others) that when abortion is outlawed, there will be no more abortion.

I wrote this on another posting, but I believe this is the crux of the problem.

Dr. Wen wrote:

Can’t imagine either. Certainly I’m the only person to ever point it out.

If they hadn’t gotten together then there would have been no reason to add those adorable couples and their “how we got together” stories to the movie, and then I wouldn’t know to say “I knew the way you know about a good melon” at random times in my life- and obviously always when I am choosing a melon.

It was already practically a remake of Annie Hall, and that would have made it just... Annie Hall. It would’ve been derivative. It’s actually the better choice to have them get together, in my opinion.