Porpus

Rehab makes a lot of people crazy. Same with SSRIs, 72-hour holds, "therapy," and a shitload of other mental health treatments. We continue to tolerate such things only because it's easy to explain away the suicides, etc., as "they were crazy already."

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"We're in New Orleans and we're eating at a Marriott?"

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I had to eat at the Marriott in Atlanta once because the people I was with thought Trader Vic's was "too exotic." I was pissed.

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Knowing they would never use an inflection when pronouncing African American, Asian, Irish, Italian, etc names as well?

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I think we should do this. Imagine a skilled news anchor describing several urban youths attempting to rob a Pakistani-owned convenience store, only to be foiled by some white person named Molly or Patrick or whatever. As the youth say, that would "slap."

Maybe diversity really is our strength...

They depend on them to get them through each match with poise.

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I did. You seem to take issue with my opinion that people who dont want kids shouldnt have them.

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I take issue with it. Who the frick cares what people want? God didn't make us to beat our meat and play fetch on a levee.

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He was pretty unique already amongst that group by being a highly successful, respected, and heralded, multi-millionaire college football defensive coordinator with a tremendous amount to lose, no?

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I think that's another reason to doubt his guilt. He also was heavily involved with the management of a pretty large charity. "When would he have had time to do all these things?" is a very valid question.

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Well yeah, outliers are rare. That’s why they’re called “outliers.” They lie outside the average or mean. They have to exist in any defined group that’s not completely equal.

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Don't over-complicate things. The things about Sandusky that are almost unheard of among pedophiles in general don't prove he isn't one, but they do tend to indicate that. How strong that indication is is debatable, but the fact that these things point in the direction of innocence is not.

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For someone whose argument boils down to “not enough evidence,” you too, did not provide enough evidence in your prosecution of his prosecution. And subsequent conviction. IMO. Mark me as unswayed.

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It's hard to sway people on this topic because of the large number of putative victims.

I can tell you that at least three of the eight victims identified by the Commonwealth at trial claimed to have recovered repressed memories. There's no good scientific evidence that people actually do repress memories of sexual abuse. In fact, I remember my own sexual abuse vividly. And how would humanity have survived this long if we did not internalize valuable lessons from situations of great fear or distress, but instead simply forgot them as a coping mechanism?

That still leaves five purported victims. I can go on to tell you that the supposed victim from the "shower incident" maintained that nothing sexual had ever happened with Sandusky throughout his trial, only claiming abuse years later after Sandusky's situation had become hopeless and settlements were being handed out administratively.

Most people can probably be convinced that at least a few of the supposed victims were lying for money, but to really sway someone in a meaningful way, you really have to take apart every one of their stories, and that's very difficult. I don't mean that any of the victims' stories are particularly airtight- none of them are. I just mean that the time and energy it takes to do all that is something most people don't have, at least not for this.

That's why I lean pretty hard on the things I originally mentioned. They don't pertain to any one of the purported victims, but rather to the yes/no question of "is it plausible that Sandusky did the sort of things he is accused of?".

I also think this is a difficult topic because of the emotion people expended on the idea of Sandusky as a monster. Like I said before, I never really went "all in" on that. The whole thing seemed off to me from the start.

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Eh, Quora has more pedophiles than Reddit does.

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That's impossible. There's a literal pedophile community in Florida that somehow has fewer pedophiles per capita than Reddit. Like, there's one guy there that just mows the grass and isn't an actually a pedophile and he knocks them into second place.

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professional estimators

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WTF even is that? Like, you just sit around all day like "that guy's pretty tall- probably about 6'2" or "look at that big truck- I bet it weighs almost 5,000 pounds." Who is paying for that??

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Augusta is infinitely shittier than Louisville

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I'd long heard this, but then I finally went and stayed there for a few days back in 2024 and I was underwhelmed by its shittiness. It did feel kind of dated, somehow. It's the kind of town where you might find the last remaining Rax in existence or whatever, and it looks like miles and miles of downtown Hattiesburg (or lots of other places), but it generally seemed like a clean, friendly city. I'd expected something more like Dothan City or even Tallahassee.

In some sense, complaints like this ring hollow to me. My college education was very inexpensive because I got an academic scholarship and worked as a coop student. I changed my major and needed to cover a couple of extra semesters. I started down the whole student loan road, but I found the paperwork very frustrating so I just used a credit card which I paid off right after I graduated.

In another sense, though, I can relate. The guidance counselors at my private high school were very motivated to get me into the most prestigious-sounding college they could. They didn't really care how complex and burdensome the "financial aid package" necessary would be.

I did care, though. I wanted a simpler life, and I wanted frick all to do with banks, so I focused on public schools in Louisiana and Mississippi. A lot of graduating seniors don't take this path, and it's their fault, but we need to guide them away from this "ZOMG I got into Vanderbilt!" mentality that equates going to a prestigious school with success.

Also, I actually learned how to do my job in college. My workday managing software developers very much resembles what I did all day as a student in college. It is strange to me that other people aren't like this.

Mary J. Blige over any of them.