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I started Ruth Downie's Gaius Petreius Ruso series and have been enjoying it. The books are murder mysteries set in Roman Britain and feature a legion's doctor as the sleuth. They're surprisingly funny. Also been reading about the Borgias. First Christopher Hibbert's The Borgias and Their Enemies, which was fun, and now Paul Strathern'sThe Borgias: Power and Fortune. It's a more substantial history. Also have both their books on the Medicis and contemplating reading those next. Also debating whether I want to read all the Ruso books now or reread Frank Tallis's Viennese murder mysteries because I am rewatching Vienna Blood. LOL

Just an FYI, but there was nothing passive in that original sentence. Grammatically, passive voice has a BE verb combined with a past participle verb. That sentence has neither.

Basically his character in Jeremiah Johnson? Can't cheat the mountain, pilgrim.

I love the whole show, but I think that is my favorite episode.

Jackson showed children pornography as part of grooming them, and he also had a huge collection of porn that had been altered to include children's faces. https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/06/michael-jackson-police-reports-pornography-collection What he was doing goes well beyond being an awkward weirdo stuck in childhood and basically has all the hallmarks of a child molester. Robert Berchtold also did the same thing with Jan Broberg in sharing a bed with her. It's not an innocent quirk. It's a grooming tactic abusers use to break down and confuse normal boundaries, and the families that buy this lie are being groomed just as much as the intended victim.

I wonder if the organization works with the DA's office and that's how that came across their radar.

And yet he was incredibly cruel to her during their marriage. His childhood was undeniably fucked up, and he probably does have psychological issues from that. But that's also not an excuse. Millions of other people also have fucked-up childhoods and don't rape children.

My grandfather was encouraged to consider immunotherapy, and I had thought that sounded like a good solution. But he nixed it because he basically said that at his age he didn't want to spend the rest of his life driving to the appointments for it. It would have been a 3-hour round trip, and I can understand why he didn't want to do that. It's hard for him to make the 40-minute round trip into our closest town now, let alone that. In his case, he had another form of cancer last year, and they were able to remove it all with surgery.

Yes I can understand that. I do think Lewis was foolish, but I also think it isn't really any of my business. It is her body, and she's the one who has to live with the consequences of that decision, not me. I am just very uncomfortable with the direction this conversation has taken wherein several people (not you) apparently are wholesale condemning and insulting anyone who makes the decision to withgo treatment without even the most basic consideration of extenuating circumstances. I've usually found this forum to be better at having nuanced conversations than this.

My grandfather has made that decision without trying treatment because he's 86 and doesn't want to undergo chemo or radiation at his age, especially after watching his brother suffer through it and die anyway. I don't think that makes him an idiot or undeserving of respect. All of his doctors said they understood and respected his decision, so I am not entirely sure why others can't either.

Yeah I was going to say he has an established history of controlling the clothing of the women in his life, so I don't think it is denying Censori agency to think it is happening to her as well.

Yeah and maybe they'll end up extending the amount of time it is free, which would be nice, but they're still getting over $300 for the equipment for each unit they sell.

If this is in reference to Starlink, my understanding is people are just being set up with the standard free 30 days before they have to start paying and the equipment is also still not free. So, these people getting Starlink are still paying out of pocket for the equipment and will have to pay for the regular subscription after a month. That's not an option for a lot of people. For that reason, I'm not really sure I'd call him a humanitarian, especially seeing a lot of these infrastructure issues are likely to last for far longer. I think he smelled a business opportunity and figured the PR would not delve to deeply into the details.

I always liked Ronan Farrow's take: “I subscribe to listening to all survivors, listen to all the facts, listen to all women."

In retrospect, I wish I'd done that! I always stick with August as my birth month, but the days were always different. And really the only one I remember is my real one. 😂😂😂