I listened to one that tried to convince me that Scott Peterson didn't murder his wife - get this - because of a chair assembly video and the fact they have no definitive time of death or cause of death.

Crime Junkie. Seriously. He murdered his wife and dumped her body in the San Francisco Bay. I gave the benefit of the doubt but the evidence was overwhelming. He was cheating on his pregnant wife, wanted out and murdered her and to get out of his marriage and fatherhood. Her body wasn't found for weeks. Without a bullet or stab wound to her bones or poison present, no, nobody can tell you how a person died or precisely when after weeks of decomposition.

There is zero evidence implying anyone else could have been involved. He went into the Berkley Marina, on Christmas Eve, all the way from Modesto, to go fishing.

The outfit on her body matches what she was wearing on the 23rd. Peterson says she was wearing a different outfit on the 24th. Their dog was found wandering the neighborhood and put into their yard by a neighbor.

They're like... omg, see? The dog! The dog proves some rando snatched her and dumped her body in the exact location her husband was, 70 miles away from where they kidnapped her!

Like... it's not possible he grabbed her from not their home, or let the dog loose because he told the cops she had been walking the dog that day?

What are the actual odds that he went to the Berkley Marina on the 24th and somebody else kidnapped and murdered his wife and dumped her body so it'd wash up 4 miles from where he launched his boat the day she went missing and was murdered?

Seriously. That's the theory? Someone else snatched a random pregnant woman who was being cheated on and happened to dump her body hours away from her home in the exact same spot her cheating husband happened to be?

The murder recidivism rate for another murder is 2% after 5 years, so actually pretty comfortable because statistically, none of the 10 will kill anyone, and any crime is 51%, including property crimes, where losses are dollars, not physical harm.

Overall recidivism rates are close to 80% in 5 years, so actually murderers are much less likely to do bad stuff compared to like... car thieves and domestic abusers. Unless the murder is a domestic abuser. Property crime guys are highest at over 80%.

Realistically, we shouldn't convict people unless they are beyond reasonable doubt, the perpetrator. A criminal record is devasting in finding work. Even an arrest can destroy your life. Cash bail is a pay to play justice system and disproportionately impacts the poor.

Some states your criminal record follows you for life. You will never get a good job with good pay. You are forever a criminal.

To brand someone as a criminal for life is a big deal. Take years of their life? Big deal.

Yeah. The state should be really freaking sure before destroying their life and stripping human rights. It's not a small thing.

We have two versions, the 'parent/ student agree' version which is usually like some truancy, minor behavioral or just... traditional school didn't work version. We also have the "you're at this school now, don't end up in prison" version. They're two separate campuses.

The "you're a danger" version is not in any way, shape or form a parental choice. You will go there. The regular school is no longer an option.

My district just runs those alternative programs in-district and gets state funding for them.

Colorado seriously doesn't pay for alternative schools?

Curious, why doesn't Denver schools have an alternative school in-district?

My much smaller school district had an alternative school so they didn't expell them, they just moved to self-paced alternative schools. They can go there to continuation high schools voluntarily or the day schools non-voluntarily. We have both. Day schools are for behavioral and attendance issues.

One of our continuation schools has a full preschool program for free for students and takes babies 6+ weeks, so kids can finish their high school at an accelerated pace or catch up and get daycare. Have a diploma, not a GED. Totally free. They even hold parenting classes. If you enroll your child there one class per day is in there learning parenting skills.

They also have a at-risk student school for habitually truant/ violent students who didn't or won't divert into continuation schools and an online school platform for kids who are sick or dealing with other issues and can't attend on campus. You can also get shoved there pending explusion and movement into alternative programs.

Like, why wouldn't Denver have alternative programs? It costs the district here, not their original school. The state gives extra funding for it, even.

My city is smaller than Denver, too.

Buncha angry New Yorhkahs busting through the middle and yelling at them to move their asses along.

Cameras. Even if the cameras suck they can look at it and go, 'okay, that is a late model white Accord at time of purchase, you drive one.' Boom. Done. Bob claims he bought the ticket - look over and there's no car of his there, or anyone remotely close.

Debit cards can buy them. Sync transactions, etc.

They vette the ticket winners pretty thoroughly when the prizes are that big. They don't care if nobody contests it. They don't hand over hundreds of millions without confirmation, first.

There's been some studies that show preventative care costs more in some instances, because memory care and drawn out end of life care is more expensive than people dying early of massive heart attacks. Like, a healthy person with Alzheimers is hella expensive, y'all. My grandma was super healthy and literally the only thing wrong with her for the last 20+ years of her life was Parkinsons. She cost someone a whole lot of money.

That isn't a reason to cut preventative care. Also, there's the argument it doesn't actually cost more because increased productivity in their healthy years and things like adults may have been caring for them in other situations in lieu of work, etc.

Still, 'it's cheaper if they die quickly at 68 and not at 96 years old after nearly 25 years of Parkinsons care' isn't an excuse to not give people good healthcare. It just means we need to plan for aging populations and allocate funding for it.

And if preventative care leads to longer lifespans, the government needs to change pension allocations because the average pension is drawn on for 18 months. My grandpa draw for like 40+ years. They may need to plan on longer retirements, not advocate for people to die.

Just because those numbers are there doesn't make them a cost-savings suggestion.

What was offensive and hit front page?

Even cut in half to show off the inside would show it's not a blackened, dried out lump

They did allow import other countries formula. We eased import regs almost immediately and the FDA is changing rules to make it a permanent shift and working with overseas suppliers to keep formula incoming, especially with our ongoing shortage.

They had four cases. Two illnesses, two deaths. They and the state department of health (Texas and Minnesota) and the CDC were all involved in testing and none of the formula tested was contaminated in testing. Some bacteria doesn't mean the entire can was evenly contaminated, especially since the infections weren't widespread. Unless you think multiple state departments of health and CDC were in on the grift, too. They also had the CDC sequence DNA of the bacteria and knew the cases were linked and it wasn't just environmental which is why they focused on formula without contaminated supply in any of the homes. They also sequenced DNA of bacteria in the plant.

Given the fact it wasn't a pattern at first - and four is bad without being a mass outbreak - the babies shouldn't be affected at all, but October to February given mass pandemic slowing everything at the Dept of Health in those States and the CDC and three days to shutdown after confirmation is downright fast. With the first few cases being in Minnesota, it was potentially environmental and not food related. The third case was Texas.

They did immediately start a plan to reopen the plant, and they shut down in February and the plant failed multiple reopening inspections because subsequent tests still had contamination on tested swabs. They did reopen in May, and shut in early June. It flooded due to storms, damaging supply again.

You're mad at the FDA over things they actually did do and are continuing to do. They didn't flood the factory immediately after opening. And they are permanently changing import rules.

The FDA is responsible for taking reports, investigating them, issuing multiple warning to a private company they are out of compliance, starting a plan to fix the issue, private company not complying and then shutting down a facility that killed babies due to unsafe food standards?

Timeline here. Pdf of the intitial complaints.

They had gotten a warning several months prior, and then sicknesses started. Of the batches of formula sampled, none actually turned up as positive for bacterial contamination. After several sicknesses they arranged a site visit to Abbott anyways. Abbott was notified of the visit due to COVID and then said they had an active outbreak. The visit was delayed. At this point, no formula from the homes of sick/ deceased infants had actually tested positive, just the children. But all their formula came from one facility.

When Abbott tried for a second delay, the FDA showed up anyways, found dilapidated equipment, roof leaks and multiple swabs came back positive for bacterial contamination. The facility had not made any changes since the prior warning but understaffing at the FDA had poor follow up. They confirmed bacterial contamination on Feb 13 and had a recall by the 17th after delaying voluntary recall. On Feb 17th the FDA issued a statement to not use those baby formula cans and the company finally recalled them.

Better funding for more frequent inspections and more follow up could have stopped them from having the facility get that bad and better enforcement of repairs once the issues are found.

The US has been propping up the Ukrainian military in foreign aid since before Russia invaded this time. Russia has been involved in a series of pushes and the US was selling older military tech that outstripped Ukrainian resources at a loss prior to this most recent invasion.

The whole Hunter Biden/ impeachment thing? That was over the US aid package to Ukraine. It was 250M in funding for equipment and training. We'd been sending Javelin launchers since before the war started.

We've sent billions in advanced weaponry and medical aid and it has predated the latest Russian invasion. Yes, it takes time to send weaponry over but we've been training Ukrainian forces since before the war started which is one of many reasons they were able to outlast the first two weeks and allow additional aid to arrive. Zelenskyy didn't run and the military held Kyiv. Part of that was they already had a limited number of Javelin launchers and other weaponry to stop armored advances. The stockpile has exploded in the last year, sure.

The US backing of Ukraine isn't new. There's absolutely standing to say we've done quite a bit without actually having soldiers directly engaged.

Using paid prostitution to recruit teenagers into unpaid labor that makes the institution money and leads to permanent brain damage in the teenagers is a non-issue?

A man blew himself up outside her concert as people were leaving and killed 22 people and injured over a thousand people in the stampede that followed.

She's been donating in the city since her concert in that city was the target of a terrorist.

Wrong time and place to talk about why philanthropy can't fix the world. This is probably as much about her as anything else and her way of coping because a terrorist attacked her concert and killed her fans and injured over 1000 of them. When they came to see her. Her concert was attacked by a suicide bomber, man. Read the room.

Why it's 'highly suspicious' and has other probable explanations

It's suspicious. He wasn't drunk (blew 0.0), witnesses heard and saw him accelerating, no tire skid marks and he crossed out of his lane and into oncoming traffic to hit 25 people while going 30 miles an hour.

If he wasn't doing this intentionally, he was high or having a medical emergency. He accelerated through them and hit 25 of 75 cadets before hitting a post and never braked. To have been completely accidental without some major factor is a stretch. This wasn't a 55 zone. He never tried to stop. It's high suspect with available information.

Other sources say he was stone cold sober (from alcohol, blew a 0.0), witnesses heard him accelerating, no tire skid marks from braking and he crossed into oncoming traffic to hit them.

I heard that and said, "high on drugs, medical emergency or did it on purpose."

When you're not drunk, cross into the wrong lane and accelerate into 25 people you were high af, having a massive medical episode or did that on purpose. Kinda hard to do on accident. He was only going 30.

Totally spitballing:

The house had a basement. The basement has a separate entrance, or immediately off the front. X and Y live in the basement. X and Y were out drinking on Friday night and stumbled home. The 4 upstairs had not been seen since Friday night. One went shopping for late night snacks at 10pm. They logged phone/ laptop activity until 11PM. X and Y got home around midnight and nothing seemed off.

They immediately go to their basement rooms, and don't talk to anyone or know if anyone was alive. They thought everyone was sleeping and went to bed.

They wake up, get food and take off for work/ classes and don't talk to anyone upstairs and go about their day.

Police believe they were home, but due to the time of death being estimated anywhere from 11-1AM the roommates might've gotten home after the murders and just not seen any blood based on how they enter/ exit the house.

There are reasons they may not fully know who was home, and the roommates may not have seen any blood after the murders.

^ Above are not specific details, just how someone might believe a person to be home and not have actually heard or seen a thing.

It looks like independent contractors. The woman was delivering Amazon packages in an Acura.