i just wish ikea had coffee tables for small apartments

[tsuki_no_bara]

a week ago i switched my landline from verizon to comcast and yesterday there was no dial tone, and when i called from my cell i got a message saying the number was disconnected. after two phone calls, six customer service agents, and probably an hour talking to people, being put on hold, and getting transferred, i got an appointment with a tech

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[donutsweeper]

You always find the best articles to link to. I'm kind of boggling how good a condition those jeans were in. I seriously think about the 80s or so everywhere they quit making stuff to last and decided to go more and more disposable. Washing something a few dozen times and its done. If it even lasts that long.

Those crime-scene dioramas are AMAZING, the detail on them just insane. Wow.

Gah, kudos to those Nazi hunters. They should have been persecuted back in the 60s and 70s. It doesn't matter how old they are now. Find them, arrest them and jail them.

[tsuki_no_bara]

i'm completely baffled by the quality of those jeans too. either they were sturdier than contemporary jeans, or whoever owned them didn't wear them all the time.

i love the nutshell studies. i love tiny things anyway, and they have the bonus of being creepy as shit. and so useful!

on the one hand, it's never too late to persecute a nazi. but on the other, when you're chasing down lowly cooks and janitors and phone operators, and they're all in their 90s, what's the point? even if the central office could mount a case against any of these people, they'd probably die before they ever served time, probably even before they stood trial.

[amberdreams]

In my experience, the Christians who shout the loudest about how wonderfully Christian they are are usually the first in line with totally abhorrent non Christian behaviours - lying, cheating, uncharitable toe rags, the lot of them. Your Houston story confirms this.

I shall have to come back to some of those other articles, they sound fun!

[tsuki_no_bara]

i think tv evangelist preachers as a group are a bunch of money-grubbing hypocrites, and you can't count on them to do anything genuinely christian.

[amnisias]

Personally, I feel it's time that the Central Office for Investigations is closed, for the reasons detailed in the article. No convictions can be obatained any longer, suspects are ove 90 for most cases there are no living witnesses, there are difficulties with identifying potential purpotraters since most of them have changed names and lived abroad for long periods of time and if you go to trial it is lengthy and costly, with no realistic prospect of prison time (even those convicted in the past are now given compassionate leave to live out their days in old people homes because they suffer from dementia and complex physical health issues. The function of the Central Office (going through the documents and identify perpetrators to document what happened for the past) could be taken up by historians, who'd probably do a better job, and cheaper (with less traveling

[tsuki_no_bara]

i totally get the need for closure of the "we've found and brought to trial every single nazi we possibly could" kind, but your point is a good one - the remaining nazis are old and feeble and even if they do live long enough to be tried - assuming the central office can mount enough of a case against them - no one's going to throw them in jail. they're in their 90s. what's the point of trying to get a conviction now? i thought the fact that such an office even exists in the first place was really interesting, tho.