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yblame t1_j6bnrll wrote

Bless this old lady for laughing. Watching your young flesh slowly sink to skin and bone takes many years of living a life of laughter and heartbreak and seeing your family get bigger while losing your brothers and sisters and it's a whole convoluted thing. That lady earned that skin she's living in and she knows what she looks like. Lets not make fun

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yblame t1_j62a8rd wrote

It's lovely. I'll always remember that day. It was 1986 and before the time of cell phones and 24/7 news. I was young, but we all had to scramble around at work to crowd around the lab supervisor's little portable TV that she had in her office.

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yblame t1_j3uxdj5 wrote

Barely. Cross country train travel is a novelty in this country these days. Freight rules the rails, and passengers are an afterthought.

Those songs "City of New Orleans" and "The Gambler" or "Folsom Prison" romanticize things that are no more. Don't even get me started on the ass fucking the railroad unions got recently. Rail travel is dead in this country,.

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yblame t1_iubv7m8 wrote

Teenagers get handled with kid gloves. Under 18? They know they can get away with it and earn respect from whatever gang they've been hanging around. Serving some time in juvie just makes them swagger a little more. What a lovely life

Edit.. just read the article again. One of these guys is 19. I guess he's still a teenager, technically. But a judge won't cut him slack for that. He's an adult, and gets the adult treatment now

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