Interesting story, worth reading if you’re interested in crime and corruption in the South circa 1960-1980. The atmosphere reminded me of the first season of True Detective, also set in Louisiana.
As someone who lives here now, the corruption is still alive and well. We're - the citizens - currently fighting against having CO2 "pumped in via pipes" and injected into "geological formations". Every citizen in the state gets their water from a well. Injecting refuse "CO2" into the ground will contaminate our water supply; but as the person at the meeting i went to on Monday said, "When there's money involved the politicians stop thinking about the citizens."
I don't know. I don't really like it here, but my kid's family live here. And on the other side of the coin, where isn't there corruption?
If there are humans somewhere, that place is going to have some level of corruption. I suppose a more practical way is to look at relative levels of corruption. Countries like Singapore, Norway etc have lower levels of corruption (at least according to various rankings)
There are plenty of places outside of Louisiana with public stakeholder processes in place before some shenanigans like this happen. There may be some mild form of "corruption" however you define it, but my experience is that wealthy blue state politics is a little less shitty.
>Injecting refuse "CO2" into the ground will contaminate our water supply;
That sounds crooked as hell, sorry to hear. Far as I am concerned, the only person who carbonates my family's water is ME and maybe coca cola. This twisted, corrupted government bureaucrats taking kickbacks to make my drinking water carbonated, the insult of it all.
I found an article[1] which apparently relates to this hitman (even if it's not my doubt doesn't depend on this specific person). So is this how it works? A murderer can strike a "deal" with the state and the judge can do jackshit about it?
And what is that deal? That you make us work less to prove your did the crime and you just confess and we will give you ¼ or ½ or hell one tenth of the sentence?
Eh, he's old man sitting in prison probably spinning tales to anybody who will listen. He didn't tell them anything that wasn't publicly available, and on details that they needed to dig for into archives actually contradicts them ("Imagine that. Nobody’s ever seen him." about Rick, but he appeared before grand jury). Neither do they explain why such apparently notorious criminal would appear in the investigation only under alias in this case, but not in the many others mentioned (and why nobody that previously saw him as Rick noticed).
Yeah, was there no physical description of Rick Roberts? Did the other guys not know Thompson? If he was friends with Marcello it seems like he would be well known.
This brings back memories. I enjoyed following the travels described in the She's a Flight Risk series. I never did quite buy that it was a hoax either, though perhaps I am too gullible. If Isabella V. was real, then I hope she's chilling on a tropical beach in Buenos Aires, or somewhere else.
I think it exceeds that bar. If he had said "TLDR" and ended it there, sure but he approached it with humor and with a few quips I found relatively eloquent. I personally don't think there is anything wrong with that.
He is humorously criticizing the author's artistic choices. I think he did it pleasantly enough, how else do we want this to be done on HN?
In my opinion it's a shallow and tangential post. If you're going to comment on aesthetics over substance, at least caveat your comments with that and do it thoughtfully.
And here I am clicking dead comment links to read tangential posts. How about leave it like it is, where tangential posts can be hidded/flagged/killed but still available to those who want to read them. No one likes a gatekeeper.
I'm fine with leaving it like it is and didn't mean to suggest otherwise. Just saying that a tangential post has a better chance of staying alive if it's thoughtful.
There's no mention of 'artistic choices', it's just self-congratulation on one's personal choice to not-read. A perfectly valid choice but it's HN-offtopic since it's hard to square 'curious conversation' with 'trumpeting one's incuriosity'.
Interesting story, worth reading if you’re interested in crime and corruption in the South circa 1960-1980. The atmosphere reminded me of the first season of True Detective, also set in Louisiana.
As someone who lives here now, the corruption is still alive and well. We're - the citizens - currently fighting against having CO2 "pumped in via pipes" and injected into "geological formations". Every citizen in the state gets their water from a well. Injecting refuse "CO2" into the ground will contaminate our water supply; but as the person at the meeting i went to on Monday said, "When there's money involved the politicians stop thinking about the citizens."
I don't know. I don't really like it here, but my kid's family live here. And on the other side of the coin, where isn't there corruption?
If there are humans somewhere, that place is going to have some level of corruption. I suppose a more practical way is to look at relative levels of corruption. Countries like Singapore, Norway etc have lower levels of corruption (at least according to various rankings)
There are plenty of places outside of Louisiana with public stakeholder processes in place before some shenanigans like this happen. There may be some mild form of "corruption" however you define it, but my experience is that wealthy blue state politics is a little less shitty.
>Injecting refuse "CO2" into the ground will contaminate our water supply;
That sounds crooked as hell, sorry to hear. Far as I am concerned, the only person who carbonates my family's water is ME and maybe coca cola. This twisted, corrupted government bureaucrats taking kickbacks to make my drinking water carbonated, the insult of it all.
I found an article[1] which apparently relates to this hitman (even if it's not my doubt doesn't depend on this specific person). So is this how it works? A murderer can strike a "deal" with the state and the judge can do jackshit about it?
And what is that deal? That you make us work less to prove your did the crime and you just confess and we will give you ¼ or ½ or hell one tenth of the sentence?
[1] https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/crime/2016/03/30/...
Eh, he's old man sitting in prison probably spinning tales to anybody who will listen. He didn't tell them anything that wasn't publicly available, and on details that they needed to dig for into archives actually contradicts them ("Imagine that. Nobody’s ever seen him." about Rick, but he appeared before grand jury). Neither do they explain why such apparently notorious criminal would appear in the investigation only under alias in this case, but not in the many others mentioned (and why nobody that previously saw him as Rick noticed).
Yeah, was there no physical description of Rick Roberts? Did the other guys not know Thompson? If he was friends with Marcello it seems like he would be well known.
This brings back memories. I enjoyed following the travels described in the She's a Flight Risk series. I never did quite buy that it was a hoax either, though perhaps I am too gullible. If Isabella V. was real, then I hope she's chilling on a tropical beach in Buenos Aires, or somewhere else.
She'll need a lot of help from climate change before Buenos Aires gets a tropical beach though :)
This was a good read. I'm not sure I'm fully appreciating its role on this site specifically, but it's worth it nonetheless
Nicely written, and enjoyable. Thanks for sharing, OP.
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> I quit before I got to anything interesting
This is the kind of shallow dismissal we don't want on HN.
I think it exceeds that bar. If he had said "TLDR" and ended it there, sure but he approached it with humor and with a few quips I found relatively eloquent. I personally don't think there is anything wrong with that.
He is humorously criticizing the author's artistic choices. I think he did it pleasantly enough, how else do we want this to be done on HN?
In my opinion it's a shallow and tangential post. If you're going to comment on aesthetics over substance, at least caveat your comments with that and do it thoughtfully.
And here I am clicking dead comment links to read tangential posts. How about leave it like it is, where tangential posts can be hidded/flagged/killed but still available to those who want to read them. No one likes a gatekeeper.
I'm fine with leaving it like it is and didn't mean to suggest otherwise. Just saying that a tangential post has a better chance of staying alive if it's thoughtful.
criticizing the author's artistic choices.
There's no mention of 'artistic choices', it's just self-congratulation on one's personal choice to not-read. A perfectly valid choice but it's HN-offtopic since it's hard to square 'curious conversation' with 'trumpeting one's incuriosity'.
Is bored teenager approach "humorous" and "pleasant enough"? Not really, au contraire