A day or so after I first read about this, I saw The Independent's coverage of the same story. They dug into the assailant's background and he turns out to be the leader of an Ayahuasca (plant-based shamanic psychedelic) 'church' in Florida.

They also gave further confirmation that the attack appeared to be completely unprovoked, and that there was no known relationship between the attacker and victim, nor did they even seem to know each other.

Also the victim appears to be a person who is deaf and does not speak, if I remember the article correctly.

The nightmarish rush to build near-future ruins

Sink like a stone -- float like a feather 😥🎶❤️

upvoting for well articulated nuance

Cursed AF...

I don't know what your definition of "working" is here, but he's been conning, grifting, and cheating in real estate all his life for sure.

Surely the GOP could come up with a younger, more vigorous candidate who could lie at least sixty times per hour. That's gotta be like some kind of basic minimum.

Yes! And businessmen are always the best people to run a government because governments and all their services should be run for maximum profit and no other purpose!

We'll find someone, I'm sure.

Could we make it Uranus?

Let us now palpate this irony.

He's not worth the fuel cost :\

I can't afford fast food anymore. This article must be about the vanishing middle class and above.

pretty sure the other replies missed the satire

and that's just the psych side. It's blatantly obvious that in terms of physical health he has one and a half feet in the grave.

I don't know how chainmail-specific your wish is, but there are plenty of weighted blankets for sale. Most of them have thousands of tiny heavy beads sewn into a quilted fabric that keeps them from moving around or bunching up too much. The one I have weighs about 8 lbs in Queen size and it feels, weight-wise, similar to the feeling of having four or five extra blankets on the bed but without all the heat/insulation of doing that.

Now is that better or worse than being raccooned by up to 100 hounds?

The trick is learning not to hate what you live, but to live what you hate.

No, I get what you mean. It just depends on what we mean by "breaks everything". I'm not saying we're looking at human extinction in ten years, or the complete loss of advanced industrial civilization in ten years. But I do expect in that time span massive and permanent decreases in the average standard of living and the availability of goods, services, and information.

I don't understand who's downvoting this article, except for maybe those who didn't read it and are only downvoting the headline.

If anyone's downvoting it after actually reading the whole piece, I wonder what they found objectionable about it.