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February 26th

It's an extremely high burden; New York is trying to raise the standard now with the problems in the subway system.

Just thinking of a lot of other celebrities who used K like Matthew Perry who died, or Pete Davidson who drove through a house. There's also this trend in the tech CEO community of trying to "live forever" and engaging in severely risky behavior. The death of Zappo's Tony Hseih comes to mind, which ended up in him dying in a fire high off his ass surrounded by the 100s of candles he lit himself. https://www.forbes.com/sites/angelauyeung/2023/04/23/wonder-boy-book-excerpt-tony-hsieh-final-days/

In terms of health, Elon takes wegovy, adderall, and ketamine regularly.

Yarrow was also married to Senator McCarthy's niece.

February 14th, Valentine's Day

Replace my sub Peter Yarrow with Cecile Richards.

Well I regret dropping Daniil Medvedev from my 2025 list!

I would order the Key Lime Time.

A lot of those photos look 500+ lbs less and not too long ago.

I had Cousy on my list last year but dropped... but yeah I could see springing him back up. I think Kitty Dukakis goes before her husband; she's the one with the life-long health issues.

Wouldn't it just be public record here? Not "leaking"?

I did not know she was a painter; she is pretty talented.

Georgia judge Stephen Yekel, 74, shoots himself in the courtroom on his last day in office, December 31, 2024. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14239747/georgia-judge-shoots-courtroom-day-office.html He lost his bid for re-election and the governor refused to accept his resignation 2 weeks ago (which would have forced them to appoint a replacement over the duly-elected new judge). In recent times, he also had a divorce, financial problems, lawsuit by former employee, car accident, etc.

oh yikes.

Murdoch keeps talking about himself like he's immortal; ie, saying delusional things like, “We’re both looking forward to spending the second half of our lives together,” when he got engaged last year. The extreme denial makes me think he will go soon.

She's clearly unable to get sober and keeps going back to dating a guy who she engages in physical violence with. It's part of the reason she doesn't have custody of her daughter. Hayden did an interview with People magazine a few months ago that I was surprised they published since they are usually into cleaning up a celebrity's reputation, and she was slurring in the interview.

Noam Chomsky has seemed dead for awhile so I picked him.

Ash Barty is pregnant! https://www.tennis.com/baseline/articles/ashleigh-barty-expecting-second-child-husband-garry-kissick-baby-hayden-christmas Announced on Christmas, and I somehow missed it but noticed it today when double-checking people as she was going to be on my 2025 list. Me and @CaptainChorizo have her I think.

Teetotaller on alcohol, but there's been rumors of cocaine use since the 1980s.

Jimmy Carter dead; Peter Yarrow on the sub.

January 20th, MLK Jr Day/Inauguration Day

It's not required for the President to give the eulogy. Biden was chosen for supporting Carter's Presidential campaign as well. And probably religious reasons. Only thing that mattered was Biden's health. Trump was never an option.

Death penalty just has the right for more appeals: it's hard for me to argue against the appeals if we expand who is sentenced to death. So they waste more tax payer money, clog up the courts, and we have to hear more from them rather than if we had just put them on life without parole. One of the men who Trump executed was roping naive people into defending him, including a daughter who was set to graduate college, who was just a newborn when he committed his murders. I feel like he would have had less power to do that if he had life in prison instead of a death sentence. I think he would have gotten less media coverage, like I probably would have never heard of him had he just had life in prison. This guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Bernard However, the terrorists have a mental objective and press coverage above the average murderer to keep waging their mental warfare: hearing Tsarnaev cry all the time how Boston is mean to him seems intentionally aggravating; Kaczynski was aggravating; so whatever to speed up the process to have them gone is better.

No. My take is that most death penalty cases never make it to execution: they die in prison, they effectively have life in prison anyway. However, the families are stuck in the appeals process re-living the horrors again and again in the court room for decades. Cases should be narrowed down to terrorism and serial killers and then fast-tracked through the process, like Timothy McVeigh. If the other men fall into that narrow category, then their sentences should not have been commuted.