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Obv loved him but no

More than the previous two, but no

I think even for Robin Williams there wasn't this outpouring of love across literally all areas of life. I don't remember EVERYONE posting something about how much Robin Williams meant to them and how he changed lives. The Bourdain stuff goes across all boundaries.

People all over the world are commenting about how Bourdain showed them as real people and didn't appropriate their culture, etc.

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He got spinach, so it was definitely a weird restaurant then.

I don't think it's unconnected.

Yeah, that is definitely not OK. Theory: he was in a vegetarian/paleo/healthnut restaurant and didn't know it?

Or they just had a spinach variant on the menu called "Spinach Benedict" and they thought that's what he ordered. Or something.

In America, we have a spinach variant, but we always call it Eggs Florentine. He was pretty sure he ordered eggs Benedict.

Oh right. Florentine is a thing that exists here as well, I just forgot about it.

Plenty of non-famous people off themselves it just doesn't make the papers. Check out the obituaries sometime see how long it takes for you to find one with age under 60 and nothing about the cause of death.

I don't know what thoughtful and interesting has to do with fame, but I guess that could be what dth123451 meant.

I’ll say this for the Midwest: the street fair game is solid. Spend an afternoon listening to bluegrass and enjoying the beer trucks, repeat every other week. Good times.

Yeah that’s exactly what Michigan is like ask Dvaut ��

I’d have cashed out years ago but for the fact that I’m a single parent with a nightmare of an ex.

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Ann Arbor is a fun scene. I remember chilling in the first Border’s Books back when that was a thing.

The (recent) answer is Prince.

Keep fighting the good fight man. Hold the line.

Since 2006, suicide rate among American children up 64%, and suicide rate among American children under 13 up 114%.

Stay connected to your kids! Ask questions, don't be afraid to discuss suicide with them, and don't be afraid to seek help. There's no better time to be over-cautious then when your kid says something ominous.

/psa

Fun thing we learn about this guy in episode 8: only just after the election did this 36 year old man take his first ever airplane flight somewhere!

Done with season 1 - really recommend watching it. When you think of Flint you obviously think of the water crisis, and that's the first thing you might think a TV show there would be about, but this show kinda goes beyond that and says - what happens to the rest of civic life in the midst of all this, especially when you have an understaffed police department with ~100ish officers serving 100,000 people?

It doesn't have a particular perspective or point it's trying to make, which I think is good. Early on there's a scene where the police chief decides he wants to approach Flint's crime issues by taking a broken windows, enforce everything kind of approach - "if your pants are too low, we're going to arrest you for indecent exposure" or something like that. I watched this scene absolutely horrified, but it occurred to me that someone else with very different beliefs could watch it and be like "**** yeah, get them criminals!" The show just gives you a window into what's happening in this place, and lets you make your own decisions about it.

Hi goofyballer I like you a lot. A LOT

I know you're being sarcastic, but fwiw the chart can be somewhat misleading, because the data on gender and suicide is complicated. Women attempt suicide at somewhat higher rates than men, but men are more often successful in their attempts. AFAIK there are a number of potential causes for those differences (men being more likely to use guns may contribute to them succeeding more often, for example), but I'm not sure there's a complete explanation.

Peterson is still an idiot anyway, of course.

I think we have reached the point in this basically more or less global conversation where calling no Peterson an idiot is unhelpful. I think of him as one of the smartest “victims” of what I don’t know.

Unfortunately I have to say I was being sarcastic in the same vein as “yeah that’s what we do in the Midwest churn butter all day roll eyes”

Obviously we're just better than women at everything.

I misunderstood you. For sure there's fun stuff to do in the Midwest besides elephant tranquilizers and churning butter. Like the Strawberry Festival or the Rhubarb Festival or the Sauerkraut Festival.

Does gun ownership play into this? Like, maybe men are better at it because they've got a shotgun in the house?