According to a teacher at J.Law that my mom knows, she was apparently an honors student and was extremely motivated and had her plans for college all thought out. She wanted to go somewhere in life and now that was all cut short because some guy couldn’t handle rejection. This is tragic, and my heart goes out to her friends and family. I NEVER want to hear someone say that women have no reason to be afraid of men ever again.
it was done at school. And a teacher might’ve seen part of it happening. THAT. Really pisses me off. This makes me so sick
Chris Plaskon walked up to Maren Sanchez at 7:15 in the morning on the day of the junior prom and asked her to go with him. When she said no, she was going with her boyfriend—which he knew already—he stabbed her in the neck.
Which means, does it not, that he came to school carrying a knife, prepared to murder her if she said no.
This wasn’t about a sixteen-year-old being unexpectedly set off by rejection. He brought the murder weapon to the crime scene. And he made sure to ask her very early, when few people would be around.
I don’t know what his motive was—but it wasn’t the prom. He had the means and he created the opportunity.This was premeditated.
Why are they discussing how “great of a kid” he was? How he was strange, but never dangerous? How no one saw it coming even though he was obsessed with her for two freaking years.
He brought a knife with him to school that day.
He brought a knife with him that day, knowing good and damn well he would ask her to prom. He knew, when he brought that knife with him, that she would turn him down due to being in a relationship.
You asked a girl in a committed relationship out on a date, and then got angry and “snapped” when she acted on the fact that she was in a committed relationship and said no, instead of miraculously going against it and saying yes to you.
But we all know he didn’t really snap. No, not when he packed the murder weapon on you ahead of time. Not when he cornered her during a low traffic time. Not when he knew she was seeing someone. Not when he knew she’d say no. No, he knew what would happen, but felt so entitled to her and her body that when she dared to say no, he felt justified in taking her life so that no one else could have her.
But the media talks about his model family? How he was strange but funny and happy and a class clown who enjoyed making others laugh? How he was a nice guy? How devastated his family is?
His? The attacker? The murderer? The one who felt so entitled to someone just because he liked her that he felt justified in stabbing her because she dared to tell him no?
What about her? What about her family, who has to live day in and day out with the fact that this boy felt so entitled to their child that he felt entitled to determine whether she lived or died? What about them, who have to move forward without seeing her because some rude, selfish, evil thing couldn’t take the word no and planned to kill her as soon as he heard it? What about them?
You don’t get to stab an innocent girl in the neck and have the media humanize you. I don’t care if you were a little depressed now and then, I don’t care if you have ADD. No one cares that you seemed to be a well adjusted, cheerful kid and that your actions were “so unexpected.”
You MURDERED someone for refusing your advances.
The media needs to STOP humanizing this evil, dangerous, selfish thing. It’s what’s wrong with the world.
I’m going to talk about Dirk Strider’s robots, because not only are they under-appreciated in the fandom as characters in themselves, but also because they give a lot of insight to Dirk’s character and the events that create him and his storyline.
First of all, I’d like to point that is chumhandle - timaeusTestified - is a direct reference to Plato’s dialogue, Timaeus, in which philosopher Plato discusses the origins of our mathematically perfect universe in great length, touching on religious, ethical, mathematical, existential (as it will later be called), and moral points. The universe, claims Plato, was created when a divine being used mathematics to control the preexisting chaos, and everything that exists now (or then, in his time), is a result of that initial “equation” that brought order to chaos.
That’s classic philosophy, however, but the mathematical aspect of creation is brought into discussion concerning more recent theories, both of which Dirk is (most likely, if his canonically self-proclaimed “philosopher prince” title is anything to go by) familiar with. John Searle’s Chinese room experiment is a philosophical thought experiment used to disprove the possibility to true (or strong) artificial intelligence, which emerged in an argument concerning the possibilities of strong vs. weak artificial intelligence in the late 60s. Debates on whether or not true artificial intelligence can actually come in to existence is still questioned today, but in Hussie’s universe, Dirk has made it so.
Lil Hal, or AR, is an article of strong artificial intelligence, and we know this because he has the capability to infer. Computers as of today, arguably, do not have the connective intuition abilities that human brains have (which is another philosophical concept explained in detail in David Hume’s An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, which I will not delve into here), and thus cannot collectively fall under the category of intelligent beings with empiricist functions. Dirk literally programmed the ability to make inferences, a distinctly human trait, into Hal - how? Who knows, but it probably has something to do with the fact that a ‘piece’ of Dirk’s own mind is inserted into Hal’s base computations, which, in our universe, is a current impossibility. However, I have a theory that Dirk translated scans of his brain function into numbers and subsequent formulae to produce those numbers, which could then be translated into binary code and inserted into a complex computer system like Hal. Dirk literally created an exact copy of his mind in its thirteen year old state, and implanted it into an A.I. program that has the ability to learn and develop because of the human ability to infer connective hypotheses and make conclusions based on a priori experience.
And all of this when he was thirteen.
I haven’t even discussed Squarewave and Sawtooth yet. Both of these bots are named after non-sinusoidal waveforms, or mathematical formulated waves of sound. By applying a sawtooth wave to an analog music synthesizer using this formula,
one can create a perfect string instrument sound, something akin to cello or violin. This formula is used most commonly in music, but has deflective defensive properties that we see in action when Sawtooth, the larger of Dirk’s two bots, attacks the drones with his installed rocket-launchers (and most rockets, by the way, are launched and controlled using a non-sinusoidal wavelength via radio dispatch). Dirk based not one, but two entire rapping robots around formulae that conventionally link back to Timaeus and the mathematical creation of the world. Squarewave, like Sawtooth, is based on a non-sinusoidal wave that is much weaker and prone to imperfections, which explains Dirk’s canonical reference to Squarewave being one of his less successful projects. What square waves do excel at, however, is functioning as timing devices - they are highly precise when used as synchronous logic functions, interrupting other wave-producing circuits via electromagnetic radiation (which produces disruptive sound). And what, exactly, does Squarewave continue to do? In a timely manner he appears to block the reader from witnessing both initial instances in which Dirk and Roxy kissed by proclaiming YEAH DOGG!!! in a woefully disruptive fashion.
Linking all of this to the fact that Dirk’s class as a Prince (a destructive class) is completely opposite to his nature as a creator, it was interesting to dwell upon some early theories wherein readers believed Dirk would have to face his denizen and choose between destruction of his universe and ultimate power for himself, or destruction of himself and the continuation of a mathematically perfect and theoretically immortal universe. Although these probably won’t come in to play after the Gigapause and final update, I personally think it’s really cool that everything about Dirk regarding his robots links around to him as a person who strategically creates and develops rather than mindlessly tears down and destroys.
Of course, however, all of this bullshit comes together in the end to turn on him by ruining his relationship with Jake and ultimately causing him to be suicidal - if only he’d paid some attention to the ethical discussions in Timaeus, perhaps all of this could have been avoided.
For now I’m just gonna enjoy the fact that Dirk has wicked cool robots and is a child genius, though.
Just called an anorexia help line and the girl answered and immediately hearing I was male said “you’re real funny douche” and hung up. If you dot think that’s messed up, u messed up.
ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME
I think people should know that in the end he called back and talked to the manager and it turned out another guy with his area code had been harassing the girl all night and she was extraordinarily sorry.
holy shit there was this guy in middle school who would constantly stick his hands down my shirt and snap my bra and my teachers always told me to “stop complaining he’s just flirting with you” and apparently he was fucking arrested for sexually assaulting a child and now he’s going to prison
234 Nigerian girls were girls were kidnapped by an extremist group called the boko haram this month. Few have escaped, the majority has not. Please spread to word to create an international outcry because our government isn’t doing enough.
SIGNAL BOOST
It’s being speculated that they’re being sold as sex slaves (well, the media uses the term “child brides”, but we all know what that’s code for). We need to bring them home NOW.
