UnitedHealthcare CEO shot and killed in NYC

Depending on the source you look at, the insanity defense is only successful about 30 times a year, or only accepted as a valid defense in 1% of court cases, and then leads to a 26% percent success rate. It's also not really a "get out of jail free" card. You're usually committed instead, long-term, which is a different form of hell. If you're looking at a less than 1 percent success rate in pleading insanity vs. pleading not guilty, you might as well go for the result that allows you to be actually free.

re: Getting caught, it'll be interesting to hear the timeline of his travel after the incident, if they can piece it together. He's obviously not under any obligation to share it. I suspect he wasn't sleeping much or at all for five days, and if he was, it might have been at rest stops, in the woods, not really restorative sleep. Once you're sleep deprived enough, the effects are as bad or worse than being drunk. Also, if he doesn't have a cell phone, and he's purposely avoiding places with cameras, he might not have realized how much of a manhunt was going on for him. (And ultimately, he wasn't caught by a police officer - Even in a sleep addled state, he'd avoid uniforms like that. He got noticed doing the sort of mundane activity he probably thought was "safe.")

 

I will confess I had not heard of this game either. But at least I invested 10 seconds of Google time to realize this probably isn’t what radicalized this dude against for-profit healthcare.


What kind of evil netherworld are we talking here?





Clearly this amount of realism is turning people into monsters.

 

They did this 40 years ago:

 

Man, just wait until they find out he worked on Civilization games for Firaxis or played Red Dead Redemption 2 or Fortnite!

 

He'll be weirgen no more soon.

 

Just as long as he never played Madden we're all good.

Seriously, UPenn certainly seems to have a hard choice for Alum of the Year this year. They both apparently like McDonalds too.

 

That game was incredibly popular right out of the gate when it came out five or six years ago and mostly with teens. I can remember my kids and their cousins playing together all sitting in the same room but on separate phones. Oh the good times they had with it.

The video game example of why anyone does anything is so stereotypically bad, but to use this game as an example of anything is just such a reach and terrible journalism (I mean, look up the game at least). Fortnite would be more realistic as a cause.

My kids sometimes still get on Among Us for nostalgia purposes.

 

For such a smart guy, who apparently had some bread, - what the hell is he doing with a United Health Care plan? That's like being upset about Spirit Airlines losing your luggage or missing your connection.

 

A casual mention of Linda Fiorentino, even in a movie poster, is worth a round of applause. Nice.

 

I didn't realize it was that old. It was a PS Plus freebie for the Playstation a couple of months ago.
I played it a few times. It was all right. Fun, even. It didn't give me the urge to gun someone down in the middle of the street.

 

It's no Grand Theft Auto or State of Emergency!

 

It’s not like most people have any choice. My company used to have UHC. I had no choice. (The company switched after one year because UHC rejected every claim, and people were pissed.)