You're Holding The Store Responsible?

When the Dollar Tree lawyer asked her what she wanted out of the lawsuit, she replied: “You [have] to take accountability of what is happening in your stores. You’re causing pain to people. I don’t know if it’s because of the bottom line, or what, but it’s happening and you guys need to stop it.”

What does she want the store to stop, (and to pay her money for what has happened in it, of course)? 

Over the following months, the term “dollar store gooner” became a meme on the internet that spread far beyond the closed world of the gooners themselves. A “Dollar Tree gooner” crypto coin launched in January 2025, followed by an unofficial Pokémon card and a song released on SoundCloud by an underground noise band from Tennessee named Mukus.

I know you'll be as baffled as I, Reader, at least, I hope so!  

Long before it developed an association with criminal acts, “gooning” was understood as a pornography-fueled compulsion, sometimes involving multiple screens at once, that can become a substitute for intimate relationships with others. It also tends to come with a heavy dose of self-loathing. Experts say that online forums and video content aimed at gooners often send the message that obsessive masturbation – whether alone or in public – is as much as men like them can aspire to in life. Webster described it as a “disavowed manic state of triumph over something hideous”. One common trope of the pornography that these gooners consume has men ejaculating over women’s bodies, faces and hair – acts that, Lankford said, have no basis in evolutionary biology and are difficult to interpret as anything other than demeaning to the women.

When I shop at a store, i would expect the store to be responsible for non-slip flooring, electrical-safe freexer units and escalatots and lifts in working order. I wouldn't expect them to be financially responsible for the behaviour of other customers.

But this is America, and I guess Dollar Tree has deep pockets, while the disgusting 'men' who do this aren't worth suing.

£200000, When These Are 10 a Penny In London?

The crossing features a chicane intended to slow users, but it did not cause them to naturally turn towards the direction of approaching eastbound trams, such as the one which hit Mr Abakah. His father, Frederick Woode, said his 'one wish is that lessons are learned from this' (Reader, He doesn't mean by teenagers on illegal e-scooters, of course..) and 'changes are made before anyone else loses their life'. 

He went on: 'I know nothing can bring Reuben back, but I believe the tram should not have been travelling as fast as it was. 'The crossing should also be altered so that pedestrians like Reuben do not have their backs to approaching vehicles.'

But he wasn't a 'pedestrian', was he? He was a hooded youth riding an e-scooter...

The family's lawyer, Ben Posford of Osbornes Law, said it 'shouldn't have mattered' that Mr Abakah 'didn't look properly'. He told the Press Association: 'That's not how health and safety works, and hasn't done for a very long time. 

'He didn't look until the last minute and he made an error there. From time to time, people are going to make an error. 

And those times double when they are youths already indulging in illegal and reckless actions, like riding e-scooters across level crossings. 

'You have to have health and safety measures in place that account for human error, that account for zoning out.'

And you have to have deep pockets to attract slimy ambulance chasing lawyers, so it's just as well for you he wasn't run over by some ordinary Joe in a Ford Escort, eh? 

His family are seeking damages in excess of £200,000 from Tram Operations Limited (TOL) - a subsidiary of transport giant FirstGroup - which runs London Trams for Transport for London (TfL).

Bingo!  Gimmie dat compo! What is that based on, anyway? Not his worth, or his future earnings...

It's Who They Are, It's What They Do....

Three years ago, Dr Eithan Haim exposed Texas Children's Hospital for secretly performing illegal sex change procedures are being on minors as young as 11. 

And was he thanked fot bringing such actions to the attention of the authorities, while the criminals carrying them out went into hiding and tried to cover up what they had been doing? Reader, no. That's what happens in a sane world, and we aren't living in one. 

Dr Kristy Rialon tried to 'destroy' his career by spreading 'malicious' lies about him after he blew the whistle on their program, according to a lawsuit obtained by the Daily Mail. Rialon, 43, posted several 'anonymous defamatory reviews' on Haim's WebMD profile, alleging that he was 'mutilating and raping his patients', the complaint said. In one post, she even pretended to be a patient and detailed how he allegedly raped her, the filing stated.

Strange how what the Left accuse others of doing is always what they turn out to have been doing themselves, isn't it? 

The DOJ, FBI and Health and Human Services department launched an investigation into the allegations in 2024, but the Trump Administration has since dismissed the case with prejudice because it was 'founded on lies, not facts or law.'

Haim's complaint is backed by billionaire Elon Musk and his social media platform X, which the doctor alleged enabled him to 'fight back against an unjust prosecution.'

One to watch, and don't forget the popcorn. 

 

No, I’m Pretty Sure You’ve Crossed All Of Them Already

 

The oddly metallic voice speaking to the ex-CNN journalist Jim Acosta in an interview on Substack this week was actually that of a digital ghost: an AI, trained on the teenager’s old social media posts at the request of his parents, who are using it to bolster their campaign for tougher gun controls.

No parent in their right mind would ever judge a bereaved one.

Rubbish! If that were the case, the tabloids wouldn't exist!

If it’s a comfort to keep the lost child’s bedroom as a shrine, talk to their gravestone, sleep with a T-shirt that still faintly smells like them, then that’s no business of anyone else’s. People hold on to what they can.

But they've not kept it to themselves, have they? They've chosen to use it to push a political viewpoint. 

But it’s precisely because it’s so hard to let go that grief is vulnerable to exploitation. And there may soon be big business in digitally bringing back the dead.

So the government can tax them?  

But while the legal rights of the living not to have their identities stolen for use in AI deepfakes are becoming more established, the rights of the dead are muddled.

The dead have no rights.  

What happens if half of a family wants Mum digitally resurrected, and the other half doesn’t want to live with ghosts?

What always happens, of course. Some lawyers get rich!