I never loved Elon, but he genuinely seemed like a half decent guy for a billionaire 10 years ago.

Why does every thing need to have me make an account? I just want to buy tickets to this random thing in a town I will never come back to.

I don’t need to create a user name and password just sell me the ticket.

Can I just read the article instead of watching the video? .

Those headlights are too bright.

Not everything needs to be smart or AI integrated. Sometimes analog just works better.

I think Christopher walken knows what really happened on the boat that night .

You get plenty of programming? Yes, there are a lot more programmes now with the First Step Act but some of them classes are a joke. The officers are just running through the information. Some of them don't care. It's just like the 'check off a box.' There are some people that care as with any situation but there are programs that are hard to get into depending on where you are. So programming-number one-availability sometimes can be scarce, and the quality can be poor

Prison rehabilitates you? Actually I think it's the opposite. It is a place that's designed to completely break you from everything from the colour of the walls to the uniforms. Just the whole system is not designed for rehabilitation. It is designed for people to come back so they can continue to make money off of you

You can just do your time and go home? That's not true. The effects of prison on the whole community, the family and yourself carry on even after they leave. There's a transition period. Sometimes there's PTSD. There's just an acclimation back into society and the re-entry can be challenging for some people so it's not just like you do your time and then it's back to business as usual

What is one popular prison myth when it comes to female inmates? Well, I think that would be not wearing makeup or not wanting to look good. Now people are like, I would not care about my physical appearance if I was in prison, who cares?

There's a lot of different reasons. One, if you look good, you feel good, you know, and I don't think we should be tearing down people the way that our prison system does. And yes, we committed a crime, but we are all human beings, right? So you might want to look good for a visit, for a court appearance, all different kinds of reasons, or just because you want to feel good that day.

My father’s funeral.

After the service and the reception after, my mother, brother, and sister headed back to our family home. A bunch of my father’s siblings and their family were also staying at the house with us. We got home a few minutes before everyone else.

I was sitting at a table in the living room when I could see their cars come down the driveway. They all got out and were hugging and seemingly congratulating each other. The reception after the service was beautifully put together, and was actually a fun time. A fitting send off for my father. So I assumed they were still just having fun from that. Until they came inside.

They all came in together very quickly, and quietly. They came up to me and my older brother sitting at the table, and kind of crowded around like a bunch of kids, about to see if they could have a cookie before dinner. My aunt Barbara smugly stood at the front and asked, “so when are we going to be doing the reading of the will to see what was left to us all?”

My brother and I just looked at each other for a few moments before we turned to them to say, “are you kidding? Reading of the will? Like a soap opera? There is no reading of the will. Everything that belonged to my father now just belongs to my mother!”

The look of defeat, but not shame, was disgustingly transparent. They were supposed to stay another few nights. They packed up and left that afternoon.

An estranged uncle driving past my grandmother's funeral playing Another One Bites the Dust.