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Rebecca retweeted
when i tell you i’m still picking my jaw up off the floor TO THIS DAY!!!! this was so fucking insane.
In March 2015, national television aired a recording nobody was supposed to hear. A real estate heir had stepped into a bathroom mid-interview and forgotten his microphone was on.
His name was Robert Durst. His wife Kathie vanished in 1982. His best friend Susan Berman was found shot in the back of the head on Christmas Eve, 2000. The next year, his neighbor in Galveston washed up in the bay in garbage bags. The head was never found.
Durst had been living there disguised as a mute woman. He admitted cutting up the body. A Texas jury called it self-defense.
Before that trial he skipped bail and was caught stealing a chicken salad sandwich, with $500 in his pocket and $37,000 in his rental car.
Minutes before the recording, the director slid two envelopes across the table. One held a letter Durst sent Berman in 1999. The other held the anonymous note that sent Beverly Hills police to her body: her address and one word, "CADAVER."
Same block capitals. Same misspelling: "BEVERLEY."
He said he only wrote one of them. Then he started burping.
In the video below, the interview is over. He walks out. The room is empty. The mic is still on.
"There it is. You're caught."
"Arrest him."
"And the burping."
"What the hell did I do? Killed them all, of course."
The night before it aired, the FBI found him in a New Orleans hotel under a fake name, with a revolver, a latex mask and $42,631 in cash.
Before his 2021 trial, his own lawyers admitted he wrote the cadaver note. He got life without parole. Less than three months later he died in custody with his appeal pending, and the conviction was wiped.
Court records later showed the lines you hear weren't in the order he said them.
Did the microphone catch a confession, or did the editing room build one?
It's true tbh, I would rather pay $150 for items with free shipping than $100 for items + $50 for shipping
re: airbnb discourse
in college I worked as a server at an upscale steakhouse. we had a few different steak sauces that were made from scratch daily. they were expensive to make, and less than half of the customers that ordered steak wanted sauce, so the restaurant charged $3 for it
we got complaints constantly. just at my own tables, half a dozen times a week I'd get complaints about being "nickel and dimed" for $3 of sauce on a $70 steak. a few times a month someone would mention it in an angry online review, or ask to speak to a manager and demand that it be removed from the bill because "who the hell charges for condiments?"
after several years of this, finally management had enough. they raised the price of every steak by $3, and now complimentary sauce was included with each steak on request. want to hazard a guess about how many customers complained about the $3 price increase on steak? essentially zero.
it was great, from the restaurants perspective! no more complaints, and instead of making $3 on 40% of steak orderers, they made $3 on all of them. and the customers were much happier, despite this deal being absolutely, unequivocally worse for them.
consumers are not rational agents from microeconomics textbooks. very often the *feeling* of what they're being charged for matters way more than the absolute value of what they're being charged. I think that's more or less what happening with airbnb. people don't want to be charged a cleaning fee and then also told they have to clean, even if in the counterfactual world the additional cleaning fee is more than they'd be willing to pay someone to do the required cleaning. a $100 cleaning fee *feels* better than a $50 cleaning fee + "load the dishwasher and take the trash out to the dumpster", even though most people would not pay $50 to not have to do that.
Rebecca retweeted
Oh so this is the context
i'm sorry but the japanese were literally singling out immigrants and muslims, pushing racist and xenophobic narratives because they were offended that a fictional anime flag was being used as a symbol of resistance, and dismissing why people were protesting in the first place. so why are we reframing the whole thing as if the french and everyone else just got petty for no fucking reason?
I think artists spoil France when they do tours because they know that French people are about that life when it comes to protests 😭😭
Rebecca retweeted
i’m genuinely curious. is this a libido issue, a trauma response, or a case of sexual compatibility not being fully considered before marriage? or is there something about the dynamics of marriage itself that causes women to lose sexual desire for their partners?
