Comments by "L.W. Paradis" (@l.w.paradis2108) on "Dr. Todd Grande" channel.

  1. So sorry that recovery hurt so much, but glad for you that you did.
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  2. You had nothing to "fess up." And you did not lie. I am wondering how you got "caught" in a lie. What happened to HIPPA?
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  3.  @roberthudson3386  Total agreement. And that makes it easier to stare a boss in the face and make your lips move to emit whatever sound is advantageous to you. I'm always struck by two things: how phony all the Heartwarming Stories are, about how this or that person with a serious disability was given a chance and thrived in the perfect job, when the truth is, people will almost always look for a way to get rid of you. I even know of cases, plural, where coworkers tried to get a cancer patient fired. The second is how easily a boss will lie to YOU, the worker, and how shocked people are every time it is done to them. They honestly don't expect it. Why? Because they've been candid the whole time, so they expect that their virtue will be returned to them? That would almost be laughable if it weren't tragic.
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  4.  @chad3232132  It is never wrong to ask for an attorney and remain silent. Literally never.
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  5.  @traceynomatterwhat383  When he told everyone to break a board, what more had to happen to show he was vicious? And a charlatan?
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  6.  @traceynomatterwhat383  It would be a fascinating report. Just started reading Murakami's Underground, just this weekend, about the cult that gassed people on the Tokyo metro in the 1990s. Some very prominent people were involved in the cult. Have to read it in small excerpts. I've known martial artists, and their sensei would never tell them to do anything he was not absolutely sure they were ready for. Really never.
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  7. False confessions are remarkably common, and this fact is highly counterintuitive. This is one of the first things criminal lawyers learn.
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  8. McGinnis's testimony appears to have been ignored. Juries do not like to send white boys to prison. We all know why.
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  9.  @sarabrant723  Same thing in Illinois. The monster who murdered Jeanine Nicarico murdered two more while an innocent person sat in death row.
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  10. This didn't make sense. Here is the timeline, available in many places including CNN: August 12 -- the videotaped police encounter we saw August 17 -- Brian flies back to Florida to clean out a storage locker and get some supplies, and possibly money August 23 -- Brian returns to Salt Lake City, rejoins Gabby; they were apart for about 5 or 6 days August 27 -- incident in restaurant, last text from Gabby to parents that was clearly from her By August 30, Gabby was dead. This timeline shows interruptions to the buildup of rage described here. It also shows that Gabby had a real opportunity to get away, or at least to talk to someone she trusted, August 17 through 22, a solid five days. So, what happened? If you want to prevent stuff, you need to know what happened.
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  11. This business of "not showing appropriate emotion" is such utter nonsense. That is never evidence. Look harder!
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  12.  @JillJ-y5f  So she had trauma in her life, froze in fear for hours, and thought nothing of it, it was probably Doordash -- plus she was wasted. Wow I love how people make so much sense.
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  13.  @user-xg3uy6hq9g  That twerp attacked me personally for something I did NOT say. Get it? Look, either she was paralyzed by fear or she wasn't. Maybe the way the police took down her statement is not exactly how she made it. I frankly don't see the point of rationalizing this, or assimilating it to situations that are not the same. If you want to normalize not calling -- anyone -- where you heard strange noises and then were surprised by a stranger who scared you in your own house, fine. You be that way.
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  14.  @user-xg3uy6hq9g  Let's make it a wrap. I am NOT saying she did not/could not have a perfectly innocent for not calling. I am saying it was not normal not to call. The normal thing, the expected thing, would have been to call. That does not make failing to call into something immoral, sinister, suspect, etc. (Are fine distinctions, like, over now? Do we just line up and take sides? As fast as possible, then dig in? Brilliant.) Second, DO NOT say someone is drunk unless you know for fact that they are. DO NOT presume they are drunk. People with unusual medical conditions have died that way. Plus, it is rude. ("College kids drink, that 'must be' what she did." Stereotype much?? We'll be sure to return the favor, see how you like it.)
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  15.  @AudioGardenSlave123  Your obsession about "only one side" is absurd. The gesture Gabby demonstrated that Brian used against her is very similar to what would be used to cut off someone's air supply. She did not strangle him. We may never know for certain whether he strangled her, but absolutely ALL the circumstantial evidence points that way. In any case, the timeline in this video skips over the fact that he took a plane to Florida in the middle of all this. Changes the analysis. I also don't understand why your comments went from making good points to ad hominem and misogyny. What happened?
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  16.  @musFuzZ  Read The Atlantic article. Murray worked for the OSS, which became the CIA. The research he later did with Kaczynski and the others at Harvard had a similar aim and design as MK ULTRA projects created to study brainwashing. Start there.
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  17.  @boatguy3800  It is not unfounded speculation, and records were classified, sealed, or destroyed. In 1977, the Harvard Crimson reported as follows: "The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) informed University officials this week that Harvard "was involved in one way or another" in two research projects conducted under the agency's MK-ULTRA human behavior control project, Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, said yesterday. Steiner said the University received substantial financial records from the CIA outlining Harvard's involvement in the controversial mind-control program. He refused to release any details about the documents yesterday, but said the two research projects in question did not include any drug experimentation. The CIA secretly operated the MK-ULTRA research project for 12 years beginning in the 1950s to study the effects of alcohol and various narcotics on witting and unwitting human subjects at a number of American universities and colleges. The New York Times reported last month that the CIA had sponsored a separate series of hallucinogenic drug experiments conducted during the 1950s at a Harvard-affiliated teaching hospital. The tests studied the effects of LSD on students from Harvard and other Boston area universities." It was easy to find, bro. I omit links, as YT usually shadows them (they make monitoring for TOS compliance too hard).
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  18.  @brianclingenpeel5123  "Attempted murder!" I didn't even see that post. (I hear that kids are debating what to call a male Karen, and . . . "Ken" has the top spot so far?) No one else saw anything that resembled an attempted murder, only you feel that you saw "the attempted murder of the police officer," and in fact, it was "the first thing that [came] to mind." Feelings can be like that. They can intrude on thought and push it aside. But please, do keep it up. The comic relief is needed at this point.
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  19. @Scruffy Topaz Exactly! This is the point.
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  20.  @pamcornelius9122  Look, family is family. Every family has its own little ecosystem, and EVERY family has problems. And everyone knows that if someone confides in you about their family problems, that is never an invitation to take sides, or even to give your pointed opinion without being asked. Meghan did pay for her mother's MSW degree after she started making money. Most kids don't do that. (Most parents don't go back to school, either.) You don't know what she went through as a biracial child. It is probably a lot more than any of us could imagine. I wonder how many people with her life would be struggling to pay the bills, much less achieve anything remarkable. And as for Harry, everyone knows he and his grandfather were close. It was obvious. They had more in common than Philip had with a lot of his other descendants. The names of Harry's kids tells you that.
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  21. But after the course ended, would you date an age-appropriate former student? Many people do, and marry them as well.
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  22.  @jonathandewberry289  You think gender determines propensity to convict someone wrongly, if they lie or cheat or do other terrible things?
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  23. I WISH everyone could watch this explanation.
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  24.  @earlmcearl1244  Oh give me a break.
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  25.  @iannaughton9295  These comments show us how many people are desperate for instant karma.
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  26. ​@TSUNAMI-MAMI True, and you're right --- but also keep in mind that infidelity is more dangerous than people imagine. No one thinks this will happen, but it is not rare.
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  27.  @Hollylivengood  You drive every day. A child comes out of nowhere and dashes in front of your car, and you are alert and driving below the speed limit. What should the sentence be? Please.
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  28.  @flomccanuck8095  Amen!
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  29.  @jaymike987  And they make it home okay? That part.
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  30.  @what_a_beautiful_noise  Did you know that some conspiracy theories were floated by government agencies (FBI, CIA), as a deflection? That happens as well. By that I mean that there is compelling evidence that it has been attempted a few times. Sometimes the point is simply to experiment, to see where public opinion can be pushed. The real point is, we often don't know. Occam's Razor and not making snap judgments is almost always the best course. And "psychological engineering" is a college subject, especially in Silicon Valley. Let that sink in!
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  31.  @gomahklawm4446  Juries almost always convict. You'd be surprised how biased they are, and on what flimsy evidence they have returned guilty verdicts.
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  32.  @sisuguillam5109  This is nonsense. Certain actions are inherently dangerous on several levels. Certain actions make effective withdrawal of consent highly problematic to achieve in the moment when that withdrawal is most needed. Certain actions can become habitual, and can appear less risky than they are with repetition, and can easily lead to serious accidents.
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  33.  @DustWolphy  I would never say that. There is no evidence to accuse her. One major problem is that few people have the money and the discipline to do what needs to be done -- with no guarantee of success. A mother would have to leave her job and make her child the center of her concern with a comprehensive program. Diet, exercise, activities to develop his talents, proper social life, integration into an extended family, long-term goals and ambitions -- and she would have to have excellent self control. This would not be easy. And then what if it doesn't work? Most people would turn to medication. At least then it would have been a last resort. What do you think should have happened?
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  34. Almost!
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  35.  @xpsxps1339  My point was they didn't lie. I wasn't arguing that they did the right thing, or that they suffered as well. Invoking the Fifth Amendment is not the same as lying. Everyone has the right to invoke it. Even if it turns out to be the worst thing they ever did.
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  36. I basically agree, and never knew the detail about passing close to a commercial plane. If that does not scream, "land that thing now," I don't know what does. However, absolutely no one who cannot follow a checklist or think logically could pass law school exams or any bar exam. Today the ultrawealthy get away with everything, but it wasn't the case for his generation, as was obvious by the fact that he did fail the NY Bar twice (which isn't rare, by the way). The Bar told him "no" twice. BTW, I'm not a fan at all, as I hope is clear. Someone with his means, and for this flight, could have easily engaged a co-pilot. He killed two people through gross negligence. There's no excuse. Also, I would never frequent a Kennedy. Their rate of accidental deaths involving unacceptable risks is well documented. But this video is chock full of nonsense, too. I don't see what people get out of it, frankly.
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  37.  @Melinda8162 His gross negligence killed two women, and you call their parents greedy? Therapy is expensive. Do you think the father, mother, and surviving sister did not need it? You know, some people go into extensive counseling rather than, say, cannabis or beer. Really. There's people like that, I swear.
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  38.  @AnnyMus-rc2zh  Right. It was Mark Twain.
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  39.  @Rokaize  You used the term "violator." I then echoed it, with mild irony.
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  40.  @michaelmccord8469  Did you read his civil rights complaint? Police conceded that driving to the first well-lit area was ordinary.
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  41. Sadly, this is probably an urban legend. One was a theoretical physicist, the other an electrical engineer. They are not comparable, and Tesla criticized the new physics all the time. Funny, though, Einstein's only child to survive well into old age became a professor of engineering at Berkeley.
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  42.  @DunderHead.5000  It's just an expression, when someone does something extraordinary.
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  43.  Joe Jo  Then how come you see all these weeping husbands who killed their wives?
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  44.  @atomicstyle7344  No, Dr. Grande is a supervising psychologist, not an MD. This specialty often works in MSW programs to train clinical social workers, and often supervises therapists of various kinds in state agencies. He is amply qualified to practice clinical psychology (better than many who are also state licensed), but not to practice psychiatry. As for what this woman supposedly was, SPOT ON! How people like her get permission to advise anyone on any of this stuff is a mystery. States should review their policies. COVID should motivate them if simple protection of the public didn't so far.
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  45. Look up swatting.
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  46.  @Lark-jh9gx  There is no such thing as a defense of consent to death. Even euthanasia is illegal in most places.
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  47.  @marciabradley7660  A certain measure of suffering is a vital part of every life. For a child, having a beloved pet die will cause suffering. Having to miss a party because of a bad cold will as well. OTOH, an ordinary day at school shouldn't, a family dinner shouldn't, a family vacation shouldn't, etc. In those cases, it is rarely the kid who needs to change, and let go of "attachments."
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  48.  @sadiyasaleh233  It is normal to investigate all who were present, because they were there. She has the right to decline to speak further, for any reason, but especially to protect her own mental health -- unless she is subpoenaed by a court. Then she will have to testify or prove she cannot. How can this be too tough? And NO, do NOT normalize being petrified, and frozen by fear, but then not calling 911 if/as soon as you are able. No. That is not normal.
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  49.  @gen-xboomer  The kid who reported him is black?
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  50.  @gen-xboomer  I wish that were true. It is much more often true today than it has been in 40 years, but now a new divisive bunch is trying hard to reverse that. Or at least that's the effect.
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