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Re: You Can Run

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Post by davidw » Sat, Jun 06, 2026, 7:25 PM UTC

On the subject of crime and that web site, I thought this story was quite fascinating:

https://magazine.atavist.com/2019/outlaw-country-klamath-cou...

There are a lot of those bits of land throughout the west that have been, for whatever reason, subdivided enough to make them very cheap plots of land in remote areas. They tend to attract a lot of very random people.

There's an area like that near where I live in Bend, Oregon where some guy called in to the Sheriff's department worried about his brother. The deputies decided to visit the next day because it was winter and already dark. Reading that, I had a record scratch moment where I was going "wait, the sheriff's deputy wouldn't visit the area after dark - holy crap".

Re: You Can Run

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Post by CamouflagedKiwi » Sat, Jun 06, 2026, 7:51 PM UTC

Etheryte wrote: post #4

boothby wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My favorite (dys|u)topian setting; universal child removal to robo-nurseries, gets closer to implementable every day.

They more or less did that during the bombing of London, children were evacuated to foster families in the countryside en masse. Luckily they came to terms with the fact that this was an insanely traumatic experience pretty quickly and reverted. It's literally less traumatic for a child to be in an active war zone than to be separated from their parents.

Unless the child is killed in said active war zone, which was the maximally traumatic outcome they were trying to avoid. Some evacuation was reverted, but there were also later waves; I don't think it was clear that it was overall the wrong thing given the very possible outcomes of heavier bombing or even invasion.

Re: You Can Run

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Post by muglug » Sat, Jun 06, 2026, 7:54 PM UTC

bee_rider wrote: post #6

Wow, that was quite a lot of cryptic build-up. It’s basically a story about conman/drug guy interwoven with biographical information and anecdotes about how this impacted his family. “You can run,” I guess maybe in the context of “You can run but you can’t hide” is not really touched upon too much. I mean it doesn’t have a particular connection to this story, any more than any other story about a fugitive.

Yeah — but includes a fun cameo from a famous 90s TV dad.

Re: You Can Run

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Post by RickJWagner » Sat, Jun 06, 2026, 8:25 PM UTC

Car racing and drug running must have been closely linked in the 80s. For another great read about them, check out Randy Lanier’s story. ( He had racing boats, too. )

Maybe Miami Vice was closer to truth than we knew.

Re: You Can Run

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Post by wwarner » Sat, Jun 06, 2026, 8:27 PM UTC

Honestly i come to hn to escape true crime.

Re: You Can Run

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Post by tobyhinloopen » Sat, Jun 06, 2026, 8:36 PM UTC

I expected a “running for beginners” app hah, like for training / endurance

Re: You Can Run

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Post by incr_me » Sat, Jun 06, 2026, 9:02 PM UTC

password4321 wrote: post #10

delichon wrote: post #2

The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself. -- Ezekiel 18:20 That was aspirational around 590 BC when written, and still is. To isolate children from the iniquity of the parent would require the dissolution of the family.

You can't quote that without also quoting: Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation. -- Exodus 34:7

Why not?

Re: You Can Run

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Post by nkrisc » Sat, Jun 06, 2026, 9:39 PM UTC

incr_me wrote: post #17

password4321 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can't quote that without also quoting: Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation. -- Exodus 34:7

Why not?

Probably to show you can pick any choose any bible verse to make whatever point you want. There’s a verse for A and NOT A.

Re: You Can Run

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Post by twobitshifter » Sat, Jun 06, 2026, 10:01 PM UTC

I read it all. There are no shockers in the boxes. It's all explained ahead of time and by the time the contents of the boxes are revealed, you'll wish you didn't read all of that.

Re: You Can Run

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Post by marginalia_nu » Sat, Jun 06, 2026, 10:06 PM UTC

boothby wrote: post #3

delichon wrote: post #2

The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself. -- Ezekiel 18:20 That was aspirational around 590 BC when written, and still is. To isolate children from the iniquity of the parent would require the dissolution of the family.

My favorite (dys|u)topian setting; universal child removal to robo-nurseries, gets closer to implementable every day.

Amusing how many read excerpts of The Republic and come away thinking it's a utopian project, and not a thought experiment to investigate the nature of justice.