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"It was a weight off my shoulder in case I had done something wrong or made things worse."
From BBC
Few celebrities of his stature, short of Joan Crawford or Meghan Markle, have been the subjects of such a widely disseminated trashing, and in Mr. Chase’s case it all seems . . . well, not unjustified.
“Bankruptcy judges in a few courts are competing for the big cases, so they approve pretty much whatever the attorneys are bold enough to charge,” he said.
Along the way, the case was transformed into TikTok content that blurred the line between awareness and entertainment—between engaging with injustice and consuming it as spectacle.
"In some cases, changing the environment helped populations find higher fitness peaks; in others, it hindered them."
From Science Daily
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