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I hosted the Reddit Jet Blue travellers. We went down to the Long Beach aquarium. A kid met us there, had driven up from San Diego 'cuz he had nothing better to do, no friends, and he thought meeting some "redditors" would be cool.
He was in the navy. About to be shipped out to train in interrogating enemy combatants. Nice kid. Maybe 20. I kept in touch with him, after a fashion. He's on Diego Garcia now. Spends his days surfing and scuba diving, and his nights torturing muslims. Whatever we're doing, we're doing it abroad. The stuff we do here we do with full disclosure and paid volunteers. It's kind of remarkable what stupid shit people will do if you give them a little money. Robert Rodriguez documented this somewhat; his first film "Il Mariachi" was paid for entirely by money he earned subjecting himself to inpatient medical experimentation.