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98. In prison. I imagine there is some theme about how luck and genetics still play a much larger role in health than stuff like sleep, diet, and fitness that I
by throw1234651234 3y ago
98. In prison. I imagine there is some theme about how luck and genetics still play a much larger role in health than stuff like sleep, diet, and fitness that I comfort myself with. No idea who this guy is btw, but back to the basics. 98. In prison - pretty amazing.
- stevenjgarner 3y ago"he has spent closer to 85 years in the justice system. He is very likely the longest-serving prisoner, ever, in the United States. .... He seems to believe he is still in prison, though he was paroled to the nursing home in 2020. In fact, he could technically leave — to go get lunch, or visit one of the nearby towns — but someone would have to request permission and sign him out, which no one appears to have ever done ... Almost everyone he knew before he went away is dead."
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- selimthegrim 3y agoThe Cracked article says he escaped in 1967, was recaptured and briefly paroled in 1975 for 10 months.
- zapdrive 3y agoHe could have been paroled in 2012, but was either paranoid or in a mental state where he didn't understand what they were asking and refused to sign the papers.
- marci 3y agoAnd it seems he was innocent. https://www.cracked.com/article_34310_connecticut-put-a-probably-innocent-guy-behind-bars-for-70-years.html https://www.cracked.com/article_34310_connecticut-put-a-prob...
- trc001 3y agoI feel like there must be a better source for this information
- hgsgm 3y agoBecause you are offended by Cracked's font? They have a long reputation of good research.
- spencerflem 3y agoLiterally just look at their homepage - it's entirely bottom-of-the barrel top 10 lists about celebrities. I miss old Cracked.com when they had a consistent set of good writers but even in the good ol' days they were making comedy articles and not serious journalism.
- nolok 3y agoI would be very interested in how you define them as having a "long reputation of good research", given that they don't do research so much as pointing to various links without checking their quality and make sure to specify may/could/potentially/... All over their long form articles specifically to not be making any claim since they don't research them enough. I'm not blaming them at all for it by the way, they're a comedic publication not investigative, I'm just weirded out by your perception of them when they themselves go out of their way to not purport themselves as any kind of authoritative source.
- Clubber 3y ago>They have a long reputation of good research. They had good writers at one time, but that time has long passed.
- toomuchtodo 3y agohttps://www.greenwichtime.com/news/article/Francis-Smith-longest-serving-prisoner-released-17017465.php https://www.greenwichtime.com/news/article/Francis-Smith-lon... They’re listed on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest_prison_sentences_served https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest_prison_sentenc..., but I’m unable to find a Wikipedia page for them (Francis Clifford Smith).
- hgsgm 3y agoCaloric restriction is one longevity-enhancing technique that prison supports. Also, activity restrictions means exercise is one of the few available hobbies.
- harles 3y agoCaloric restrictions was my first thought as well. Also, the fact that we’re talking about this person means he’s an extreme outlier. I’d expect reaching 98 is much more common outside of prison.
- ak_111 3y agoCharlie Munger and Warren Buffet are also one of those outliers in terms of diet, exercising and work rate. Granted they receive the best medical support money can buy, but they are on record saying how much they binge on fast food, and Munger in particular mentioned on several occasions how he never intentionally did any exercise (no cardio or weightlifting) since he was a teenager. They are both also crazy workaholics working a rigorous 9-5, very little holiday for the last 7 decades.
- sage76 3y agoAnecdotally, I have seen stress be a major factor. I know businessmen who are under a lot of stress, and even in their 40s they had major health problems. Others who seemed naturally inclined to be a bit carefree (not careless) seemes to only start having problems in their late 70s. All anecdotal of course, so we'd need lot of data to come to a conclusion.
- mejutoco 3y agoAbout the one burger a day I think from Buffet, I always wondered if it was something they said to be more relatable, or if it true.
- HeyLaughingBoy 3y agoFrom what I remember in Snowball, it's true. He really doesn't like unusual food and sticks to the familiar, which generally means burgers and soda.
- gabereiser 3y agoThe system is designed to “rehabilitate” you. That is, to make it so you’re dependent on the system to live. Most offenders, repeat, sending them back to jail. Some have argued because it’s easier than out on the streets trying to survive. In prison you have a bed, food, shelter (though not from others). On the outside, you had to provide that. Shawshank redemption talked about this a bit when Brooks (the librarian and old man) was released to a halfway house. He monologues “On the inside, I was the man you would come to if you needed something brought in. I was somebody. On the outside, I’m an old ex-con. A nobody.”
- nolok 3y agoI always considered it an issue with the usually longer sentence in the US (compared to where I'm from in France), particularly when taking into account the stacking of sentences (where we instead have "the longest one apply and trump others). Each year, well each day really, passed behind bars makes rehabilitation harder and it feels a bit counter productive to put people for (often several) decades behind bars, at this point they have a very very small chance to be able to reintegrate properly. Not that I consider my country a paragon of virtue on that front mind you, since we're still struggling with the concept of rehabilitation instead of punishment.
- gabereiser 3y agoYeah. I think having a system where society is responsible would be best. Instead of private institutions that charge the tax payers. Systems where through hard work and service to the community they can learn to survive. Those that are a threat to the community can be given their own. This was the original idea behind these prisons. Only wall of the ones who would physically harm others until deemed they are no longer a threat. It’s a mental health issue and not a criminal vs non-criminal black & white situation as the layman to the law would have you believe. It’s not about what is right or just, it’s about what you can prove. And us Americans love a good outlier to form stereotypes about a peoples.
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