Fascinating story. The most interesting part:

It was my brother, the lawyer, who pointed out that what I had experienced sounded a lot like a coerced confession. “I read enough transcripts of bad interrogations in law school to understand that anyone can be convinced that they have a very narrow set of terrible options,” he said. When I posed this theory to Saul Kassin, a psychology professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice who studies coerced confessions, he agreed. “If someone is trying to get you to be compliant, they do it incrementally, in a series of small steps that take you farther and farther from what you know to be true,” he said. “It’s not about breaking the will. They were altering the sense of reality.” And when you haven’t done anything wrong, the risk of cooperating feels minimal, he added. An innocent person thinks everything will get sorted out. It also mattered that I was kept on the phone for so long. People start to break down cognitively after a few hours of interrogation. “At that point, they’re not thinking straight. They feel the need to put an end to the situation at all costs,” Kassin said.

I’m on the cat’s side on this one.

Imagine you were only allowed to have a single meal in your fridge? And to re-stock your fridge every day you had to trust this clumsy senses-impaired giant who spoke like a screaming baby?

> on a long plane flight
> hear the woman next to me say she’s worked as a hair model.
> fascinating.
> go back to gaming on my 3DS
> eventually fall asleep. wake up and see the woman next to me had fallen asleep too
> MFW technically I slept with a model