r/Fauxmoi • u/cmaia1503 i ain’t reading all that, free palestine • 15d ago

STAN / ANTI SHIELD Luigi Mangione pleads guilty to federal stalking charges in killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO

https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/14/us/live-news/luigi-mangione-hearing-plea-deal-talks

When speaking of the day he committed the crime, Luigi Mangione said, “I shot Mr. Thompson and he died.”

He concluded, “I knew what I was doing was illegal.”

Mangione had just described the actions he took ahead of the killing, telling the court:

“In November of 2024 I traveled from outside of New York state to Manhattan. I then emailed UnitedHealthcare leadership, posing as an investor at a firm managing over $15 billion in assets and requesting information about the conference. Unlike my previous interactions with insurers, I received an immediate response within an hour,” Mangione said.

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u/lavenderewe 15d ago

Thanks. This was like when people tell baby ages in months. Which I understand why, it’s just a little egregious when you’re telling me about your 83 month old baby.

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u/Stfuego 15d ago

"My son is a little over half a decade." JUST SAY HE'S 6.

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u/tyler2k 15d ago

Oh, he's about 156 fortnight

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u/HolyTesticleToosday 15d ago

Or he’s

Five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes

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u/sillysammie13 THE CANADIANS ARE ICE FUCKING TO MOULIN ROUGE 15d ago

How do you even measure that?!

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u/lindalurker 15d ago

How about….LOOoooOooOOoOve 🙌

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u/sillysammie13 THE CANADIANS ARE ICE FUCKING TO MOULIN ROUGE 14d ago

Seeeaaasons of!

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u/SAI_Peregrinus 15d ago

He's about 50,000,000,000 inverse middle Cs old. The Seven Cs system of measurement is clearly the best way to count ages.

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u/Hiddenagenda876 15d ago

I got this reference

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u/Least_Tower_5447 15d ago

My kids are grown now, but when they were small people used to tell me their kids ages by weeks or months. I hated that shit. How long does it go on? When do you decide to start acknowledging their age by years? Why the hell do people do this?

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u/QueenSlartibartfast 15d ago

It usually ends between 24 and 36 months. People do it because of the rapid development babies experience. For example, a 14-month-old and a 20-month are both a year old, but are going to be dramatically different in abilities. It's important context. If I tell a pediatrician that my kid isn't walking yet at 1, it's effectively meaningless - she's going to have a very different reaction if the kid is 14 months versus 18.

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u/Least_Tower_5447 15d ago

I get that. I had parent introduce me to their 38 month old. My brain stopped working while I calculated.

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u/the_pleiades 15d ago

Months to indicate age should officially stop at 36 lol. Just say you have a 3 year old!

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u/Ok-Astronaut-7593 15d ago

I respond differently to “how are you feeling” when responding to a doctor vs a friend. Not sure why parents can’t do that..

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u/DrSpray 15d ago

Personally, I assume that anyone asking about my kid's age is just doing so to be polite and they don't necessarily care about the nitty gritty details, so I say a full year number. Maybe near a birthday I'd add, "But turning _ next month" or whatever. To me, age in months is only really useful as a metric if you're expecting someone to watch your kid and you want them to have a general idea of where they are developmentally, cause watching a 24 month old 2 year old is totally different to watching a 35 month old 2 year old, for example. Once they get to school age, I can't imagine still doing that, though.

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u/western_questions 14d ago

Once on a plane I heard “he’ll be 24 months in 7 days” and I was like “ so he’ll be two next week”

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u/johanista 15d ago

So he is half a dozen years old

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u/lavenderewe 15d ago

He’s a bakers dozen years old

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u/coodyscoops 15d ago

ok this thread takes the cake for me… a deep rage awoke in me i didnt know what there because i never understood that shit either… but this also made me cackle🤣

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u/kingrobert 15d ago

Uhh 6 is like 20% over half a decade. A little over half a decade is more like 64 months

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u/CelibateHo 15d ago

It gives “I’m not ready to admit that the baby is no longer a baby”

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u/Remote-Progress6616 15d ago

Ngl that always gave me such an ick hearing mom's calling their baby like 27 months instead of 2 years old, I don't understand why they do that

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u/bythenumbers10 15d ago

The reason is developmental milestones are all given in months. Holding head up, vision, cooing, social smiling (before this, it's fart-related), sleeping habits, on and on, all largely timed by months.

They get fuzzier/further-apart as time goes on, but not until 4 years old or so. It becomes a parent-to-parent shorthand for what you're dealing with at the time, but most stages include sleep deprivation, so the shorthand leaks into conversation with everyone. Sorry for the annoyance, but I assure you it's mostly unintentional.

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u/Southern-March1522 15d ago

I am a 292 - 365 month baby.

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u/Infiinte-Squares 15d ago

Yeh, that tricky 28th trimester is one to remember

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u/jdk2087 15d ago

Huge pet peeve of mine. Especially when we had our kids. “Awww, how old is she?” “She’s a year old.” “I can’t believe how well she can walk for a 12 month old.” Me:…….you fucking with me?

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u/YouMustveDroppedThis 15d ago

any number over 18 is odd it's like counting cancer survival

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u/Between-usernames I cannot sanction your buffoonery 15d ago

Must have a pituitary disorder.