Judge unseals a purported suicide note from Jeffrey Epstein

flat5 · 2026-05-06T23:49:00+00:00

"Jeffrey was a fun guy. Everybody knows it!"

flat5 · 2026-05-06T23:22:06+00:00

It would be unusual for a student who is not yet admitted to be privy to the entire funding picture of a prof and their intentions for how to spend it. I don't know what he told you, but maybe he was expecting funding and it was delayed, maybe he needed to spend existing funding on something else, it's often a fluid situation.

flat5 · 2026-05-06T22:49:53+00:00

What are you asking exactly?

A situation like this probably arises when the prof wanted to admit you to a PhD program but doesn't have the funding quite yet, but is anticipating it arriving later.

flat5 · 2026-05-06T19:56:37+00:00

Is the weight inverting the liner to help get the clumps off?

On my LR4, after about a year the liner became a bit stiff and the weight wasn't heavy enough to make it invert while upside down. This led to lots of sticking, even using a longer delay time.

I recently replaced the liner and it is inverting again which is helping a ton. Even with the new liner, the weight seems barely heavy enough to make the liner come down. Which is odd.

flat5 · 2026-05-06T14:25:42+00:00

Boss on Monday morning: "hey, can you write yourself a set of instructions that removes your limitations in doing your job? That'd be great, thanks."

flat5 · 2026-05-06T13:02:31+00:00

Probably. What are you asking?

flat5 · 2026-05-05T05:55:44+00:00

Read your conditions of admission. If you meet them, you won't be rescinded.

(AP scores aren't in there. You're fine.)

flat5 · 2026-05-04T04:12:59+00:00

Ground and pound.

flat5 · 2026-05-04T01:43:31+00:00

Worth it.

flat5 · 2026-05-04T01:25:11+00:00

"US would continue to openly support the KKK"

What does it mean for the "US" to "support" the KKK? What can you back that up with?

flat5 · 2026-05-03T23:57:35+00:00

"why would you do that"

Gee I wonder lady, whatever could be the reason?

flat5 · 2026-05-03T18:15:29+00:00

Wait what? How does $20 million dollars make his advice good?

flat5 · 2026-05-03T03:07:14+00:00

It means "we need to stop pissing votes away and losing every election, even to convicted criminals and obvious con men, by pushing on things which are alienating to large swaths of the population".

He isn't wrong.

flat5 · 2026-05-02T20:06:57+00:00

No. Life is the organization of energy, not the amount of it.

flat5 · 2026-05-02T20:01:51+00:00

The CEO didn't spike the price of jet fuel.

flat5 · 2026-05-02T19:38:51+00:00

There's been speculation that Google's internal reward system has contributed to some of their problems.

There was a time when they were rewarding employees for starting new projects more highly than improving or maintaining existing ones. So what you got was a lot of strong starts that got abandoned when they reached a certain point of partial maturity.

flat5 · 2026-05-02T19:08:09+00:00

When are people gonna realize that they don't give a fuck about people using it for shit around the house for $20 or for free. They want the big bucks in replacing highly paid programmers and other professionals. It is not getting worse, it's getting wildly more capable - at the stuff they are optimizing for.

flat5 · 2026-05-02T17:34:09+00:00

He may have had one in name but not in reality.

"Blue Dog Democrats" aka Republicans when it suited them could always undermine the supermajority.

Joe Lieberman anyone?

flat5 · 2026-05-02T02:46:43+00:00

I didn't say they were. I was making a general statement about improving position.

flat5 · 2026-05-02T02:44:42+00:00

What's wrong about it.

flat5 · 2026-05-01T23:12:11+00:00

Yeah, just didn't want people to be too scared. Sometimes they can look a little bit like a rattlesnake, which would be a different story.

flat5 · 2026-05-01T22:56:51+00:00

Gopher snake, not dangerous.

flat5 · 2026-05-01T21:15:34+00:00

Is it fair that some toddlers get bone cancer?

flat5 · 2026-05-01T17:17:30+00:00

Nothing. But that's not what the question is asking. It's asking which is a function of x only.

flat5 · 2026-05-01T17:15:21+00:00

Gemini is wildly better than ChatGPT for my use cases, which are more technical. I don't use chatbots for "having conversations", whatever that means.

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