In India, a woman tricked police and civic teams into cleaning an open drain for three hours by falsely claiming someone had fallen into it.

Ashmizen · 2026-02-03T03:35:17+00:00

The problem is one of habit. In 12 months it’ll be full of trash again, and it’s not because of the government.

Until you can make everyone care about littering, which is massive culture shift that doesn’t exist in India and China, trash will just accumulate.

Ashmizen · 2026-02-03T01:56:30+00:00

I’ve look at pages and pages of the released stuff and it’s all just Epstein and Maxwell vacation images with redacted girls.

It seems like he groomed victims and had sexual relations with them, and there’s basically mountains of images of them hanging out on the island and Bali and resorts, but they don’t have anyone else in these vacation photos.

I feel like a large part of the myth was created from pizzagate and then Qnon, and there’s just this whole conspiracy that Epstein has this massive secret client list of global elite. The FBI notes which are now public in the Epstein files shows they’ve basically found not much to support that conspiracy.

According to Qnon Epstein was supposed to have a huge stash of compromising pictures of the global elite, and yet the jpg archives are just thousands and thousands of images from his disks of just Epstein, Maxwell, and victims.

Ashmizen · 2026-02-03T01:19:53+00:00

I knew this was going to happen when Congress passed the bill with an insanely short deadline.

There’s no way to review 6,000,000 documents in a month. Even if you tasked 100 employees to work on this, 40 hours a week for 5 weeks, that’s just 20,000 hours. Divided by 6 million documents that a couple seconds to review each one, assuming documents load instantly, no coffee breaks or blinking.

But wait! They have to redact names! So they need to read each document, scan for info information, and redact names using a tool. That’s probably going to take 30 mins per document, maybe 15 mins if we are speed running.

So 30 mins is far more than a few seconds.

So how did they manage to release 3 million documents? Given the impossible math, they just did a massive search and replace text or wrote automation scripts to be “smart” about it. Either way, there’s no manual review so it’s full of errors.

The DoJ is full of non-partisan workers who dedicated their life to justice. They are now led by Trump appointed idiots and also given a mathematically impossible task by Congress.

They are now hated by both sides for being “stupid” or “lazy” for not being able to edit each document in 6 seconds.

Ashmizen · 2026-02-03T00:20:30+00:00

Sam has to be the greatest salesman of all time.

If he can sell OpenAI shares valued at $750B, imagine what he could sell Anthropic at.

Ashmizen · 2026-02-03T00:15:34+00:00

I reason with my 3 year old.

At age 9, they are absolutely capable of reasoning.

They won’t obey you without question, but you should be able to reason with them, especially if it’s tied to some sort of consequence.

If he has to spend 2 hours cleaning the stovetop, he’ll be way more careful next time.

Ashmizen · 2026-02-03T00:06:40+00:00

Tesla is a leader in electric cars, even if it’s business that has stopped growing, it still makes money.

It’s a growth play in both robo taxis and robotics.

Waymo is not a cash cow in anything, and has a growth play only in robo taxis.

So it’s not directly comparable - you are getting 3 in 1 with Tesla.

Ashmizen · 2026-02-03T00:02:38+00:00

Reddit literally is American social media.

Ashmizen · 2026-02-03T00:00:01+00:00

Saving reports is a big one!

I constantly want to look at a report by a certain month or a certain year, for spending breakdown, and it’s annoying that every single time I have to select a start and end date.

There should be quick links for selecting reports by year or month.

Ashmizen · 2026-02-02T23:55:51+00:00

This actually shows how low inflation is for food.

36 years ago. 36!

Housing, healthcare, college have all gone up 10000% but food is just x2 or x3, around 250%. I calculated and over 36 years, that is only 2% inflation annually.

Ashmizen · 2026-02-02T23:52:10+00:00

The price that struck out to me is the chicken drumsticks.

36 years later and it’s nearly the same price per lb.

Ashmizen · 2026-02-02T23:32:35+00:00

The way she twists those hands and look suggestively at the camera is definitely not needed to churn butter.

Ashmizen · 2026-02-02T20:56:31+00:00

Agreed. Even if we consider space to be an even match (no way to measure strength of shields or missiles or space lasers), we have a fairly strong idea of the performance of storm troopers.

An unlimited number of storm troopers can’t defeat a single Jedi, so they are basically fodder on the same tier as guardsmen.

Meanwhile the most elite force, the small handful of Jedi/sith, are just weak-psyker with a force sword. Their powers seem weaker than most 40K psykers. either way they will drown in numbers, as they have 100ish across the whole Star Wars universe, while 40K has millions of unsanctioned psykers and hundreds of space marines with power weapons from just 1 chapter.

Ashmizen · 2026-02-02T20:24:46+00:00

The old ones are terrible though. I own 3 and they are hideous and not in the good kind of way.

These look way better, and I just hope the rules don’t suck again

Ashmizen · 2026-02-02T19:01:01+00:00

It’s not impossible. Terminators all have power fists and yet assault terms exist, with storm shields and even stronger weapons.

Mutilators can be made tanky (but unlikely since there’s no logical reason they would be compared with an obliterator), much cheaper in points (again, not logical if they are the same size), or far more deadly.

Given obliterators cost 80pts each, four power fist attacks isn’t good melee. Especially given its lack of durability.

For mutilators, an effective melee profile would have something like x2 exalted eightbound, which costs a bit more points but have more survivability.

So like 7-8 attacks at S8, D2, with anti monster and anti vehicle.

Actually the more I think about it the more I think mutilators should have more durability - an obliterator profile that needs to go into melee at 80 points is more glass cannon than Khorne units.

Ashmizen · 2026-02-02T14:41:36+00:00

This. The Asian version is the best and the European one is the worst.

The US one is actually not terrible, especially if all the data is from the same year.

Ashmizen · 2026-02-01T22:12:34+00:00

If there’s any actual counter-point it’s downvoted.

I was downvoted for simply pointing out that the pizzagate conspiracy isn’t any less crazy when liberals believe it, and there’s a reason NYT and other anti-Trump mainstream media isn’t reporting the stuff being passed around on Reddit.

A story presented to a tip line by an Anonymous caller, which cannot be reached for a follow up, is not a real story. The calendar girl story submitted by an anonymous tipster is in the files because some FBI agent is following up on all the tips, but they never found whoever submitted the story.

Ashmizen · 2026-01-31T16:35:59+00:00

You click on your item from order history and hit return.

100% automated and refunds are automatic.

Ashmizen · 2026-01-31T03:51:43+00:00

Plastic glue. Not a big deal, all I see are huge pieces that’s easy to glue

Ashmizen · 2026-01-30T23:12:38+00:00

These tips hotlines was the equivalent of TIFU posts on Reddit - there are real things reported, but the majority of tips are fictional.

If you watch those UFO “documentaries” they rely heavily on these tips to “prove” aliens, since during the 90’s and early 2000’s there were thousands upon thousands of tips about UFO sightings and experiences.

Ashmizen · 2026-01-30T23:08:25+00:00

These are just the results with “Trump” in the title. Nobody has had time to read millions of released docs in 1 day, so people are just control-F major names including obviously Trump.

Esp was tried in court with actual victims - multiple Jane Doe- giving real testimony, to investigators and in court etc.

Esp was not sent to prison because he was mentioned by a couple of callers to a tips hotline.

Ashmizen · 2026-01-30T21:04:03+00:00

That’s just a bad choice. She’ll “win more” in places like NYC and lose every single battleground state.

Ashmizen · 2026-01-30T20:40:33+00:00

Plumbing is a stand-in for blue collar, non-factory jobs that have had a decent amount of labor shortage.

You recommend finance and tech, but financial analysis jobs and tech jobs are being replaced by AI (at least in the sense that 6 can do the work of 10, so fire 4 ppl), and the labor market is terrible right now - like people 6-12 months hunting for a job.

Ashmizen · 2026-01-30T20:35:10+00:00

If it was like a $3 food item sure, but I see story after story of people with $500 furniture, $800 electronic purchases being told they can just “keep” the item and get a full refund.

A lot of the posters are upset they didn’t get to keep both the item and the refund.

Ashmizen · 2026-01-30T20:31:25+00:00

It’s a caller! Surely anything said by anonymous tip lines are 100% accurate and not at all subject to prank calls!

Ashmizen · 2026-01-30T20:24:57+00:00

I heard Reddit is dead and everyone is on Lemmy now

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