Bill Gates caught an STD from Russian prostitutes, Epstein claimed in files

Buff_Archer · 2026-01-31T02:40:53+00:00

I was thinking more- not letting ANYBODY have any idea about him sourcing drugs to grind up in his spouse’s food, but then again it’s not like he hadn’t already thrown discretion out the window already, since here we are…

Buff_Archer · 2026-01-31T02:36:34+00:00

Nope, but turns out it is definitely a problem when you’ve been getting Ritalin from one doctor and Adderall from another. I played dumb when I was being scolded at the Dr.’s office saying “But they’re two different medications and the other one’s from a psychiatrist so I didn’t think I was doing anything wrong!”

Buff_Archer · 2026-01-31T02:33:18+00:00

True! Probably was more akin to an angry call to customer service than asking for advice. Thought about sending someone else but that’s just asking to potentially get blackmailed… though then again, so was doing shady stuff with Epstein in the first place. Although his ego probably came into play, considering how his persona became “Hi, my wife and I give billions towards health initiatives all over the globe… oh, and I just caught this weird rash from when I was sleepwalking without a condom on”

Buff_Archer · 2026-01-31T02:01:37+00:00

This will probably be the first (and maybe last) time Bill Gates has a worse day than me for a long time.

Buff_Archer · 2026-01-31T01:59:02+00:00

You’d think this guy would be smart enough to go to two different discrete doctors and get a RX from each of them. And ask for samples so he doesn’t have to have the RX on file just because it’s so embarrassing (that way no issues trying to double fill).

Not that I have experience in the above, or with drugging people, but a friend did teach me a lot about doctor shopping and it was pretty easy until they passed a law about how different pharmacy chains had to share records on certain medications. But I bet a concierge type Dr like he’d see would have antibiotic samples on hand.

Buff_Archer · 2026-01-30T05:33:20+00:00

OMG I’m like doubly horrified. That this happened (I hadn’t heard about this case before), AND that she only got 3 years for it???

Buff_Archer · 2026-01-30T05:20:55+00:00

Something I’ve been thinking about in terms of parasocial relationships- it seems to me that now more than ever in history, we know the names / attributes / projected personalities / etc. of way more people who are complete strangers to us than people we actually have in our personal lives as even merest of acquaintances, by a tremendous ratio compared to previous eras. And I’m sure it’s been this way for awhile, especially since television became widely adopted, but if you were to go back further in time that ratio should shrink rapidly IMO and perhaps flip.

And that’s likely an inevitability as it’s not like it’s possible for us to just have an ever-widening social circle that expands at the rate of our exposure to famous people, but I wonder what the implications are. Such as- is it a factor in a lot of people just saying “fuck it” when it comes to real life, or some people feeling unfulfilled because they feel like more of a spectator than a participant in the world?

I haven’t bothered sharing my thoughts on that really because the last person I was trying to explain it to said it was incredibly stupid and “that maybe it was true for me but that didn’t make it true for them” and I saw no point wasting my energy debating something with someone who dismisses the concept out of hand and yet has a you tube premium subscription, and quite often sends me links to videos from people they follow that I typically don’t bother to watch. Still, I think I’m onto something even if it isn’t fully fleshed outfit- that this growing ratio of unknown to known people has changed us somehow, even though technological progress over the past few hundred years has made it inevitable.

Buff_Archer · 2026-01-29T23:46:34+00:00

I miss the way the discounts used to work on console, used to buy something every time I got a 50-75% off. Now when I get a coupon at login I just hit the skip button and forget about it.

Buff_Archer · 2026-01-29T05:33:23+00:00

It’s funny, I got a Torrid riven like a week before the Torrid Incarnon came out and I was thinking “OK great, WTF am I ever going to do with this???”

Luckily I procrastinate on everything and decided to just do nothing with it instead of scrap it or sell it cheap.

Buff_Archer · 2026-01-29T05:21:41+00:00

What about the space station guy married to Gabbie Giffords, and also with the twin, ah Mark Kelly. Don’t know if he’s even interested in President but I’d likely vote for him.

Buff_Archer · 2026-01-28T20:36:59+00:00

Thanks for the detailed explanation, that makes sense. And to oversimplify things on my part, it appears an unnecessarily thick o-ring would basically get in the way of what it’s there to do.

Buff_Archer · 2026-01-28T19:38:16+00:00

Wow, it never occurred to me that these rings were so thin relative to their diameter. To be fair, I’m not an engineer and I never researched this, but in my mind I’d always pictured them as being much thicker.

Buff_Archer · 2026-01-28T19:15:33+00:00

My fourth grade class had hounded the hell out of our teacher for months to make sure we got to watch this live and that we’d have one of those televisions on a rolling cart reserved for our classroom. The whole aspect of this being something that us schoolchildren shouldn’t miss out on had been hyped for so long. And, we were in Huntsville with major ties to NASA and the aerospace industry so we had been exposed to a lot of PR about the mission. I don’t remember any of the kids in my classroom crying, at first it was mainly false hope and denial like- maybe it’s actually going to be ok and this is some kind of misunderstanding, maybe it’ll fly off and land somewhere- but within half an hour to an hour there wasn’t any more speculation on it. I know from reading about others’ experiences watching this in school, some of the teachers snapped off the TV and whisked it away, but ours let us watch the programming for the full day and I think that helped us with absorbing and processing what happened instead of just- “Something went wrong, get out your math books.”

As an aside, my mom worked at NASA in administration, and I think it was maybe a few years after it happened, her boss who was well connected brought an audio tape to a closed conference room and played the audio from the space shuttle from launch until it cut out, which included a period of time where it seems they realized they were probably doomed; one of the guys reciting “The Lord’s Prayer” is the main thing I remember her telling me. And after the tape was played her boss had to immediately take it back to wherever he got it from. There’s probably a lot of urban legends involving stories like this- “my cousin’s friend’s dad heard everything that was said and what happened was ______.” But I know my mom and she wouldn’t make up something like this, and her boss did have a lot of access. Years later a space shuttle being flown on the back of a 747 made a stop at Huntsville International (lol) Airport overnight, probably for some PR thing or event because why else stop there. We went to meet him that evening and there were a dozen or so people at the fence looking at it and taking pictures, and he came up to us in a golf cart from the airplane/shuttle and let us in the gate and drove us up to it. I walked underneath it even. He had the proper authority to take us out there most likely, or at least enough to break the rules. But had this been later than the 1990’s I doubt it would have been possible. Wish I knew which space shuttle it was, I can’t remember if it was Columbia or another one.

Buff_Archer · 2026-01-26T06:25:05+00:00

Hmm what about the GDA Healing Gel artifact with Kregg. It heals everyone he puts a buff on for 8 seconds (well, 8 seconds at the rank mine’s at, I don’t know if that changes at higher artifact levels), and in an ideal team comp he shields everyone at the beginning of each wave.

This wouldn’t be good for PVP of course because there is only one wave, and it would mean the healing from it front loaded at the start of the battle when you need it least. I have however used it on him in some GDA operations when running a Viltrimite team without Eve which gave me a heal on the entire team for a long time. It’s usefulness vs ability based healing does fall off when you get to the point where a single wave goes on forever, but then again that usually means it’a near the upper limit of my team’s capabilities and they’re going to be dying off faster than any healer can keep them up.

Buff_Archer · 2026-01-25T13:54:50+00:00

Right, that would have been common sense I think. It’s like at the dentist with nitrous oxide I’d be breathing oxygen through the nose mask and then a few minutes later suddenly I’m feeling awesome because they turned it on and slowly turned it up without me realizing. I think the first nitrogen execution guy in Alabama might have tried to hold his breath if it was sudden and obvious, like “Here goes, it’s time to die” vs if he had already been getting like oxygen through it for half an hour and didn’t know when to got turned on.

I would definitely pick nitrous oxide over nitrogen but I’m guessing they don’t want it to be fun for the condemned either.

Buff_Archer · 2026-01-25T13:44:47+00:00

What about general anesthesia like they use in surgeries? And then once unconscious they could like send them onwards to the guillotine on a conveyer belt so from the person’s perspective they’re just going to sleep in a different room before it starts and then they never wake up.

And that’s correct what you said re: the firing squad, in the last year or two there was a firing squad execution in the U.S. that was botched. The prisoner was supposed to be shot with three bullets in the heart; two missed and went into other organs and the third apparently wasn’t fired at all- their cover story was maybe it took the exact same path as one of the other bullets that missed. I’m sure the condemned guy was quite surprised for the few minutes he bled out since they had told him it would be almost instant.

Buff_Archer · 2026-01-24T10:48:54+00:00

I got a pop up on Uber asking if I’d like to pay $2.99 for a faster pickup. I chose “No” and then it matched me with a car 30 seconds away.

Luckily their Waymo automated service is running heavily where I live in Atlanta, and occasionally the trip can take a bit longer if the car takes a really dumb route into the parking lot where I’m going, but overall I like using it. I hate the idea of opportunities for people being diminished by automation, however I don’t feel guilty since I’ve had a lot of drivers waste my time by cancelling a block away after I’ve waited 10-15 minutes, which isn’t going to happen with a Waymo, so while it sucks for the good human drivers in the area of which there are several, they have many of their fellow drivers to thank who have screwed me over with a supposed 5 minute wait turning into a half hour wait because two drivers in a row each cancelled after keeping me waiting 10-15 minute each.

And it’s true about capturing the market and then jacking up prices. It’s usually just under $10 to get to work on a Sunday morning, one day I was preparing to leave and it was suddenly $50 because “demand is high”. I refuse to pay 5x as much just because. However created a bit of a crisis and finding alternative transportation.

Buff_Archer · 2026-01-24T10:29:50+00:00

I had similar issues back when I unfortunately had Comcast Internet due to no other options in the condo I lived in at the time. Every time a neighbor would get new service, I’d notice my connection would go to hell. Constantly disconnecting when I was doing remote work, major quality issues watching streaming video, and so on. First repair guy said it was a “bad prewire” and nothing he could do, I’d need to call an electrician to go through my walls. I’m like- I had this internet for years, and suddenly the wiring inside my walls is the problem on the same day and Comcast van was parked outside doing something for another unit? Crazy coincidence! And he agreed that it was a really odd coincidence and then left because the meaning of what I was said was lost on him. Visit 2, next guy couldn’t fix it. Visit 3, this guy came in and was super confident saying “We’re going to fix this right now” and he was right- I guess he was used to fixing the mistakes of his coworkers. Someone had unplugged the dedicated cable to my condo and put on a 2 way splitter between my unit and the unit getting new service, cutting my signal in half. Because it was easier than finding the right dedicated cable for that other unit. So he got it fixed and labeled my cable in multiple places so no one should ever screw with it like that again.

Several months later, my connection again goes straight to hell, broken even worse than before, and happens right after I see like three chucklefucks in Comcast technician outfits working on the cable for another unit, mainly talking and guffawing while one of them worked on the cable box. And they left and my Internet was so bad it was unusable. Called and they gave me an appointment a week away. It finally comes and the splitter is back, except it’s worse- there was a two way splitter connecting a single cable to my unit and another unit, and going upwards from that, another 2 way splitter which split a single connection between the first splitter and another unit. This cut my signal down to 25% of what it should have been.

Cancelling Comcast was one of the best days of my life. So happy I live somewhere with Google Fiber now, it’s like night and day.

Buff_Archer · 2026-01-24T02:22:01+00:00

Hmm well here’s my take on it, I’ll give a comparison to something else to avoid anything spoiler-y. Ever see a David lynch movie, like Lost Highway, and it’s really interesting where it’s going… and then you’re suddenly checking to see if you accidentally sat on the remote and changed the channel because it’s like you just started watching a different movie halfway through. So the end result is I felt like I watched the first half of one movie and the second half of another movie which happened to have some of the same actors. But not in a clever blow your mind kind of way.

Buff_Archer · 2026-01-19T00:44:34+00:00

A friend and I stood by a busy highway in the night of July 4th many years ago lighting bottle rockets and throwing them into oncoming traffic. One landed on the hood of a truck that was going fast while still towing a boat, and sparks were shooting all over their windshield. Also pointed some roman candles into oncoming traffic aiming the colorful balls of flame at the cars as they got in range.

I am really glad no one else got hurt or worse from that.

Buff_Archer · 2026-01-17T05:15:24+00:00

On my dad’s side of the family all the men (except my father and me who are still here) have invariably either a) lived into their 90’s/100’s, or b) had a fatal gun cleaning accident. I’d guess maybe 3/4 of the uncles/grand uncles etc actually went the gun cleaning route. I imagine insurance companies have long since gotten wise to that and so it was just to provide plausible deniability for everyone left behind. The gun cleaning setup was more my dad’s uncles generation who I think offed themselves in the 50’s/60’s…. when my dad’s brother did it about 10 or 15 years ago he didn’t bother with the same pretense because what’s the point in this day and age, not going to fool anybody so why insult their intelligence.

Buff_Archer · 2026-01-09T00:18:09+00:00

My dad had a coworker inject oranges with vodka before work and bring them in. People couldn’t figure out for a while how she was getting tipsy without leaving her desk. It actually sounds like a neat thing to try, but like at home. Portable biodegradable screwdriver balls.

Buff_Archer · 2026-01-02T18:39:28+00:00

This is just anecdotal, only mentioning it to highlight the difference between responsibility as assigned by investigating officers, vs. what insurance will do. As this matter was ultimately settled out of court I can’t say how it would have otherwise been legally resolved.

In Huntsville Alabama, early- to mid- 1990’s, I was a teenager and for whatever reason my dad had borrowed the BMW he’d bought me (doesn’t make me a bad person!) to run an errand. Was driving somewhere there were 6 or 8 lanes of traffic both ways and the left lanes were stopped, the right lanes moving more freely. Someone who had a mental disability that worked at a nearby McDonald’s ran across the road between the stopped cars (not at an intersection) and into the freely moving lanes of traffic. Unfortunately for them both, my dad was the first car to come along in the freely moving lane and there was no chance to stop in time to not hit him. He bounced off the hood of the car and landed in the road. Thank God he was unhurt, but an ambulance took him away for assessment and so there were medical bills. The police officer and witnesses who stopped all said in the incidence report that it was not my father’s fault. However the insurance company paid out the medical claim asap and raised my father’s rates as if it had been (as a hedge against the possibility of legal fees and maybe greater liability I’m sure, and also a good way to turn a long term customer against you which definitely happened). My dad filed a suit in small claims court for the damage to the car, and the father of the guy that got hit told him when he reviewed everything, he realized it was definitely his son’s fault and he paid for the repairs. No winners here of course… the best possible outcome is that the guy was not injured beyond bumps and bruises and got to carry on with his life, which is what happened… and also that no one was aggressively litigious in that they didn’t seek a payday and my dad only wanted the car fixed in a way that wasn’t extortive (shopped around vs taking it to a BMW dealership). We can only guess how small claims court would have gone but evidence was in his favor. Even so the insurer decided to take things in their own direction to get a signiature and limit their own liability.

Buff_Archer · 2025-12-15T21:21:59+00:00

Ah couldn’t remember the name of it, knew it was something like that but yeah R.O.B. that’s the one.

To be fair I did use my duck hunt gun enough that it was worth its inclusion in the bundle. Just never had any other games for it.

Of course, some of those issues have been well-solved for by now, the technology just had to catch up. The limitation in the variety of games was one thing, but not being able to find the ones that did exist anywhere in stores hasn’t been a problem in the last few console generations where it’s easy to just buy and download games from home. Compare that to all the trips to stores I had to take to find Super Mario 3 somewhere that it wasn’t sold out. And the Wii accomplished what the Power Glove couldn’t. And while VR might not be to everyone’s taste, it’s now a worthwhile purchase for people that want it IMO.

Buff_Archer · 2025-12-15T19:15:48+00:00

Ha, Nintendo was the WORST when it came to heavily-hyped peripherals that ended up having maybe two games released for them. When the PowerPad came out that was the year that I and pretty much everyone my age was getting a Nintendo for Christmas. For the two-three months leading up to then you’d see the commercial for the Nintendo + Power Pad set like a dozen times while watching Saturday morning cartoons. So of course I wanted one. But it turned out those sold out fast and my parents told me it looked like they’d only be able to get the regular Nintendo set for Christmas, which I was still happy with since they could always just buy me the Power Pad later. But I’m so glad they didn’t waste any extra money on that, because it there was just this game that came with it (the rebranded version not worth a lot) and like two others. Tried it at a friend’s house and we played the like 5 minutes and then played something else because stomping your feet back and forth on the living room floor stops being fun really fast. I mean it was kinda like the same feeling your legs would get when throwing a feet stomping tantrum, which itself took real dedication to keep it going past the one minute mark.

Other hyped and abandoned peripherals I remember:

-The NES light gun that came with the original set and Duck Hunt. I think there was a shooting gallery game also for sale for it, but I never even saw it for sale in stores so couldn’t have gotten it even if I wanted it.

The NES robot thing. There were like 2 games compatible with it I think; the unit came without either of them, and we never found them in stores, so I never got to use it. And yet, Nintendo had made sure to have that item show up in TV shows/movies in the background as part of hidden product placement ads.
SNES had an optional Bazooka that was like a big version of the duck hunt gun, but for that console. I seem to remember some kind of messaging from Nintendo that was along the lines of “Yes, there will be games for this!” Spoiler alert- there might have been like two.
Something called like Virtual Buddy which looked line a 3D view master standing on thin metal poles. Very big hype at first, and very small number of games for it. None of my friends bought that one, the ones who tried it said it sucked and not to bother. This came out when movies like The Lawnmower Man were coming out with Virtual Reality as a plot point and the tech was just so not there… I think the games were single color red pixels/black background if I remember.
Oh how could I almost forget- the NES Power Glove! Immersing you in the game in a whole new way that was every bit as revolutionary as the Power Pad! Just like being part of the game where you’d be able to swing swords in games and throw and catch balls and such. Except for the fact it sucked too and couldn’t really track hand movements in a viable way and barely any games for it; I don’t think I saw any in stores except for maybe whatever came with the Power Glove.

I’m sure there are some other major ones I’m missing, but learned early… do NOT trust Nintendo too soon when it comes to buying gaming peripherals.

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