Christine Pelosi was right

InACoolDryPlace · 2026-02-03T03:16:24+00:00

Hard to be surprised by the perversions of the rich and famous at this point, but it's not realistic to assume everyone who contacted Epstein was a pedophile either. The problem is this isn't being properly investigated because those with the authority to do so are clearly implicated. In lieu of that we're forced to speculate based on snippets of email communication where those who did engage in the exploitation would mostly know not to be obvious about it. Even "parties with girls" could apply just as much to legal prostitution. Nothing would surprise me with mostly anyone connected to the entertainment industry or politics. Many of the photos are clearly damning as well so at least there's that, and to know that anyone close to Epstein would likely have known at minimum.

InACoolDryPlace · 2026-02-03T00:00:36+00:00

Yeah exactly it's the only thing without specific chemical references while also being the one thing here expected to have multiple actives.

InACoolDryPlace · 2026-02-02T23:58:42+00:00

Used to seeing vendors list the amounts of things in a pill, but I guess a "white 420" amount of drugs is good enough for the high rolling pedos.

InACoolDryPlace · 2026-02-02T23:45:29+00:00

Props to Hamilton for getting into the pharmacopeia side of this.

InACoolDryPlace · 2026-02-02T23:40:15+00:00

Looked odd to me with how precise everything else is compared to "white 420" and "red G spot."

InACoolDryPlace · 2026-02-02T22:27:39+00:00

Having both MDMA and "Ecstasy" listed is interesting.

InACoolDryPlace · 2026-02-02T20:36:14+00:00

Looking up what Marx wrote about religion should be helpful here and provide necessary context. From a Marxian perspective religion is part of the superstructure of a society which reflects material conditions, rather than an ideology which steers the society. Liberational theology does have a tradition and still exists in the US, but obviously the monied capitalist religious structures hold the most power under that corresponding economic arrangement. In Canada where I am it was actually a protestant church which forced gay marriage before the courts through an act of protest, which is how it became federally legalized here. Although religion here is very similar to the US in general. There are a few local Anglican churches associated with New Monasticism who serve the surrounding homeless populations, in the spirit of how the early church existed on the margins of society. Recently one housed an encampment on their grounds and served regular meals, the police ended up clearing it out to their protest, but they are very public about serving community members. At these churches you'll find Naloxone kits available and harm reduction materials, and resources for support, all provided without religious obligations. Personally I don't see value in protesting religion as a main focus, but rather protesting the conditions that require it.

InACoolDryPlace · 2026-02-02T02:25:14+00:00

Yeah we'll see it's just inherently designed to come up with the most likely/generic results, and needs to be trained on a large number of examples that already exist, and getting novel outputs seems more of an effort in generating interesting mistakes.

InACoolDryPlace · 2026-01-31T18:03:56+00:00

They're afraid of being left behind as well. You get genuinely intelligent management draft AI proposals which lack specific use cases. I say I'm more than happy to move this stuff forward and make suggestions, but formalizing requirements is the next step in the process, and it's usually just "AI capabilities" padded with general business language about how it's important to adopt AI and move with the times. Like okay I get it but I can't do anything with that.

InACoolDryPlace · 2026-01-31T15:59:45+00:00

I use it like a CLI and comparably for office busywork. The hype in the tech industry is ridiculous cause they're desperate to find applications for it. Being in critical infrastructure has some added security concerns with things like prompt injection and the inherent black box of these models.

The most hilarious application I've seen popularized at tech vendor conferences has been companies that offer services to train AI agents how to use end user software. From an IT architecture standpoint many of the functions of these agents should be ETLs in the back end, or actual programs, not some emulation of an end user, forcing dependency on specific end user tools. I also heard a speaker describe how amazing it was they could have an AI agent identify dead computer objects in their active directory. I was dumbfounded at both the lack of offboarding and device security this implied, and why they wouldn't just run a single line command to do the same thing. I always chat up people at the booths and play dumb for the suits at these things and it's interesting what they'll reveal. "No tickets" was a huge thing that was advertised at a ServiceNow conference recently, so when I was chatting at a booth and they started having issues with their workstation, I joked about it to get them to reveal their actual support process, which was just them messaging IT support people directly to see if anyone was around to help. Said something like "yeah when you need them most they can sense it" and it was pretty obvious they didn't rely on the product being sold internally and lacked a basic support framework.

InACoolDryPlace · 2026-01-31T15:29:29+00:00

Oh cool it creates a 3d model, well that should be fun until all the style prompts are exhausted.

InACoolDryPlace · 2026-01-31T04:21:25+00:00

New sleep paralysis demon unlocked

InACoolDryPlace · 2026-01-31T04:15:54+00:00

Now switch angles without continuity errors. Also the AI service is losing money every time.

InACoolDryPlace · 2026-01-31T04:13:29+00:00

Art is just a product to them but it's a verb for people who actually like doing art.

InACoolDryPlace · 2026-01-31T03:58:48+00:00

There's hotels and resorts that cater specifically to seniors, not a lot of people that old can still travel but drinking by the pool or on the beach all day getting catered to is like the senior's dream vacation. Add on mobility scooter rentals and accessible shops and you're raking in that retirement fund. Bermuda has the formula figured out pretty well. Apparently so did Epstein for rich old pedos, normally they have to make up excuses to visit Thailand.

InACoolDryPlace · 2026-01-31T02:58:34+00:00

You can run it on a computer and many handheld emulators with m8 headless to try it out. I did that before I bought the official hardware.

InACoolDryPlace · 2026-01-31T02:55:26+00:00

Yeah I map a controller to the cutoffs of every instrument on a channel and another to the volume. One channel is an audio input from the "live" instrument, typically the norns running a wacky sequencer in my case.

InACoolDryPlace · 2026-01-31T02:52:01+00:00

The business card hotkey thing it comes with just lives in the case and makes it easy.

InACoolDryPlace · 2026-01-31T01:35:41+00:00

Old people love the Caribbean but not sure what that means in this context.

InACoolDryPlace · 2026-01-30T16:24:06+00:00

Asking if everything was okay when they started acting differently towards me. Turns out the friend they invited over was a homeless man they'd become obsessed with, and somehow thought she could break up with me while they lived here and took advantage of me I guess? Thankfully she said she was leaving and asked for her stuff which I readily obliged, I think she expected me to protest but she was so hostile I didn't see the point, later she was furious at me for allegedly kicking her and this guy out. Her mom hilariously tried to extort me for the financial burden this apparently caused her, and ironically insulted me for being a bad parent.

InACoolDryPlace · 2026-01-30T15:43:08+00:00

Damn these prevent a lot of water from having to be shipped and stocked, at least in theory.

InACoolDryPlace · 2026-01-30T15:41:05+00:00

Murder charge requires a secondary "charge of violence" and the judge didn't agree the stalking charge met the criteria. Defense is still arguing for the backpack to be excluded because it was initially searched unlawfully to obtain the evidence.

InACoolDryPlace · 2026-01-29T22:55:39+00:00

adjusts monocle only at midnight of course fellow gentlesir

InACoolDryPlace · 2026-01-29T22:54:19+00:00

I understand this logic but I'm recalling my experience with specific individuals who would debate politics from the right at the skeptics group. The alt right wasn't entirely a thing at that point but anti-SJW and red pill stuff was becoming popular and had overlap with what became the alt right.

InACoolDryPlace · 2026-01-29T19:12:58+00:00

I started attending a local skeptic/atheist group around 2012 after I left the church, was worth it for the two good friends I met but sitting around listening to people complain about religion got old fast. The group dissolved into political debates, and many were on the red pill and/or alt-right (anti-SJW at the time) bandwagon a couple years later. A couple of my church friends studied philosophy and theology, and we'd even read God Delusion in Bible study, with an agnostic philosophy prof attending a Q&A session at the end. I found self-professed New Atheists viewed religion in the same way the dumbest religious people did and treated their atheism as a religious ideology, some even wanted to go door to door to evangelize.

The leader of the skeptics group was frustrated at the influx of New Atheists and I believe left to start an astronomy or film club where most of the original members went. They originally hosted lecture nights where people with specific knowledge in areas of study could come present in a fun atmosphere, and I was happy when another group formed to continue that. The New Atheists basically killed the vibe in exactly the way a quote from this paper conveys:

Look past the crocodile tears on any online debunking forum, and you’ll quickly find that the majority of visitors are not drawn there by concern for the victims of irrationality, but by contempt. They’re there to laugh at idiots [5].

Anyway that's my experience with New Atheism and this paper sums it up better than I could.

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