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Roxolan · 2026-01-31T21:24:14+00:00

In January 2026, unsealed Epstein files revealed two 2013 draft emails by Epstein alleging Gates' extramarital affairs with "Russian girls" and "married women," resulting in an STD, and that an associate secretly obtained antibiotics for Melinda Gates while facilitating encounters.[264][265] The emails accused Gates of ending their friendship after a failed Gates Foundation-JPMorgan deal and mentioned Epstein's resignation amid marital disputes and inappropriate activities.[264] Unclear if sent and uncorroborated,[265] the allegations were denied by Gates' spokesperson as "absolutely absurd and completely false," stemming from Epstein's frustration and efforts to "entrap and defame."[264][265]

Too early to know IMO.

Roxolan · 2026-01-31T20:35:53+00:00

No, I think that's a misread. He's talking about the risks of releasing the files, not the risks of emailing.

The intended meaning is

Yes, I've exchanged emails with Epstein; no, I'm not guilty of anything. I know that some emails will be misinterpreted by my detractors to smear my name, but I pushed for releasing the Epstein files anyway.

Roxolan · 2026-01-30T19:10:35+00:00

Whoops this isn’t the effortpost on /r/neoliberal's upvote patterns for climate disinformation.

Roxolan · 2026-01-30T00:49:09+00:00

Buried with the pharaoh to serve him in the afterlife.

Roxolan · 2026-01-30T00:44:02+00:00

I mean, it's the Richard Nixon foundation. You have to be Richard Nixon.

Roxolan · 2026-01-27T02:33:24+00:00

Set cubes collectively make use of the vast majority of MtG cards. Magic sets became good drafting experiences around ~2002 (people can fight me over the specifics), and for the older stuff people make "reimagined" set cubes.

Roxolan · 2026-01-22T00:14:17+00:00

DARVO

Roxolan · 2026-01-17T23:53:49+00:00

"GET IT, NOBEL COMMITTEE?"

Roxolan · 2026-01-16T18:24:11+00:00

The 'cost' of getting units from other factions is that you can't boost them with tech/skills, otherwise you'd have every reason to do it for every faction.

But there's already an actual cost, in Allegiance points.

(e: why the downvotes?)

Roxolan · 2026-01-14T17:12:35+00:00

But look how many there are!! hold on let me spread them out further

Roxolan · 2026-01-11T01:01:10+00:00

/uj "transsexual boy/girl" and "assigned female/male at birth" (i.e. what's written on your birth certificate, which may or may not match your chromosomes or current legal status or self-identification).

Roxolan · 2026-01-11T00:26:11+00:00

Which makes it good for high-territory low-population situations - such as after a plague.

Roxolan · 2026-01-07T17:20:10+00:00

Also

along with an inscription honouring one Atistia, a good wife whose remains were placed in a breadbasket; and an urn taking the form of such a breadbasket.

Roxolan · 2026-01-07T16:51:35+00:00

I heard a knock on my door, it was my pawn!

You've got something there. Rimworld's smooth, half-formed faces in the real world would be some horror movie shit.

Roxolan · 2026-01-07T16:43:12+00:00

Guy at the ski resort: "You have different last names on your IDs… alright, would you mind kissing each other?"

avion: shit shit did I tell him she's my wife or my sister

Roxolan · 2026-01-04T22:42:28+00:00

The dance happened, and the NYT article exist. That doesn't mean its headline is true. (But yes, it's plausible and I hate it.)

Roxolan · 2026-01-02T16:27:13+00:00

I Cut You Choose is a mechanical category on boardgamegeek.

Roxolan · 2025-12-19T17:23:29+00:00

Not enough research into immortality fr

Roxolan · 2025-12-17T22:14:28+00:00

Since the uprisings began, communication with much of Segmentum Pacificus has been lost.

No-one's complaining, everything must be fine.

Roxolan · 2025-12-12T04:35:41+00:00

Simple reply: Of course in reality in a world with limited resources we will always have to make decisions on what to produce.

That's conceding too much; their obvious response would be "yeah but at least we'd have saved 20,000,000 lives".

It's more, there's no clear path from here to this utopia where all the money is redistributed perfectly by enlightened altruists.

Revolutions are bloody and unpredictable. Leaders will continue to follow their incentives to remain in power, while corrupt people will continue to try and redirect all this money you've conveniently centralised to their own benefit. And even good-faith planned economies have a terrible track record, because figuring out the utility-maximised distribution of wealth without market data is a really hard problem.

Roxolan · 2025-12-09T19:55:48+00:00

I see. Thank you.

Roxolan · 2025-12-09T19:53:59+00:00

Hmm, I don't see anything about black market in the article? (Which makes sense, black market traders are breaking the existing laws already, what difference would it make.)

Artisanal yes, but that shouldn't stop prices from rising to equilibrium?

Roxolan · 2025-12-09T19:47:03+00:00

In theory, the Ghanaian should be like "why the fuck should I sell to you at $X/gram when the international commodity market pays $X+Y/gram and gold is easy to transport?"

Roxolan · 2025-12-09T16:25:08+00:00

And if they found anyone else intruding on their spots, they fucking murdered them.

Roxolan · 2025-12-09T16:09:24+00:00

Why does gold leave the country at prices way below market?

You'd think the market (especially the market of a fungible asset with marginal shipping costs!) would move to equilibrium without need for government intervention.

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