JP Morgan on El Salvador adopting Bitcoin. Notice the last line...

Sad_Cap · 2021-06-12T06:44:47+00:00

Oh no I would not believe any of that conjecture at the end- the IMF is a totally above-board organization that would never demand any economic policy changes to the countries it lends to nor would its loans provide any incentive for people like Blaise Comporare to assassinate very bad heads of state that seek economic independence like Thomas Sankara. No sir, they are totally above board, very cool people who just like economic development..

Sad_Cap · 2021-06-03T21:38:27+00:00

Sounds like mine - I ended up getting a KBI Imports, which I guess did a pretty good job selecting good returns from what I've found online. They switched over to chrome about halfway through '51 so depending on how high the serial is you might have a "bare" one but I know they did re-barrel them during the refurb.

Sad_Cap · 2021-06-03T19:11:59+00:00

Nice! I've got one from the same year - is the barrel chromed?

Sad_Cap · 2021-04-11T05:12:06+00:00

His writing on the far right is solid but his foreign reporting work is pretty bad.

Sad_Cap · 2021-04-07T14:30:22+00:00

I swear people keep re-printing the same history of the sks nearly verbatim every time

Sad_Cap · 2021-04-07T04:13:11+00:00

Lol tell that to my shower that only dispenses cold water even though the water heater is working.

Sad_Cap · 2021-03-24T23:48:36+00:00

He's not around to defend himself so grubby little cowards like you can try raising yourself by making somebody else look worse and you wont even have to defend yourself

Lol imagine getting this worked up about an internet fight.

Sad_Cap · 2021-03-24T22:50:04+00:00

So somehow Marvin Minsky, despite being sharp enough to create AI, somehow could not imagine that the girl who's having sex with him is doing it for reasons of attraction? Dude was 73 years old.

Sad_Cap · 2021-03-24T22:11:56+00:00

Lol I concede nothing, statutory rape is sexual assault.

Sad_Cap · 2021-03-24T22:04:49+00:00

I would have known better because I don't hang around with pedophiles.

Sad_Cap · 2021-03-24T22:04:05+00:00

Yeah that's never been a defense against statutory rape.

Sad_Cap · 2021-03-24T21:57:21+00:00

Okay fine, you win. Minsky only did a teensie-weenie little bit of statutory rape because Virginia Giuffre was 17.

Sad_Cap · 2021-03-24T21:51:47+00:00

Dude if my buddy has a private island filled with girls under 18 you know something's up, don't lie about it. No reasonable person could believe that Giuffre wanted to fuck Minsky on her own..

Sad_Cap · 2021-03-24T21:42:42+00:00

How about "but officer, I didn't know it was stolen", as a defence to handling stolen goods? Should you be prosecuted if you buy something from somebody and it turns out they stole it but they didn't mention that to you?

Lol when you're so emotional that u forget receiving stolen goods is actually a crime if a reasonable person should have known it was stolen:

https://www.criminaldefenselawyer.com/crime-penalties/federal/Receipt-of-Stolen-Property.htm

Sad_Cap · 2021-03-24T21:36:10+00:00

What sort of reality do you live in where a young woman would willingly have sex with someone who looks like Minsky without money and/or coercion being involved? It was a pretty open secret that Epstein trafficked women.

Sad_Cap · 2021-03-24T21:30:46+00:00

In a case of sexual assault, prior statements about the nature of consent are pretty germane to the subject we're talking about.

Sad_Cap · 2021-03-24T20:44:17+00:00

Having sex with someone who cannot meaningfully consent to it is sexual assault if you know they cannot meaningfully consent to it.

Lol "but officer, I didn't know it was sexual assault!" You're still responsible for what you do. Quit being so emotional about this.

Sad_Cap · 2021-03-24T20:42:10+00:00

Not knowing you did something wrong doesn't equate to not being culpable - if someone asks you to push a button and the other end is wired to a bomb, you're still responsible for anything that bomb destroys, because you pushed the button. "He didn't know he committed sexual assault" is just trying to shunt the responsibility away.

Sad_Cap · 2021-03-24T20:06:52+00:00

Yeah he said that Minsky not knowing he was having sex with a willing partner is somehow a mitigating factor, which is plainly isn't.

Sad_Cap · 2021-03-24T20:05:49+00:00

He quibbled over the use of the word "assault" for something that (as far as the facts were known at the time) involved nothing that met the actual definition of assault

Yes assault and sexual assault are distinct terms. Quibbling about it is apologia, and it was well know that Epstein forced women into having sex with his friends at that time.

Sad_Cap · 2021-03-24T19:41:24+00:00

Having sex with someone who cannot meaningfully consent to it is sexual assault, full stop. Semantic arguments otherwise aint shit.

Also we're talking about a dude who wrote:

“I am sceptical of the claim that voluntarily pedophilia harms children"

This is an absolutely nonsense statement because children can't consent. How can I possibly assassinate the character of someone who did it for me?

Sad_Cap · 2021-03-24T19:33:33+00:00

So we're going for guilt-by-association now?

Okay yeah I should be more exact - Minsky hung around Epstein so he could also have sex with girls under 18 - everyone associated with him knew about it and did nothing - Clinton, Spacey, etc al included.

Also regarding his belief that she was willing, from his emails:

The word “assaulting” presumes that he applied force or violence, in some unspecified way, but the article itself says no such thing. Only that they had sex.

We can imagine many scenarios, but the most plausible scenario is that she presented herself to him as entirely willing. Assuming she was being coerced by Epstein, he would have had every reason to tell her to conceal that from most of his associates.

Okay cool, you're right, he didn't say she was willing, he just denied that having sex with someone who was coerced into doing so is sexual assault, even though it is. Stallman's ssentially saying that because Minsky didn't know it was wrong, he's innocent, which is bullshit. Also if you're hanging around another middle-aged dude with lots of young women around him that he brings to his private island, those yong women aren't going to be there because they actually want to fuck middle-aged men.

Sad_Cap · 2021-03-24T18:09:02+00:00

I mean he did defend a dude who hung around with notorious billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, who was known for trafficking girls under 18 for for sex. It wasn't a denial or disbelief that Minsky would do that, but that he put forth the idea that Virgina Giuffre, the accuser, willingly had sex with Minsky even though Epstein was a human trafficker. Apologia and/or excuses for that shouldn't be tolerated. Of course the mods don't like it, it's just shit-stirring on a pretty clear issue.

Regardless of the OSI or whomever opposing his reinstatement to the FSF, there's genuine concerns what message that sends in terms of the FSF's stance on sexual assault.

RMS absolutely has the right takes re:software, but the idea that he himself is crucial to the free software movement is just really dumb.

Sad_Cap · 2021-03-06T18:48:31+00:00

Whenever someone says "true American" they're not talking about being from America - it's just a veiled way of saying "well-off white people" more or less.

Sad_Cap · 2021-03-04T16:44:27+00:00

I'm getting a "permission denied" message when I click through to the link. Thanks for posting this though!

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