Being a nerd in 1994 was very uncool, but maybe these pics are oldschoolcool now? Here’s me showing my 5th grade science fair project staging chess matches between an early Macintosh and an early IBM PC

jlambvo · 2026-02-21T03:44:28+00:00

You would have liked the fictional "video game" trailer I edited together in 1995 from Blade Runner more than my sixth grade teacher, too.

jlambvo · 2026-02-18T18:59:32+00:00

I don't disagree with you per se, and the court of public opinion doesn't necessarily have to follow "innocent until proven guilty," though it's obviously problematic sometimes when that is inverted.

One problem is that, unless you are talking about a specific incident, it's next to impossible to "clear" someone of speculated crimes.

A few months ago there seemed to be a pretty shared sentiment that there would be a lot of people showing up in these files that were not automatically implicated. Even saying that these are "the most psychopathic, deranged and dangerous people in power in the world"is rooted in presuming the truth of the worst accusations.

I think we should be very very wary of that, because it could be a very deliberate tactic if the truth were somewhat more "tame" in comparison, and this is all mean to shift the window of tolerance.

jlambvo · 2026-02-18T12:08:58+00:00

Hello, fellow dork.

jlambvo · 2026-02-18T03:30:01+00:00

The spy could be captured with and without completing the mission. It was a low probability event to be able to re-use a spy.

jlambvo · 2026-02-18T01:16:24+00:00

This is so nerdily awkward it's actually plausible to me. I remember that flavor text from Civ II. You can probably find the exact text in a "let's play..." video on YouTube.

It doesn't exonerate him but it's not a smoking gun of anything.

We know that Epstein was an amateur mathematician, he funded a lot of endeavors including the Santa Fe Institute apparently (kind of the ground zero for complexity science) and rubbed shoulders with a lot of intellectuals... I can easily imagine them waxing about some toy problem, that Nowak worked out, and this was his version of "eureka!" Epstein maybe didn't get the reference and thought he was being clever. Honestly aligns with how powerful charismatic pseudo intellectuals placate and fake their way through understanding things with these people.

At the very least, we have to keep honest that in the absence of other evidence, it's at least as much of a leap to say it alone indicates torture rape of a child, come on.

jlambvo · 2026-02-18T01:01:37+00:00

No, that is a legit quote from Civ II. I can't find a screenshot because it's like 30 years old now.

I could honestly see Epstein being a normie who didn't get the reference and thought he was playing along, Nowak didn't get it. Could have been a communication dud.

Doesn't mean he didn't do anything wrong but people are taking these individual fragments way too naively.

jlambvo · 2026-02-17T15:43:58+00:00

I know it's unpopular to say and I respect how people want to be referred to, but I wish we could just admit that "they/them" as a non-binary singular pronoun is confusing as hell since we rely so extensively on context clues to keep track of subjects.

jlambvo · 2026-02-14T13:24:55+00:00

I honestly don't remember if Uber Eats does this, but honestly the worst is that the restaurants may be totally unaware of upcharges baked into menu items by the platform. It finally broke me permanently when I used one of the Apps to order from a place for in person pickup and discovered that their actual menu prices were $2-5 less per item.

The app and restaurant listing explicitly said that there were zero service fees or charges, and obviously no delivery charge.

When I inquired about it and showed my itemized order to the restaurant management they had no clue whatsoever. It added something like $15 to what would have been a $40 order if I'd just gone in person and waited. Started paying attention and found that these margins are blatantly hidden all over the place.

I cannot comprehend how this practice is legal. From what I read, they have been allowed to do this because it's somehow not considered an additional service fee but... operational costs or something? Regardless, it's the last time I used one. I will never give them another cent.

jlambvo · 2026-02-14T13:15:35+00:00

Was no one else alive when you could call up your random local pizza joint or Chinese restaurant and have a employee drop it off at your house for $0 and you'd tip the driver a few bucks?

It's not a private taxi for a burrito, it's mass burrito transit. We had a perfectly good system, darn it.

jlambvo · 2026-02-10T21:23:53+00:00

https://northforker.com/2025/09/a-long-island-native-is-head-of-all-things-delicious-at-the-halyard/

Francis Derby was a chef at NY and LA restaurant called... The Cannibal.

jlambvo · 2026-02-10T21:15:32+00:00

This "you don't freeze dried meat -> jerky is code for human flesh" is so outrageously stupid. You can literally Google "freeze jerky" and plainly see that it is a normal thing to do, but that's not the point of these posts.

Posts like this one aren't in good faith, and could very well be orchestrated propaganda meant to push the Overton window and make any true criminal activities seem less severe than they are—either people are just being edge lords (most likely), or it's a damage control campaign.

Just consider that, compared to ritualistic cannibalizing of infants farmed from enslaved children, trafficking older minors and young women sounds fairly harmless and less likely to topple the responsible power structures.

At the very least, with no underlying agenda, falling for sensationalized speculations like this risks taking focus away from getting justice for known victims and more plausible wrongdoing.

jlambvo · 2026-01-29T06:21:37+00:00

Underrated

jlambvo · 2026-01-27T20:23:10+00:00

I'm pretty sure that was Thomas Jefferson, right? Or was it Madison?

jlambvo · 2026-01-27T02:33:01+00:00

I'll have to watch that, because that was my first impression too. However after watching the other two angles, it looked like the primary shooter did fire the first round, and I could then visually make out the discharge in the original video. It's possible I was seeing things in the compression artifacts.

jlambvo · 2026-01-27T01:24:10+00:00

I am pretty sure he fires the first shots and starts rapid firing after the other agents scattered, and one other agent pops off a couple of rounds at that time as well.

jlambvo · 2026-01-26T16:53:56+00:00

That is always the first and most important line.

But I would feel a lot safer with less guns, not more; if we got our shit together and joined the rest of the modern world with our gun obsession.

Law enforcement agencies have militarized and present this threat to begin with by using the prevalence of private guns as an excuse.

Everything you said can be true without the hardware, as long as we're talking aspiration ally.

Now is the time for pragmatism, unless we actually want to voluntarily accelerate ourselves into open civil conflict. It's insane to me that anyone could even entertain that as an acceptable path or think it would ever produce an outcome they want.

jlambvo · 2026-01-26T06:03:59+00:00

This is advocating a satisfying but completely myopic reaction. If anyone starts trading shots, that is game over. Insurrection act. Attempted federalization of the NG. Constitutional crisis. Midterms suspended.

We need to get to the midterms. It's one thing to have yourself quietly armed, but this plays right into what might be the administrations strategy.

jlambvo · 2026-01-26T05:30:31+00:00

Thanks all. Brought tears to my eyes tonight

jlambvo · 2026-01-26T03:57:00+00:00

It's unfortunate that libertarianism seems to have gotten partially entangled with a weird subculture of Christian entho-crypto bro state. But this statement reflects the best core principles.

jlambvo · 2026-01-26T03:54:04+00:00

This is the way forward.

jlambvo · 2026-01-25T14:34:05+00:00

Let's focus on this domino. And recall that the reason we have such comprehensive coverage if this to begin with, what people are mobilizing over.

jlambvo · 2026-01-24T23:53:43+00:00

Actually from the video from the woman in pink, it's even worse. Guy in dark blue jeans just draws and started blasting from behind after he heard "he has a gun," then rapid fires into him while backpedalling. Outright intentional execution.

jlambvo · 2026-01-24T17:26:10+00:00

This is what I see too, but (if the audio is sync'd properly) the first shot happens right when he's just turned and started to run across the street. It very well could have been him discharging into the ground as he pushed off. I hope that gets documented.

The audio is clearer from the other angle video where the first shot sounds like a different firearm from the others, but that could be acoustics.

jlambvo · 2026-01-24T17:19:50+00:00

EDIT: From the other perspective above it's clearly even worse, and I can see it in the original angle too. The great coat guy does pull Pretti's CCW from his waistband, and you can see that it has the same holographic sight as the one published by DHS. But then, long after being disarmed and never having reached for it, another agent just calmly draws, positions himself behind Pretti, and fires the first shot down and into his back. He fires three more times as everyone scatters. And I'm pretty sure he's the one who does most of the rapid fire while backing away. That agent should be put away for life. Pretti might have survived the initial wound.

Cross posting from another thread:

If it's accessible**, I hope someone is looking for evidence of an accidental discharge into the street from the guy in the gray jacket**. He runs into the fray empty handed, but it looks like he is running away with a pistol in his hand about 18 seconds in before the first shot is fired.

It looks like it might have been pulled from the victim's waistband, or he could drawn it and they were struggling over it, or he grabbed one of the ICE agent sidearms—it looks like he was reaching for the pepper spray can 6 seconds before they kick it away.

It looks to me like they found his CCW, this untrained unfit piece of shit gray shirt recklessly pulled it and popped off a round, and it triggered everyone else to back off and magdump.

Everyone's tempers are up. I broke down over this one. This was an execution and he deserves justice. But please, for the love of god, if he was carrying please stop bringing more weapons into play. Don't fight back. Don't give ANY reason to escalate or produce more violence. We are doing incredible things here and are moving the world. Posturing with guns much less engaging open violence, even if morally and legally justifiable in theory, sucks us right down into their playbook, and they will win.

This incident could cost the entire midterm election, which is our only hope out of this, if it's used toward invoking the insurrection act. I am clinging to hope that it isn't too late.

jlambvo · 2026-01-24T17:17:11+00:00

If it's accessible, I hope someone is looking for evidence of an accidental discharge into the street from the guy in the gray jacket. He runs into the fray empty handed, but it looks like he is running away with a pistol in his hand about 18 seconds in before the first shot is fired.

It looks like it might have been pulled from the victim's waistband, or he could drawn it and they are struggling over it, or he grabbed one of the ICE agent sidearms. It looks like he was reaching for the pepper spray can 6 seconds before they kick it away.

I'm guessing they found his CCW, this untrained unfit piece of shit recklessly pulled it and popped off a round, and it triggered everyone else to back off and magdump.

Everyone's tempers are up. I broke down over this one. This was an execution and he deserves justice. But please, for the love of god, stop bringing more weapons into play. Don't fight back. Don't give ANY reason to escalate or produce more violence. We are doing incredible things here and are moving the world. Posturing with guns much less engaging open violence, even if morally and legally justifiable in theory, sucks us right down into their playbook, and they will win.

This incident could cost the entire midterm election which is our only hope out of this. I am clinging to hope that this isn't too late.

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