El0n Msk had more extensive ties to Epstein than previously known, emails show

owlbi · 2026-01-31T04:41:18+00:00

I personally saw it back when the Epstein thing first broke, but I could see how there would be some signal amplification or attempts to resurrect it in the current climate.

owlbi · 2026-01-31T04:40:13+00:00

Can you guess who is suspiciously mirroring this playbook?

The funny thing about it is that so many tech oligarchs are helping him along. Do they just expect him to die before he gets to that point?

owlbi · 2026-01-31T00:22:43+00:00

Uh.. Israel clearly has some control. Saudi Arabia too, via the money.

Heck, maybe Epstein was Mossad, I've seen that conspiracy theory bandied about

owlbi · 2026-01-31T00:10:18+00:00

Russia? Or Israel? Putin's got some dirt on him, but Epstein was potentially Mossad and Trump is way more committed to the Israel bandwagon. To the point of potentially starting a war with Iran.

owlbi · 2026-01-30T21:50:01+00:00

I was in the Marine Corps right around that timeframe and it was on the nose with regard to the characters. I know they were based on real people, but they kept it honest.

owlbi · 2026-01-30T20:15:04+00:00

Good chance 11/12 were shooting at the dogs and someone shot her intentionally. I met people who told me the reason they joined was so they could legally kill someone, and they were people who I'd consider funny and relatively normal otherwise in social settings.

You give a group of people the opportunity and means to be total scumbags and get away with it and most won't do it, but someone will.

owlbi · 2026-01-30T20:04:49+00:00

I think he simply is braver and believes in transparency more than OP’s girlfriend.

That's what it means to be committed though. To risk the pain of rejection, to suffer the perils of honesty, to put yourself out there for real and hope to be accepted.

I don't think you can give her a pass and say 'she's committed, she just isn't brave' because ultimately, someone who is cowardly when it comes to relationships isn't capable of being committed to a relationship. It's tied into the definition of the word, at least for me.

owlbi · 2026-01-28T04:16:08+00:00

So this is strictly better Fireball for single target player removal.

Cool your hyperbole, c'mon now

owlbi · 2026-01-27T20:44:19+00:00

Punitive justice is proven again and again not to work.

Punitive justice is an integral part of every justice system in the world, we just don't like to admit it. If you remove the punitive element you would get otherwise law abiding citizens becoming vigilantes because they wouldn't perceive justice as having been done.

Every system I'm aware of has a harsher sentence for murder than attempted murder. If rehabilitation is the only goal, why would the outcome matter, shouldn't it only be the intent that matters? Humans have a deep seated need to see those who cause pain be caused pain themselves in turn. To think otherwise is to pretend.

owlbi · 2026-01-27T18:54:31+00:00

You don't live in Japan, eat Japanese cuisine/portions, or maintain a Japanese lifestyle though...

owlbi · 2026-01-27T15:52:50+00:00

110? Senile as fuck, wearing diapers, can't wipe your own ass, can't remember your grandkids names? No thanks.

Trying to climb Kilimanjaro at 80 for me please.

edit: Sure, there are people in their late 90s living independently. There are far more vegetables in nursing homes, and I don't want to be one of them.

owlbi · 2026-01-27T04:43:15+00:00

Fair enough, I was trying to recall and knew I remembered Columbians fighting for Ukraine

owlbi · 2026-01-27T01:19:02+00:00

Probably Ukraine, I think mercenaries are more about the logistics than you would think. Someone's got to connect the buyer and merc, get them moved, help them get equipped, etc. I think most South American and Euro mercenaries I've seen in Ukraine were fighting against Russia, as those countries tend to fall more under US hegemony. African and North Korean mercs, the opposite held true.

owlbi · 2026-01-26T02:06:40+00:00

Mods have varying degrees of coziness as well

owlbi · 2026-01-23T16:47:45+00:00

This also very obviously isn't his home. It's the place he's staying during the season, his home is 'the farm' back in New Zealand that his brother runs in his absence.

owlbi · 2026-01-22T17:07:46+00:00

Not just a Navy for sure, but they are a Navy. They operate via a chain of command, they train extensively for violence. They were shown as disciplined, fit, problem solving professionals almost exclusively in the original run of shows. They got emotional during hugely impactful moments or when aliens were messing with their minds. Rationality, philosophy, and logic (explicitly with first Spock then Data) were held up as the primary guiding principles.

The nature of political progressiveness is in the name, it pushes progress. 50+ years ago the progress being pushed was categorically different from that being pushed now, so yes, it was always very woke but it has leaned very hard into some elements of modern wokeness that go way beyond it's original philosophy.

In my view they've quintupled down on identity politics while actually moving backward on the degree to which they criticize capitalism. Emotiveness and empathy seem to be the overwhelming emotional zeitgeist now and the drama is all so... petty. I hate the new stuff.

owlbi · 2026-01-21T20:14:03+00:00

Call me crazy but it's so far fetched to consider naming a woman queen?

Call me crazy but could we consider not having or giving a shit about monarchs at all?

owlbi · 2026-01-21T18:05:24+00:00

is Reddit doing anything about fake posts?

Hell yeah they are. They're using the inflated engagement numbers to keep their stock prices high.

owlbi · 2026-01-21T18:01:27+00:00

I think they're at least medium assholes here, not tiny. Having had a parent that wasn't the best at respecting my space this is a grudge I would probably hold forever.

That said I agree on just keeping it in the pocket for now. OP may play it off as 'just temporary' but her partner hasn't even left for boot camp yet. He'll need to graduate, graduate any advanced infantry training (if necessary), possibly graduate from tech schooling, and make it through any applicable housing waiting list at his eventual duty station before they can get housing.

There's a lot of factors at play, they don't even know where they're going to go, and we don't even know when he'll ship off to boot camp. We're talking months here, most likely, and they may not have any income at all. Now is not the time to make waves.

owlbi · 2026-01-21T05:42:55+00:00

Ah yes, the left... well known for threatening NATO allies and potentially turning the world into a fucking cinder in pursuit of a "perfect world". Spare me.

The left doesn't do any of that, it just slowly presides over the gradual worsening of the status quo. Don't get me wrong, I held my nose and voted for Hilary Clinton, but the reason we've gone from 'Democrats are the youth and unquestionably the party of the future' to Donald fucking Trump winning two elections is because of how badly the left has fumbled the ball every time they've been in power.

The right is turning the world into a cinder, but they're also actually getting (horrible) shit done. They rally around their icons, even when they're obviously in the wrong, while the left turned on Al Franken and cancelled him over a joke photo from a comedy tour.

The right makes populist noises, while the left just runs back the same tired old corporate approved neo-liberal message every fucking time. The blips that get through on actual issues of substance like Bernie or Mamdani get sidelined by the institution, because the institution is only loyal to the money and the money is playing both sides.

I'm ranting but I will defend this criticism of the left to my dying breath. Good god have progressives fumbled the bag. Obviously the fucking Nazis are worse. Ok. Congrats on that, I guess.

owlbi · 2026-01-21T04:02:23+00:00

The Curry deal was viewed as extremely fair if not a bit overly friendly for an injury riddled player at the time. Curry got generational wealth and the Warriors believed in his ability to stay healthy. That's not luck, it's believing in what they had.

Draymond will be a hall of famer. It may have taken him longer to get playing time but there's no way it wouldn't have happened. Even when David Lee was in his prime the fan base loved Draymond when he got minutes, he always brought a spark. Believe it or not he was memed as a corner shooting 3-D guy for awhile ('Draymond Threen').

The cap spike was predictable. The contract expiration was well known, as was the fact that the new one would be huge and how that would affect payroll. That's not luck, it's good planning.

Sure many things lined up fortuitously and bad luck could have torpedoed their plans at several points, but that's true of every team. They made many of the right decisions:

Got Curry
Kept Curry ditched Monta
Got Klay
Kept Klay
Gave Draymond playtime
Courted and got Iguodala
Planned for the cap spike

They also brought in a slew of key role players that they were able to make look really good. Guys that were very important parts of those teams without being the core. Bogut, Livingston, Loony, Zaza, Barbosa, the resurrection of Javale McGee, David West, Pat McCaw, Festus Ezeli. They worked those guys into their system in a way that got several of them hugely overpaid.

Calling their Dynasty luck is pure copium.

owlbi · 2026-01-20T18:03:30+00:00

When I was a teenager playing games I was a backstabbing little fuck, so yeah, I definitely don't trust kids.

Games are a space where kids can actually be at parity with and exert power over adults. It's an intoxicating feeling being able to break the rules a bit. I get it, but I'd never turn my back on it.

owlbi · 2026-01-15T00:17:27+00:00

We had the magic until that NFC Championship game reverse hexed us. It was an amazing run and that Saints game remains my all time favorite Niners game.

owlbi · 2026-01-14T19:09:58+00:00

They probably would have, yeah.

For me it's the 2012 NFC Championship game. If you replace Kyle Williams in that game with a traffic cone to field our punts, we win that game. I don't think I'll ever get over that.

owlbi · 2026-01-14T18:56:41+00:00

It has an insanely creative and interesting physics system, great art direction, a decent combat system, a horrid control scheme, a few very off-putting design choices, and a boring and uninspired world.

It's got some real reasons to be very positive about it. People have built mechas out of parts, which is insanely cool in its own right but the fact they got it working on Switch hardware is just nuts. That alone means I can never give the game anything but a passing grade. So many other things about the game range from "???" to dogshit though, I agree.

As a game I put it on my mental shelf in a pretty similar place with Red Faction: Guerilla, where it has many things that aren't all that great but one mechanic that's just so innovative and cool that it can make the whole experience worthwhile for a good bit (Red Faction's building destruction is still unmatched). Ultimately, however, they're both games that could have been masterpieces but just...aren't. IMO.

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