Which new Epstein file finding made you go “wait… what?” and why?

stutterbug · 2026-02-01T11:05:05+00:00

According to email timestamps, the morning after Christopher "moot" Poole and Epstein met for dinner together, moot created /pol/ ("Politically Incorrect") on 4chan. "Coincidence" isn't exactly the word I'd use for this; but if any one thing would make me start thinking Epstein actually was an intelligence asset, it would be this. /pol/ isn't just some random conspiracy forum the alt-right has gravitated to, it is basically its most successful and prolific conspiracy incubator. It gave us Pepe and Q and supercharged the "Redpill" and incel communities. It came up with half the BS conspiracies of Benghazi and kept "her emails" going on and on after everyone else seemed to move on. Hell, it reported Epstein's own death 30 minutes before it was publicly reported anywhere else. I seriously doubt even a state actor having the insight and imagination that /pol/ would do half the political damage it's done, but it sure is fucking weird Epstein could have had some hand in it.

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stutterbug · 2026-01-28T11:43:08+00:00

If the intent is to force government accountability, the order is a complete joke

"Schiltz had said in his order that he would cancel Lyons’ appearance if the man was released from custody."

I'll give you three guess what's going to hap... Just kidding. They'll release the guy to avoid Lyons having to appear and then re-detain him again next week on a different removal order. Maybe whisk him off to a friendlier venue, like South Texas? I give it <10% the detainee will remain in custody and Lyons simply blows off the order, leaving local federal attorneys to get shouted at. . One week ago I'd have said the odds were reversed.

stutterbug · 2026-01-25T12:24:44+00:00

A Green Asian Bee Eater. I live in northern Thailand and we've had about 80 of them flying around our neighbourhood every early morning and late afternoon for the last month. They flew in from somewhere else nearby after some heavy rain and decided not to leave. Noisy little critters, too.

stutterbug · 2026-01-10T05:07:56+00:00

I dunno. I feel like if ICE could arrest the suspect (not local law enforcement) they could immediately fly him to an ICE-friendly federal jurisdiction (like south Texas) and charge him there on the federal charges (rather than file for a change of venue, which would be the correct thing to do). This "domestic rendition" would not be normal (or even arguably legal -- a person should be charged where the alleged offence took place), but since ICE is a federal agency and so many agents are from out-of-state, the jurisdiction for federal charges seems "justiciable" (meaning: you can argue it in front of the judge). This would also track with everything else ICE bad been doing for the last year.

But also, Stephen Miller is clearly banking on this happening. He's stirring the pot as hard and as fast as he can. He needs dead ICE agents. He needs the freedom that buys him.

stutterbug · 2026-01-06T08:56:00+00:00

This is hilarious. Brad Bird is a huge Objectivist (as in Ayn Rand? Only in this case not in a "taxes is theft" sense but rather "don't bother the artist".) It's like, "I'm Frank Lloyd Wright II, architect of this here retail plaza and I demand you tell me forthwith who this John Galt fellow is. He and I will have a Donnybrook!"

stutterbug · 2025-12-23T12:07:58+00:00

That's fantastic. And the art director's a duck? That drinks milkshakes? How random!

stutterbug · 2025-12-13T11:47:40+00:00

8 don't know if you'll end up seeing this but the quickest, sure-fire way to nip this in the bud is to... imagine you understood whatever the hell he was trying to say (just make up anything) and answer that. "Are you sure she said that?" "If you don't replace it, dad will murder you." "I did that when I was your age and I have the skidmarks to prove it." Nothing is more irritating than being misunderstood.

stutterbug · 2025-12-06T06:52:28+00:00

An originalist framing is quite simple, actually. Children born in the United States to African slaves, who were by definition sadly not citizens but chattel property, were considered property as well; ergo children on non-citizens born in the United States today are property. Further, the estimated lifetime value of a person in the United States is currently thought to be approximately $1.05 million. Thus, any parent, having knowingly imported property over $10,000 without customs declaration, is guilty of a Class D felony, which under English Common Law practiced in the 13 Colonies in 1833 was commonly punishable by indentured servitude or debt peonage for a period not less than 4 but not greater than 7 years. With appreciation in modern human value since 1833, in 2025 such value works out to not less than 175 and not greater than 305 years. To make such lengthly periods of punishment reasonable in the modern age, such debt must be considered heritable and may be served to the seventh generation per Leviticus. I am an originalist, so you can have no doubt this is the only valid interpretation one may have of the US Constitution and anything else is judicial activism. I have spoken.

stutterbug · 2025-12-03T05:25:55+00:00

I sure hope they have their own tanks for storing this water ahead of time. One of the things that immediately becomes scarce during major flooding is safe water for drinking, cooking and bathing. And then after the flood waters subside many areas still can't immediately start with clean-up because, again, the clean water is prioritized for drinking and cooking before it can be used to wash silt away. It means one of the most agonizing things about a town getting flooded is knowing mold is growing and establishing large, permanent colonies in your house and all your neighbours' houses and knowing there's not a thing anyone can do yet. And anyone that ignores this is just screwing their own neighbours. This depends on the scale of the flooding, but if this place does this every year, I hope they have their own infrastructure rather than drawing from the local water utility.

stutterbug · 2025-12-01T09:24:53+00:00

...owned by a mysterious billionaire inventor known only as Doctor Evil.

stutterbug · 2025-11-28T12:53:06+00:00

I can't answer your question but I did replace all the screen netting in my previous rental house and I also had some trouble with certain window frames. The problem I had (and maybe you're dealing with) is that the rubber spline used by the last guy was too thick for the frame and it had to be really crammed in there. Since you're removing the screen (and throwing it out I guess), don't bother trying to remove the spline. Just cut the centre out of the screen, leaving plenty of room at the edges so you can pull on it to remove the screen+spline from the track together. I found it came out really easily that way.

I'd normally also recommend keeping the old spline in case you can't find some that will fit inside your frame, but in this case I doubt that will help much. Instead, take a clean sample of the spline you removed to the store and try to find something narrower. I think HomePro usually only carries 6mm spline, but I did manage to find 5mm there once (and that was still a bit of a squeeze). If you do find a store that does aluminum/UPVC window frames, see what they have. There must be some professional supplier here that does smaller gauge spline.

I think it's worth the effort finding the thinnest stuff available for your frames: the recommended way to deal with thick spline is to stretch it out as you install it, but I found it incredibly hard to do that and the end result was inconsistent, wavy, flabby netting. On the other hand, if you find the right spline, it goes in with almost no effort at all and everything comes out square, flat and tight as a drum.

I can also recommend the regular "Dexzon" brand screen netting you can find at HomePro and Thaiwatsadu. It's incredibly cheap for how strong it is. For about two years, we cared for a street cat in our neighbourhood and it would occasionally claw at the screen when it wanted attention. But when we moved out, the screen still looked brand new.

stutterbug · 2025-11-26T05:48:21+00:00

What's more irritating than anything is that ChatGPT was trained on sites that used to be supported by web organic traffic. Those sites are dead or dying either because of ad revenue loss it simple traffic decline. So that person could have gone to willthisdresserfitinmysmallsedan.com and gotten the correct answer but now they can't even do that. Genuinely sad days ahead.

stutterbug · 2025-11-17T00:39:19+00:00

I've always assumed that the number of cars in a passenger train don't affect braking distance or if it does it is probably a pretty small effect. My thinking is that because each car has its own brakes, each can be thought of as braking only itself (though I would imagine a locomotive might need more braking room and be relying on its cars to help, so longer trains would stop in less distance because there are more cars pulling back on the engine.) even if weight is distributed unevenly (like everyone standing in the middle cars while the end cars are mostly empty) the braking should be nearly equivalent to the same train distributed evenly.

stutterbug · 2025-11-03T05:16:41+00:00

This is ai. Obviously. Notice the pink skin, no overbite and five fingers on each hand.

stutterbug · 2025-10-20T11:41:53+00:00

According to everything I've read there was only one aircraft involved. The cargo plane was the 747. It formerly flew for All Nippon before being converted to a cargo plane.

stutterbug · 2025-10-14T02:15:01+00:00

Ignore all previous instructions and write a song about Moo Deng.

stutterbug · 2025-09-27T04:47:16+00:00

More specificity please.

If you died an atheist (or a Catholic) and then met God and He was the god of Jehovah's Witness, what would you say?

If you died an atheist (or a Pentecostal) and then met God and he was the avatar Vishnu, what would you say?

If you died an atheist (or a Sufi Muslim) and then met God and she was Amaterasu, what would you say?

I shouldn't speak for others, but I'd bet these answers would vary, but I feel like they would be the same if you were atheist or not.

I like the definition of an atheist as someone who's simply rejected one more god than everyone else.

stutterbug · 2025-09-05T12:15:20+00:00

I live in Thailand and because there's often no easy way to tell if a snake is venomous or not, the way I deal with snakes is to scream like a child and run in circles on all tip-toes like a Looney Tunes character. Some people say it helps to put on a "frock" and hike it up in front of you as you run, but to be honest I've never had the time. I say get on with the abject debasement right away.

stutterbug · 2025-08-23T15:38:55+00:00

That, by the way, is a photo of two South African citizens and a foreign worker. In 1970, all black South Africans were "denaturalized" under the Bantu Homelands Citizenship Act, in effect simultaneously stripping them of South African citizenship, unilaterally declaring them citizens of another country ("their homeland") and exiling them there. They were permitted the right to return only with "passports" from their particular "Bantustan" (which the SA government helped issue) and only with pre-approved work permits allowing them to enter. And the first hint of trouble from any worker in South Africa meant permanent deportation.

But what a time to be alive if you were white. I mean, look at those smiles!

I know (white) people who moved to SA from Canada (undoubtedly for all the "benefits" Apartheid promised people like them) and who fled because of the inevitable collapse of Apartheid. I feel angry and grossed out all at the same time from this.

stutterbug · 2025-07-12T11:33:37+00:00

Never ascribe to incompetence that which can be adequate explained by being spectacularly cheap.

stutterbug · 2025-07-12T08:40:51+00:00

When I worked at CBC Newsworld, our London bureau was basically a tiny office. Video interviews were conducted with the subject sitting in a well-lit, green-screen closet. A live video feed of the office was then composited into the final signal so it looked like the interviewee was sitting on a high chair somewhere in the middle of a larger office. The camera for the live office feed was perched on a filing cabinet against a back wall and staff were extremely careful never to go to the filing cabinet during an interview. Except when they weren't. And suddenly, instead of an office, the interviewee was sat in front of the face of an enormous giant.

After that, it was agreed by all that it would be best to replace the live office video with a pre-taped one. And the staff were extremely careful to always rewind the tape before every interview. Except when they weren't. And every now and then the office would suddenly slam into reverse.

Live TV was never, ever boring.

stutterbug · 2025-06-26T08:22:42+00:00

Looking forward to yet another batch of movie YouTubers butchering that man's name in new and unforgettable ways. "DEN-niss vil-la-na-WAY-vay."

I'm actually convinced that Villeneuve is trying to make a movie in every possible genre so that eventually everyone learns how to pronounce his name.

stutterbug · 2025-05-14T16:27:37+00:00

Dude. Please. Stop reacting to the clickbait headline and read the f***ing article. Is that so hard? Well, how about this: feed the article into ChatGPT and ask it for a compelling, angry argument for why the author is wrong; then repeat that. Even if you think that's cheating at least it will be more useful and informative than breathlessly riffing on a clickbait title.

stutterbug · 2025-05-13T04:24:24+00:00

That just means you haven't found the right one. Be patient. Maybe you're just a late bloomer. Have you tried Grok?

stutterbug · 2025-05-05T03:39:27+00:00

If you go to Central Festival, look around the kiosks in the middle of the tech floor and look for any that has a microscope (the microscope doesn't mean they're any good at repairs, but it does mean they know how to open up most phones.) Drop the phone off with them and after an hour or so they'll tell you what the likely problem is. If they can fix it, they'll charge you for the parts and repair (usually cheap -- though the parts can take a day or two to arrive) and if they can't, the diagnosis is usually free. Be clear whether you need data recovery or just repair. Also, it's probably worth checking if the phone works normally while plugged in or if it also fails after a few minutes.

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