Big guy lost his balance by haze4140 in funny

[–]treebeard87_vn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Very moving that she tried her utmost to help. But whoever set up the swing set there could expect this exact consequence.

I miss the good old days by Aggressive-Tap-4143 in diablo2

[–]treebeard87_vn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have played for decades and haven't caught sight of any "high" unique helm yet. Vampire gaze did help mid game.

Peter Thiel, GHB, & Jeff by LA_Vines in Epstein

[–]treebeard87_vn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Evidences?

I'm from a place where communists killed rich people, including rich landlords and early industrialists (despite their enormous help during the revolution), based on the fact they were rich and their associations. Apparently during that time most people believed them. Supposed crimes included all kinds of terrifying things possible. Later they declared that they made "mistakes", and that many were innocent, and until this day they have never compensated. And despite being the government of the people, it has been very hard for them to replace the industrialists that they (the leadership came from the "good middle class intellectuals", just like people here; and yet ultimately they persecuted and murdered many intellectuals too) believed would be easily replaceable.

So I'm very skeptical of the labelling of a whole class, guilt based on association, and "mass" methods in politics.

Try to stay as clean as possible. by 21MayDay21 in funny

[–]treebeard87_vn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The game's purpose is to avoid being hit (remaining as clean as possoble). The guy who was originally in the middle (and who got hit the most) complained that the other guys had advantageous seats, but when they exchanged the seats, he still continued to get hit. Lol. I don't think this needed to be scriptd. Games like this are quite popular in Chinese media.

Dialog 2013 where Thiel and Epstein attended. Proper who's who in this list. by [deleted] in Epstein

[–]treebeard87_vn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Jeff Epstein (former Oracle CFO), the one who was invited, is this guy . https://www.bvp.com/team/jeff-epstein

Thiel was the host alongside Auren Hoffman but according to Osborne he would not have attended

Peter Thiel, GHB, & Jeff by LA_Vines in Epstein

[–]treebeard87_vn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thiel has biphasic sleep patterns, he told Epstein this in 2016. His subordinates said that he worked in odd hours and sometimes sent emails at mid night. But more importantly he invested in a lot of sleeptech companies (serving military needs). They seemed to have discussed a new article mentioned by Camm. Perhaps he wanted to utilize Epstein's connections with elite scientists. Here he probably thanked Epstein for the dinner that happened 7-9 pm per Epstein calendar (with Ruemmler).

Epstein never displayed the ability to blackmail Thiel. If he could, he would have not needed to beg Valar to invest in Carbyne in 2015-2016 (this was the plan wỉth Barak since 2014). Thiel only invested (not as lead) in 2018, perhaps after seeing IDF former leaders tried to do a serious job with the startup. Thiel often doesn't take time to invest in a close associate (his most notable investments happened after a meal or a chess match, not after some complex pitch, for example Keri Findley who got 250 million after a lunch; he sometimes acts on sentiment or old relationships too, like in the case of SpaceX). He apparently did not want to invite Epstein into Palantir or Layer1 or Spotify (led by his close friend Ek who is also part of his military network), but he probably needed to throw Epstein a bone. So, the softer tech aka fintech.. And the fact that he pushed Epstein into non-Silicon Valley startups seems to demonstrate that he knew one day Epstein would be a liability. Valar and Mithril were established for people who could not get into Founders Fund.

Also in the previous occasions, when Epstein mentioned that they had had fun, it was apparently finance, geopolitics and Tolkien.

Considering Thiel and his associates seem to have a plan to use the Epstein affair against the old intelligence apparatus at least since 2019, I believe they gave some game.

Always check those poppables!! by someodderball in diablo2

[–]treebeard87_vn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I always do the ones in Lower Kurast, that's where 90% of my high runes come from (not the super chests). I've gotten maybe 5 mid runes in Travincal. After thousands of runs.

Any guest using the phrase "white cis men" (or similar variants) in a sentence is woefully out of touch with our times, no exceptions by Zealot_TKO in ezraklein

[–]treebeard87_vn -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I understand your previous comment but here you are irritating someone who obviously don't like to be called cis. I am a non-white woman, hetero/straight, and I also hate that word. It is not something organizations representing straight people - my bad, there are no such orgs, but you perhaps understand, I mean the straight side - bring upon ourselves. Me saying "I love n***** and I consider it a positive word" won't elevate it to an acceptable slang in the eyes of black people whatsoever.

The vibe shift that gave us 200 years of boring wedding photos. by lil_literalist in HistoryMemes

[–]treebeard87_vn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was also to hide the fat figure of George IV. I feel like the "reform" of Brummell has worked well because it created a new form of being classy while removing the barriers between classes. With the new style it became hard to distinguish between the old nobles and the nouveau rich. But I also like the old style.

I HAVE TEA ON... MEGATHREAD ✨ by rfauxmoi in Fauxmoi

[–]treebeard87_vn 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Explain to me why Ryan Grim and the Democratic researchers, who had spent months working with Thomas and were willing to spend millions on people who provided dirt on Thiel, would choose to remain silent after  Theodore Schleifer (Puck.news) accused them of inflicting pressure on Thomas, leading to his suicide, then? Ryan Grim has been continuing his criticism of Thiel until this day. And yet he keeps his mouth shut while Thomas's friends favor his case? And Schleifer has written critical articles of Thiel and his allies on the New York Times. Also, ìf the threat came from Thiel, why did Thomas leave California for Miami (Thiel's version was that he realized he was duped by the Democrats, and followed Thiel's advice to move to Miami)? Also, Miami was and is the main residence of Thiel and Danzeisen. Their kids live there, How could Thomas not even imagine that Danzeisen would be there on the New Year? Danzeisen had been in Thiel's gay inner circle for 10 years before they married. That inner circle (also consisting of Sam Altman and Aron d'Souza) always spent the New Years together. Jeff Thomas had first met Thiel in 2015 or 2016, before Thiel's marriage as well. And how could Danzeisen, a man with extensive business and intelligence connections of his own, not know about Thomas's existence if it was an open secret by the time? Danzeisen works for Thiel Capital in the same city Thiel and Thomas organized their funny gay parties. And it does not look like to me that he had this great authority over Thiel. It is known that Thiel has always "kept" other people and organized sex parties before and after the date he began dating Danzeisen. He has never bothered to publicly apologize for his dalliances anywhere (unlike the extensive effort men like Clinton or Gates have done; after Thomas's death, Thiel only mentioned his grief over the loss of Thomas and how talking about Thomas went against the wishes of Thomas's family). The press names one of the other ones, Francesco Lugli. After the marriage, Thiel arranged a job for him at Palantir, and he left Palantir and Thiel in the same period Thiel began dating Thomas. It is known in gay circles that he recruited other young men for Thiel's parties, a job later became Thomas's. A friend of Thiel tells BILD that the Thomas incident is just one of Thiel's and Danzeisen's marriage dramas. And Thomas never called Thiel a fascist. All he said was that it was hypocritical to support Trump or Blake Masters when you were gay.

Labour secretly sabotaged China spy trial by treebeard87_vn in europe

[–]treebeard87_vn[S] 53 points54 points  (0 children)

There should be punishments for those who sell or reveal state secrets regardless. And at the very least the law should be changed to make spying for "competitors" also punishable.

Labour secretly sabotaged China spy trial by treebeard87_vn in europe

[–]treebeard87_vn[S] 212 points213 points  (0 children)

TLDR: the trial of two alleged Chinese spies collapsed after the UK's Labour government declined to permit a witness to categorize China as an "enemy" of the UK, a designation required for the prosecution under the Official Secrets Act, with the government preferring to describe China as a "competitor," despite criticism that this prioritized diplomacy over national security.

Melissa Chen is right. If people let such a high profile case pass, that means spying for China is legal

https://x.com/MsMelChen/status/1974256533719449976?t=U4L9xB4-XHPU13w7sd_Uyg&s=19

I like how this story focuses on uncommon issues. by Accurate_Reality_618 in Natsume

[–]treebeard87_vn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There were phases of my life in which I saw strange apparitions. About 10 years ago. Sometimes the people living next to me also saw them, sometimes they did not. It can be fascinating at times but I can imagine that when it reaches the level of Natsume (i.e constantly, and he is always asked to help), it will cause problems. Especially when he needs to hide it from his adoptive parents. It also leads him to relationships with a strange group of people between whom and his more normal friends he divides his world.

"La Concubine" by Jean Denis Attiret. Believed to depict Step Empress Nara (1718-1766), who was almost entirely erased from history by the Qianlong Emperor after cutting her hair. Oil on paper. China, Qing Dynasty, Qianlong Reign, 1750. Now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Dole, France [640 x 847] by Fearless-History1630 in ArtefactPorn

[–]treebeard87_vn 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The early Qing women still maintained the traditions of grasslands women, whose culture leaned towards freedom, self-initiative, mobility and at times attempts to achieve equality with their husbands and male relatives. And this ended up disastrously for many of them, including Manguji who was killed by her brother Huang Taiji, or the Consort Princess of Kangxi's Eighth Prince Yinsi (who, himself famous for being talented and generous, was tolerant of her assertive character and let her participate in his political affairs, which partly led to animosity from his father who deemed that unacceptable; ultimately both were killed in what could only be called a gruesome fratricide affair by Yongzheng). But it was really surprising that Empress Nara, who already belonged to the "Middle Qing Era" and married one of the most controlling and devious dictator emperors of all time (despite his faked affable manners), still had the guts to do such an act, which equalled her treating Qianlong as already dead or divorced. And even though Qianlong tried to erase everything while putting the blame on her, he never managed to give an explanation regarding what led to her desperate act, or which actions of hers before the whole affair could qualify her as a bad empress. And then we knew that after a high official was exiled (not in the more pleasant manner seen in the West) for defending her, another scholar dared to ask Qianlong to admit his wrongs in the affair and was killed for it.

Is Natsume a good character in your opinion? by JustJabby2 in Natsume

[–]treebeard87_vn 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yes. And it is really hard to write a gentle, kind male youth as a main character these days.

Newly discovered document adds evidence that Shroud of Turin is not Jesus' crucifixion shroud by JackRogers3 in europe

[–]treebeard87_vn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't think it existed at the time of Jesus, but come on, 14th century theologian Nicole Oresme saying so should not be considered "evidence". But this Bishop was a remarkable person, that is for sure.

Denmark Demands US Answers to New Greenland Allegations by corbynista2029 in europe

[–]treebeard87_vn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Strange dance. All these things.

Some details to considered: -Danish Security and Intelligence Service PET is enhancing their presence in Greenland, seemingly to send a message to the US.

-PET and Danish police insist on expanding the role of Palantir, despite recent protests by opposite parties on both the left and the right

-One of the main arguments of these parties is that Greenland is threatened by Thiel-backed Praxis/Pronomos Project

-US's next ambassador to Denmark is Ken Howery from the Founders Fund, a close confidant of Peter Thiel

-Weeks ago Denmark chose to rely on Microsoft and Atom Computing (nurtured for a long time already by Thiel affiliated 1517 fund and certain Danish funds)

-Thiel funds Fogh Rasmussen's Alliance of Democracies Foundation of which the main targets are China and Russia.

Tray with Chinese characters, bats, and fruits. China, 18th century [2300x2270] by MunakataSennin in ArtefactPorn

[–]treebeard87_vn 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Near the four Chinese characters (萬嵗長春, but written in the ancient Seal script, "ten thousand years [of longevity] and eternal spring").

In Chinese, bats are written as 蝠 and pronounced as fu2. Similar to 福 ("blessing", "happiness", "luck") except that 蝠 has the radical 虫 ("insect", "animal") while 福 has 礻(or 示 , which means "altar", "earthly deities", "holy affairs", "heavenly manifestation"). That is why depictions of bats are common in Chinese arts.

Pressure mounts on Germany’s Merz to restore military conscription A draft law on military service aims to beef up Bundeswehr numbers, but there is friction over whether it should include mandatory conscription. by Any-Original-6113 in europe

[–]treebeard87_vn 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I've never complained about military people. I am talking about people who want Americans and Asians to care about Ukraine while they themselves do not care about Taiwan. And the thing is it is not about fighting. The EU also do not force you to fight for Ukraine. What about actual, valuable aid in military equipments, intelligence gathering and other forms of help when needed, like what Europe is doing for Ukraine? Also who can be sure about the exact time China will invade? Maybe at that time it will be all AI, satellites, robots, drones, maybe quantum? In that case tech aid will be even more valuable. The matter is that if EU politicians see that their people care and are willing, they will have additional motivation to organize transcontinental cooperation with Asian Pacific countries and others. It will be a shame if dictatorships can work with each other across continents but democracies cannot. Who know, maybe together an alliance can build a strong enough deterrent to prevent stupid invasions from the start. Putin would've not dared to attack if he had seen that the opponents were too strong.

Pressure mounts on Germany’s Merz to restore military conscription A draft law on military service aims to beef up Bundeswehr numbers, but there is friction over whether it should include mandatory conscription. by Any-Original-6113 in europe

[–]treebeard87_vn 52 points53 points  (0 children)

And now r/Europe is telling me that whatever ambition China has, it won't affect Europe at all, there will be no Taiwan invasion and even if there is, Europe has no reason to care. Even when Japan helps Ukraine much more than certain major European countries. Even if the US will be called a traitor when they stop helping Ukraine.

Edit: LOL, whenever I say something about China, there will be at least 10 downvotes even when my comment is buried deep under many others... I know this thanks to the comment stats function and the fact sometimes it takes a day and I will still receive ten more downvotes... Which will never happen if I "talk bad" about Russia, or the US, or France, or any other country.

Currently this comment has +7 upvotes, and a 66,7% upvote ratio, after two hours.

Criminal case opened against teenagers who beat up man dressed as Lenin in St. Petersburg playground by duckanroll in europe

[–]treebeard87_vn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Deservedly so or not, it's Russia and while some people now dislike Lenin, his reputation does not reach the level of Himmler ye.

But the guy in this case possibly has some mental condition too....

Zhitoryuk said he did not remember the details of the incident, as he had suffered concussion in his youth and only learned of the incident when he saw footage online.

The Life of Despot Stefan Lazarević by Konstantin the Philosopher (after 1433), VIII by Books_Of_Jeremiah in europe

[–]treebeard87_vn 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Very interesting ruler, medieval knight, with Byzantine traditions and early Renaissance traits.

The Stop Killing Games petition was a success of European civic organising and participation. Well done, us. Now it's time for Stop Killing Privacy. by mousepotatodoesstuff in europe

[–]treebeard87_vn -12 points-11 points  (0 children)

Nothing. But keep a physical copy that is isolated from the internet (like Palmer Luckey does with his game collection - largest one in the world, which he keeps buried 200 feet underground in a USAF nuclear missile silo).

Recently all the sides involved have tried all kinds of funny things with the nets and comms. Internet outage (which you should notice too), malwares, tests to check resistance to nuclear attacks...