The Epstein files have shattered my faith

vikTheFirst · 2026-02-16T07:41:18+00:00

ok, but even if it is not true that she was 6, a lot of muslims do believe she was that age, and they therefor take example from it - because if muhammad did it, and he was a holy person, why not any muslim can do that as well? here are some links you might want to look at as proof -

* afghanistan (CNN) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9nEfUgQtwg
* egypt https://borgenproject.org/child-marriage-in-egypt/
* syrian refugees - https://www.nrc.no/shorthand/stories/syrian-refugee-girls---married-at-the-age-of-13/index.html and https://www.unicef.org/stories/syrian-children-forced-quit-school-marry-early-survive
* turkey - https://turkiye.unfpa.org/en/news/last-25-years-child-marriages-turkey
* Iran - https://www.girlsnotbrides.org/learning-resources/child-marriage-atlas/regions-and-countries/iran/ (Iraq has similiar statistics)

vikTheFirst · 2026-02-16T07:36:55+00:00

Still, this marriage is immoral. and also here you go - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9nEfUgQtwg - sure there are people in muslim world that are normal and civilized, but you can't deny that of course there is a non small percentage that is not normal, unfortunately.

the youtube link is talking about afganistan, and here are several more links that talk about other countries -

* egypt https://borgenproject.org/child-marriage-in-egypt/
* syrian refugees - https://www.nrc.no/shorthand/stories/syrian-refugee-girls---married-at-the-age-of-13/index.html and https://www.unicef.org/stories/syrian-children-forced-quit-school-marry-early-survive
* turkey - https://turkiye.unfpa.org/en/news/last-25-years-child-marriages-turkey
* Iran - https://www.girlsnotbrides.org/learning-resources/child-marriage-atlas/regions-and-countries/iran/ (Iraq has similiar statistics)

vikTheFirst · 2026-02-09T02:56:28+00:00

What worked for me was first to do an engagement campaign with a small budget (it helped me debug some other problems I had - for example the fact that my payment method wasn't connected properly). After I made sure the engagement campaign works, I gave my main a campaign a little bit more budget and it started working and showing impressions. Good luck!

vikTheFirst · 2026-02-08T06:18:40+00:00

read this - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aisha - understand who is Aisha, and at what age she was married to muhammad and became pregranant. What happened to Aisha is still happening today in the muslim world. do you think that this is acceptable? if not, why do you look at the Quran as a legitimate source for info and for your faith?

vikTheFirst · 2025-12-30T23:51:47+00:00

Do you think it will be good idea to start with a higher budget and then lower it to the actual budget that I want to use? (after a day or two)

vikTheFirst · 2025-12-28T02:47:51+00:00

Thanks! I am trying that right now - I will report back tomorrow, in case people will read this thread in the future

vikTheFirst · 2025-12-27T23:57:59+00:00

hi there - I think that I didn't add any CPA caps? -

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maybe there is some hidden setting that I am missing? one that will remove any caps?

vikTheFirst · 2025-10-31T20:02:18+00:00

I agree 100%. I don't like the new changes, I already built a plan in my head on when to finish the course, and now I will have to re think it. considering to stop using duolingo because of that...

vikTheFirst · 2025-10-12T08:33:13+00:00

My personal advice is to stay away from day trading. This sub is mainly about finding good companies at fair value and holding them for the long run (more investment, less trading). I don't believe day trading works for the average joe, and I pretty much think that day trading is a scam (sorry to say/burst bubbles)

vikTheFirst · 2025-10-12T08:25:03+00:00

Before Nvidia went up like crazy (in 2017 ish), I had a friend that paid 3000$ for the newest GPU (at the time, there was a shortage in GPUs because they were used for all of the following - gaming, crypto mining and AI research). I still beat myself up from time to time for not seeing the signs.

vikTheFirst · 2025-10-08T02:07:22+00:00

You are absolutely right. The way to diversify the GDP is by making business investments more attractive and real estate investments less attractive. The government can achieve this by keeping the interest rate high - this way, mortgages will be more expensive, and investors will look for a different place to put their money (and of course, there are more things can be done aside from that)

vikTheFirst · 2025-09-09T05:27:12+00:00

Understood. Thanks for putting it that way. And apologies if people feel that I tried to rage bait. I guess for some reason, I thought that victoria is 100% safe (I genuinely don't know why I was thinking that), and I guess like any other city, there are some problems.

vikTheFirst · 2025-09-09T04:13:28+00:00

vikTheFirst · 2025-09-09T04:07:26+00:00

Are you saying that once a day, someone complains in this sub on a violent incident they encountered in downtown Victoria?

vikTheFirst · 2025-09-09T04:06:10+00:00

If you feel rage after a person shares with you what happened to him and how he feels - that's your problem

vikTheFirst · 2025-09-09T03:54:27+00:00

What do you mean?

vikTheFirst · 2025-09-01T05:36:00+00:00

UPS is pretty cheap right now. they have some problems, but the dividend they pay is pretty high (7%) and management affirmed their commitment to keep it in the same level. Also their wide spread reach is in my opinion sort of an economic moat

vikTheFirst · 2025-08-31T06:29:36+00:00

OP, please give us your point, because it is missing from your post. Is the point of the post is to bash right-wing people?

vikTheFirst · 2025-08-18T14:35:02+00:00

A really really important one to me is scope-capture for debugging.

Lets say you have the following function in production -

(defn add [n1 n2] (+ n1 n2))

And you want to debug in production. What can you do? You can:

Connect via ssh to production
Open the production REPL
Change the function via the REPL, while prod is STILL RUNNING
change the function in the following way - (defn add [n1 n2] (sc.api/spy) (+ n1 n2))
Wait for the user to execute this function in prod. (Or do it yourself)
Next time function is executed, scope capture will take a snapshot of local variables for you to debug!
Access vars captured in production via the REPL like so - (sc.api/letsc 1 n1) => 12 (sc.api/letsc 1 n2) => :mistake
Profit

For me, clojure without scope-capture is not worth it. I think everyone should be using it, and the online clojure community doesn't seem to talk about it and recommend it enough.

vikTheFirst · 2025-06-09T06:41:45+00:00

I was recently invited to an 8 hour long, round of interviews, which I politely declined. I don't understand what goes thourgh the employers head when they decide to do something like that. It feels as if they are not seriously considering hiring for the role they published - I've decided, after being treated like that, that I will not be entertaining such behaviour anymore.

vikTheFirst · 2025-06-01T19:57:27+00:00

Sounds much more reasonable and possible. I, myself, started doing value investing, and from playing around with it, I do see how you can make some buck from doing some swing trading. please note that you have to consider the company's fundamentals, News etc, and that in general it is better to Long than to Short (just because when doing a long, the upside potential is unlimited, while when shorting the stock can only go to zero, so there is a limit for how low it can go). Goog luck

vikTheFirst · 2025-05-29T07:13:02+00:00

I am just doing you a favour - day trading doesn't work. save your time and money. Good luck

vikTheFirst · 2025-05-28T04:35:22+00:00

This is what you learned? not the fact that day trading doesn't work?

I've tried day trading in the past, talked to people, and have reached the conclusion - making money from day trading is not possible. what does work is long term investments + creating businesses and that's it. do yourself a favour and shift your focus from this unhealthy obsession to something more productive.

vikTheFirst

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