Markass
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Markass
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4mo ago
"Potential malpractice" is a very good reason to do your own research, whether that be Googling or LLMs.
Markass
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4mo ago
Sex pests are consistently unintelligent and seem to compulsively commit crimes to satiate their disgusting desires even when there's a high likelihood of being caught. If he was smart enough to do one crime at a time, he wouldn't be rape cucking his wife in the first place.
Markass
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4mo ago
I can grant this (or at least it's not falsifiable) for at least his first 2005 arrest by city police, but his 2019 arrest was by the FBI, an agency that I think would definitely be in on the conspiracy (if there was one).
Markass
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4mo ago
If they really wanted to not prosecute him then they would have... not prosecuted him. Not arrested him or put him in jail. The cops don't have to pull over every speeder on the highway, they get to pick and choose and they could have turned a blind eye to him if he was really that powerful. How does this viewpoint align with the theory that he was assassinated because he had information that could lead to the arrest of the Clintons dirt on people? Surely if it turned out he was alive after all, the Powers That Be would do everything in their power to at least arrest him or kill him for real.
Markass
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4mo ago
If Epstein was still alive, he'd basically be public enemy #1 with how much discourse there is about declassifying his files. It would be a good look for them to recapture him especially since the Epstein files have implicated high-ranking figures like the president of the US.
Markass
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4mo ago
Most pages excluded from the Internet Archive will have a clear message saying so. Exhibit A: https://web.archive.org/web/2/https://kiwifarms.net/
The ArchiveTeam wiki (no affiliation with IA) maintains an unofficial list of excluded sites and pages. The only exclusions that don't give an explicit message are so-called "time exclusions" in which certain time periods are excluded while the rest of the archives remain accessible.
So far the only URLs I've seen that people claim to be Epstein's account give the normal error message rather than an exclusion error message.
Markass
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4mo ago
You can't just "get rid of AIDS" while tolerating the #1 enabler of it: homosexuality.
Markass
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5mo ago
The media is probably the most significant institution that hasn't been taken over by Republicans, and it will probably be Red Team's downfall. Elon Musk has touted X as "you are the media", but it has been lackluster and for better or worse the mainstream media still shapes the narrative. Not just what's true, but what's even worthy of discussion and what people will argue about.
What else is out there, well known, and not addressed because it’s on the right team?
The father of suicide victim Dagny "Nex" Benedict raped her and is also trans himself. This story got suppressed hard to prevent people from even potentially thinking that Dagny killed herself due to her father's sexual abuse, which would be a far more heavy factor than the "transphobic" (not really) fight in the school bathroom.
Markass
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5mo ago
I could also buy it, but surely if this was true then the intelligence agencies would quickly track him down and capture him, then announce his recapture.
Markass
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5mo ago
I agree with Jacobin that police officers uploading bodycam footage of this sort of thing to their official YouTube channels
Just a small nitpick, it largely is not police officers uploading it themselves. A lot of bodycam content is obtained by Youtubers filing FOIAs (often at their own expense) since bodycam footage is a matter of public record (except in Minnesota). Some police departments have a policy of uploading bodycam footage on their own, but this usually only happens for critical incidents such as officer-involved shootings, not for "Karen Trashes Dollar General".
Markass
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5mo ago
If you were a Spanish-speaking Hispanic citizen you would feel differently. If you were routinely stopped by ICE until you could prove your citizenship, solely on the grounds of what you look like, you'd be rightly furious.
ICE should not be rounding up people who look like they could maybe be illegal and demanding papers from them. That's insane! And blatantly illegal! You cannot detain someone on the grounds of 'looking Hispanic in public'.
Just to be clear, this is not happening. Race is just one factor of four that ICE uses to have reasonable articulable suspicion for their Terry stops.
Markass
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5mo ago
It should be pointed out that Israeli airport security includes racial profiling so the 70 year old ladies are not as scrutinized, yet their policies have largely escaped outrage.
Markass
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5mo ago
At some point I have to start being incredulous and asking, if Epstein really was alive, is he going to blow his cover by playing on his Xbox account of all things? I don't agree with censoring archive snapshots because it makes it look like there's something to hide rather than transparently showing that there's nothing there.
Markass
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5mo ago
They seem to brag about walkable communities
A lot of problems urbanist types attribute to a lack of "walkable" communities are not fixed by making communities "walkable".
Markass
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5mo ago
GDPR specifically was a step in the right direction of forcing companies to give more than absolutely zero shits about the privacy of their customers
"Nearly zero" is more than absolutely zero. GDPR doesn't do much to stop collection of personal data because nearly everything is allowed if it can be useful. Meanwhile, the costs of failing compliance is steep enough that most tech companies go to the US where they don't have to worry about it.
It's also hard for me to take Europe's claims to privacy protection seriously when many of their countries force you to dox yourself to register a SIM card. If they actually cared about privacy, then they would just not collect personal information, which is unnecessary for a phone number. Ironically enough, the GDPR-free United States does not have any such laws compelling self-doxing for SIM cards.
What does it matter to you if the state calls her a woman or man, mother or father?
Why does it matter to him? If I were him, I would just check the box that says "I am the father" because it's the pragmatic thing to do, and I couldn't care less about what some piece of paper says. If he has an interest in challenging the law, then I have an interest in following the proceedings to see which laws get overruled, upheld, or changed, since laws affect everyone.
In a future where genuine SRS is possible and she could have first extracted sperm, then either grown a womb or implanted with an artificial one, would you call her a woman? What's your threshold?
Is this hypothetical worth addressing? The amount of scientific advancements necessary to have a working womb transplant, organic or artificial, with no ill side effects, would result in several dozen Nobel prizes being awarded. It means we would be living in a world that is scarcely the same as the one we are currently living in, and I don't think we are going to approach it anytime in this century.
Markass
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5mo ago
This confirms to me, more and more, that trans activism is about rules lawyering. Trans activists put the jews who made the kosher switch to shame. Their arguments for why a man should be considered a woman seemingly always boil down to things like "technically, a woman wears skirts, and I'm wearing a skirt, so I'm a woman!" much like how the jews argue that "technically, this wire forms a wall, so I'm technically not breaking the law that says I can't carry on Shabbat." Unlike the jews, though, this practice of rules lawyering affects anyone who wants to use the words "man" and "woman".
I know you probably think you can spot trannies a mile away, but I've known enough women who have a mannish appearance that I'm hesitant to start making assumptions about the shape of their genitalia.
FtMs have a vastly easier time passing as male far more than MtFs can female. That being said, FtMs still have certain features that distinguish them from real men. In my experience, trans-identifying men stick out like a sore thumb, but people are polite enough to not bring it up, or at least not in front of them.
I'm guessing that for north of 99% of the women you actually deal with you don't give the matter a second thought.
Correct. Which brings up a good point, that if one has to assert that they are a woman, they probably aren't. A real woman almost never has to clarify that she is a woman. She simply is.
Markass
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5mo ago
(Note: GDPR requirements in Europe are close to impossible to actually meet, so many b2b companies either don't sell to Europe or will only sell them access to their software hosted on U.S. servers. It is impossible to overstate how much of an own goal GDPR was for Europe's tech sector).
Europe's strategy seems to be to bring down the U.S. tech sector by attempting to impose more onerous regulations like GDPR on it. See, for example, the "Online Safety Act" and how the UK's Ofcom is unsuccessfully enforcing it by emailing threats to American companies, notably ones not under UK jurisdiction.
Markass
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5mo ago
Desktop Linux (distros like Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, Gentoo, NixOS) and Android OSes are so fundamentally different that it's not very useful to describe both of those categories as being "Linux". Though I suspect @nomagicpill put "being a Linux user" on the list tongue-in-cheek.
Markass
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5mo ago
If she doesn't like movies I think it was the right call not to make her see it. It's a good movie, but it's not such a good movie that someone who doesn't even have an appetite for cinema in the first place is going to like it.
Markass
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5mo ago
Has anyone seen Markiplier's new film, Iron Lung? (Mild spoilers ahead.) I saw it today. It's leagues better than any "Youtuber" movie in that it made me feel like I was watching an actual movie that could have been produced by a major studio. It's literally just that good, and a breath of fresh air compared to the usual sequel/adaptation slop that passes for filmmaking today.
I think it could have been shorter though. There were a few scenes (for example
Markass
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5mo ago
It should be noted that SCOTUS didn't rule directly on officer-created jeopardy, just said that the "moment of threat" doctrine is wrong and totality of the circumstances is correct and sent the case back to the lower court for them to make the ruling with the proper standard. Does anyone know if the ruling has come out yet or if there are rulings for other cases with officer-created jeopardy made under the totality of the circumstances?
Markass
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5mo ago
It's still a 0.1% chance, meaning that she just got very unlucky. It could be argued that she was attempting to flee but did not realize an ICE agent was in the path of her vehicle, and I would describe that as being unlucky.
The best way to maximize your health and longevity is to not get into physical confrontations with ICE, or really any law enforcement agency for that matter. You are far more likely to lose the fight than the cop is.
Anonymity doesn't make one's online persona cancel-proof, only their real-life identity, and Pippa Pipkin has been unmasked on the Kiwi Farms anyway. Vtubing culture just tolerates the kind of things she does, especially pandering to lolicons.
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