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Same judge that’s blown apart several of California’s gun control laws, too.

Very nice note. I’d hope to have similar strength and humor and honesty if put in a similar situation.

@jon-nyc said in The Epstein File: Actionable evidence of crimes? Of course they would have. I wouldn't presume to paraphrase you in a way you'd accept as not a strawman, but somewhere between "actionable evidence of crimes" and "sufficient evidence that a non-trivial investigation could plausibly lead to actionable evidence of crimes", is a line over which you've claimed the Biden admin would not have crossed. And those who think otherwise have become accustomed to government corruption due to Trump. But I know that's a straw man.

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Yep. It's a little tedious to complain about it for so many years, I mean I don't want TNCR to be to that sort of discrimination what it is to Donald Trump. That would make it nearly unreadable, as I'm sure we can all imagine. If I had been personally touched by that sort of discrimination, you can be sure I'd have been talking about it a lot more. But I haven't been, even as a person with a brain stem and thus aware that the discrimination exists. One twist to the original Jacob Savage piece, which I haven't read, is that it's in a left-wing publication, and it ends with the author regretting not simply accepting his fate and finding a more boring job that is less discriminated against for people who look like him. I heard it called a "permission piece", where a left-leaning outlet admits something difficult for them to admit, but in a way that it's still ok.

You can imagine instructing your car to go charge itself and come back while you’re in a store or something.

I was pretty fast with the shortcuts when I was at Credit Suisse but I’m sure these guys are several standard deviations to the right of where I was.

Mass exodus from Heritage to a more standard conservative organization formed recently by Mike Pence. Link to video

The good news about erectile dysfunction is it can be cured with a good diet and exercise. The hard part is getting your wife to actually do it.

Interesting choice to name man-o-war ships’ class. For those of us who served in Commonwealth navies or their land and air forces or Reserves, it seems odd to hang a slang term for “loud flatulence” on a class of battleship. Am sure the lower decks will have a jolly good laugh!

There used to be a conservative commentator (forgot which) who would make points about social programs failing by showing how their desired effects either didn’t show up in the data or worse, the opposite effect was shown in the data. He would put a graph of poverty rates in his article, for example, and ask ‘can you tell when the war on poverty started? Well…. https://x.com/joni_askola/status/2003152698078822670?s=46

The art of the con.

I just a pill where you can eat anything and your body only absorbs the nutrients you need and discards the rest! But I suppose a hunger repressing pill is 2nd best.

Insightful examples. Maybe it just changes how we prompt for answers but even today when Gemini spits out a long answer I still have to, ugh, read it.

The self proclaimed Emporer, Donaldoofus Trumpsterus is at it again…. Envoys are informal appointments and unlike official diplomats, do not have to be approved by the host country. What this appointment shows is that Trump's ambition to control Greenland remains undimmed. As with his military and rhetorical aggression towards Venezuela, it indicates Trump is determined to gain greater control over what his recent National Security Strategy called "the Western hemisphere", a sphere of influence that he hopes will cover the whole of the Americas. Trump tried to buy Greenland during his first presidential term. Both Denmark and the Greenlandic government rejected the 2019 proposal, saying: "Greenland is not for sale." https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgmd132ge4o

Helps to solidify his efforts to ensure higher long-term energy prices.

Sounds suspicious. Are they also olive oil importers?