chaogomu

I was military before my first civilian job.

We had that lesson beat into our heads repeatedly, and yet there were still people who never quite picked up on it.

We had the consent to monitoring pop-up every single time we logged onto a government computer, and then had that consent to monitoring explicitly spelled out every three months as we had to complete a computer based training program.

For some people, it still didn’t take.

All that said, this particular thought crime detection effort is creepy as fuck.

But is it really?

Trump was described by one of his college professors as the dumbest student to ever walk through that class.

His “business empire” has been a long string of outright stupid decisions. If he wasn’t born rich, he’d be that one guy constantly losing his life savings on get rich quick schemes.

As it is, Trump actually lost a lot of money trying to get rich(er) quickly.

Also, saying that Trump talks like an imbecile on purpose is like saying he shits his pants on purpose.

If he could string a coherent sentence together, he would. If only to stop people from making fun of his stupidity.

My hometown had the Dairy Queen raided by the DEA back in the early 90s. They sold all sorts of drugs off of a secret menu.

I’m American, I know what all the words mean, but they make no sense when put in that order.

Republican AGs have already said they’ll use KOSA to block anything trans related, so maybe don’t bring that up when talking to Republican senators.

Except for the fact that he did, in fact, kill himself.

He saw his future prospects of constantly being in and out of prison hospitals, as the other prisoners continually beat him, and chose instead to end it all.

The fact that it also screwed over his victims and made prosecuting his clients much harder is ancillary to the fact that he killed himself to get out of having his ass handed to him every day for the rest of his life.

It doesn’t take a genius to see, but it does take a special kind of genius to see conspiracy and a clandestine murder in it.

The footage thing is a game of telephone that the internet has played with itself.

There was no footage of the cell itself, because there are no cameras in any cells except those used for suicide watch. Epstein was pulled off suicide watch.

Internet sleuths keep demanding footage of the cell itself, which flies in the face of how prisons run.

There is footage of the cell block hallways leading to and from Epstein’s cell. The footage there shows no people entering or exiting the hallway. Which leads to the next part.

The guards falsified records. They were both actually asleep on the job, but had filed statements saying they were awake and alert and watching the prison. The footage showed that neither guard did any rounds that night. They didn’t do rounds the night before, or even the week before. They basically just didn’t do rounds at all.

They were both prosecuted for such, but got off because law enforcement sleeping on the job is just sort of accepted…

I can’t find anything about a payoff.

The “Epstein didn’t kill himself” nonsense always bothered me. It ignores why he was arrested in the first place.

He was soliciting sex with underage girls from a local, and rich, high school. The solicitation was for himself.

So you have an old man trying (and sometimes succeeding) at picking up 14-17 year old white girls from rich families. He was super sloppy about it as well, attempting the shotgun approach of just messaging every single girl he could on various social media platforms.

This got the attention of the media, and pissed off some people with some money behind them.

He was going to prison for his own solicitation, and not for supplying anyone else.

But once the media started digging, they found a bunch of shit that said he had also been supplying girls to the rich and famous. But those weren’t the charges he was facing, and his rich and famous friends could not, or would not, help him with the charges he was facing.

What they could do, was pull him off of suicide watch.

A pedo in prison either has to be in protective custody, or be otherwise protected from the other prisoners. Otherwise, the other prisoners will take out all their aggression on the pedo.

Epstein was facing prison time, and was being threatened with being placed in general population. He had already been attacked by another inmate, and had uncountable beatings to look forward to.

So the moment he was pulled from suicide watch, he killed himself. It was a selfish decision, but it also greatly helped out the people he had supplied girls to.

The main question is, did some of his powerful friends pull strings to get him off suicide watch? We also know that he met his lawyer days earlier and signed documents that made it much harder for his victims to get compensation, but only in the case of his death.

That alone points to him planning to die rather than spend the rest of his life being repeatedly beaten by other inmates.

Brother printers are great. If only because they don’t add all the pointless bullshit add-on “features” that everyone else does.

Brother printers, they’re just printers. Nothing more, nothing less.

They also take third party ink.

That’s the coin flip.

The problem is, you can’t trust ChatGPT to not lie to you.

And since generative AI is now being used all over the place, you just can’t trust anything unless you know damn well that a human entered the info, and then that’s a coin flip.

Better use the 2000lbs bomb just to make sure.

Sadly, VW has never strayed far from their roots.

They’ve always been just a little scummy on the business practices side of things. More than a little scummy during WW2…

They do sometimes have good engineering. Which means fuck all in the face of management who want to cut corners and cheat to make more money.

Yup, kbin for the win.

Just wish it had a mobile app…

I just played through it.

It’s about 5 hours of content. The puzzles are interesting and mostly new.

If you own Portal 2, the mod is free to play.

The one thing he was at the company to do, was make good games that make good money.

Covering for rapists and threatening to kill employees is bad enough, but I can see a world where that sort of shit is, not forgiven, but swept under the rug.

That world is one where the money flows. It’s not a good world, but it’s one that’s understandable.

But fucking with the games and making shit worse? In a sane world, the Board would take a look at the company and say, no. this guy has to go for all of the above reasons.

That sane world is one where mergers and acquisitions are heavily scrutinized, and Blizzard was not allowed to merge with Activision.

Actual competition in the space means that the CEO has to actually be halfway good at the job, and maybe not a complete psycho. We don’t live in a sane world.

Another option, she’s buying a new house down the road, and selling this one to pay for it.

If the person who did this wanted the other house but lost out on the bid, this is a fairly low-cost way of fucking up that deal. And if the deal still goes through, then it’s just a costly act of petty revenge.

There might be a link between the bans from dating apps and the “not been in a long-term relationship”…

I love the odd artifacts.

Dude has both hands in his pockets, but also one hand holding a bird wing, that’s also somehow his other-other hand.

Hyperloop didn’t fail, it did exactly what Musk wanted. It killed the California high speed rail plan. At least for a few years.