Well, it kind of did: the guy is gone and life goes on without him.

I’ll take AdmiralPatrick anyday: one is a sad bitter passive-aggressive opensource developer in his basement, the other is a raging fascist with a nuclear button.

It’s the fascist United States doing aggressive imperialism and expansionism, as fascist regimes do. Just like Germany in the 1930s.

There’s one very simple method for not having to resort to hidden recorders and kiss-and-tell to stay alive, and that’s to date normal people and not fucking dictators.

Why is it that “special” people only seek relationships with their own kind?

I’m curious to see who comes out to say they support Israel 🙂

I’ll get the popcorn 🍿

You want to check your state’s laws on treasure trove.

I’ve invested ~340 Euro into the account at Reddit giving awards mostly, and a few NFT avatars, and for what?

For what indeed…

So my username on reddit was u/IAmUser1234567

I guess they found out you lied and you aren’t really user #1234567.

If I ever need to buy slate, I will make extra-sure never to buy it from Porto Slate Importers.

You know nothing of this area.

There is no tide here. There is no current. The water level is constant. Because it’s not a real lake: it’s a swamp that has been dredged out to prevent mosquito infestation. There’s a 10-acre buffer zone upstream that prevents silt from the catchment area from filling the lake back up, and there’s a dam downstream to control the lake level. That’s so the entire goddamn area isn’t filled with mosquitoes.

It’s not a real lake! All the lakefronts around it are artificial.

Because “Have a cigar” doesn’t mean “Have something pleasurable”: it an English idiom that means “Enjoy your success”, or “You succeeded: celebrate it” (by lighting up a cigar).

It’s a cognate of the other well know idiom “Close but no cigar”, which means you almost made it, but you didn’t succeed (and you don’t get to light up a cigar to celebrate).

Whereas “Have some fuckin crack cocaine you crack hoe” is just a crass person offering drugs to a female drug addict.

Well, like I said previously, since it’s just about impossible for ordinary folks to get the Epstein files released in full, we should all default to assuming all those mentioned in it are guilty - and since all those fuckers are rich and powerful and they can get the files released, if they want their names cleared, they can jolly well demand the release of the exculpatory evidence themselves.

And what’s blindingly obvious, starting with the one pedo who’s most mentioned in the files, is that they’re not exactly rushing to demand the truth set free…

Yeah, there’s a fair chance that he might be a murderer also. That’s also out there.

The way blackmailing works is, the blakmailer threatens the blackmailee to reveal their secrets.

Trump’s secrets are already out there: he’s a convicted rapist and his name appears more than a million times in the unredacted Epstein files - i.e. if he’s not a fucking pedo, I’m the King of England. No blackmailer has anything on him that everybody doesn’t already know.

So no.

A better question is how you used the card you were dealt - i.e. will you be satisfied with what you’ve done with your life when the end comes.

Because if the answer is no and you feel you have to end it sooner than necessary, you haven’t played all your cards yet. If the answer is yes, the end will come all too soon and the question is moot.

Here’s one. Definitely working for a crime family.

You get to hear about one when you’re rich enough, because you can’t become rich beyond a certain level without being a crook.

10. Telegraph Operator

The OM who taught me Morse code when I passed my ham radio license in the 80s was a long-retired telegraph operator. He recounted how he got his job:

He saw a ad for a job at his local Western Union telegraph office in the classifieds. He was already a ham radio enthusiast, so he figured he’d give it a shot. He showed up at the date and time indicated in the ad and sat in the waiting room with a bunch of other candidates for a long time. Nobody showed up to interview anybody. So he waited with all the others.

Then finally he got up and went straight to the recruiter’s office without prompting. He said he suddenly realized, while he was waiting there, that among the machinery noises and the clickety-clicks of the paddles, someone was continuously keying “If you can read this, go straight to the recruiter’s door.”

The office wanted only the very best telegraphists who lived and breathed the job. They figured someone who automatically listening to Morse code traffic when they heard something, and not just while on the job, was the kind of person they wanted.

Everybody I know hates AI, fears AI will take their job, and uses AI all the time themselves.

Education is frowned upon - has been since the 80s. It used to be that intelligent, educated people drew respect. Now the school heroes are the football players, and the math-heads and other nerds either pretend to be dumb to avoid trouble, or they get trouble.

And that’s why you have Donald Trump as president, who has the vocabulary of a child: he speaks the language of the ignoramus class.

Sorry I was busy at work and I left it there.

It’s all gone. It just left a bunch of chunks behind - more than usual:

The acetone is black, and when it dries off, it leaves white plasticky powder on my hand.