When the Army General says rehabilitate them, the NSA says they are our brothers, and the Defence Media Director says they only erred, all three saying it openly, on record, without shame, you are no longer dealing with a security failure. You are dealing with a security establishment that has already picked a side. Three voices. Two days. One conclusion. This war was never meant to be won. 🐝🐆
@JacobKarli1@cremieuxrecueil@KeeganSkeate When someone steals your money, you no longer have access to that money.
When someone “steals” your idea, you still have complete access to the idea, it’s just been shared.
There probably exists reasonable objections to IP abolition, however the point you raised is not one.
@Ai009@mtracey This just sounds like intellectual laziness if you’re not willing to examine how much of it is truth, falsehood or misinformation.
I don’t believe you apply this lax standard to other matters
Epstein and his counsel acknowledged all along (from 2006 onwards) that there were "underage" girls who did in fact come to his house in Palm Beach. We didn't need to see any garbled text messages with Woody Allen to confirm that. However, the mitigating circumstances cited were as follows: these girls systematically lied about their ages, planning amongst themselves to do so, because they understood they would not be permitted in the house if they were below 18. Some even brought fake IDs.
Many of the "victims" themselves openly acknowledged doing this -- in police interviews, Grand Jury proceedings, and elsewhere. One of them, Tatum Miller, told the FBI: "I would tell my girlfriends, make sure you tell him you're 18. I would say make sure that you tell him you're 18... he thought that we were 18."
Tatum Miller said she recruited as many as 30 girls to come provide the "massages" (not always overtly sexual, for the record) with these instructions. "Everybody loved Jeffrey," she told FBI agents. "A lot of girls begged me to bring them back."
Tatum Miller also denied that she was a "victim" of Epstein, even as the FBI was classifying her as such, through "victim notification" letters and other tactics. Despite these denials, the US Attorney's Office cited her as one of the Jane Doe "victims" in the 2007 draft indictment that was finally just published.
Later, Tatum Miller did sue Epstein, and radically revised her story, once the for-profit lawyers swooped in. Many such cases.
Epstein ultimately pleaded guilty to a prostitution charge involving one 17-year-old who told police her encounters with Epstein were consensual, and that he never engaged in any forcible or coercive contact. Unlike the other girls, however, she had not lied to him about her age. Having reviewed that girl's account (Ashley Davis) I found her highly credible. Hence Epstein's eventual guilty plea related to conduct involving Ashley Davis. (She didn't want to testify, because she also did not believe she had been victimized, but was compelled to do so by extremely aggressive prosecutors.)
If you want to call the above conduct "rape," even though it would have been perfectly legal one state north in Georgia -- or in New York, or Massachusetts... OK. That's a ridiculous distortion of language, but fine.
However, it's all moot, for the purposes of what I said in my original tweet. The "underage" sexual contact in question all occurred at the Palm Beach house. There's never been any credible evidence of any "rapes," or even legally "underage" sexual misconduct, taking place at Epstein's property in the US Virgin Islands. Despite the term "Rape Island" and/or "Pedophile Island" being repeated ad nauseam without anyone bothering to learn the basic facts of the matter. People reflexively conflate the Palm Beach situation with totally uncorroborated rumors of evildoing at the private island. Hence why the notorious Caribbean island became so central to the wider Epstein lore. And fittingly so -- because it's utterly devoid of credible evidence. Even after the latest dump of millions and millions of investigative records.
We don’t have a “begging culture”, we have beggars. We don’t have a “stealing culture”, we have thieves. We don’t have a “lying culture”, we have liars.
I’m never outsourcing responsibility to third party inanimate construct. No, these are the PRESENT actions of PEOPLE.
This is why this country is in the pits.
A tragic snake bite death should’ve sparked serious conversations:
– checking neighborhoods for snake infestation
– educating people about snake bites, especially during the dry season
– draw attention and put pressure to health ministries for the lack of ambulances and anti-venom in a country with high snake-bite cases
Instead, we default to superstition and “spiritual attacks.”
Why fix emergency response or healthcare when everything is blamed on principalities and powers?
We get the society we tolerate.
@magi_jay At what age do you think toddlers/children-in-general exit this experimentation mode?
And how does giving in to their every request help them get the right lessons from this "experimentation mode
What alternative systems of dealing with this would you suggest?
@Zeeskylaw@joebasshd@gnchiso Bro said he's a (core) contributor to Google Deepmind and his code powers Gemini for everyone that's ever used it. When in reality he only opened a PR on gemma code to rename some files.
This is a little more than overselling the truth lmaooooo
Having conversations with Gemini3.0 and I had an idea on how to make it give me more valuable advice than generic, then asked it for a prompt for me to add to chat settings.
This seems pretty good I guess.
I opened up in separate tabs the top 7 or so Terraform courses on Udemy. I copied and pasted in the Course Titles, Course length and full Course Outlines into GeminiAI then asked it to select the best course for me that aligns with my skillset. This was the winner, so here we go!