Ammon

The difference is the beards. The Taliban have natural beards made of facial hair. The MAGA folks have trophy wives as beards to cover their sexual preferences for underage boys and girls.

Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.

Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...

Don't be evil?

"Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while simultaneously removing apps designed to warn local communities about the presence of ICE officers..."

www.404media.co/google-has-c...

Well, you _say_ "Secret Nuclear Bunker" but not anymore it isn't when you also say where it is... 🤡

In that respect, there are similarities between Bond and Dr Who, just without the awkward 'transitions'. Each actor has re-envisioned the role, the morals, the ethics, and of course, all to the new times.

For me, the constant revisions and evolutions, constantly bringing very old spy novels to a modern day audience is half the fun. Each new Bond was more like a new title-holder for the position than a continuation of the same character/hero

Having read (I think) all the books back as a teenager, there's really not much more complete a divergence they could ever manage. What matters, ultimately, is whether or not the movie is enjoyable. Bond coming back from Lazenby was already coming back from dying. 🤣

This is your gift to every editor you have ever worked with isn't it: extra appreciation from the public. 😁

Nice one.

I cant tell you how delighted I am when a company hires eponymously... 🤡

Word of the Day is ‘catchfart’ (17th century): an obsequious individual who sucks up to the boss and always follows the political wind.

He'd still be a poor Christian, after all, I've rarely heard of a bigger wanker...

The proper way to counter it is to summon the divine Hare of light and wisdom... Hare Krishna!

I tend to think that even the lowest bar possible for a reliable source (without evidential corroboration) is 'sane and rational'.
I'm not easily going to be swayed from that stance.

Sure, we know that many victims of abuse go back to their abuser. Domestic violence and abuse practically relies on that. But such people also become accomplished liars to help cover the abuse. I say this as a survivor of childhood abuse myself, who made up lies to cover the shame I felt.

100%. And if we cannot comprehend what she might do, or why, does this make her a more reliable witness compared to others, or a questionable one? Don't we rely on being able to comprehend someone's actions and motives when assessing their credibility and reliability? Genuine question.

I specifically and deliberately used the singular 'victim' to clearly indicate I am addressing only this one, specific individual who is known, beyond any doubt or question, to have lied in regard to a bus collision, and to faking a terminal illness. I hate to distrust, but blind trust is stupid.

Gotcha! He thinks the common minerals will mutate if he just spreads enough radiation around!

Compared to him claiming to be a genius, or even smart? I beg to differ. :)

IIRC the USA imports around 90% of all its Rare Earth minerals from China. Mostly the ones needed for chips, smart glass, and of course, batteries. All things Trump is proudly claiming to be going all-in on, right as he's put massive tariffs on all the raw materials...

The greatest irony perhaps is that the greatest innovations in electricity since its invention have been around storage. And batteries are currently the major thing that the USA absolutely relies on China's Rare Earth minerals for...

President Chump strikes again. Describes the luxurious fittings, servants, sleeping quarters and virtual palace in the clouds as "able to walk about a bit"... Quite possibly the most ignorant and ignoble man the world has ever known.

While I have absolutely no doubt that she's a victim, many things say to me that her situation taught her "That's how the world works" and that she absolutely put herself into more than one of those situations and earned her a living. A living with international travel on private jets and mansions.

Ultimately, with so much evidence and testimony sealed and redacted, it is very hard to know what really happened - which of course was the whole point of the sweetheart deals, the sealing agreements, and so many people in power hiding the evidence. What we do know says Guiffre is a dubious witness

Ron Eppinger was yet another abuser and sex trafficker who hid it all under a 'modelling agency' - the exact same business model as Casablancas, Trump, Epstein and Brunel... So Guiffre, who'd been LIVING WITH Eppinger for months knew all the warning signs before Epstein/Maxwell.

We really know very little about how she lived when on the streets. But I heard she was originally approached by the FBI for Epstein's first Grand Jury in Florida - the one with underage prostitution and underage girls paid for sexual acts. There's also the whole Ron Eppinger thing...

I've never got how a child supposedly abused and traumatised by being repeatedly abused, by many different men, would decide of her own volition that her life's ambition was to study how to rub oil into semi-naked men with more money and power than she had... Is that 'sane' or rational?

Guiffre claimed to have been sexually abused from the age of 7 by her father and a 'family friend'. Fostercare, a runaway, and on the streets at 14. Then moved back in with her (abuser) father and started studying massaging wealthy men, which is when Maxwell is said to have approached her...

There *is* evidence regarding Epstein, of course. Not least that he settled a lawsuit with her way back. But for Andrew, a man then constantly shadowed by police protection everywhere, if there's anything more than her say so, they were holding it for trial. Despite tabloids digging for a decade.

On the one hand I want to "believe the victim". On the other, this is the same person that lied about a bus crash, then lied again about a terminal illness. That doesn't necessarily negate her story, but it sure as heck ought to throw 'reasonable doubt' and demand evidence.

Very cool!