• Ephera@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    58
    ·
    7 days ago

    I’m genuinely baffled how many oligarchs had contact with Epstein. I do believe their primary job qualification is a lack of morals, but there’s so many ways to be amoral, you don’t have to all be friends with the guy that offers pedophilia.

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      54
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      7 days ago

      What this whole thing has taught me is that there is a market among billionaires for someone to peddle enslaved kids.

      Now epstein is gone, and has been for years, but that demand doesn’t just die. I don’t have proof, but there is zero doubt in my mind that epstein is not a one and done. There’s either another epstein, or more likely a dozen smaller epsteins out there.

      There’s a part of me that thinks all these ICE abducting kids is being done at trumps order, specifically as a means to replace epstein.

      • Tinidril@midwest.social
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        16
        ·
        7 days ago

        There has been lot of information released indicating Epstein’s child trafficking ring was barely impacted by his absence. He had lots of conspirators, most of whom are probably still at it, nevermind all of the Mossad, KGB, and CIA cooperation.

        • Birds are not real@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          7 days ago

          The only logical explanation I have found about it is by learning about Frankism from Professor Jiang and his youtube channel Predictive history.

    • thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      7 days ago

      Beyond just the pedophilia, his (Epstein) operation was largely one of socialising, and securing (probably coerced) introductions from people he helped facilitate and now held blackmail over.

      e.g. using blackmail material on a Bill Gates to secure an introduction to another wealthy and influential individual, offering them a “massage” and then producing kompromat at a later date to bring them into his circle.

      Now don’t get me wrong, everyone who found themselves in this position was a willing participant, not a victim - but I can understand how so many oligarchs eventually found their way into his little black book.

  • CaptDust@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    46
    ·
    7 days ago

    If he’s in the files it’s strictly to tear Jeffers apart for submitting a shit code patch and wasting his time.

    • db2@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      7
      ·
      7 days ago

      He’ll probably be associated with Satoshi that way, he tried to fund the bitcoin reference client with the intent to use it for untraceable transactions. Bitcoin has always been traceable though.

      • Tryenjer@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        8
        arrow-down
        2
        ·
        7 days ago

        Bitcoin was probably created for Putin to hide his money. There’s suspicious stuff about it in the Epstein files.

        • folaht@lemmy.ml
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          edit-2
          7 days ago

          That would be a coincidence since Bitcoin was created by a single college kid.
          But I’ve seen SN’s website a few years before 2022 when I figured out his identity and Putin knowing his identity would not be surprising considering what was on his main page.

          What stuff is being said about in the Epstein files?

  • AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    27
    ·
    7 days ago

    Linus would be too busy chewing Epstein out in a mailing list and then banning him from it permanently if they were friends.

  • morto@piefed.social
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    7 days ago

    Be careful. People are so dumb that they might misread or misinterpret it and create some hoax

    • cub Gucci@lemmy.today
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      7 days ago

      Something that the society achieved in the last 150 years are two dogmas:

      • 5/7 8 hours workweek is a maximum
      • people before 18 should not have sex with people after 18

      I’m kinda glad that questioning these puts one into a category of weirdos.

  • redbrick@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    4
    arrow-down
    44
    ·
    7 days ago

    I know this is not popular, and I do not like Microsoft for many reasons, but if I had to choose between linux and microsoft…I’d still choose MS. The UX is so much better. Linux still has a long way to go. I’ve been using linux on the side since slackware in the 90’s -> today Debian and raspbian.

    • paper_moon@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      20
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      7 days ago

      …are you still on Windows 10 by any chance? Because Windows 11’s UI and UX is atrocious, by design.

    • pivot_root@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      16
      ·
      7 days ago

      Windows’ UX is shit.

      Windows 11 still has its settings splattered across multiple applications. The Settings application has all the shiny new gimmicks they added, yet still lacks any way to change some basic settings. If you need to reset a local user’s password, you’re stuck going back into the now-gutted Control Panel to do it. And if you want to change something that Microsoft feels the average user shouldn’t be allowed to know exists, you’re using the group policy editor to do it.

      Or, how about the way that there’s at least two applications installed by default that do the same or very similar things? Windows Media Player or Videos? Paint or Paint 3D? Cmd.exe or Windows Terminal?

      How about the design language inconsistency? The Run dialog was left looking like a Windows 7 dialog and didn’t get a dark mode until the mid 2020s. The Event Viewer and Windows Firewall UIs are still something right out of Windows XP, but with Vista-smeared paint applied on top.

      Or, if that’s not bad UX, then how about the ads in the start menu? Or how OneDrive tries to trick you into uploading your desktop to the cloud? Or, maybe all the telemetry services running in the background and slowing shit down?

      If you’re using a distro with a worse UX than that, then that’s on you. There’s plenty of options that provide a more cohesive UX than Windows

    • thingsiplay@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      13
      ·
      7 days ago

      The Windows UX is horrible. What desktop environment do you use on Linux, that you think that Windows is better? :D

    • timmytbt@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      11
      ·
      7 days ago

      Of all the reasons to debate Windows > Linux you chose UX. Windows UX sucks, whereas Linux can be just about anything you can image with a little effort.

    • mastertigurius@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      7
      ·
      7 days ago

      The main problem with Windows (regarding GUI, there are many other issues) is that it’s never consistent. It changes with the mood of Microsoft’s execs and their need to set the trend, while at the same time having a pretty poor grasp of what the trend is. Look at Windows XP, Vista, 7 and then Win 8. Where’s the consistency? The nice thing about Linux is that you don’t have people on top telling you what the system to control your (“this”) computer will look like, whether you like it or not. On Linux, you control how your system will look, feel and behave. It’s your computer.

      • randy@lemmy.ca
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        17
        ·
        7 days ago

        Downvotes are to show that the content does not contribute to discussion. This comment is not related to the top-level post, and looks to be low-effort trolling, so it is not contributing to discussion, and deserves downvotes.