He was arrested, tried, convicted, and then released by one of Trump’s USAs only to get arrested and tried again decade later. Incidentally, Bill Gates got on a plane with Epstein in 2014, five years after his original conviction. I’m convinced the only reason Epstein eventually got put to a permanent end is that he ran out of money.

There really is no end to the amount of bullshit rich people can get away with.

accusations against “high profile” people shouldn’t just be taken as proof

Yeah. I find it highly suspicious that a guy who got famous for being the loudest misogynist on YouTube would be accused of practicing what he preaches. This would be like if someone accused Mike Tyson of hitting him. Or Tucker Carlson of lying. Or Ben Affleck cheating on his wife. Or OJ Simpson of committing a murder.

You have to take this shit with a huge boulder of salt, because… come on. What are the odds?

I hope the truth comes to light

Hearts out to all those possibly wrongfully accused rapists and sex traffickers. Andrew Tate, Harvey Weinstein, Neil Gaiman, Ron Jeremy. Really hope we can clear aside the dozens and dozens of testimonials from people accusing them of wrongdoing and find a piece of evidence I won’t casually dismiss.

This is a white-paper proposal for a clean-up effort that nobody wants to fund. The CEO of Ocean Cleanup has been pitching this fix since 2012. This isn’t even a new idea, its just been going through permutations of refinement since the initial proposal, with funding coming primarily from private independent donations. But we’re talking tens-of-millions raised on a project that needs 100x that amount.

And it does not appear to include the cost of physically processing the removed waste, just collecting and moving it to another location.

Given the stinginess of state governments when it comes to waste cleanup, I’m not holding my breath.

it’s a story of how to live within your means

When cost of living outpaces working income, the only way to live within your means is to speculate on the future price of those means. Investment is effectively a hedge against inflation.

I work for myself and don’t bother expanding. It all just means that the money I make was only for myself and only within my means.

That works so long as you don’t encounter a tail-risk that blows up your budget. A big medical bill or a major housing repair or some other unexpected liability can immediately threaten all your accrued wealth. Alternatively, a state agency may decide your property is more valuable in the hands of a better-politically-connected business interest and seize it at “fair” market value via eminent domain.

I’m in Texas, and I’ve heard more than a few stories of folks with multi-generational family property on the receiving end of a cattle rancher or an oil tycoon who can just snatch up adjacent real estate.

I’m indigenous Canadian and from the very start of my life I knew I was on my own

That’s a rough way to live. It leaves you vulnerable to the slings and arrows of misfortune and the whims of more powerful neighbors. At some point, you need to be part of a larger community as insulation against long-term risks and regional conflicts.

Otherwise living within your means just means living by the skin of your teeth. It works until it doesn’t.

Or … don’t bother going to school and just work in construction and manual labor in your own small business.

Just Become a Small Business Tyrant is an excellent way to get rich quick… assuming you’ve got friends and family who can give you the inside contractor route.

Hell, that’s how Bill Gates made it big. His mom, a Board Member at IBM, handed her son the contract to design a novel OS. And now he’s a billionaire 80 times over! No student debt to speak of, because he Learnt 2 Code.

but at least I own everything outright.

I mean, I’d rather be paying a 2% note on debt when my equities are doing 30% in a year. But I’m not really a business guy.

Even if you don’t like the BG3 campaign…

That’s crazy. The campaign was one of the best computerized D&D adventures I’ve seen published to date.

Neverwinter 1 & 2 lived on for a long time because of this.

I enjoyed the Neverwinter toolkit, but the graphics were still so blocky and clunky. There’s a polish to BG3 that, I think, will draw in a bigger audience.

Also, a big beautiful modding toolkit can have so many knock-on effects. Half-Life gave us a rich basket of spin-offs, from Team Fortress to Counterstrike. Starcraft and Warcraft popularized us a slew of new game styles, like Tower Defense and DOTA. Fingers crossed that we get something similar from BG3.

Most debauched party-thrower at Stanford University.

Super computers have been doing this sort of stuff for decades without much problem

Idk if I’d point at a supercomputer system and suggest it was constructed “without much problem”. Cray has significantly lagged the computer market as a whole.

the main issue is on training for LLMs inference is pretty computationally cheap

Again, I would not consider anything in the LLM marketplace particularly cheap. Seems like they’re losing money rapidly.

I would simply work a part time job that pays three times as much as what my parents’ made when they were in college. And then I’d live in housing that’s one third the price. And then I’d graduate into a profession that pays three times as much so I can pay down the debt faster.

Seems simple enough.

So what happens if he wins? Would this guy just flip again and support him?

Absolutely. Of course, it won’t matter because he’s not on the Trump inside track anymore. He’s just grifting from the periphery.

Real “Socialism or Barbarian?” moment

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Biggest foreign sponsor of CNN incidentally.

You’ll get a bunch of headline gore followed by a DOJ that shelves this all as “unprosecutable”.

In five years, Tim Poole will have a show on CNN where guest Jon Stewart recalls that he got caught taking Russian money. And we’ll all get a laugh about how he did this with Crossfire to the same effect.

Weren’t they bragging about it back when Trump was in office?

there are loads of white papers detailing applications of AI in various industries

And loads more of its ineffectual nature and wastefulness.

Hosting the image on discords CDN allows you not to give out your IP address to any person that comes across the link

You don’t need the whole image, just the route to your machine to retrieve the data. Glorified Bit.ly.

One of the big things you don’t have to think about is the person you just made a joke about or beat in an online game trying to DDOS your machine

Definitely a perk of a bulk centralized system. But the pricing model is still messed up. If Teamspeak sold you gems to buy widgets to mask your IP, I still wouldn’t pay for the service.

Google Whiteboard could have been better. Hell, I can think of a dozen apps in the Google graveyard that could have been better.

But Discord still exists and they don’t, so…

The NSA agent assigned to monitor me has a character on my Foundry instance.

Or let you host from your own machine, rather than paying Discord for the privilege of using their wildly overpriced services.

It sounds like you’ve never read about Vance

Uno Reverse.

Have you even picked up a copy of the original book? He’s a staunch and unapologetic drug warrior in that book. He is openly contemptuous of unions. And his “solution” to poverty is just to go to college.

These are classic conservative policy planks endorsed by the Heritage Foundation and the Federalist Society.