UnderpantsWeevil @ UnderpantsWeevil @lemmy.world

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What gets me is that we've already had an orgy of evidence regarding Epstein and his various partnerships.

And yet the various administrative and state DOJs - from Bush in '05 to Obama to Trump to Biden to Trump again to the Florida and NY and even the fucking Virgin Islands - had more than enough to start making sweeping indictments and arrests. And yet, nobody seems interested in pulling the trigger (or, when someone does, they're fired).

Everyone associated with Epstein - left, right, and center (excepting Gislane Maxwell) - is walking away scott free.

And yet we keep hearing about "The Hidden Files" that someone or other is keeping secret. The extra double-plus super dooper extra special evidence that can finally start indicting people. As though the witness testimonies and flight logs and transfer payments and real estate deals and extensive misuse of Les Wexner's Victoria Secret company resources just aren't enough to press charges on anyone.

You should have entire cell blocks full of people convicted for human trafficking and serial sexual assault based on any given litany of newspaper headlines. But here we are, still just waiting on the "Real" information to be released at last.

Broadly speaking? For the same reason every other state does. Continental unity opens up trade and travel, exploits economies of scale, and simplifies the legal system for interstate business and for civil rights purposes.

Specifically? Because federal coordination helps manage natural disasters (like wildfires) and centralize big programs life Medicare/SS and secures national defense (which California profits from handsomely).

You’re not thinking enough like a grifter

I mean, its obviously a shit post. But I imagine spending a whole day doing fake interviews - 50 a day, five days a week, for a month - to make around $6k gross, and then tell yourself you can scale this up passively.

There's no compelling reason why a state a big and wealthy as Texas can't afford to manage natural disasters on this scale.

Their state leadership simply chooses not to do so. And the state media saturated the airwaves with "Nothing to be done, government would only make things worse" which... given the leadership of the state, isn't even an unfair critique.

That’s all red states.

From California to Mississippi, the anti-tax era got everybody. Now states don't have domestic revenue to pay for shit, so they have to go through the Feds for everything.

Ironic, in a way, since the core of anti-tax Republicanism was supposed to be about shrinking the size of government. But here we are, beholden to whichever idiot or asshole happens to be running the executive branch at a given moment

If not for Dunmore's Proclamation, Washington would have still been fighting for the British

The two were on good terms not two years earlier when Washington believed Dunmore would help him secure more territory in the Ohio River Valley.

It's a good joke

But half because the logic is so terrible. That's not passive income. It's retail

This is not the United states my ancestors died for.

It literally is, though. Trump isn't a new kind of president, he's a return to the nation's white nationalist authoritarian roots.

Yeltsin was such a drunk idiot

Backed by the US in a coup against the Russian government

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas

Putin wouldn't be President of Russia if the US and the USSR had been able to settle their differences without a 60 year long series of proxy wars and regime changes. Neither would Trump, for that matter.

You played yourselves.

Doesn’t seem like years of sanctions on Russia, Iran, or North Korea had a sufficient impact to cause any change.

Seems like it made them more insular, more self-sufficient, and more hostile to future diplomatic entreties.

Change by force can have negative results, and change by economic means can have positive ones

What if, instead of trying to extort or kill a nation's residents in order to force them to adopt your preferred foreign policy, you simply afforded them an opportunity for peaceful coexistence?

Would be nice if we had blue state agencies and universities willing to step up and absorb some of the shock by hiring these professionals and issuing grants to continue their projects. Instead, we've got institutions wasting time and resources on elaborate surveillance programs aimed at Palestine protesters

…made in 2018 by a Russian team. Way before the whole Ukraine war thing, you understand

Flipping through a history book on Russian/Ukrainian relations in the 21st century

Closing the book, putting it back on the shelf, whistling, and walking away

More seriously, I'll never understand folks who hear "So-and-so is from Nationality X, so now I must/must not purchase products from them because of their bloodline."

I am a professional encoder and I always put all my codes in a single big file marked EXE for faster execution.

Have a friend who was a sort-of perpetual grad student - bouncing from Sweden to Italy to Australia - over about ten years, pursuing a degree in marine biology. Along the way, she contributed thousands of hours of labor to various research teams. Eventually, she got burned out, married a neurologist, and moved to a small house in Queensland. Now she mostly just gardens and raises bunnies, which she is extraordinarily good at thanks to her education.

Was this money wasted or did the universities get exactly what they paid her for? Idk. But it seems a far better way to employ people than what we've done with The Pentagon or ICE.

"I graduated high school, got a good job at the Mill, married my high school sweetheart, had five kids, bought a second house with a boat, retired at 60, went insane reading Facebook memes and watching FOX News, then decided to shoot up the Harvest Music Festival in 2017. Why can't you young people do that?"

My wife graduated law school in 2010, Summa Cum Laude, and just barely got a job at a low rent firm.

Five years later, she's earning twice the money at a much nicer place for not much more work, because the glut of students from '08-'10 caused grads in '11-'14 to look elsewhere. Suddenly there was a huge supply gap and you could write your own ticket.

Moral of the Story: Get good at something and stick with it. Markets go up, markets go down, but skills pay the bills in the end.

Reminds me of the movie "A Serious Man"

Larry Gopnik: A divorce-what have I done! I haven't done anything- What have I done!

Judith Gopnik: Larry, don't be a child. You haven't "done" anything. I haven't "done" anything.

Larry Gopnik: Yes! Yes! We haven't done anything! And I-I'm probably about to get tenure.

Judith Gopnik: Nevertheless, there have been problems. As you know.