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I'll take it, thank you.

Keep in mind that Epstein also ran an adult escort service. I forget who the celebrities were, but there's an account of 3 C and B list celebrities on Epstein's plane going to some sort of charity event, with a 23-year old "model".

The play for blackmail might have started with girls who at least appeared of age. It would be the smart(ish) play, Monica Lewinsky was 25 when she was a White House intern.

Which we don't talk about how fucked up that was enough. The power dynamic of that "relationship" is just wrong on so many levels. If you have direct power over the life of someone else, then that person is not a potential romantic partner. Full stop.

The medical science on it says that two years of hormone therapy are enough to lose any sort of competitive advantage in trans athletes.

Four years is overkill, and is part of why this policy is considered one of the strictest in professional sports.

Before the witch hunts kick off, keep in mind that this "list of associates" also includes victims and others who have sued Epstein for other reasons.

Wait for the checked and collated list before we start hunting.

You need to be a citizen for at least 7 years to be eligible to hold office, but Santos may have just lied on the paperwork, and the people in charge of checking that shit have little incentive to actually check, because Santos is a Republican who blindly supported the agenda, until he became a liability to the party.

Because he's a republican who is pro-Trump, so the screaming maga don't care as much about his crimes or lies, afterall they say "every politician lies" and then vote for the liars who say the shit that the maga like.

So the republicans in power cover for him, until it became too much for them.

You jest, but we don't actually know if he's a citizen at all.

He has claimed at various times to have been born in the US and in Brazil. He's lived in both locations, and is wanted for questioning for crimes in Brazil.

I see most of the people in the comments here have older model heat pumps.

Newer model heat pumps are quite a bit better than even ones made 10 years ago.

My dad had one put in two years ago for his garage kitchen, and it's worked quite well, even in fairly cold temperatures. Most importantly, that heat pump doesn't have an auxiliary mode, and yet it still works in sub freezing temperatures.

It would work even better if it were ground source, but those are both expensive and require digging up the yard.

OP missed the obvious, "obsessing pointlessly over the past" option.

The one thing he was at the company to do, was make good games that make good money.

Covering for rapists and threatening to kill employees is bad enough, but I can see a world where that sort of shit is, not forgiven, but swept under the rug.

That world is one where the money flows. It's not a good world, but it's one that's understandable.

But fucking with the games and making shit worse? In a sane world, the Board would take a look at the company and say, no. this guy has to go for all of the above reasons.

That sane world is one where mergers and acquisitions are heavily scrutinized, and Blizzard was not allowed to merge with Activision.

Actual competition in the space means that the CEO has to actually be halfway good at the job, and maybe not a complete psycho. We don't live in a sane world.

5th pin down on the far left side in the picture.

There's no solder on the pin.

Most of the joints are questionable, that one is flat out bad.

There are a bunch of questionable solder joints.

Like half the pins.

But the absolute worst is the 5th pin down on the far left side. There's so little solder used that you can see into the hole.

A few others are also a bit lacking as well. Almost all of the joints are ugly as sin...

The law was written to specifically target city level officials (who are often Democrats) and includes jail time for any errors found during an audit.

The law specifically does not apply to state level officials (who are almost all Republican).

So it is an open question if depreciation is considered at all, because this law is not a Transparency Law, it's a "Punish Democrats we don't like with Jail" law.

Texas is under the 5th circuit.

Judges there are often just as insane as their lower court brethren. Fully by design.

I also see room for creative interpretation.

That laptop might have been worth more and $1K a few years ago, but is it still? Probably not, but does the law make that distinction?

A bit sad that it didn't work out for you.

I know the classic "it's worked fine for me" doesn't help.

It uses the Arch based rolling release, so give it a few weeks and try again? Or not, if you find a distro you like before then.

Garuda is literally designed as a gaming distro.

It has auto installers for retro and modern gaming (emulators, Steam, Gog, etc.)

That wouldn't work on my system.

Typing apt just opens the man page for pacman.

I love the optimism in that report.

This offers an opportunity to distribute and share about US$524 billion among the different parties in the region and promote peace and cooperation among old belligerents, the study notes.

As if finding new raw resources on someone's land has ever led to peace.

The thing is, Hamas doesn't actually have much in the way of presence in the West Bank.

All we have is the word of the IDF, because they arrested and disappeared anyone who could argue otherwise. It's not like they've been completely truthful in even the recent past.

Also, we know where Hamas was getting their money. It came in via unmarked suitcases of cash that the IDF allowed through the Gaza checkpoints.