It’s wild how we still learn more and more about Epstein’s person.

He was obviously a sick bastard, but I don’t think he was the worst of the lot.

He was probably more like the frat boy whose parents were always out, so everyone would party at his place. He was thrilled with being the host of it, so he could mingle with the powerful people. If he was truly the mastermind behind all the illegal shit, it seems unlikely that he’d also be stupid enough to write all those files and keep trophy pictures of rich people.

This never made much sense to me, until I realized that someone else is behind arranging the worst of it.

This would explain how he had both ordinary and completely wild illegal shit going on at the same time.

Trump plays a larger role in it, but I also don’t think he is the mastermind behind it. He was allowed access because he took part in and knows the people doing the human trafficking.

I don’t think we know who called the shots in the group yet.

Skill issue.

may

No. They’ve been doing it for years.

Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency.

Where I live, the heavily autistic people or other mental disorders usually move out of their parents home long before the parents die.

They get social security payments and pay rent. If they need assistance, they’ll usually choose to live in condos along with other handicapped people, where services is hired as part of the rent. This can be structured in many ways. For instance as an institution owned by the municipality, as a privately owned institution, or as a self-owning institution which is becoming more popular. Regardless of the ownership, the institution or community gets paid by the government and is subject to the same laws.

Anyway, nevermind the details, the government pays for everything in the end. The point is that handicapped people are not legally incapacitated. They have the same rights as everyone else.

In severe cases, they can be financially incapacitated. Autistic people usually don’t need to, but if so they will then be appointed a legal financial guardian. From experience, I can only stress that it is most beneficial to have a legal guardian that is NOT family. The reason is that handicapped people get a modest social security cheque to cover their expenses. However being disabled and all, they don’t really spend a lot of money, so unfortunately family members acting as guardians find opportunities to start leeching. Disgusting, I know, but it’s unfortunately what happens when they get pursuaded to let a distant cousin to run their finances…

In case you were asking about minors losing their parents, they’ll be placed in foster care. Autistic or not.

I love the Streisand effect in defamation lawsuits.

I’d never have heard of that shitty company otherwise.

I’m not going to rule out the possibility of something existing that we don’t know of yet.

However, if we’re supposed to look for anything in any way, we first need to know what we’re looking for. So, what’s a ghost? Is a a soul, and if so, what’s a soul?

I think that’s an interesting question with or without ghost.

People who believe in souls, should attempt to explain what a soul is and how they experience their existence. Is it an emergent feature of the electrons or brainwaves that can travel in other dimensions that our normal physics can’t detect or something completely unknown?

People who have experiences with ghosts and souls should be investigated. How do they detect their observations? Are they somehow able to sense things that happen in other dimensions? That’d be really cool, and I still won’t rule it out. The human mind can do weird stuff. For instance echo localization like bats do, seeing more colours than normal or even just perfect pitch. Stuff like that is provable and shows that our senses can be expanded by training. Perhaps we even have dormant senses like seeing magnetic fields like birds do.

So let’s say some people can see ghosts but we just can’t measure it currently, because we don’t know how it works. We can still make an experiment where we compare the observations from these special skills and see if they align. If it turns out that the people who can see ghosts agree, then we should definitely investigate it further and find out what happens in their heads when they see ghosts. Where does the brain impulses come from? That’ll teach us about the special sense, which could then prove the existence of ghosts.

I doubt their observations match up in a controlled environment. It’s a shame because it would be really easy to prove the existence of ghosts.

I’ve tried Jerboa, Connect and Voyager. By now these all have the options to customize the view exactly how I want it. (Dark mode, tiny list, thumbnails on the right.) I don’t care about clients that can’t do that.

Jerboa was kind of buggy. Maybe it’s better now, but that’s what made me switch.

Connect has a lot of options. The developer is active in the Lemmy community trying to catch up with the bugs that somehow creep into every update. It has the superior text editor of these and also its own tagging system.

Voyager, previously known as Wefwef, is basic and stable. Maybe too basic.

I’m currently using Voyager, but I sometimes still use Connect when I need to quote text from the post I’m replying to while writing. For instance if I need to quote two separate paragraphs or whatever. Can’t do that easily in Voyager. Also when I want to embed pictures in a reply, then Connect is ever so slightly easier. Small differences.

If I were to recommend just one for a new user who doesn’t care about customization and weird options, I’d have to say Voyager, even if I myself prefer Connect. Voyager is easy to use and it’s stable.

Do they have to agree on the answer?

If not, then you can add their experiences. They’ll share some but it’s a net plus.

If they do have to agree, then they can only answer when they have shared experiences, in which case it’d be a net negative.

It’s basically two arrays of binary numbers, either they know something or they don’t, and then you can do boolean algebra to get the kind of answer you want.

In reality you will encounter both situations, and by using dialogue, you can sort out the differences and achieve a higher rate of correct answers.

This way, two idiots can indeed answer more correctly than one expert. However it’s required that the idiots are aware of their own shortcomings.

Rabbit Hole:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Malawi

It’s lice. You get 300 million lice.

Now, can you build the potato clocked, huh?

I usually refrain myself from commenting on other people’s appearances, because God knows I was last in queue, but when someone goes out of their way, and spends lots of money to look like a clown, it’s only fair for them and everyone else to laugh at them.

Plastic doesn’t age well I see.

She’s 54. Act like it.

Lemmy is too small for it to make sense. I can easily read through all threads all the way through the controversial posts and still run out of content daily.

It made sense on Reddit, where accounts could be worth money and/or used for advertising, or some people thought karma points was worth it, or that posts there had influence, which they did for a while. The Unidan affair was only about votes, and showed how a single user manipulated the majority of readers into something that was WRONG ON THE INTERNET, which should be a crime.

Finally there’s also people who view everything as a competition and just want the high score in that imaginary game. Endorphins or something. I’ll admit that I have a longer streak than necessary in some apps too, but I’m no cheater. I wouldn’t get my high off that anyway.

I rarely downvote, but then again, every upvote is like downvoting everyone else, and I surely don’t want to upvote everything.

Maybe this is the 1st. iteration of design, still being copied because nobody bothers making a new design.

People also still say “hello” when they answer the telephone. That’s even older.

They used muzzle loaded cannons at his time, so it makes sense. It’s not only for direction, but for faster rate of fire.

No, you’re not. The internet is unsurprisingly full of people being annoyed with just that.

The most valid explanation is that quotation marks used to mean something else. Before we had bold and italics and underscores, typographers would sometimes use quotation marks for emphasis. This kind of ancient mark-up language can be seen in advertising up until the 1950s or so. It is considered to be wrong now.

A little late…

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/22/nx-s1-5722796/danish-military-evacuates-us-submariner-medical-care-greenland

I would probably feel safer around someone who says that they’re not, than someone who doesn’t acknowledge the potential dangerous situations.

Yes, that’s because it was. The album Chinese Democracy was basically a solo project by Axl.