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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • The Netherlands being called a “narco state” by some elements, while in essence has a core of truth in it, comes more from the lack of punishment on hard crime, not the tolerance of soft-drugs (harddrugs are still considered highly illegal and criminal to traffic afaik).

    The Netherlands has closed many a prison in recent years, not because there was no crime but no properly paid staff to fill them. And a lot of the criminals that do end up in prison get, in the public’s view, extremely lenient sentences or just house arrest with an ankle bracelet.

    Even high profile criminals who shot political candidates (for prime minister?) or very public figures, were given a short prison stay and then house arrest with privileges as long as they played nice.

    Also, from what I heard, a lot of the narco-criminals that do get caught are often not of Dutch origin and for some reason that is considered to give a lot more trouble on giving them a hard sentence. The bigger boys will get extradited to their country of origin with no real continuous followup if they’re still fulfilling a prison sentence.

    And for example drug-runner teenagers, who break into shipping containers in the large ports grab the goods and try to get it to their bosses, are often barely punished.

    It just seems The Netherlands punishes crime from the view of the person, (ie. you’ll be locked up for 5 years of your coming ~55 years of life) not on what society deems appropriate for the crime committed.


  • The previously reported multiple thousands of deaths in recent days were just of natural causes then?

    Or do they actually mean 2500 in a single location?

    I hope the Iranians can get a proper new government but I fear it will never work, the current one will just lean more and more on violence and pull in external extremist forces to enforce their will.

    And if, by a fortunous act the current extremist government does fall I would not be surprised in the least if within 3 years a new extremist element violently suppresses their people.

    Iran can never return to its glory and freedom from before the removal of the shah unless they remove ALL powerhungry zealots.

    And that is the problem, everyone there currently working at a government position is powerhungry because they have nothing else, they need the position to dominate over someone else or fall away into poverty and non-meaning.




  • He also URGENTLY needs a new warring enemy, someone who fights back.

    This to completely overshadow the interest in his epstein-misdeeds (investigators are closing in on connections between his child-pageant-business and the epstein files) And he needs to be able to cover the economic woes with the “It’s war!” excuse.

    Trying to hide official economic numbers and sing praise on a pink cloud only works right up until the full populace realizes their finances are not getting better at all and everything is getting steep price hike upon steep price hike.






  • Most likely there are a few other “originals” out there that keep all involved parties in check.
    Epstein had files stashed on the island but also his Manhattan office (which got stolen after the fbi opened the safe but did not remove them), ghislaine is said to have files, and probably one copy is in the hands of putin, epstein was in Moscow…
    So if the trump admin releases an overtly fake version that exonerates everyone “on his side” another party can release opposing documents.

    This already somewhat happened last month, where the administration released redacted files and highly selected documents, where suddenly various publicly unknown epstein emails surfaced that pointed back to trump.





  • Apple airtags I found annoying and on a few rare occasions they did not work properly …
    Airtag clones, the cheap ones, never worked for me, go with originals or the more expensive clones.

    The Samsung tags on the other hand have been solid and functional for me, without hassles.

    I use the tags to find car keys (on rare occasions they fall from my pocket in some grass for example) they worked for luggage as well as finding a car and bike in parking areas.

    For constant tracking in general I am not impressed with none of them