It’s inconvenient to have my period all in one week, so I like to skip every weekend instead of seven days in a row.

Actual comment I heard from the luckiest idiot in the world.

Oculonanism

I never realized how similar Sean hannity and Lindsay graham look. Their faces here look like someone made the masks for comedy and tragedy from the same person (who had previously suffered a stroke).

but I’m a stickler for enthusiasm at all stages. I have standards about consent that should be normal for everyone, everywhere, always, and the fact that they aren’t is really fucked up.

FTFY. It feels weird to thank you for something that really should be the norm, but it’s really nice to see it written out clearly for everyone to see.

Before anyone starts complaining about their poor kinks that they just can’t help: I’m into CNC and TPE, and they are both incomparably better experiences for everyone involved when everyone continuously enthusiastically consents. You (may) just need to add a layer of obfuscation, depending on the scene, but that’s easily managed through the traffic light system or safe words/signs.

Emphasis mine:

The court documents allege Indyke and Kahn also used another Epstein company registered in the US Virgin Islands to write cheques worth $300,000, made out to young women or to an immigration lawyer involved in helping trafficked women stay in the US.

Well, the bold part is a euphemism and a half. I’d probably phrase it as “helping Epstein keep/hold trafficked women (edit:) trafficking victims, many of whom were children, in the US,” but that’s just because I realize how insane it is to suggest that attorney helped these women in any meaningful way.

Their response, by the way:

Kahn did not write cheques “for young women and/or an immigration lawyer on Epstein’s behalf, as he was not a signatory on any of Epstein’s bank accounts until shortly before Epstein’s death,” said his lawyer Ruzumna.

Notice how the italicized sections don’t line up and the attorney is completely sidestepping the issue?

Honestly, even if Kahn an Indyke actually somehow didn’t know anything about the trafficking, that would imply such negligent bookkeeping and legal advisement that it seems like they should be their own crimes. At the absolute least (again, under the insane supposition that they were was blindsided by Epstein’s crimes), they should have to pay back their earnings for the course of their employment to the estate to be held for settlements and never be allowed to work managing money or as an attorney again.

But realistically, Kahn and Indyke knew exactly what was going on and turned a blind eye to it out of greed and/or their own personal interest in the crimes.

It honestly makes it difficult to keep James Comer and James Comey straight

Plus, he was living elsewhere, running a business and raising a special needs toddler. Any one of those and it would be reasonable to think that he might just have too much on his plate to maintain the friendship.

An anonymous internet allows Nazis to connect with each other without fear of social or legal consequences, thereby raising their confidence in/dedication to their ideology.

It’s certainly not on a par, but the same thing happens with weird kinks- I have one I probably would have forgotten about if it weren’t something that I then found online. Instead, because I saw that it wasn’t just me, I had the confidence to tell partners about it. And it was only because I found queer online communities that I was able to explore my gender identity and sexuality in the same way.

I absolutely support an open and anonymous internet, I just don’t know if there’s a way to stamp out bigotry and fascism while having one.

Or rather, I know how to do it, I just don’t know if we can. The answer is absolute solidarity among non bigots against anonymous bigots: cancel your contracts with platforms that host fascists or bigots, tell them and everyone else why, and get others to do the same.

Of course, at this point there are enough of them to have their own economy, so it’s not going to work now. This is more like the wound care to prevent a recurrence of the infection, instead of the infection treatment itself.

Yeah, but I’ve worked with people like that before and it’s not a secret that they can quit at any time

It should cost $20M and be free for anyone with a net worth under $20M, with the caveat that anyone with a net worth over $20M must pay a surcharge of $100 Quadrillion in some inflation proof assets (I have to do work instead of hyperfocus on this further). If they can’t pay it, too bad.

I could see musk trying to make a spaceship out of submarine material.

And, it might cost up to $97, just for the real id upgrade.

They said “more,” and tbh, I’m way madder that now even more children have been victimized and killed

Fair, but you’re probably not working a job that would make it super surprising.

Like, I work at a bakery. If one of my coworkers has a couple mil somewhere, why do they deal with customers?

You can now, it costs a few grand

I’d sell ice-pops at a funeral concessions stand, that’s for sure.

When I’m stressed out and need to calm myself, I run through the layouts of old buildings I used to work, live, or go to school in.

You’re not wrong, but the only thing there that’s not arguably correct is calling hegseth little and I guess misspelling his name.

Wait, is there a specific term for a doctor who primarily operates in British English?

Does clickbait have to be misleading? I have always considered anything phrased so as to compel you to read further by omitting the crux of the article to be clickbait, so this would absolutely fall under that. An article with a headline like “never do this while tanning!” that’s about the dangers of citric acid on your skin in the sunlight is a useful, true article with a clickbait title, as another example.