The one we just started?

Clearly a Democratic hoax. If he’s partying with Olympic celebs, how could he be doing his job?

This comment made me realize that English needs a word for “sequel to a sequel”

Just in time for the 250th. Which, of course, is why they targeted Philly before all the big celebrations

Really? You see a lot of CSAM? That’s not my understanding of it at all, but I’ll defer to the expert

How does CSAM tell you anything about the abuser? It only reveals the victim.

You want kid’s histories of child abuse viewable for… evidence?

Wow… yeah, we need to re-traumatize kids by posting their naked bodies online because that’s how we prove Epstein really abused kids

You want the CSAM to be viewable? You are calling for the public release of CSAM?

Oh I’m sorry that you only got the text releases, you really want the photos and videos that make up 98% of the data?

Edit: not defending the DoJ for covering up emails but “percentage of data” is a stupid metric here

Meanwhile everyone back at HQ is radioing and asking “did you get him? Why is there 20 minutes of silence?”

People can think. I can’t imagine how this works when you’re being backed up by dozens of people

Probably a trope. Low level cops don’t just stumble on kingpins. It take a large, coordinated investigation. You can’t just pay off the arresting officer, you’d need to pay off dozens at a minimum. And someone would say something. Maybe not to their boss, but at a bar, etc.

Excuse me, dear cousin, but we all come from Adam and Eve!

As a mod of a huge community, I cannot tell you how often someone said “Jews did x,” then called it censorship when we deleted it. If you criticize Israel, you’re fine. If you says “Jews,” but mean “Israel,” you’re probably not.

Meanwhile, we have lively discussions behind the scenes to prevent censorship. Users don’t really care though, they just want to complain and assume every mod action is an attack on users.

What do you mean?

Not just the constant exposure but the failure of traditional media to maintain their influence leads to people being in echo chambers.

Yup. People hate when it’s the easy answer but there’s no huge conspiracy. Traditional economists were terrified about the potential shift at the fed and Trump picked an establishment guy. The dollar got stronger, while crypto, gold, and silver crashed.

The other part here is that crypto had a decent bump when Trump won, but before he took office. Investors were excited about him as a pro-crypto president

Unpaid time off sucks, I’ve been there too. The American economic system feels designed as if everyone has a full time job with benefits.

In my life, I’ve held an array of jobs. Sometimes I’d just be off randomly on a Friday (because I’d have to work all weekend).

Some people in this economy are struggling to find full time/permanent jobs, so they can spare time to protest.

Speaking from my current situation, I have a bank of time I could pull from if I wanted to take time off. Many people can easily fake saying they are sick to get time off on short notice. Some people probably have cool bosses who will let them request vacation at the last minute. There’s a million possible scenarios.

The timing of his indictment was coordinated so that they announced they were going after him a week before the latest batch of Epstein files were released?

Or was it timed to be a few weeks after the last batch?

Genuinely not sure what this means.

It looks like “verified audience” reports only include people who bought a ticket on Fandango. This means a small group of people who saw some preview in a theater. If you change the filter to “all,” the audience ratings are much poorer. Nobody is going to buy tickets because it’s not in theaters, so then”verified” score will be skewed, I guess