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John McAfee found dead in Spanish jail after court approves extradition to US

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Post by tartoran »

casi18 wrote: post #257
motohagiography wrote: post #187

I didn't know him at all, but felt there was something I recognized and understood about what he was saying. If you must burn, burn bright. It looked like a great ride. This video of him playing piano is what I think he wanted people to know: https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/136205988701080781...

thanks for that video. i found myself so quick to judge, though i know very little about him. but seeing someone play music makes them human again. it seems he did burn bright. some people cant help but push up against the edges of existence. rip.

If you didn’t know, Charles Manson was a sociopath but a talented musician. Not sure if you taste the style but here it is: [0]

[0]: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HOTnvPE_LMY

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Post by gibybo »

H8crilA wrote: post #652
KVFinn wrote: post #502

Was just reading about McAfee freebasing bath salts from old posts on an old Joe Rogan forum and not paying taxes seems like the absolute least he was up to: >I've processed 23 kilos of this stuff in the past year or so, and bump it myself every day - in fair quantities the hypersexuality... is beyond belief. I have had a number of acquaintances (both male and female) who have rubbed their genitals way past the point…

What compound(s) is(are) those?

According to the linked post, Methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV) aka bath salts.

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Post by generalizations »

busymom0 wrote: post #603
enriquto wrote: post #340

One of his last messages, just a few days ago. It is sad and thoughtful: There is much sorrow in prison, disguised as hostility. The sorrow is plainly visible even in the most angry faces. I'm old and content with food and a bed but for the young prison is a horror - a reflection of the minds of those who conceived them. https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/140301918407478887...

Relevant Eric Weinstein tweeted this few minutes ago: > I have two bits of information about JE that are not public. > 1) An interchange from McAfee on Epstein. > 2) Knowledge that Epstein was asking after me in a late email just before he died. I have no idea why. There is no more contact about Epstein than one meeting about 20yrs ago. > With that said, there now is nothing I know of again on Epstein that is private…

What is GU?

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Post by XorNot »

gpt5 wrote: post #504
dcolkitt wrote: post #471

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Prison time for tax evasion is extremely rare in the US. Almost always the IRS just collects the penalty and moves on. The only real exceptions are either for criminals with a lot of other charges stacked up (eg mob bosses). Or a public figure making a political statement like Wesley Snipes. Not saying this is good or bad. Just saying it’s how it is. Joe Sixpack who fails to report some cash income will almost certai…

Selective enforcement is bad. The fact that the law says that you could go to prison for one year for not filing taxes on time, but that it's rarely enforced means that they should fix the law. Using it only on "bad guys" is a recipe for the government punishing people that disagrees with them.

Or you know...you could pay your taxes and stop stealing from the rest of us.

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Post by [deleted] »

freedomben wrote: post #503
G3rn0ti wrote: post #418

30 years for tax evasion? No wonder he preferred to die. I mean, you’ll get jail time for severe cases of tax evasion in Germany, too, but it’s a couple of years at max and most of the time it’s on probation. How do you justify your draconic punishments in the US which is supposed to be a free country?

Not just that but as a US citizen even if you aren't living in the US anymore you still have to pay US taxes. The 2014-2018 income taxes he owed were while staying abroad. The US forces you to renounce your citizenship to get out of paying taxes to a country you don't live in. IANAL but that's my understanding.

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Post by hluska »

neom wrote: post #391
hluska wrote: post #380

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sloshed is a weird word. It means drunk but if you go through etymology, it started at slush and moved to slosh which was to splash around in slush. Then somewhere along the lines, 'slosh' meant to pour without care and make a mess. That turned into pour alcohol carelessly and become a mess.

Where I grew up in Scotland, sloshed very specifically meant you couldn't pour the booze straight anymore, more than just a bit drunk. However, it's also considered somewhat polite, I thought... more appropriate when speaking of the dead.

Hey friend, honestly thanks. That’s how my Grandma Beatrice used the term sloshed - her family came over from Glasgow and she inherited that phrase from her Dad. It’s hard to convey but it was always said with love. It was more gentle teasing than an accusation?

Seriously though, thanks for this memory. My Gram and I were very very close.

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Post by jonathankoren »

BitwiseFool wrote: post #415
steego wrote: post #328

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I believe that’s how most people in society invoke a numerically void word like the word “likely”. Call my cynical, but time and experience has taught me that people do not back up qualifying words with the appropriate level of mathematical rigor. It’s as if they want to express an opinion without doing the leg work or providing any citations. Had he invested the time to calculate an estimate of likelihood, I’m willi…

"people do not back up qualifying words with the appropriate level of mathematical rigor." To be fair, how in the world am I supposed to calculate such things and provide a satisfactory number? The vast majority of my conversations and discourse don't require or benefit from giving a range or specific value to such words. Would the preceding sentence be better if I said 90%, 95%, 99.5% instead of 'vast majority'? And…

> To be fair, how in the world am I supposed to calculate such things and provide a satisfactory number?

I take it you're not a Bayesian. ;)

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Post by zamadatix »

pedalpete wrote: post #674

I'm confused by why/how he was arrested in Spain for failing to pay US taxes? Or am I missing something?

It's known as extradition and many countries have extradition treaties with the US https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/da/US_extra... the details of how it works depends on the particular treaty.

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Post by ljm »

XorNot wrote: post #666
ljm wrote: post #641

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I see your point... but we do leave the rich people alone. That's why we have individual people who have more money than entire countries. We do a lot of counter-intuitive things to keep the rich people on board. We haven't evolved from aristocracy, I'm not sure we can.

The existence of injustice doesn't justify injustice.

It does, by virtue of existing.

Injustice is valid, that is why people appeal against justice and other people appeal for it.

We haven't actually agreed on what justice and injustice mean.

You can't take one part of the dichotomy and ignore the rest.

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