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The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein

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Re: The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein

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Packets regularly crossing state lines doesn’t mean they always cross state lines.

Good luck representing yourself in federal court.

Weird take but ok. I understand the assumptions of the law don't always reflect reality. Why would I defend myself?

You claim that packets always cross state lines because sometimes they cross state lines. That's not a logically consistent statement.

Re: The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein

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Of course it is. Things getting cheaper is really bad for the economy. That's why computers never became an industry, they just kept getting cheaper every year so nobody bought them. If only computing power had kept getting more expensive every year, we might have some kind of tech industry!

A single (luxury) sector getting cheaper is not the same thing as generalized deflation

Computers are not a luxury sector, they're practically built into every device because they're so cheap.

Re: The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein

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Of course it is. Things getting cheaper is really bad for the economy. That's why computers never became an industry, they just kept getting cheaper every year so nobody bought them. If only computing power had kept getting more expensive every year, we might have some kind of tech industry!

A single (luxury) sector getting cheaper is not the same thing as generalized deflation

They're also hardly a single sector. What does growth look like if you remove tech stocks?

Re: The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein

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1 if you've been emailed or mentioned (cited) by Jeffrey Epstein. 2 if you've been emailed or cited by someone who has an Epstein number of 1, and so on.

I ask because writing a paper with someone is a non secret operator. I suspect there is no way to establish, if one has an Epstein number >2, what it is.

You have to self report of course. First we find all the 1s then we find all the 2s, and so on

Re: The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein

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> clinical trials of unproven vaccines [...] that directly caused deaths and hospitalizations of many girls You have not shown this so far. The article that you believe supports this claim does not. There is a lot of reasons to do a vaccine trial in India instead of the US, and a very likely one is simply cost. If you want to accuse Gates of trying to murder Indian girls instead of Americans, then you have to show th…

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In 2000 flying from Mumbai to Frankfurt I got upgraded to 1st class and ended up sitting next to the CEO of a smaller pharma company. He got a little drunk and opened up about why he was always in Mumbai instead of Europe or US.

Lower costs for human testing were only a small part of it, the real reason was weak and unenforced regulations. And he could easily pay a consultant to bribe the officials.

Part of the problem is of our own making, we have a corrupt bureaucracy and no enforcement.

One of the key positives of the covid pandemic was how our govt firmly kept the mRNA "vaccines" out of the country. I suspect Bill Gates disgusting testing of HPV played a role in this.

Re: The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein

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I used to know someone wealthy whose continued wealth relied on working with local and state governments. This person's public correspondence in lawsuits and with local government officials was purposefully littered with spelling, punctuation, grammar, and capitalization errors. When I asked them about it, their response was that it was on purpose so that they seemed less smart and thus less threatening, with the hop…

In addition, it broadcasts that the sender is too busy with all their important work to spend time refining and proofreading, that you're getting their raw, unfiltered thoughts directly from them, not through an assistant, and that their time is more valuable than yours so the burden is on you to parse their stream of consciousness jumble for precious nuggets of their exclusive wisdom. The semiotics make sense, plus…

The same with medical doctors. Funnily once in financial subreddit someone claiming to be a doctor from maybe Croatia asked for financial or early retirement advice, but the post was a word salad with misspellings and errors. Commenters immediately reacted that their writing is as illegible as probably their handwriting is, by the way the person reacted one can see that's really a doctor.

Some people have superiority complex and reeky pile of irate thoughts in their heads, and you're very lucky if nothing in your life depends on these kind of people.

Re: The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein

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It's really easy to give away money you didn't earn lol

Sounds very hard actually. If you asked me to spend a significant fraction of Bill Gates' money I wouldn't even know how to begin. How would you do it? Do you have a way to earn his trust, a service to offer him that he values a lot, a way to steal from him, or anything like that? Melania apparently managed to do it with true love and kindness. Are you capable of sincerely loving Bill Gates for a period of several ye…

I don't think it's that hard. MacKenzie Scott Bezos managed to give away nearly half (not accounting for appreciation) of the wealth she obtained from her divorce in a few short years.

Re: The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein

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Not the same. We eat to get macro nutrients: fats, protein, and carbohydrates.

Why do we need those? Oh right thermodynamics. Don't let the label fool you. Thermodynamics is the study of energy flows at the fundamental level, not only heat.

Thermodynamics doesn't apply to the body in any meaningful way. It sounds like a 19th century idea of how the body might work that people repeat with no understanding.

And, you not only need to get fuel from the food, but also the materials to build the engines, and for making spare parts and consumables. And everything that actually uses the energy. There will be no energy spent on lighting if you can't get the indium needed for making LED lights, and the body only knows how to make LED lights.

Re: The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein

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There's no shortage of evidence of a strong relationship there [0], [1]. What's missing is definitive proof , so far at least. I think you're conflating the two. Evidence and proof are different things - see [2] for a good example of this conflation used the other way. Anyway, yeah, you can very seriously consider this based on the evidence already out there. Considering the stakes, it would be kinda silly not to imo…

Going through the first several - > his girlfriend was the daughter of a Mossad agent Some have speculated that he could have been; that doesn't make it true. Anyway, not everyone copies the career track of their ex-girlfriend's father. > one of his best friends was Israel's lawyer Dershowitz? He never even represented Israel. Even if he had, I'm not sure what it would have to do with Mossad. > another of his best fr…

Seems you spent a lot of time going through the example I used for conflating proof with evidence, and none referring to the evidence I referred to. Maybe try reading the comment again lol.

Or, don't bother, because it's pretty clear that you're not very familiar with the facts here.

Epstein: "As you probably know I represent the Rothschilds". Thousands of emails with Ariane discussing such.

You: "This is just false" - no counter evidence whatsoever.

> By the same logic, Epstein was surely a spy for the CIA or other US intelligence.

That's what all the evidence points to, yes. That he worked for both the US and Israel. Why else would Kash Patel and others have so blatantly lied all this time?

Either country had more than enough resources and info to have shut down such an operation - if they had wanted to. Instead, it looks a lot like they protected/are protecting him at every turn; sometimes by extreme means.

We know for a near-certain fact that there were compromising tapes on hundreds or thousands of powerful people. Where did they all go, in your beskepticled view?

Re: The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein

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Him being in jail awaiting trial, which risked him exposing the details of the operation if he felt it could help him get a lighter sentence. If the choice for Mossad was either risk Epstein exposing that Israel was essentially running a state-sponsored underage sex trafficking ring, or kill him before he can do that, you know what they'd choose.

Right, so pretty much every rich person was implicated by and at risk because of Epstein, including the sitting U.S. President at the time, but it was actually Mossad…

Well I imagine CIA was in on it too of course, having blackmail material on these powerful figures across the world is useful for both of those intelligence agencies.
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