You’re not wrong, but it’s not as long ago as you might have been led to believe.

Boomers and older GenXers are very familiar with polio, for example, because the Salk and Sabin vaccines did not come out until right around 1960. We all knew someone who’d had it, maybe even still had the evidence of it in a limp or a cane, or had died of it. Polio wasn’t the only disease, either: the 1968 influenza carried off a father of one of my friends, and he was only in his thirties. As a child I personally almost died from a reaction to the smallpox vaccine, and I still have a huge scar from it (way better than getting smallpox, though).

The Silent Generation had far worse than we did, and they’re not all dead yet.

So from where I’m sitting it’s not so much lack of personal familiarity as a willful forgetting aided by the skillful use of propaganda.

True, but as an older person who was growing up in the March of Dimes era (60s and 70s) when vaccines were considered a miracle of modern science and people were stopping Salk and Sabin in the streets, literally dropping to their knees on the sidewalk to thank them for their work on the polio vaccines (I’m not exaggerating), and we ALL personally knew either directly or indirectly someone with a cane or a limp or someone who had died of it, and were not at all distant from the recent springs and summers where one young person and then a couple others and then a few more would suddenly be sick before nightfall out of nowhere, and the still common long recoveries and iron lungs and the overwhelming dread of it all, where the fuck is my generation’s collective memory?

Hell, even Chuck McConnell is a walking polio survivor (as much as I hate to even think his name) and his own generation is not all dead yet. Where the fuck is their collective memory?

What you say is quite true, and I can even understand the ignorance of fascism to a degree from people far too young to remember or understand WWII, but not vaccines, not from my own generation and older.

I’d find family plots that would have 3-4 kids all dying within a few months of each other.

Worse still, in places like New England, when one family member would die right after another – after another – after another – they’d attribute this to vampires, burning the bodies of the recently deceased to ensure they could not come back, and on occasion using some of the burnt bits as a “preventative” for the living to consume so as to not be taken themselves. It didn’t work.

It wasn’t until the late 19th century they finally figured out that tuberculosis (aka “consumption”) is a bacterial disease that is extremely communicable in tight quarters, and that the living who nursed the recently dead would naturally be next because it’s a disease they caught from nursing their own sick.

And even then a number of them held on to old beliefs, long after others had figured it out:

When rural Rhode Islanders moved west into Connecticut, locals perceived them as “uneducated” and “vicious”, which was partially due to the Rhode Islanders’ beliefs in vampirism. Newspapers were also sceptical, calling belief in vampirism an “old superstition” and a “curious idea”.

The only reason we are not now dealing with tuberculosis on a wide scale is because of – anti-vaxxers cover your eyes – vaccines, though it too is now coming back, and in drug-resistant forms.

I’m sure you already know all this working in old cemeteries, but I thought I’d mention it: superstition to fill in the blanks and address fear goes back as far as time immemorial.

Inasmuch as Delicate Feelings Donnie immediately hit back with calling the majority justices “fools and dogs” and swearing he was going to find another way to do it regardless, it’s clear he personally sees it as a major blow.

But yes, overall, in terms of popularity they removed another rotting albatross from around his neck, unfortunately.

The dissenters were Kavanaugh, Alito, and Thomas.

Seems like that alone explains everything I’d ever need to know about the dissent.

I was reading the original discussion on dbzer0 and kept wondering what the removed by mod was under every comment agreeing with either partial ban or defed, so I looked at the modlog. It was literally the same pigshit picture posted over and over again, almost twenty times, by the same user, though fortunately I only had to see it once, by choice.

That’s a serious personal commitment to assholery right there, and this is apparently just one of the people coming over to do this on dbzer0 comms. To be honest I can’t claim to understand some of the political nuance that was coming up in the thread, but that one dude sure did make a strong argument for defed via the modlog, lol. If that’s an example of what dbzer0 has to put up with from multiple individual users of another instance, then considering defederation is absolutely a legitimate discussion to have.

Highly relevant video of what sort of culture Zuck metastasized in at Harvard

One, holy shit. And that was over twenty years ago: there is zero possibility it’s gotten any better since.

Two, I love this woman’s blunt honesty. Her take on all of it is fantastic, especially how the “they’re missing something behind their eyes” was so accurate. It’s just horrible how she came to have that knowledge.

Three, read the transcript if you can’t sit still for the whole thing, but either way try to make it to the end. After she gets done with her own personal experiences, she’s all,

So anyways, fuck Harvard. Fuck these institutions. Fuck their respectability. They’re crucibles for rapists and pedophiles. And the most powerful people on earth are the scum of the fucking earth. And we need to take back our power from them.

But the difference is now you know exactly why she says that, and with the power and force of her entire being. Shit, I would too.

In short, Microsoft is now doing for ICE what they were doing for Israel in 2024-2025 to support the genocide:

‘The machine did it coldly’: Israel used AI to identify 37,000 Hamas targets – The Guardian

‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians – The Guardian

Revealed: Microsoft deepened ties with Israeli military to provide tech support during Gaza war – The Guardian

Note: these are all Graun links because they are what I had in my browser history and because they specifically made a point of looking into it, as opposed to other major news outlets. I’m sure there are other sources as well, I just didn’t look for any.

Yeah, exactly. That shit’s not gone at all. It’s just hidden for now. And if we the public don’t pay for it directly as a feature, these companies will still scoop up the data and just sell it to each other.

So much for the “No Man Left Behind” principle that gets drummed into every US recruit in every branch since at least the 19th century. The Marines especially are known for it. No man left behind.

The US military ethos is built on a handful of seemingly inviolable principles, and she just went and violated perhaps the most sacred of them all. This is incredibly, unbelievably, fucked up beyond imagination.

Truth.

Speaking solely for myself, I have accepted that I am as susceptible to marketing and propaganda as any other human, in an age where we are surrounded by it, none of it honest, none of it in my own best interest.

My response to this has been to cut off all possible routes of advertising: I literally do not watch or read anything that has ads, except possibly passing billboards and in-store ads. I don’t play games that have ads. I don’t listen to radio. I have adblocker on everything, or I simply leave. I can’t stand ads, and I have cut them out of everything I can. I’d genuinely rather quit a service than submit to ads. (And yes, I do love just plain silence, whenever I can get it.)

So yeah, I’m immune: they can’t influence me if they can’t get access. That’s the best kind of immunity there is.

You: I’ve pulled the ideas out my bum honestly.

Me, reading: This is intuitive genius. Seriously.

You’ve said your strategy essentially comes from listening/observing closely and winging it, but honestly what you’re achieving just through keeping at it every way you can is amazing. Apart from not being more condensed (smaller, tighter) that handwriting is actually more legible than I’ve seen from more than a few adults, including the slight nod to the presence of lines. I am not exaggerating.

Your creativity and temerity are both inspiring. Your son is lucky to have you.

Pretty sure that more than anything else at this point, Lindsey is terrified of going to prison. And not just for J6.

Keep in mind that the files the representatives were allowed to see were still not unredacted, according to Jamie Raskin, who called them “slightly-less-redacted” in his statement about what he was allowed to see and the hoops he had to jump through to do so.

It’s still entirely possible that the gentleman from South Carolina is well represented in those pages.

If anyone else is curious, I looked up those files listed in the picture. It was interesting to see what Rep. Jayapal was going after. Multiple files are directly related to the structure of Epstein’s organization.

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet 9/EFTA00659212.pdf

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet 10/EFTA01930501.pdf

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet 10/EFTA01930501.pdf (see note 1, below)

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet 11/EFTA02504630.pdf

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet 9/EFTA00211240.pdf (see note 2, below)

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet 9/EFTA00774231.pdf

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet 10/EFTA01660622.pdf

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet 10/EFTA01682078.pdf

Note 1: The original file has been removed but was included in this later file; the first EFTA number, the one on Bondi’s list, is visible in the lower right.

Note 2: This was a mistake on Bondi’s hand-typed report, which lists the file as “EFTA211214” – I did a keyword search on Epstein victim list and the results all pointed to a particular email chain, of which the primary email was labeled EFTA00211240. This is the correct number, not the one on Bondi’s list.

But her maiden name is still valid and presumably matches the one on her birth certificate? There’s no legal requirement to change your name for either marriage or divorce, as far as I know, and latitude is wide in terms of hyphenation, etc. You may have more options than you know.

Also, the question of “fraud” only really matters when bills don’t get paid, and now for voting. If you have other evidence of your marriage (pics, invites, announcements, etc) from that time, you can easily prove that your intent was not fraudulent. I wouldn’t sweat that part of it too much yet.

But if I were in your shoes (and I’m not, so take it with a grain) my next step would be to get a free consult with a family attorney in your state, as they’re the lawyers that deal with name changes the most, and get the real picture of what’s actually legal and possible for you in the state where you live. You could also run the fraud question by him/her, if it’s still an issue.

Florida Bar, yes. But the funny thing is that the chief of police in Palm Beach, Michael Reiter, was a hero: he kept working on it even after higher ups were doing everything they could to shut him down, even going over his state and county to the feds. Without him and the handful of detectives who kept going regardless of the corruption they were faced with at every level, we would not now be aware of Jeffrey Epstein and the peculiar pastimes of his class.

The rest of them though? Hell yeah.

Yes, exactly. This is her license in Florida, but honestly it’s harder to find a more corrupt bunch of attorneys in the US. They do take legal fuckery to the next level down there (as Epstein’s own multiple sweetheart deals proved).

You see her behavior here, yet she was AG of the state from 2011 to 2019. Look at her wiki and it’s clear she’s done whatever she wanted for quite some time, however questionable the ethics, and the FL Bar hasn’t disciplined her yet.

I’m sure there are some honest lawyers doing the best they can for their clients down there and I don’t want to denigrate them, but the higher up you go the more corrupt they are. Don’t hold your breath waiting for the elites of the FL Bar to smack her hand for being exactly like they are.

There’s a more complete article at The Guardian, if anyone’s interested.

So much of what Bondi said was a projection you could see from space, like when she told Jamie Raskin:

“You’re a washed-up loser lawyer. You’re not even a lawyer.”

I’m sorry, who’s a washed up loser lawyer that’s not even a lawyer? I looked up their law licenses. While Bondi is somehow still a member of the Florida bar, Raskin is retired from the bar in Massachusetts, inactive in DC, and active in good standing in Maryland,** and frankly his legal CV wipes the floor with her.

It’s like hearing a kindergartner trying to diss a professor of constitutional law . . . oh, wait, Raskin is that too.

But there’s more. When Pramila Jayapal asked Bondi to turn around and apologize to the victims who were standing right there, just a few feet behind her, she refused with this line:

“I’m not going to get in the gutter with this woman. She’s doing theatrics,” Bondi said.

I’m sorry, who’s doing theatrics? Could it be the one person who made a joke out of every question put to her, insisting that she not be accused of a crime, insisting that she not be told the rules of the hearing by the chairman of the committee, turning every serious question into an opportunity to slander the questioner with juvenile insults? Those theatrics? Hmmm.

At yet another point, Bondi seemed to forget that she herself was Florida AG from 2011-2019 and should have prosecuted Epstein long before NY did it for her, having had many years in which to do so herself:

Bondi tried to deflect blame away from the Trump administration by accusing Massie of not pressing previous administrations on Epstein. Epstein’s sex trafficking took place over decades.

Magic mirror, anyone?

** I can’t link to the specific entry in Maryland, but I linked the search tool. Look for Jamin Raskin.

All true, but the reflective “anti-paparazzi” scarves and such that I’ve seen do not appear to be reflective. They really just fuck up unwanted pictures/recordings by throwing off the camera’s light balance, especially when flash is used.