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Potatos_are_not_friends, (edited ) in I called everyone in Jeffrey Epstein's little black book.

The listings are at times preposterously detailed, often containing additional names and numbers for people’s emergency contacts, their parents, their siblings, their friends, even their children, all alongside hundreds of car phones, yacht phones, guest houses, and private office lines. Some individuals have dozens of numbers and addresses listed, while others list just a single number and first name. Epstein collected people, and if you ever had any interaction with him or Ghislaine Maxwell, his onetime girlfriend and alleged accomplice, you more than likely ended up in this book, and then several years later you received a call from me.

And

The worst call by far was with a woman who told me she’d been groped by Epstein, an incident she said she didn’t report at the time out of fear of retribution from Epstein. (I have been aggressively counseled to remind the readers of Mother Jones that an appearance in the address book is not evidence of any crime, or of complicity in any crime, or of knowledge of any crime.)

Key things to remember about this list.

PP_BOY_, in China Is Pressing Women to Have More Babies. Many Are Saying No.
@PP_BOY_@lemmy.world avatar

People start families when they feel socially and financially secure. Seems like a pretty easy solution then, if you’re not a oligarchical corporatocracy.

CluckN,

Oligarchical Corporatocracy sounds like a Harry Potter spell.

bloopernova, in The Horrifying Epidemic of Teen-Age Fentanyl Deaths in a Texas County
@bloopernova@programming.dev avatar

“why are these teenagers so stressed?!?” The article said.

Maybe because they have very few opportunities for a happy, prosperous, rewarding life?

And of course the Republicans use the deaths as a talking point.

niktemadur,

…so they can tighten the screws even further, making lives even less happy, less prosperous, less rewarding. All they ever do is dig deeper into the mudpit they drag everyone down into.

Chakravanti,

Fentanyl deaths occur ONLY because drugs are illegal. ONLY

CADmonkey,

Most anything negative about drugs is because they are illegal. Fentanyl would be almost unheard of outside the silly war on drugs.

Chakravanti,

Yup. Precisely.

Chakravanti, (edited )

Let’s be real. The FAULT of %99 of drug deaths is explicitly the DEA & Prohibition.

some_guy, (edited ) in How an Academic Uncovered One of the Biggest Museum Heists of All Time

Edit: Sorry, I thought I had a link but I didn’t check it first.

Edit2: Ok, this one worked.

archive.is/d1JQm

Blaze,

Thanks!

loki, in China Is Pressing Women to Have More Babies. Many Are Saying No.

They punished a generation who wanted to have more than one kids, and now they want more just becausea. do they think women are factory line machines that you just toggle on some settings?

Reverendender, in 7 Months Inside an Online Scam Labor Camp
BilboBargains, in The Horrifying Epidemic of Teen-Age Fentanyl Deaths in a Texas County

At what point are we going to accept that prohibition and abstinence has failed? We need to legalise all drugs and teach our children harm reduction. Removing the profit motive for ever more compact and potent drugs is the only way we’re going to make a dent in this problem. We banned opium and got heroin, we banned heroin and got fentanyl, we banned fentanyl and now watching the morgues fill up while the cartels invent the next monstrously potent chemical.

LarryTheMatador, (edited ) in I called everyone in Jeffrey Epstein's little black book.

My takeaway from this is its bizarre that the rich and well connected answer their phone to unknown #'s. Anyone wanna venture a guess as to why that is?

subignition, in I called everyone in Jeffrey Epstein's little black book.
@subignition@kbin.social avatar

Well that'll teach me to not check the community name. An hour or two later, I read it all... Fascinating and horrifying.

BearOfaTime, in What Really Happened to JFK?

It’s so odd so many people still believe the Warren Commission when another commission about 1973 ruled there were at least two shooters, one in front on the grassy knoll.

The first doctors to treat him documented an entrance wound at his trachea.

CADmonkey, in Not One Tree: Stopping Cop City

A good read, thanks for posting it.

ickplant,
@ickplant@lemmy.world avatar

You’re welcome!

rhythmisaprancer, in Why is English so weirdly different from other languages? | Aeon Essays
@rhythmisaprancer@kbin.social avatar

What an amazing article. I had to look up the author, what a great background. I daresay I undergrasp and will need to followup.

Thanks for sharing ❤️

WetBeardHairs, in Private equity is devouring the U.S. economy

Uhg… here I was expecting the rise of Nazism again over the next couple of decades. But I guess a black friday is in store before that. Guess I’ll invest in gold or something…

I_Has_A_Hat, in Escape from the rabbit hole: the conspiracy theorist who abandoned his dangerous beliefs

Says he stepped away in 2018. Interesting to note that’s about when conspiracy forums took a hard turn right and went from “everyone is secretly out to get you” to “liberals are evil and the only uncorrupt bright spot in this world is conservatism and our lord, Donald J Trump.”

I guess the party just wasn’t as fun anymore after everyone stopped talking about aliens and started talking about things like The Storm™️. This isn’t a story of someone breaking free from Qanon or the Cult of Donald. This is an OG conspiracy theorist who saw his spaces get taken over by this new wave of partisan conspiracies and went “yikes, you guys are crazy! I’m getting out of here!”

treadful, in The Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fed People
@treadful@lemmy.zip avatar

Niche writer beef is pretty entertaining.

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