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LibreOffice (for linux, if that matters) is dumb. You can save an epub file, but it will not open one without crashing. (On my system, with my installed version.)

Epubs are fantastic and I cannot wait for them to supplant PDFs as the ubiquitous mode of document format. More compact than even plain text, native reflow of text (if saved that way) and other dynamic formatting out of the box, all in an open source package that just ticks all the boxes.

#epub #superior #formatwars

Idk man, Epstein stuff, the Coldplay CEO affair all seem like meaningless distractions. Seems to be working well 🤷‍♂️

Idk man, Epstein stuff, the Coldplay CEO affair all seem like meaningless distractions. Seems to be working well 🤷‍♂️

Good to see this finally getting some mass media attention. Russia's widescale hunting of Ukrainians civilians with drones is truly evil.

You have literally thousands of drone operators who have personally seen unarmed Ukrainian civilians on their camera displays, and dropped grenades on them for the express purpose of killing off a population so they can steal the land. And they know exactly what they're doing. Hell, they were disappointed when they missed – Russia uses this as a way to train new operators.

Russian culture needs to be exterminated.

Good to see this finally getting some mass media attention. Russia's widescale hunting of Ukrainians civilians with drones is truly evil.

You have literally thousands of drone operators who have personally seen unarmed Ukrainian civilians on their camera displays, and dropped grenades on them for the express purpose of killing off a population so they can steal the land. And they know exactly what they're doing. Hell, they were disappointed when they missed – Russia uses this as a way to train new operators.

Russian culture needs to be exterminated.

Good to see this finally getting some mass media attention. Russia's widescale hunting of Ukrainians civilians with drones is truly evil.

You have literally thousands of drone operators who have personally seen unarmed Ukrainian civilians on their camera displays, and dropped grenades on them for the express purpose of killing off a population so they can steal the land. And they know exactly what they're doing. Hell, they were disappointed when they missed – Russia uses this as a way to train new operators.

Russian culture needs to be exterminated.

Unironically, the side that is more often correct in a given debate usually has way better memes. It's a decent (albeit not foolproof) heuristic. And it applies to humor more broadly, with memes basically being the haiku form of humor.

-When you find something funny, it's often because you subconsciously agree with it, at least partially. Sometimes you're trained that you *should* agree with a given side, but humor just cuts through it and reveals that really you kind of don't, and in some way forces you into an honest moment.

-Creating a meme requires condensing an argument into a short context. While outright lies are easy to make short (i.e. you can just say a false thing that requires the other side to take time to unpack), actual arguments are not so easy to make short, especially if they're also going to be funny. A meme that has any sort of point to it generally has an argument embedded within it, even if that argument takes the form of an observation or other simple thing. Outside of highly technical contexts, arguments/observations are generally easier to condense if they're true.

The side of a given debate that reliably can make short, funny arguments is typically on to something.

A lot of people seem to believe that Jeffrey Epstein recruited underage girls in order to videotape them having sex with rich and powerful people as compromat for an intelligence agency, perhaps Mossad, and that he was murdered in prison to cover up the loose end.

While I cannot prove that this is not true, there is almost no evidence for this story. The evidence points to a simpler story: Jeffrey Epstein was a socialite and financier who had connections with lots of famous and powerful people, and he also liked having sex with minors and so he recruited minors so that he could have sex with them. Several famous people also took the opportunity to have sex with minors facilitated by Epstein, but not as videotaped compromat. The second time he was imprisoned for it he committed suicide by strangulation.

The hyoid bone can be fractured by hanging, but more often by strangulation, and the description of Epstein's body as found is more like strangulation. You can commit suicide by strangulation (please don't).

The strange occurance of the camera being off, the cell not being monitored, could have been guards who were turning their backs to let him commit suicide ("fucking pedo should die, let's let him do it."). Papers related to Epstein said he was a suicide risk prior to his death. US Attorneys office offered a plea deal to the correctional officers if they claim they fell asleep, who rejected it claiming they did nothing wrong, but clearly the Justice Department suspected the guards.

Earlier on July 23 Epstein attempted suicide, which put him on suicide watch. But Epstein's attorney argued against it and he was taken off suicide watch but stull was supposed to be checked on every 30 minutes. So the bedsheets were not toilet paper in this cell as some claim.

The claim that Alexander Acosta said "I was told Epstein 'belonged to intelligence' and to leave it alone" has only one source, an editorial in The Daily Beast by Vicky Ward who says it came from an interview she did with a former senior White House official and this is what she claims Accosta told the Trump team. It is not in court documents or congressional testimony from Accosta as far as I can tell, and regarding it Accosta said "I would hesitate to take this reporting as fact."

Maxwell is in prison for assisting Epstein in recruiting underaged girls for sex with Epstein.

The famous people that various girls claimed were involved in sex acts in this situation may or may not have been. The evidence doesn't strongly favor either side.

I have found no evidence of video tapes recovered from the Island with the names of famous people on their labels. I vaguely remember seeing it in a video way back when, but either I am mistaken or the Internet has been scrubbed of such a thing. If anybody has it, please share. I'm currently assuming this was a myth at the time and never happened.

The conspiracy theory was fun, but it is too flimsy.

Can you blame them? The Chinese don't NEED to do anything. The whole country is disintegrating, all on its own🤷🏻‍♂️😂.

Depends what you were looking for with it

I just didn't wanna get labeled a criminal for holding it as the trajectory under the other option seemed to be

Top 4 reasons I voted for Trump

1) Bitcoin ✅

2) No War 🤷

3) DOGE ❌

4) Epstein Files ❌

De-Google asap.

The billioners are anti Trump. That says a lot about who is on the side of the regular citizens.

Yes but it's also a huge reason we don't have huge adoption for use case. If Bitcoin is to be used for everyday activities, it must be feeless to compete with fiat systems which are already feeless. Set base fees punish transactions of higher frequency, punishing the dollar store more than car dealership, making unbalanced market viability. With the world turning to microtransactions, should we really be making base fees that actually deter mtxs?

That's called going the wrong way.

That is why Zenon Network, a sister network for Bitcoin, is working to provide feeless infrastructure and decentralized apps for Bitcoin so that it can actually be used in the real world frictionlessly everyday.

Take the green pill.