You need to lower your expectations, we aren’t going to go from the current system to immediately jailing billionaires for the crime of being rich.

Small incremental changes are more realistic and as long as we keep moving forward, that is progress. If you frown upon all progress because it doesn’t fix every problem all at once then we just won’t get any progress

You can use that circular logic for all taxes. If a CEO pays more taxes they are just going to make up for it by raising prices or cutting employee wages

But why wasn’t this compared to caffiene from sources like energy drinks? Then even as a control why wasn’t other stimulants like adderal asked about?

Claiming it’s caffiene by comparing to decaf coffee is dubious to me personally because what kind of people drink decaf? Usually people who were long time coffee drinkers who had to stop for some reason

So is coffee and tea neuroprotective or is caffiene sensitivity a risk factor for dementia?

Is caffiene neuroprotective or is it all stimulants?

The article itself ends in the classic we need to investigate more but that’s clearly not the conclusion most people who discuss this are going to be talking about for the next few months

Decaf coffee has less than 1mg/ floz

Black tea is generally over 5mg/floz

Are you basing this on how alert you feel or do you have some very weak tea and some super strong decaf?

That’s not in the article at all, like yes he got fucked by the insurance company and the hospital and just life in general but he paid off all that debt built up an IRA with several hundred grand in it, owns 20 acres of property, and traveled around the country

He is currently driving for uber so they can maintain a higher standard of living and so they can leave money for their children

Anthropic is actually restricting its AI for use with the U.S. military

You know they give nitrous to people intentionally during surgery and dental work?

Like you can wear an O2 monitor while you take a whip it and track your oxygen level and I have never seen it drop below 85% which is the level where they start to get concerned in a hospital

Taking opiates cause you to just stop breathing and I had to have a breathing device following a surgery because my O2 levels couldn’t be maintained… and people get prescribed opiates and take them at home all the time with no monitoring

Don’t asphyxiate yourself, don’t do it a bunch of days in a row, and eat some food with B12.

He pointed a loaded, cocked firearm, and pulled the trigger with a minimum of 5 pounds of force

reasonable doubt that it was a premeditated murder I will buy

Reasonable doubt that he committed manslaughter, no chance

And considering his quote saying he wouldn’t be too upset if she was raped because he has two other daughters I think the title is accurate…

It means the only way for it to fire is to fully pull the trigger it can’t “go off for no reason”

The gun also had to be loaded and cocked…

Do you seriously believe that guys story

“He said: “As I lifted the gun to show her I suddenly heard a loud bang. I did not understand what had happened. Lucy immediately fell.”

An alcoholic POS who recently relapsed and said he wouldn’t care that his daughter was raped is now drunk and showed her a gun and it just went off for no reason and he couldn’t remember if his finger was on the trigger…

Give me a fucking break… he called her into the room and shot her and made up a story afterwards

Did you read what I read… I addressed both, it’s the same conclusion

There is no advantage to having it done in advance

Having it “ready to go” makes it suspicious

It’s a short letter to write

Even if a person did want to have it ready the more logical thing to do would be to type it up in a word doc and then copy paste the relevant part onto the report with the official letter head

I am understanding your point and refuting it. It is not that you aren’t being clear with your opinion it’s that you believe your opinion is fact and are refusing to listen to criticism. It literally feels like I am talking to a Comcast chat bot where I keep saying “problems with billing” and you keep responding with “would you like to hear about our new cell phone plan”

If you aren’t going to read what I am writing and have a conversation then just don’t respond because you have not addressed the most basic refutation to your point I have stated numerous times

And if the jewelry store owner had a dedicated person on the staff whose job it is to fill out insurance reports would he tell the person to write the letter in advance (giving away that he intended to commit insurance fraud) or would he bypass the employee who now is suspicious and is a possible whistleblower?

Then is the insurance investigator in on it as well? Or why isn’t the insurance investigator suspicious that a person had a full list of the things stolen/burned immediately when it happened instead of taking the normal amount of time to process it

And finally the same point I have iterated multiple times now that you keep ignoring is WHATS THE ADVANTAGE OF DOING IT IN ADVANCE? It literally is only a chance for it to be more suspicious and makes you look suspicious.

It’s a generic letter head that was likely copy pasted from th day prior

There are also different standards when you care about the environment. Old school fridges used incredibly bad greenhouse gasses (R22 and R142B) and were significantly less efficient using approximately $250 MORE energy per year than a modern fridge (1750 kWh vs 450kwh) so only factoring in your electricity bill you could buy a $2500 fridge every 10 years and break even and if you got a cheaper fridge like a whirlpool you could get a new one every 5 years for 50 years

Don’t get me wrong there is still planned obsolescence but a lot of the older designs aren’t as perfect as people like to remember them being

But again what possible advantage does it serve to pretype the report? And either you had to inform the clerk of your plan so they can write the report (why have more witnesses) or you had to bypass the clerk (why deviate from “business as usual)

Imagine you rob a jewelry store, and you want to make sure you have an iron clad alibi so you have a person pretend to be you and get seen on video camera at a bank.

Would you request that video in advance from the bank so as soon as a cop comes to see you, you can present it? No! Because pre obtaining an alibi for a crime you are pretending you didn’t commit makes you look guilty

Writing the report in advance makes you look guilty even if it wasn’t murder

Bypassing standard operating procedures and having a senior person (someone high enough that they are “worthy” of the knowledge that the suicide was staged) writing a report is also suspicious

Having a report prefilled out so it can be urgently released instead of the normal wait time is also suspicious

So we go back to Occam’s razor is the assumption that they ignored numerous basic attempts to cover their tracks that any idiot who watched an episode of NCIS would know to do, or did a person put in the wrong date?

Again I am not denying in the slightest that Epstein didn’t kill himself but the argument that this is proof of it is ludicrous.

Them writing the report especially in advance would take away their plausible deniability and just bring more attention to the scene

The report had no urgency to be done so having it done in advance especially considering in a murder details could have changed seems pointless

The questioning about this article is less about whether he did or did not kill himself but more so whether the date error is evidence he didn’t kill himself

Even if we were 100% sure he was murdered, why would some lowly typist know about it in advance and pre write a report. Like obviously the admin is incompetent and left so many glaring holes but why would they tell a non essential person?

At the end of the day it’s basically impossible that he actually killed himself of his own volition but to say that a date error is proof of that is incredibly flimsy

Personally love my lokiusa canyon puffy it’s my favorite commuting coat. It’s warm, hasn’t lost its waterproofness in the 5 years I have owned it, is pretty durable (I skidded out on the ice and ate shit on the pavement with no tears), and has built in mittens that are my absolute favorite thing.

I haven’t tested it in a torrential downpour as I usually wear dedicated rain gear for that but for the cold it’s amazing

It’s expensive as most BIFL stuff is but especially if you are in the U.S. I 100% recommend

If your goal is to boil it down to the fundamental levels it’s the ion that’s that cause action potentials that are actually causing thought

If you want to look at it holistically it’s due to the connections of the dendrites and how those interact with each other

We have no control of our neurotransmitters and they are only released in response to stimuli from another cell