euphronius posted:

yeah. yet every media story is about layoffs

Justin Tyme posted:

Weird how a bunch of old dudes play around with numbers all day and now suddenly I can't retire and have to do some bullshit called "being drafted" to "fight in taiwan"

NeonPunk posted:

So asking for a friend, but when would be the best time to just go and max out all of your credit line before it all collapse? Would be nice to get stuffs before I have to pay for any of it

FlapYoJacks posted:

I was denied a credit line increase just last week by Discover. I have no CC debt and a 830 credit score. Their reasoning? My debt to income ratio is too low. I need more debt apparently. Credit is a scam, just like everything else financially related in this country.

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Jeffrey Epstein Documents, Part 2: Dinners With Lawrence Summers and Movie Screenings With Woody Allen
Schedules and emails show deeper relationships between the disgraced financier and a range of prominent people, including the former Treasury secretary and the filmmaker

Lawrence Summers wanted $1 million to fund an online poetry project his wife was developing. The former Treasury secretary and onetime Harvard University president turned to Jeffrey Epstein.

“I need small scale philanthropy advice. My life will be better if i raise $1m for Lisa,” Mr. Summers said in an email to Epstein in April 2014, referring to his wife, Elisa New, a Harvard professor. “Mostly it will go to make it a pbs series and for teacher training. Ideas?”

Epstein replied that they could meet in Cambridge, Mass. Mr. Summers invited him to dinner, according to a trove of documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. Two days later they made plans to meet at The Fireplace, a cozy restaurant in nearby Brookline, one of several meetings the two men scheduled that year.

In 2016, a nonprofit linked to Epstein donated $110,000 to Ms. New’s nonprofit, which develops video content about poetry, according to tax records.

The documents reviewed by the Journal, which include thousands of pages of emails and schedules from 2013 to 2017, provide new details about the nature and frequency of Epstein’s contacts with an array of powerful people long after he was a registered sex offender. He had pleaded guilty in 2008 to soliciting and procuring a minor for prostitution.

Mr. Summers “deeply regrets being in contact with Epstein after his conviction,” and Ms. New’s nonprofit “regrets accepting funding from Epstein,” said a spokeswoman for the couple. Ms. New’s nonprofit later made a contribution “exceeding the amount received, to a group working against sex trafficking,” the spokeswoman said.

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Among the new details:

– Mr. Summers continued to meet with Epstein and seek his help years after Harvard decided it would no longer accept his donations.
– Reid Hoffman, a billionaire venture capitalist and LinkedIn co-founder, visited Epstein’s private island in the Caribbean and was scheduled to stay over at his Manhattan townhouse in 2014.
– Woody Allen, the Oscar-winning movie director, attended dozens of dinners with his wife, Soon-Yi Previn, at Epstein’s mansion and invited Epstein to film screenings.
– Ehud Barak, the former Israeli prime minister, visited Epstein dozens of times and accepted flights on Epstein’s private jet while visiting his mansions in Florida and New York.
– Leon Black, the billionaire co-founder of private-equity giant Apollo Global Management, scheduled more than 100 meetings with Epstein from 2013 to 2017.

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Lawrence Summers

Epstein donated millions of dollars to Harvard during Mr. Summers’s tenure as the university’s president from 2001 to 2006. Harvard has said it decided to reject donations from Epstein after his 2008 guilty plea in Florida.

Mr. Summers, who remains a Harvard professor, had more than a dozen meetings scheduled with Epstein from 2013 through 2016, including several dinners, the documents show.

Mr. Summers didn’t solicit donations for Harvard from Epstein after his conviction and didn’t personally receive money from him, his spokeswoman said. “Their interactions primarily focused on global economic issues,” she said.

But he did solicit donations for Ms. New, his wife. In 2014, Ms. New, a professor of English, was hoping to expand to the general public her Harvard coursework about poetry. She established the nonprofit that received the Epstein donation and later created a public-television series, the spokeswoman said.

Mr. Marsh said Epstein asked him multiple times if the Templeton Foundation could donate to Ms. New’s poetry project. Templeton didn’t donate to the project, he said.

Harvard declined to comment beyond its 2020 report on its ties with Epstein, which found he donated $9.1 million before 2008 and had visited the campus dozens of times after his conviction.

Wraith of J.O.I. posted:

larry!!!!

https://twitter.com/nkulw/status/1653747211103096834

Thorn Wishes Talon posted:

So... you want another pandemic? Or do you somehow believe that Trump would have still given you those things had the pandemic not happened?

PerniciousKnid posted:

Lol why would we need another pandemic, the last one never ended, just the benefits.

Zodium posted:

w .. why would you think torture would be helpful in figuring out how human intelligence works

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What do I care for your suffering? Pain, even agony, is no more than information before the senses, data fed to the computer of the mind. The lesson is simple: you have received the information, now act on it. Take control of the input and you shall become master of the output.

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

All it took was six weeks of "nobody wants to work anymore" astroturfed stories and our elected officials told us to go gently caress ourselves and die lol

Red Baron posted:

six weeks? the stories never ended.

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

All it took was six weeks of "nobody wants to work anymore" astroturfed stories and our elected officials told us to go gently caress ourselves and die lol

Raccooon posted:

Right now would be a good time for a new super variant of Covid to hit

a.lo posted:

Please get married and have children before you do

sullat posted:

What do I care for your suffering? Pain, even agony, is no more than information before the senses, data fed to the computer of the mind. The lesson is simple: you have received the information, now act on it. Take control of the input and you shall become master of the output.

Father Wendigo posted:

https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1653750037065658368?t=mtvfnz__1aTKdxthf_sJ0Q&s=09

is pepsi ok posted:

https://twitter.com/SolidEvidence/s...ingawful.com%2F

Father Wendigo posted:

https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1653750037065658368?t=mtvfnz__1aTKdxthf_sJ0Q&s=09

Nonsense posted:

they weren't paid. no laws broken.

Raccooon posted:

Right now would be a good time for a new super variant of Covid to hit

Nonsense posted:

they weren't paid. no laws broken.

NeonPunk posted:

We've talked about this over in the Covid thread. It's probably not likely to become a super new variant that will spread everywhere. What's more likely is that this particular one is evolving to perfectly constantly infect that one guy and his immune system. Basically his own bespoken variant engineered to bypass his immune system completely

Doomtalker posted:

So what happens at that point? Does every cell become a virion instantly and the dude melts like a parasite eve character or what

PerniciousKnid posted:

How would you define a super variant?

SKULL.GIF posted:

Why the gently caress do they keep doing this while bleating that they need to raise rates and crush inflation. It's counterproductive you loving morons!

https://twitter.com/StockMKTNewz/status/1653748155119280128

euphronius posted:

some time next year ??? it’s may.

Raccooon posted:

At this point for people to even take notice it would probably have to have a higher mortality rate. People seem pretty fine with the amount of deaths the current ones do now.

PerniciousKnid posted:

How would you define a super variant?

Kesper North posted:

Literary reference.

"How do you learn to talk to an alien intelligence? Hurt it, and keep on hurting it, until you can distinguish the speech from the screams." - Blindsight, Peter Watts

sullat posted:

Raccooon posted:

At this point for people to even take notice it would probably have to have a higher mortality rate. People seem pretty fine with the amount of deaths the current ones do now.

Knight posted:

Apparently not



Edit - Honestly, I suspected someone was getting cash off the books, not "bring your kids to get the work done"