I already stated that it only happened once at the start of the relationship. I trust my partner completely and she has never second-guessed me since.

Perhaps. I think guns are something to be handled with care, not something to enjoy as a hobby. I think sports cars are a waste of money because, realistically, you’ll be driving on city streets with speed limits in most cases.

I have a comfortable sedan because the pan taught me that I can’t rely on ride-shares and mass transit in a once-in-a-lifetime (we hope) emergency. I barely drive it. It’s a tool. And I don’t own guns because I think they’re dangerous and I’m prone to bouts of depression (I’m bi-polar). Anyone who thinks these are cool or part of their identity is not someone I want as a life partner. Even without being judgmental about these things, they signal different priorities from my own.

Now a someone with a full bookshelf in the background is another thing entirely. Or playing musical instruments. Or out in nature. These are things I value.

But the question Trump raised is a good one. Indeed, why would someone misrepresent Epstein-related things? And why would a president do so repeatedly like this?

I can tell you why. Because he was never there. All the photos are fakes. They were fake even in the 90s, before anyone knew that Epstein was a child-predator. When there was no reason to frame Trump, people were already framing him. That’s called a long-con!

I’m being facitious, of course. He was on the plane. They were pals. He wrote and drew the weird bday note. And he likely assaulted children, though that last one is alleged, to be clear. Don’t sue me.

When I was on dating apps, I specifically filtered out anyone with religious beliefs (other than Buddhists, because they seemed inoffensive to me).

Got a selfie with a cross on your necklace? Nope. Same for women with photos with guns, anyone with an American flag, and any woman posing leaning against the hood of a sports car. There are telltale signs that we have different values. Honestly, I appreciate your advertising that we aren’t compatible and saving me the effort finding out on my own.

Megatron always gets the short end of the stick. All he wants is world domination, but the woke Autobots keep interfering. Oh shit, because they’re TRANSformers! It all makes sense!

Thanks for highlighting this. Too bad the link wasn’t between the article and the letter. It’d be more noticeable.

“By being part of the program itself, it just gets us closer to the source of where the materials are coming from, so that it’s more reliably delivered to the Internet Archive, to then be made available to the patrons of the Internet Archive or partner libraries,” he continued.

Ok, so it sounds like they’ll have a more direct line to government documents, which by law have no copyright because they belong to the people. That’s a good thing.

The Internet Archive has also been targeted by major music labels, including Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group, over the Great 78 Project, an initiative to preserve 78 RPM records. Though most of the records are out of print, 4,000 of the 400,000 digitized recordings are copyrighted, including Bing Crosby’s “White Christmas.” The organization could owe upwards of $700 million in damages if the labels win the lawsuit — a financial hit that would threaten to shut it down.

I’ve been aware of this lawsuit for a while. I donated to help the legal battle. It’s absurd that copyright can be flexed against works that are out of print and mostly unavailable. I’ve long argued that we’re going to have a gap in our history between when lots of works went digital-only and when we actually enshrine laws that protect them from disappearing. How large a gap depends on how quickly lawmakers address this issue vs copyright. Given the current climate, important legislation such as this isn’t happening any time soon.

You know how we find stone tablets and ancient scrolls with historical information from thousands of years ago? We even find “nonessential” stuff like recipes and trading documents and tax records. Stuff like that likely won’t be preserved from our modern age if anyone is still around to investigate our times in two thousand years.

I’m waiting to learn more about what this means, but I assume it gives the Internet Archive some degree of support from the government. Whether that’s financial or just a protected status I dunno. I tentatively think this is a good thing.

Obama forged it decades before Trump was even going to run for president. Obama didn’t know he’d himself run for president, yet he forged it anyway. That’s how fucking deep the deep state is. It’s pretty spooky.

It’s sarcasm, dumbass.

Later in the footage, the officers move on to general celebration – “Goddamn! Woo! Nice!” – and talk of the potential bonus they’ll be getting: “Just remember, you can smell that [inaudible] $30,000 bonus.”

If my tax dollars are paying out huge bonuses to thugs, I’m pretty mad about it. Let’s assign those bonuses to teachers. Oh, wait. Trump loves the poorly educated (he’s said so in a direct quote). They’re more easily manipulated by blatant lies. Can’t have a population that can think for themselves. Then how would we whip up fear of the “other” and lay all the blame for billionaire capitalists at their door?

If my partner could check my location at any time, how would I keep bday and anniversary gifts secret? The places where I go to buy things for her are not places I would normally go. She only has to randomly check one time when I’m at an unusual location for her to ask why and then I have to lie. Not worth it.

We use temporary sharing (can limit to one hour) when meeting somewhere. Beyond that, it’s a potential liability.

Example: she once got upset that I wanted to go to the mail room (apt building) alone and didn’t want her to go with me. She wanted to know what I was hiding. Turned out to be her bday gift and it was just in the commercial packaging with a shipping label. I let her go get it and she’s never been suspicious of my motives since (this was at the very start of our relationship and we hadn’t established the level of trust that we have now).

Anyway, again, the one-hour sharing is all we need.

Greater brevity: “Holy fuck!” Something bad happened. “Holy fuck!” Something awesome happened.

When he was the only person to say no, and then claimed “the noes have it,” that was the funniest gd thing I’ve seen all day. Hahahahahaha!

Gotcha. Apologies.

Wooooow. Good catch!

“I wasn’t even on that plane. And those pictures of me and my boy, Jeff, ahem, I mean, that guy I never met… They were all doctored by the Obama administration back in the 90s. That’s how deep this conspiracy against me runs!”

This is the exact argument PornHub is using against recent age-limit laws. They want a system where they can’t be breached and expose their users. I’d say this adds credibility to their position.

I’ll never understand people who argue and fight beyond the initial disagreement. I mean, even that should be civil (though I’m often not when I feel attacked by someone misrepresenting my point). I’ve got way too little free time to try to chase someone around the internet.

Happy to be on Lemmy, though, where my interactions have been mostly positive. Sometimes it’s good to know when to sign off and take a break. Think I’ll get back to the show I was streaming.

“I’m sure this would be handled just like any other thing they tried to go after like the baseless impeachments, or the baseless special counsels. Or the unbelievable amount of charges they tried to file against the president. I’m sure this will be handled the exact same way,” Mullin said. “What we’re simply wanting to do here is give [Trump] cover.”

Substitute baseless with warranted and this makes total sense.

If they start a GoFundMe, I’ll kick in.

May random people piss on his grave. Bigoted fuck.