DagwoodIII

You talk about Epstein and only Epstein.

Right now the best thing to do is focus on the thing that his people will actually understand and get upset about.

They don’t care about climate, gulags, genocide, or destroying the functions of government.

They understand rich people getting away with shitty behavior.

Epstein. Keep repeating that.

https://www.newsweek.com/qatar-gift-trump-unsold-plane-2072564

It’s as if a fat guy who brought a bike for exercise and then threw it in the garage gave it to his pot dealer so the kid could deliver faster.

That’s why the slave traders wanted to enshrine their ideas.

They knew that there were Abolitionists at other universities; they wanted to make sure their reputations would remain unsullied.

Kind of like how oil companies today fund their own ‘climate research.’

Just remember that even fifty years ago the ‘scientific’ name for Down’s Syndrome was Mongoloid Idiot.

Check around where you live.

There are shelters that need cats boarded. I suggest you try caring for a few and see how it feels before you commit.

My opinion.

Big Trouble In Little China.

Marathon Man [Dustin Hoffman, Lawrence Olivier] seems to have been designed for multiple viewings. A character seen briefly in one scene turns up later in the movie. A quick telephone call becomes incredibly important but you have to be paying close attention to every minute.

Talk to people besides the women you want to date.

Old people love to talk to strangers; it was something they did before cell phones came around.

Take some acting classes and or volunteer at the local community theater. Acting is talking, and actors love to chatter.

Get a hobby that appeals to all sorts of people. Gardening/riding a bike/soft ball/football/whatever. It actually helps to have something to talk about, and there are clubs full of people who do that activity.

You don’t have to listen to the women, just listen to Cadet Bonespurs himself.

He went on Howard Stern and boasted of going into the dressing rooms of the Miss Teen USA pageant.

Duh!

This is a favorite GOP tactic for decades. Back when the Supreme Court cared about the law, the Right would pass anti-abortion laws that they knew would be struck down. But since they were in power, they could use tax payer money to pay for the cases. Meanwhile, people on the Left had pick and choose where their money went, to a good candidate or to the legal funds?

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New Yorker here. Yes, it’s possible for a working person to have a great apartment in Manhattan. Either they moved in early and have a rent subsidized/controlled place, or they won an apartment lottery in a new building.

The thing that’s most unrealistic is when you see empty parking spaces any where.

You always see at the same speed. Your reaction time slows down.

Think of it this way. You step on a Lego and it hurts instantly. Doesn’t matter if you’re sleepy or drunk or wide awake. You feel it right away. Same with seeing; it’s instantaneous.

Tech bro Libertarians love the novel “The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress” by Robert A. Heinlein.

One plot line in the book is that the main computer for the Lunar penal colonies achieves self awareness. A computer repair man discovers that the HOLMES computer is starting to tell itself jokes and gives it the name ‘Mycroft’ after Mycroft Holmes.

Later, Mycroft meets a woman and creates a female personality, Michelle.

It’s a pretty good book.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/tech-billionaire-parents-limit/

Not even the first story to pop up in the search.

Not a lawyer, but I know that a guy like Donnie doesn’t own things directly. For tax reasons, his plane is owned aby ABC Co, which is owned by DEF, which leases it to Donnie for $1.00 a year.

If you want to learn to talk to people, start by talking to old people.

Folks who were around before the internet actually spent a good portion of their lives just making small talk with strangers.

Next, develop some hobbies/pursuits that involve socializing. Adult league sports teams, or volunteer work, or community theater.

If I buy it I’ll forget about it.

If I don’t buy it, I’ll spend the next twenty years thinking about that cool think I didn’t buy when I had the chance.

It was a stupid little statue of a fairy sitting next to a mirror and I still wish I’d brought it.

Ahh, the good old days, when a wife beating drunk was next to Dennis the Menace on every comic page.

USSR imploded with little help from the West.

Brezhnev invaded Afghanistan; Solidarity trade union in Poland was homegrown; Chernobyl wasn’t sabotaged; the old guard who went against Gorbachev hated the West more than anyone.

It’s impossible to keep up with all the BS these people generate.

The funniest thing about your question is defining ‘non-whites.’

Back in the day, any Black ancestor made a person Black; that was so slave owners could sell their children by slave mothers. Thomas Jefferson had a slave wife/concubine/rape victim named Sally Hemmings. She was likely his legal wife’s half sister. Sally’s granddaughter was 1/8th of less African, but it was considered a scandal when she ran off and passed as White.

The longer any family has been in America, the more likely it is that they are ‘non-white.’