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  • First Lady Melania Trump has denied connections to Jeffrey Epstein, telling reporters at the White House that any claims linking the two “need to end today”.

    There are numerous photos of her and Epstein hanging out together and acting very friendly together. So these ‘claims’ are not going to end today or any time in the future, Melania. Because they aren’t ‘claims’, they are documented facts!

    If you don’t want to be associated with creeps then maybe don’t hang out with them for years on end. It’s far too late for her to heed that advice. But she wouldn’t anyway, because she’s a shitty person, and shirt people tend to congregate together.

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  • They got monetized by corporations, just like so many other specialized information sources.

    Like you, I remember earlier days on the web where you could find all sorts of stuff for free, if you knew how to search. That included reverse phone number searches, finding people online, etc. Now it’s all trapped behind paywalls. I get that maintaining it costs money. But it’s still a bit disheartening. I guess the silver lining is that it makes it a bit harder for people’s sensitive information to be accessible to everyone (unless they pay for it, of course).

    Another information category that’s gone down this route is genealogy information. Most of the good stuff there’s is being held hostage by ancestry.com and similar sites. And most online newspapers now hide their articles behind paywalls of one kind or another (there are ways around them usually, but it’s still a hassle).



  • If he goes full authoritarian (which he’s trying to) he won’t need the elections. He or his stooges would just place sycophants into those empty spots. Given the way he’s angling to rig the elections, and the lack of resistance to that so far, he definitely doesn’t need the elections as we know them now.

    That’s the thing some people aren’t getting: we keep thinking he needs to operate within the checks and balances of the current system. But he doesn’t need to if nobody has the will or the ability to enforce them. At that point the constraints of the current system mean nothing.



  • Learning CPR and first aid (and getting certified in those topics) is cheap and ridiculously easy. Look up your local Red Cross organization, since they probably offer local courses in that topic in your area that are either free or very cheap. And even if it’s not useful to your job it can be very helpful. I’ve performed the Heimlich maneuver (or whatever they call it now) on my wife on two separate occasions when she was choking on some food (due to her throat being swollen with a cold and her biting off a bit too much pizza).

    Here are some ideas for jobs for younger people with limited to no work experience:

    • Retail stores
    • Restaurants
    • Grocery stores
    • Trampoline parks
    • Lazer tag places
    • Bowling alleys
    • Roller skate parks
    • Ice rinks
    • Instructional assistants at schools

    Good luck.

    Edit: fixed some autocorrect errors.



  • Fucking injuries! Oh well, it is what it is. Bye bye domestic cups. Good luck to Southampton in the FA Cup.

    We need a new backup keeper, because I don’t think Kepa is it. I know it’s a tough role to fill, and Raya has set the bar very very high. But I don’t think Kepa is consistent enough, even to be our backup. Plus I suspect he’s just using us as a stop-gap solution until he finds a first team place elsewhere, so he won’t be around for looking anyway.