Interesting:
IRCC will only send invitationsto apply to potential sponsors from the 2020 pool of submissions and won’t be opening a new interest-to-sponsor form.
So if you filled out the form 5 years ago and your parents are still alive and able to travel, now’s the time.
2005: Epstein investigation begins over prostitution of 14 year old girl
2006: Epstein indicted
2008: Epstein let off on a plea deal
2019: Epstein arrested again, this time related to trafficking in minors, as part of a larger investigation
2019: Epstein dies in jail, Democrats call it suicide, Republicans blame Democrats for his death
2021: Ghislaine Maxwell convicted
2025: DoJ announces investigation into potential coverup, vows to unearth “client list” and vows to make the entire investigation transparent and release all details
2025: Trump announces there’s no client list and the investigation should be forgotten
I’ll let the reader fill in the dates for who was in power when, and who was calling for further investigation vs. Who was saying we should move on, when.
IE wasn’t about the monopoly; it was about how they got it and what they used it for.
That said, the same questions should be asked of Apple.
Trump also says to forget about Epstein.
And all sorts of other stupid things.
I just assumed this meant Ukraine should target Moscow.
They might just be friends with someone on the list, or directly related to them.
I notice a number of women are on that list. If they were involved in grooming and raping underage girls, there’s a bigger story here.
Most likely it’s just someone they know who’s on the list, or they haven’t even seen the list but someone told them to vote that way so they did.
He’s a narcissist. He’s afraid of anything that could make him look bad to himself.
Consequences don’t factor into it at all.
Single word answer, but it really is the best option: invest in people who need a kick start but are for the most part too poor to be grossly unethical.
Just make sure you’re investing in an ethical microloan company; some of them aren’t above a bit of grift themselves.
I don’t miss spending hours trying to get a slot on the modem pool.
But I’m still happy to while away a few hours on mume.org or some random Diku server.
Facebook was never fine; it just wasn’t a silo effect at first—but it was still a privacy and security nightmare.
Sounds like a pizza place name even.
I remember cliques and a lack of online monoculture on Usenet and IRC before the World Wide Web even existed; the web exploded things even further, as did the privatization of DNS and takeover of funding by VCs and ad conglomerates. All that had happened by 1998.
Er, not usually. A few publishers hire actual writers and editors and respond to the desires of their subscribers.
These days, most publishers are re-wrapping something written by someone else, often with the help of AI and minimal editorial oversight. And when the oversight DOES come, it’s usually attached to money from advertisers or external influencers.