Epstein’s large investment they found recently was into Peter Theil’s company. The guy who funded Trump’s running mate and comes from PayPal money with Musk.

No connections though I’m sure

Used science to make a meme, people upset. Repost someone else’s content, happy. I see a lot of depression in our futures.

I mean the Navy did ask for the mafias help monitoring the fishing routes and docks up the east coast during world war 2 to monitor for German vessels bringing fuel back to submarines and such. Believe they asked Jewish gangs for help as well to break up NAZI sympathizer groups and monitor worker unions. Hard to say what may have actually been happening though. We can say for sure they commuted a Mafia members sentence and deported him back to Italy right after the war ended.

It also only hurts them directly if it goes weaker though right? From an outside perspective I would understand them moving to the Euro just to simplify things, but I also think being a part of the EU has more effects than being a unified economy. It helps with travel, that’s good. But it also makes a country dependent and can void the entire principle of laws fairly easily.

Hypothetical, let’s say a country like Hungary isn’t following the civil rights laws required to be part of the European Union. Does the EU try to squeeze them economically to make them act in a manner the rest of the Union demands, or do they settle and say, well they are their own country and we have no say there, so our rules aren’t really laws, but mere suggestions. Where do these suggestions draw hard lines, and if you hit a hard line what stops the country from printing their own currency back out and just telling the EU to fuck off. Does the EU not allow them to do so because their currency would thereby be unbalanced? Or do they allow them to under the condition they trade all their currency out somehow?

Some things could get dicey I imagine.

Petunia was just jealous. She wrote a letter to Dumbledore asking if she could attend Hogwarts with her sister and was rejected on the basis she was a muggle. She held scorn for the magical world from that day on and hated seeing her sister do things she couldn’t and her parents were excited by. So she told her husband of it’s existance and called them all “freaks” for the rest of her life. In truth she probably loved her sister, but never got a chance to make ammends. After all, her sister died shortly after she got out of Hogwarts. 21 or 22

Was curious so I tried to find historical Oxygen levels by century (didn’t find that). With the current oxygen level being around 20.9% and decreasing to effectively 17% around a mile in altitude, (say Denver) we adapt to 4% oxygen level without death. So if dinosaurs are similar in breathing to humans, I’d say with no scientific backing beyond just speculation, they should be fine.

Out of curiosity, why would that matter to most people? I don’t live in Europe so I’m just curious. Is it just about wanting them to use the same currency because they seem posh about it or something? On their end I assume the look at it and say our money’s worth more. (Why I fabricated the idea of posh being a possible reason for debating for/against)

I think that has a lot of variables. Crocodiles were on earth around 250 million years ago, the t rex around 68 million years ago. Crocodiles still breath our atmosphere.

That doesn’t mean other animals didn’t have different breathing parameters though.

No I’m saying accident vs non accident is a huge difference.

I don’t admire their situation. Then again… I can’t say I could have ever accepted some of the things they did to get there. If I had money in the bank to buy a place outside of any of the counties fighting to be super powers right now I’d do so. The U.S., Russia, U.K., China, and a few others just all seem to be toxic for lack of better terms right now.

100% agree. Safer practices need to be everywhere. That said, I agree distracted driving should be punished harsher than non-distracted accidents, but proving such goes into robbing people of privacy further. I really don’t want more monitoring systems.
Texting and driving should be harsh, running stop signs/red lights as well. But accidents of not seeing a stop sign at night are going to happen, or even a pedestrian crossing not at a crosswalk with no way to see them in the dark. Hopefully we find good solutions, but our losses won’t be near 0 unfortunately for awhile

Stairs might be pretty close to the same danger level as cars. If you consider how many people don’t live or work in a 2 plus story building, maybe more so compared to cars.

“Approximately one million people in the U.S. are injured on stairs each year, making stair-related accidents the second leading cause of accidental injury. These injuries result in over $90 billion in direct and indirect costs annually, according to a study published in the American Journal of Emergency Medicine. Here’s a more detailed breakdown: Number of Injuries: Over 1 million people are injured annually due to falls on stairs. Leading Cause of Injury: Stairway accidents are the second leading cause of accidental injury, behind motor vehicle accidents. Fatalities: Approximately 12,000 deaths result from stairway accidents each year.”

Well unless you’re Michael Jackson and just want to play Simba with the child, haha

Of course

Yeah, intent tends to be everything with unfortunate events.

I can argue that the woman may have fallen down the stairs with her baby on purpose. We can say she didn’t take proper precautions, use the hand rails, ran down/up the stairs, only carry the baby in a safe device like a car seat, or that she simply should not allow the child to risk traversing up/don the stairs.

With a gun/balcony, the intent was pretty clear. With the stairs/car, they are both presumed accidents.

Sure. But you know they aren’t as close as this makes it. One tool was meant to take life as the primary function. The other to get someplace.

Woman falls down stairs while carrying her baby, she killed him, accident. Woman throws her baby off the balcony, she killed him, murder. Both cases the baby was killed, both sad. But they are different.

My parents used to get together with another couple almost every weekend and sit down and either play sequence, rummy, hand & foot or something along those lines. Easy way to sit down once a week, have a drink or two and just talk with your friends, no TVs, phones or etc were ever on.

Wish I lived near a friend group that was able to do that. They started hanging out doing similar around 1980 and kept it up till 2017 or so. (Was the same 2 friends, they both moved 1200 miles across the country) and made sure they lived a few blocks away during that time.

Hey now, I pirated my Thinkpad thank you very much. Needed to make sure I stuck to my third cult.

Dudes got a soccer ball and a tank, what else could he ask for. You know that guys going to get along well with a cat later in his twenties. Broken heart, cat strolls by and they spend the next year making cardboard forts and watching romcoms.

Actually that sounds kind of nice