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Chef obviously never watched Chopped! If you put a non-edible element on your plate you are just asking to get sent home.

Updated: toxicology reports have all come back negative for anything.

I don’t have a quality source because I don’t know how to search for French stories but there was some English coverage on a podcast.

If anyone has a quality report showing the toxicology results or the outcomes or updates on any of the arrests I’d love to see them.

Two wallets. 10k BTC each. These wallets were created back when BTC was 78¢. When you spend $10k the IRS might ask questions. If you are “structuring” correctly you avoid spending $9,999 and $1 within a short time span or even in the same reporting period. 10k BTC back then was something you could buy that looked like it wasn’t $10k but was really close. Spend it twice in two different wallets and if there are enough other transactions no one will notice.

Anytime you see a transaction or set of transactions that add up to or are just shy of 10k USD, BTC or pretty much anything, there should be a little bell that dings in your head and causes you to think “this person is clearly thinking about US tax reporting laws and trying to dodge them.”

Who had all that money back in 2011 that decided that now was the time to tap those wallets that are worth a billion each? Obviously someone that hasn’t needed the money until now. Someone that is planning on spending up to 2 billion. But not right away because if you try to sell 20k BTC in a hurry it will draw attention and potentially destabilize the currency. But you could sell it all off over the next year or longer without flooding the market.

Who wants to spend up to $2 billion in the next year? What could you buy with that kind of money? Elon musk spent ~$250 million getting Trump elected. That’s just an eighth of $2B. You could buy a lot of super PAC power with $2B. You could bankroll the primarying of every Republican that voted for OBBB. Weird that these wallets were dusted off so close to Elon saying he would primary anyone that voted for OBBB, and he has a strong affinity for crypto, and he had enough money in 2011 to buy that much BCT on a whim, and that he wouldn’t have had to touch it to pay other bills as BTC went from 78¢ to more than $100,000 over the last 14 years.

I wonder who these wallets belong to and what they will be used for?

This is what conspiracy thinking looks like. It’s me. I’m the one conspiracy thinking.

Star Trek fans.

NCC-1701

Species 8472 is under represented.

Took me a moment to realize you weren’t talking about Arthur Miller. “Well duh. That doesn’t even sound like Death of a Salesman and he is dead. Oh. Wait. Stephan Miller, Nazi sympathizer.”

Where he puts his name and title in there different ways in case someone was unclear who this insecure narcissist is? That signature block?

States rights! They shouted. Turns out they didn’t even want city rights.

I’m number one!

Ideally an empty atheist group is the platonic ideal. Nothing about nothing. No arguments. No exclusion. No evangelicals. No conversion attempts.

Trump put a tariff on soybeans during his first administration and this was exclusively aimed at China who consumes most of our exported soy. Farmers suffered and Trump gave them billions to make up for it resulting in a tariff that didn’t help anyone. China started sourcing soy from Brazil. Which ate up more rainforest. Overall it was one of the most expensive tariff blunders in terms of both dollars and negative externalities.

All because China can’t grow enough soy.

It’s too early for the Butlerian Jihad to start.

At your next job interview ask them if they are results driven or methodology driven. “If I were to take twice as long to do something by using a poorly designed tool will I be rewarded or punished?”

Trump “you don’t have any cards” The next thing you know Ukraine has destroyed Russia’s bomber force. Trump “we have all the cards.” Stay tuned next week to see how he learned nothing.

That’s definitely going to help him make a deal.

He might not remember his name but could know his title.

Good to know. As my posting history on Lemmy will show I definitely watch bread recipes videos. In fact I became a mod for c/cooking today.

You watch one ContraPoints video about Jordan B Peterson and the next thing you know … Still not any JBP video recommendations. So I guess there is an upside to the failure of big data.

Each day I go to the YouTube app on Roku to my subscriptions tab and watch whatever is new. Then I go to Recommend and it’s 90% or more previous videos from those same subscriptions and very little new creators it hasn’t showed me.

After almost a year of this it figured out last week I might like AronRa, a person I’m very familiar with. And after countless videos on anthropology, evolution and paleontology he should have come up so much sooner. So much for big data.

But what is completely lacking is a “show me completely random stuff, old, new, not in my algorithm, short, long, completely against my algorithm, etc.” it lacks almost any way to discover new stuff that isn’t 100% related to content you already have.

YouTube gets more uploads than any one person can possibly watch and yet it’s almost incapable of showing me something unless I explicitly tell it to find it for me.

Remember yesterday when every Trump supporter was talking about the amazing peace bringing powers of Trump and how between his bombing run and ceasefire he was the greatest leader of all time?

I reminded each of them that Israel has violated every ceasefire this year within hours. Trump supporters laughed. Not one could offer any idea on why this time would be different. They weren’t capable of admitting this was going to fail. And today they will find some other thing to pretend will justify his so called leadership.