Quantumfreakonomics
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Quantumfreakonomics
12hr ago
Polymarket is in flagrant violation of the ammended Onion Futures Act by offering prediction markets on the box office revenue of Hollywood movies.
I mean just look at this shit. The CFTC is asleep at the wheel.
Quantumfreakonomics
13hr ago
I'm pretty sure that the white, disabled, overweight gas station attendant who tried and failed to stop me from pumping my own gas the first time I had to fill up in New Jersey was not an immigrant.
Yes, I realized later that I broke the law. That was the joke.
Quantumfreakonomics
14hr ago
These are notoriously unfriendly regions of the United States. You can't even pump gas in New Jersey without being acosted by locals.
Quantumfreakonomics
1d ago
It's a bad idea to shoot your shot when a (lets be honest, very likely) rejection leaves you worse off than saying nothing.
This is why dating apps are so big. The cost of rejection is zero.
Its also why asking out women from work is usually a bad idea. Massive downside risk.
Quantumfreakonomics
1d ago
I legitimately can't even imagine what a killshot on Trump would be. Even if they had 4k video of Trump violently raping a 14-year-old girl Republicans would just become pro-sexual privacy in this specific instance.
Quantumfreakonomics
1d ago
60 minutes with a jade-like beauty: 160 dollars
WTF I love immigration now
Quantumfreakonomics
1d ago
Admirable, but mistaken.
Quantumfreakonomics
1d ago
Jake Paul beat Ben Askren. Why is Anthony Joshua a real contender but Ben Askren isn't?
Jake Paul beat Tyron Woodley twice. Why is Anthony Joshua a real contender but Tyron Woodley isn't?
Jake Paul beat Nate Diaz. Why is Anthony Joshua a real contender but Nate Diaz isn't?
It's been years of, "Jake/Logan Paul are decent amateurs, but they have no chance in this next fight is against a real athlete," and then Paul knocks the guy out. Would you have predicted beforehand that this is exactly where Jake Paul's career would plateau?
Quantumfreakonomics
1d ago
If you look closely there's a picture of some girls in the drawer. That's probably the excuse they'll use.
Quantumfreakonomics
2d ago
Epstein files are currently being released. DOJ link HERE. Epstein Files Transparency Act PDF HERE.
Some notes from picking a random place to start and going through them one-by-one:
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Lots of questionable redactions.
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Funniest one so far.
Cumstained porno mag. Looks like they decided to redact only her tits. Can they do that under the law? NSFW Link. -
There is at least one male whose face is being consistantly redacted. Were there any male "victims"? Not sure what the legal basis for a redaction could be. Doesn't look like Trump to me.
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Jeffery is definitely a boob guy.
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Some of the ass pics that are in there are unredacted. Interesting choice.
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A second redacted male figure. Looks like Epstein himself tbh. Maybe an accident?
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Quote from a victim's interview notes: "What doing? Why bringing me dark girl?" "Bringing young girl." "Yeah but not dark."
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They are definitely redacting the portions of interviews where they describe what Jeffery did sexually. Understandable, but not sure if legal under the Act.
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"Tell girls don't wear heels, just wear casual everyday clothes." Really makes you think.
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I'm glad I didn't do a direct download.
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Now I'm getting big binders full of thumbnail pics. I hope the corresponding full-size photos are somewhere else in the files.
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Lots of pictures of clouds. I think the guy just liked photos.
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Did we really need to redact the photos of the other guys in the police photo lineups? Are they victims? Not super relevant but gives you an idea what the culture was in the office when they were putting these together.
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Very ominous scrapbook page titled "Looking For a Way Out", with redacted pictures of a girl.
Quantumfreakonomics
3d ago
That is certainly a possibility, but it would be simpler logistically for the government merely to stop covering all prescriptions and services apart from intravenous sodium thiopental.
Quantumfreakonomics
3d ago
Please do not do this. Marriage as a family institution will be totally destroyed. Every marriage will be a sham marriage. The only way it might work is if you restricted it to heterosexual couples and made marriage bestow a legally-enforceable right to sexual access, and that’s still a maybe.
Quantumfreakonomics
3d ago
It seems unreasonable to expect the current social infrastructure supporting old people to continue indefinitely into a future where it no longer manes sense (it no longer makes sense now in my opinion, but clearly the problem will get worse). Young people might be willing to support their own parents or grandparents, but why would they put up with an army of unloved, childless geezers leaching off of their productivity?
This dovetails nicely with the army guy’s post below. Even in a democracy, citizens only exercise power because the men with guns let them exercise power. At some point, the idea will be proposed to euthanize childless elders who are not financially independent, and nobody physically capable of pushing back will be on the other side of that proposal.
Quantumfreakonomics
3d ago
Manufacturers of prosthesis, rejoice!
The real money will be in mine removal services. Think about how much you could charge for explosives exploration and removal in a high-income country that values human life.
Quantumfreakonomics
4d ago
It’s a good thing I didn’t write that post about RADICAL SUNNI TERRORISM and how American geopolitical interests prey on the ignorance of the general population to smear Shi’ites and Iran by proxy.
Quantumfreakonomics
5d ago
Quantumfreakonomics
5d ago
Weren't there like 9 injuries? That's the kind of casualty ratio you get from randomly emptying a handgun clip into a crowd.
Quantumfreakonomics
5d ago
My knowledge of the geography of the northeast United States is limited, but I believe the two locations are at most a couple of hours apart.
The guy could have walked from Brown to MIT in the time between the two shootings.
I feel I was a bit flippant in my post on the subject in last week's thread. I didn't consider the possibility that the shooter could still be at large well into the week. We are seeing a new meta emerging in real time. If one has a getaway plan, it's possible to run from the law for several days, perhaps even stringing together multiple attacks in the process.
Quantumfreakonomics
7d ago
There was a shooting at Brown University yesterday. Two people were killed. This is of course a tragedy, the kind of tragedy that has been well-litigated both here and everywhere else on the internet.
Brown decided to follow this up with another tragedy: canceling all outstanding exams and operations for the remainder of 2025.
"Given these deeply tragic events, all remaining undergraduate, graduate and medical classes, exams, and papers or projects for the Fall 2025 semester will not take place as scheduled. This choice was made out of our profound concern for all students, faculty and staff. In the immediate aftermath of these devastating events, we recognize that learning and assessment are significantly hindered in the short term and that many students and others will wish to depart campus. We know there will be many academic concerns about the implications of not holding classes and exams as scheduled, and we will follow up to provide students with more information in the coming days."
One of the issues with our education system is that it is fundamentally unserious. Final exams are, or ought to be, a big fucking deal. Ten thousand of our supposedly best and brightest students will now pass an entire semester of advanced classes without a comprehensive examination of their skills and capabilities. Medical classes. I hope the physician you visit to get your unusually yellow skin checked out didn't take hepatology at Brown University in Fall 2025.
Quantumfreakonomics
10d ago
The United States is going to sell-out Taiwan. The discussion we need to be having is what our price should be.
I propose 500 billion dollars, accomplished via the cancelation of China-held treasuries.
Quantumfreakonomics
10d ago
There are lots of things that are legal that still make you an asshole.
Drop the deets.
Quantumfreakonomics
10d ago
"The common advice to arrive at the airport two hours early is outdated. Modern airports push through more people in less time. Airport security just isn't that slow anymore. You can arrive with much less spare time and you'll be fine."
"United airlines rerouted my luggage onto a different flight that arrives two hours after I need it. It's incredible how unreliable United is, between delays, lost luggage, and completely ruining trips."
Protip - You have the capability to walk yourself from check-in to the gate and onto the plane. Your luggage does not have this capability.
Quantumfreakonomics
11d ago
No, the rest of the world could not win by selling massive amounts of cheap products at a loss.
Quantumfreakonomics
11d ago
It is a tax on bullshit. The problem is that taxing bullshit impovershes 90% of the population.
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