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zero_escape 7 points ago +7 / -0

St Clair county Ilinois checking in! Did my homework on local candidates last week and voted for GEOTUS again! We had paper ballots that get fed into a scanner, and it kinda bounced mine back out the first time I tried to put it in (think like a vending machine rejecting a dollar bill), but the second time went smoothly. So that was a thing.

Decent number of Trump/Bost/Barnes signs in the area, so I'm feeling pretty good.

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zero_escape 1 point ago +1 / -0

Oh it's absolutely interesting and if it turns out to be true, well...that'll be a shake up for sure. Without more evidence to go on than this sketchy post, though, don't get too excited over it. :P

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zero_escape 1 point ago +1 / -0

IDs are thread-specific, so they're useless for comparing two posts from years apart. The real tell would be if they'd used the same secure tripcode on both posts but neither post used a tripcode at all. Very probably a LARP, and it's unfortunate how few people on here seem to know how imageboards work.

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zero_escape 2 points ago +2 / -0

The only way to really verify would be if both posters used a secure tripcode. Neither of them used a tripcode at all. I did a quick ten minutes of digging to compare the posts here. Odds are it's a larp.

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zero_escape 1 point ago +1 / -0

Last time this guy posted, he was correct

There's no proof this is the same anon who posted about Epstein's death. The only way we could verify that would be if they'd used a secure tripcode on both posts. The only commonality between the posts is the Wart Pepe image, but the original filename on the Epstein post is a longass UUID and the file is a png. The one from this post can be easily found on Know Your Meme with the same filename (5eb.gif) and it's a gif. If they were the same person and they wanted to use the same image as a means of linking the two posts, why wouldn't they use the original png?

On top of that, it's unlikely (although not impossible) that whoever had inside info on Epstein's prison situation also has inside info on the Bidens.

So, I have some doubts.

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zero_escape 4 points ago +4 / -0

Is it possible to post a picture of the scrip or the receipt, with personal info blocked out, so we can see the price? That's what'll convince people, anecdotal evidence with photo proof. Not to doubt you, just noting that a lot of the proof is anecdotal without a receipt to back it up or just projected prices.

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zero_escape 4 points ago +4 / -0

That's a good idea that I didn't think of three months ago. I got the fuck out of there as soon as I could, so unfortunately no chance of getting any of my data out.

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zero_escape 22 points ago +22 / -0

It's a fucking shame the Boeing company I contracted for airgapped everything, I would've had some tangible shit to snitch with. I did send a message to the office of the AG though. You can too!

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zero_escape 7 points ago +8 / -1

If you're referring to their religion, I don't buy that. It's simpler to assume that like all morally bankrupt people that find themselves in positions of power, they naturally cooperate in order to maintain their power, without going so far as to claim that its the result of a (((cabal))). I think there is a cabal, but that it naturally formed from the incestuous mess of technocrats and pols coordinating, instead of causing the coordination. YMMV of course.

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zero_escape 2 points ago +2 / -0

How would I verify that nobody's requested my ballot? I moved recently and I had my name removed from my old state's voter rolls, but I don't know how to check if someone's requested my ballot in either my old or new state.

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zero_escape 4 points ago +4 / -0

I dunno man. I play Eve and used to play Runescape (still keep in touch with my old clan). I've made IRL friends through those games and I would want to do something to memorialize them if I found out one of them died. Since MMO guilds are pretty spread out geographically, an in-game tribute is kinda the most viable option.

I wouldn't shout it to the world cause that's just saying "hey, please grief us" but I'd want to do something more than just accept that a friend is gone and move along with my day.

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zero_escape 1 point ago +1 / -0

Thanks for the response, I enjoyed researching this. :) Some stuff I want to touch on from what I've found.

One problem I pointed out is that it can take 13 years or more to get a new treatment approved by the FDA. The patent clock starts the moment the company files the patent and runs out in 15 years. They can sometimes get a 5 year extension, but that's it.

Apparently the lifetime on drug patents was updated to 17-20 years in 1994, according to the FDA - though I don't know if those can be extended. Additionally, the language here (section 3) seems to imply to me that the patent is considered effective from the date of the drug's passing the FDA approval process. Which is absolutely a generous reading and I'm probably fundamentally misunderstanding something. Reading the relevant laws 1 2 didn't really help me because it's kinda dense. What am I missing here? Does this affect anything besides the consumer's price tag?

It also seems that the ACA medical device tax was repealed last year 1 2. What should that affect?

Thanks again for bearing with me.

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zero_escape 1 point ago +1 / -0

Pharma companies aren't pricing the drugs high to make a profit off the manufacturing process though. They're trying to cover the absolutely massive cost of researching and developing new drugs.

In the interest of exploring the topic a bit instead of arguing, what are the biggest factors in the high cost of R&D? Is it manpower? Equipment? Administrative oversight? Time consumption? What inefficiencies can be addressed to make that aspect of pharma more cost-effective, if any?

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zero_escape 3 points ago +3 / -0

I'm positive he's said he's voting for Trump at least a few times in some of his videos from the last month or two, but honestly it's more work to find it than I have time for right now. I don't watch Timcast IRL very often so if he's said different things there than in his segments, well shit. Dude doesn't know a kick in the pants when he gets one.

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zero_escape 3 points ago +3 / -0

Have you watched any of Tim's stuff recently? He's outright said he's voting for Trump cause the left is fucking nuts.

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zero_escape 2 points ago +3 / -1

I mean yes, but in fairness you really can't point to your throat with your hands cuffed behind your back.

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zero_escape 2 points ago +2 / -0 (edited)

Get this. Gizmodo released an interview of Maxwellhill [archive] on December 26, 2011. Right at the end, we have this quote:

The last few months, as I was fast approaching a million karma points, I decided on a target date of the end of the year and doubled my efforts on submissions—but not on moderating. Having achieved that million a few weeks ahead of schedule, I deided to take a break. These days, I spend about 3-4 hours a day on Reddit. I am also busy with a potential business venture that is taking a large part of my time, but I try to squeeze in the odd link when I have the time...

Ghislaine Maxwell attended an investor party in 2011 [archive] (the Kleiner Perkins party Pao was at)

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zero_escape 1 point ago +1 / -0

RES-like keyboard navigation and keybinds for desktop would be nice.