They weren’t sure if fascism was going to stick back then. Now he would have been pardoned.
No fucking shit.
Welcome to what we all knew when it happened.
My cat’s breath smells like cat food.
The doctor said I wouldn’t get so many nosebleeds if I kept my finger outta there.
You choo choo choose me?
My pants are hot!
My cat’s breath smells like fish. My cat doesn’t eat fish.
Probably keep your car away from your vagina
Where do you park your car then?
Cat. Oops.
Sir, this is an unrelated issue. I’m gonna have to ask you to submit a ticket and we will usually respond within 5-8 business days
Don’t forget about the holiday extension.
I eated the purple berries, they taste like burning.
Sometimes you just need a comment that’s higher value than the rest of the comment section. Gives a nice separation between what’s worth reading and what isn’t.
Many people are saying it
Epstein’s brother? Never heard of him.
Epstein’s brother wants to hit the talk show circuit.
Of fucking course he could name names, a LOT of people wanted him to STFU.
While I’m all for blaming trump for something like murder, this isn’t singularly or directly on his hands.
Were those people the sitting president with the DOJ led by another turbo-rich weirdo whose dad gave Epstein a job teaching underage kids when he had zero qualifications to do so?
Hey, that sounds relevant
epstein’s sibling please host a talk show better than dr. phil challenge
And hey! Make it look like an accident will you!?
…this morning authorities have found a weird accidental suicide and here to talk about it is Scott Fitzgerald Dela Mont our accidental suicide expert: yes Steve, judging from the non existing video as Epstein tripped on his own on to a previously prepared nuse made out of his violently removed PJs we can deduce that this indeed was an accidental suicide. After hitting his head on the floor and passing out, the prisoner had to have lifted his own body what appears to be 9ft… Scott, is 9 ft necessary or can you purposefully just stop breathing on the floor? Well Steve, that’s a difficult question to answer, I wasn’t there! I swear!..well folks! There you have It! Completely accidental!
I still think being about to go to prison as the world’s most famous pedophile is a pretty strong incentive for suicide
You can pretty easily convince someone to do it themselves.
Either you offer them worse alternatives (there were plans to put him with incredibly violent cell mates, for example) or threaten those they care about.
dude sniffed his own farts too long for sure, actually reading the epstein. on the realization all this was coming to light and the myth was being unwound…him killing himself really not that wild of an idea. “but what about the guards” some might ask…this is the US prison system we’re talking about, nobody gives a fuck about prisoners especially not pedophiles. they probably egged him on and told him to do it already.
pedo’s have their own hierarchy, same as everyone. epstein considered himself one of the “good ones” who atleast had the standard of waiting till they had their first period. even epstein was disgusted by trump because trump had no such hangup.
The standard of waiting for the first period 🤢. Whelp I’m now officially horrified of Game of Thrones and other fiction that touches on that whole can of cat food.
… How do we really know Epstein is even dead tho?
*Pushes tin foil hat back
How do we know he is not living under an assumed identity and throwing parties in Dubai?
living in a safehouse in russia
RussiaIsrael
With Charie
I mean, duh
Just speculation, as far as I can tell.
I don’t get why he cares, he wouldn’t lose any followers.
😴
While I absolutely believe they’re doing a bunch of illegal shit to protect Trump and others, I’m also less-upset about the December 19th deadline.
Reviewing and redacting all that information, even honestly, is a HUGE fucking task and it requiring months may actually be a fair assessment. I do redactions for Open Records for a municipalities, and it’s a bitch. Mine are usually more mundane things like building permit records, but even reacting PII from documents related to a neighbor’s new home permit may involve thousands of pages of permit documents, plans, emails, reports, etc.
There was a dispute between a couple asshole neighbors in the city a while back, and I ended up spending over 100 hours reviewing and redacting shit and had like 5 meetings with our attorney over a fucking privacy fence.
I might take that as a justification for why the document review consumed X person hours and cost the taxpayers $Y million, not for why they just didn’t do what the law they passed said they had to do.
There aren’t a limitless number of people who are qualified to do the review who also have the proper clearance to review the unredacted information.
Though with this administration, the qualified part hasn’teven been considered. And the firing of all the people who have the qualifications and the clearance doesn’t help a bit.
This administration being incompetent and evil has made the problem.worse, but it’s a tough challenge either way.
It’s the law, and they can put a lot more people on it.
Who is gonna do it? There’s not an infinite number of people who can be given access to the unredacted data for review. And those people have other things they’re legally required to do as well.
Don’t misunderstand me. They’re also doing a bunch of other illegal shit to hide participation by Trump and others, but that doesn’t mean the 30-day timeline for redaction and release wasn’t overly ambitious.
I’ve worked at firms that spontaneously hire hundreds of contract lawyers to do doc review, on time, because they have deadlines
The administration is simply incompetent and evil
But not just any private lawyer can be given access to the unredacted Epstein files. Of course, the information should be available now because they should have started this in January when the judge’s seal on the files mandated by the Mawell appeal expired.
This is demonstrative of their evil and incompetence, a serious lack of knowledge and experience.
They had plenty of time to make the security clearance and contracting arrangements. They simply never intended to follow through on anything in good faith and were caught with their pants down this time.
Do you think whoever redacted those documents by just changing the text backgrounds were proper lawyers with proper security clearances?
Welp you just set your credibility on fire. Whoops.
I don’t understand why you are even making such a statement where you’re giving far too much grace to the literal elite pedophiles. The law was signed by Trump months ago, they could have started it then, but they waited because they didn’t want them released at all. They’re clearly scrabbling to redact stuff. You don’t sumbit 113 pages of complete black if you’re not rushing. It’s more classic trump admin mismanagement and incompetence. So why exactly are you defending that?
It’s possible for a task to be overly ambitious AND for the people doing it to be evil and incompetent. An incompetent person nlbeing unable to do something doesn’t automatically mean it’ll be easy for a competent group.
A major part of the incompetence of this administration (and Americans in general) is arrogance and not appreciating that something can be more difficult than it initially sounds.
Imagine if B-B-Biden…
Wow what a terrible take
Wow you know, when you lay it all out like that, I can totally see what you mean.
Really thought provoking stuff here.
Comments protecting pedophiles don’t deserve nuance
With a bit more nuance you might see that this is not what that person is doing, even if you don’t agree with their take
Is that you, Alan Dershowitz?
Fuck off with your bullshit
I’m not sure why it should be redacted much at all at this point, except for names of known victims. It is of national intrest to the greatest imaginable importance that this dude is sent out of office and to death row yesterday. USA is broken.
Pedo defender over here
seems like your were the creepy neighbor being the karen.
There was a dispute between a couple asshole neighbors in the city a while back, and I ended up spending over 100 hours reviewing and redacting shit and had like 5 meetings with our attorney over a fucking privacy fence.
What? Use software to help, then go over it with a Couple pair of eyes to see what was missed.
Anything longer is just milking work or a complete lack of understanding of technology.
Did you do it word by word or something and spend a minute on each one deciding if it was private or not? Like seriously, this is the most wild claim I’ve seen in a WHILE.
The request specifically included staff emails, text messages, all plans for the site, etc. We had to pull paper records from off-site, scan 4’x3’ pages through the plotter, etc. And OCR doesn’t catch everything, so when you’ve got hundreds of pages on plan sets, some of them with random small hand-written notes etc on the pages it becomes a huge task.
And on other requests where the press gets involved, there may be a slight change in future requests from one requestor to another that requires us to look through a lot of the same data we previously searched for additional responsive documents. We had one particularly high-profile case where I produced 10,000 pages of responses for different reporters from about 1,500 pages of total data because different requests required different responses.
And little things like someone including PII as cursive writing in a JPEG in their email signature can be a killer because OCR can’t find it so it requires require manual redaction. When that person has sent hundreds of emails to city staff and those emails end up showing up in reply chains, it can balloon really fast.
Then you’ll get follow-up requests that snowball. For example, there are a few private permit expediters that turn in applications for developers and help them navigate through the city process. One who was the “applicant” for dozens of properties in town turned in an application for a high-profile person’s house, and the reporters asked for all communications between that permit pusher and staff. Then when they saw all these other people completely unrelated to the case they were investigating showing up in emails, they asked for all emails between staff and those people, assuming they were associates of the high-profile person.
The request specifically included staff emails, text messages, all plans for the site, etc. We had to pull paper records from off-site, scan 4’x3’ page
Ctrl f, or dictionary edit for a text file.
Seriously, there’s ways to use tech to make life easier, sounds like you’re just ignorant.
If you know how many to look for, makes life a hell of a lot easier lol. And someone or two double checks.
Ctrl F doesn’t work on rolled sets of plans that haven’t even been digitized. And OCR (the part that lets you search for text on scanned images) isn’t super reliable on old scans, especially with hand-written blueprints and shit.
The thing with government records is they’re messy, and getting them all to work together neatly isn’t simple. Every 2-3 years there’s some mandate from on high to change how everything is stored, and most of the old data, whether it’s in an old binder or a Word Perfect doc from 1966 or anything else is only ever moved to a newer system when it’s specifically needed - usually in an Open Records requests.
I did an estimate on what it would take to digitize od rolled construction documents for a city of 4,000 people I used to work in. Having the plotter running 8 hours a day would take about 2 years if that’s all the employee did.
I never addressed OCR, that’s its own issue.
You’re just technologically illiterate and they have you doing redaction? Lmfao, no wonder it takes you so long.
If something is in text, copy it to another program like word or notepad, and then use those features to find how many issues need to be resolved. Stuff doesn’t need to be moved or updated, you’re just doing a shitty job and not using tech to make your life easier.
And yes, I know that blueprints can be drawn on a bloody napkin, that changes nothing.
You were saying to use ctrl F to magic the problem away. That requires OCR.
That’s the whole problem - there’s no one magic trick to solve the issue. It requires manual scanning and manual review.
Some archotectural or site plan building sets include 200-page rolls of Arch E sheets of mylar. For reference, laid out on the ground that would take up about 6-times the floor area of a 2-car garage. That’s over 10 hours of just scanning.
Some of those pages contain 6pt font notes, and we’re required to review it ALL manually because there’s a bunch of information we’re not allowed to release in an ORR (PII, certain critical public infrastructure details, security-related issues, email addresses, information hinting at the identity or residence of anyone related to a retired court officer, and more).
You were saying to use ctrl F to magic the problem away. That requires OCR.
Uhh… because you specified emails and text messages. Which don’t require OCR. So it can be used in THOSE situations. I also never said it was this magic do all, I specified it was a TOOL to HELP.
If you can’t even read a comment before responding, I’m done. Cheers troll!
Is that what the DOJ is dealing with? 4x3s?
It sounds like your ability x 20 would have it done by the deadline.
I guarantee the evidence will include lots of document formats. It’s not all emails.
And photographs are a huge problem because sometimes photos will have documents visible in the background, or other picturesin the pictures. Text on piece of paper on the table behind someone will not be easily recognized by software, but a human may be able to piece stuff together - especially if ther’s context available from information gleaned elsewhere in the release.
It’s not directly related, but I’ll use an example from some epidemiological research I was doing for HHS a few years back on gonorrhea when we had to look out for HIPAA violations. To do that, or spatial data was going to be anonymized by limiting the precision to the census tract level.
The issue we ran into was sometimes that wasn’t good enough. If you know a diagnosis was on January 14th and the patient lived in X census tract and was an African American female between the ages of 35 and 40 that is sufficiently anonymous unless there’s only 3 african american women in the tract on the most recent census, and the appraisal district shows that it’s all single-family homes and by using ownership records and some Google searching you can figure out that there’s only one match for that age and race combination on that date, so you know that Jane Smith on 123 Maple Street has gonorrhea.
That’s the kind of shit you have to look out for. Data that can be combined with other information to reveal something that you’re trying not to reveal - like STI patients or SA victims. And not all of that information can be easily recognized autonomously. It massively increases the workload if an honest effort is to be made to redact what legally should be redacted while revealing the information the public is legally entitled to.
But honesty is an issue for this administration, so they’re absolutely gonna redact a bunch of shit they shouldn’t and will end up failing tonredact a bunch of stuff they should. The fact that the job is incredibly difficult doesn’t excuse their evil and incompetence - it magnifies it.
Ok fair enough. I know it is when things like this cross your own area of expertise. Devil’s in the details.
This administration campaigned on this, talked about this. I guess my point is not opposed to what you are saying other than - clearly they were not actually “working” on this
