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I don’t know anything about commercial real estate, but of all his egregious behavior, I’m amazed that he has gotten away with not paying Twitter’s rent for months. Why haven’t the property owners just locked him out?
Its complicated, because he did stop it. He also immediately took notes and immediately told others about the conversations, actions which clearly paint him as somebody fully versed in the processes of establishing cooperation with law enforcement on an informer basis.
Yeah, I hate to admit it, but I might not be giving him enough credit. When I read about his conversation with Dan Quayle I thought he was trying to find a legal basis for doing what the mob wanted, but it may have been the other way around. He may have been attempting to establish unambiguously that he intended to comply with the law, and he consulted with someone who is not only another attorney, but a former vice president, in order to leave no doubt about what the law mandated.
You see the same phenomenon on Stack Overflow sometimes. A confidently incorrect answer will be marked as correct with a tremendously high score, while the actual correct answer languishes somewhere below.
I was a somewhat credulous teenager back in the 1970s, and I have maintained a sort of hobbyist’s interest in fringe literature and conspiracy theories ever since.
One thing the article mentions that I noticed pretty early on was an undercurrent of antisemitism found almost as soon as you left the mainstream stuff for sale in regular bookstores.
It was kind of surprising how few steps it took some people to get from unusual lights in the sky to The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
I also ran across a lot of ranting about the Federal Reserve, a topic that you wouldn’t expect channeled extraterrestrial entities to care much about.
Just the same, there was nothing like the current level of vicious hatred that you see routinely expressed nowadays. I guess the internet has allowed these people to connect more easily and to encourage each other to go farther, but there must be something else at work. Even well into the current century the tone of the conspiracy literature you would find online was much the same as it was in the print era.
I read that sometime in 2025 it’s likely the Voyagers’ nuclear batteries won’t have enough power left to operate their instruments.
It will be kind of weird not to get occasional updates anymore. I graduated high school in 1977, and I’ve been hearing news about the Voyager probes for my entire adult life.
Right now the first three or four pages in my feed are almost nothing but pictures of cats in boxes. Which is fine, but it’s hardly brilliant discourse.
I never thought I would say this, but thank God for Dan Quayle. Pence was looking for any excuse not to certify the election results, and Quayle told him flat out that the Vice President didn't have that authority.
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Yeah, honestly, I don’t mind reading novels that argue points I disagree with, but the repetitiveness is unbelievable. One of the reasons John Galt’s 60 page speech is so tedious is that all of the points he makes in it had already been made two or three times before by other characters.