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discord requiring age verification for 18+ content in march 

it wasn't discord that had a data breach that leaked IDs, it was the company they were using for ID age verification.

if they can truly do face scan verification that runs solely on your device, that should be fine. and it's totally possible, by the way. you don't need a crazy AI cluster to do this. whether or not you trust that is what is going on is a different story entirely.

then they still have an algorithm to determine if someone is 18+ or not. there is a bunch of data that could go into this, from the games you play to the vocab you use, to the age of your account.

if you don't trust discord to not expose this data, then don't use discord lmao.

i don't like age verification as much as the next guy, but with the internet being so prevalent i fear it might actually be necessary to help protect children from predators. it's not going to eliminate every case of it, but i do think it will help.

the unfortunate thing is that anything that is done "for the children" immediately sets off people's alarms because of how many things have been passed off as being "for the children" without that actually being the case.

@mitchconner @monsterislandcolonizer yeah, not if you're going to eat it immediately. You will definitely extend the life of jerky if you freeze it. Especially homemade jerky, which it seems like was what was being made. It only lasts like a couple months otherwise. I thought this was common knowledge. You can go ahead and look it up for yourself.

alright, i actually went to the epstein files website and looked into the "pizza" thing. 

yeah, no... i really don't think they were using "pizza" to refer to kids they were diddling. at the very least least, the vast majority of the time they weren't. in order to believe that, you have to go through so many leaps in logic. you have to BELIEVE that's what they are doing instead of basing your beliefs on what is actually going on.

there are 911 mentions of the word "pizza" right? well, i'm not going to get autistic enough to actually go through all 911 mentions and sort them or anything like that, maybe if i had a lot more free time. it would be really interesting, but i just can't bring myself to do it.

what i can tell you though are a few really important things to keep in mind:

1) there are legitimate pizza establishments mentioned, even major chains like papa john's. even fucking fat cats was in there.

2) a lot of the mentions are duplicates. again, people seem to not understand how emails work. one file in particular has tons of emails back and forth copied a bunch of times and they mention pizza a lot. this is also why i don't really want to go through everything, because even several pages deep there were so many damn duplicates.

3) a really good chunk of these are not actually being sent to or from epstein at all. people are saying shit like "i've never seen a picture of epstein eating pizza" but really, pretty much every link i clicked on didn't have epstein's name there at all. in fact, there were A LOT of names.

here's an interesting thought experiment. take, i don't know, twenty of your friends and/or family members and pull all of their texts, emails, everything from a ten year period in time. how often do you think the topic of pizza would come up? probably a shit ton. pizza is a really common food, especially for parties and get togethers. i have 15 mentions of pizza in my text messages from the last month, and that's between me and like 6 other people.

evil people are evil. absolutely. but they are not fucking marvel villains. let's focus on the actual verifiable shit and act on that instead of endlessly going around in conspiracy circles with shit that probably doesn't exist, because that's insanely reductive.

@monsterislandcolonizer it might also still just be regular jerky lmao. I can't believe you have people saying "what does he mean jerky isn't regular food?! That must mean it is human meat!" no retard, jerky is not regular food it is a snack. Rations at best. Do these people think ice cream is regular food too?

re: alright, i actually went to the epstein files website and looked into the "pizza" thing. 

@lain it kind of puts trump's whole "people are still talking about this guy?" thing into an interesting light. he knows there ain't shit here besides maybe like, weird rich jew shit. i'm sure he knows plenty of weird rich jews. so he can't really understand why people are so freaked out.

in a smarter society, people would look at these and go "huh, yeah, damn... there isn't actually that much here" and move on, just like the donald had. instead, people are really hooked in like it's season 3 of their favorite netflix slop and they want a dramatic conclusion with an insane villain who was operating at a global scale with a huge cover up.

meanwhile, there are children running around in the street during school hours who can barely even read protesting law enforcement getting illegals out of the country. i think we have bigger, much more impactful things to deal with.

@LukeAlmighty your average frat house party would make pizza and cocaine with a bunch of old philanthropists look like a kid's birthday.

re: alright, i actually went to the epstein files website and looked into the "pizza" thing. 

@lain rationality is a dead virtue and people are addicted to drama.

i think it also might be a savior complex kind of thing, where people really get a high off of believing they are doing something right. it doesn't matter if it is actually right, that part doesn't matter as much as the feeling you get from it.

in spinning up this kind of narrative, which is a massive child trafficking ring which is larger than is even fathomable, it fuels that emotional response to the maximum level. feeling like you're a good person for giving a crackhead a dollar pales in comparison to "exposing" something like this.

re: alright, i actually went to the epstein files website and looked into the "pizza" thing. 

@beardalaxy the release seems like something like a limited hangout but not to pacify people but to cause them to make claims that can’t be proven from the emails. Like you said, if you wouldn’t already know that they were pimping underage girls, you wouldn’t start thinking so from the pizza emails. Similar with stuff like “loved the torture vid”, there’s a ton of normal explanations for things like that (e.g. he got sent a video of a friend doing the ice bucket challenge), but it sounds ominous.

alright, i actually went to the epstein files website and looked into the "pizza" thing. 

for said thought experiment, let me just take what i already have for this month and expand it. keep in mind, this doesn't include what any of those people might be talking about with anyone else, it would be just contained within this circle of people.

so we'll say that to get to 18 people, it's 6*3 so instead of 15 messages in a month it would be 45.

45*12 is already 540 mentions of pizza in a year. just one year. push that out to ten years. 5,400 mentions of pizza is what that would look like for me. granted, maybe i like pizza more than the average individual. it's my favorite food and i tend to go for it first for get togethers and stuff. we make a frozen pizza here every two weeks or so. you know. but still, you get what i'm trying to say.

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alright, i actually went to the epstein files website and looked into the "pizza" thing. 

yeah, no... i really don't think they were using "pizza" to refer to kids they were diddling. at the very least least, the vast majority of the time they weren't. in order to believe that, you have to go through so many leaps in logic. you have to BELIEVE that's what they are doing instead of basing your beliefs on what is actually going on.

there are 911 mentions of the word "pizza" right? well, i'm not going to get autistic enough to actually go through all 911 mentions and sort them or anything like that, maybe if i had a lot more free time. it would be really interesting, but i just can't bring myself to do it.

what i can tell you though are a few really important things to keep in mind:

1) there are legitimate pizza establishments mentioned, even major chains like papa john's. even fucking fat cats was in there.

2) a lot of the mentions are duplicates. again, people seem to not understand how emails work. one file in particular has tons of emails back and forth copied a bunch of times and they mention pizza a lot. this is also why i don't really want to go through everything, because even several pages deep there were so many damn duplicates.

3) a really good chunk of these are not actually being sent to or from epstein at all. people are saying shit like "i've never seen a picture of epstein eating pizza" but really, pretty much every link i clicked on didn't have epstein's name there at all. in fact, there were A LOT of names.

here's an interesting thought experiment. take, i don't know, twenty of your friends and/or family members and pull all of their texts, emails, everything from a ten year period in time. how often do you think the topic of pizza would come up? probably a shit ton. pizza is a really common food, especially for parties and get togethers. i have 15 mentions of pizza in my text messages from the last month, and that's between me and like 6 other people.

evil people are evil. absolutely. but they are not fucking marvel villains. let's focus on the actual verifiable shit and act on that instead of endlessly going around in conspiracy circles with shit that probably doesn't exist, because that's insanely reductive.

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