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.
@lain Why do you think so? Basically my reasoning is: since pronunciation of words has barely any correlation with kanji and the meanings of radicals don't give much hints towards meaning of the kanji either, there isn't much reason to learn them (and radicals) first instead of learning them naturally through noticing pattern in learned words or looking them up when reading.
(also words with grade 1 kanji are mostly just the lone kanji anyway)
@lain basically yeah, I'm learning words with kanji, not kanji by themselves.
I'm using https://sottaku.app for the flashcards since it has nicely organized presets. Once I get grade 1 kanji down, maybe N5 if grade 1 isn't enough, I'm gonna do just reading and sentence mining. I never did contextless memorizing in anything.
@lain Since I'm crippled, I'm not learning the strokes, because I would be going at max speed at about 0.5 kanji per day.
But yep, once you learn enough you will start seeing the similarities.
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