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The last question for Edge has turned out to be, “when do people realize we are funded by Jeffrey Epstein?”

I don't understand the downvotes. Whenever you find out that an institution you interact with was used to enable a child prostitution scheme, it should cause a moment of reflection, not a reflexive downvote.

Citation needed

I'm becoming increasingly unhappy with reflexive downvotes. There must be a reason people react like this.

Maybe it's an instinct against making waves, or disturbing the image of a respected institution.

I'm not happy when respected institutions are treated almost as if criticizing them would be improper.

Criticism is the most counter intuitive kindness.

Do these questions have explanations? Almost none of them sound to me like plausible "last questions" so I'd like to know what the askers were thinking.

The last question... first thing that came to my mind: "How long until..."

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