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The part that doesn't add together for me is when they mention how Shamji almost certainly knew of Zac's real surname and accent. Shamji brushes it off saying that Zac's dad told him to use a different surname, but that doesn't explain the accent part.

Shamji also doesn't have interest in Zac's 'family money'. Or, at least, there's no documented action he takes which would indicate any interest.

Shamji seems interested in leveraging Zac's actual family contacts to fleece them in typical, above board, business-type scams. Or at least he has Zac set up meetings so that they can potentially identify a mark together.

Sharma seems to genuinely believe the tale about Zac's background, even after Zac jumps, as evidenced by the call with the chauffeur. Sharma seems to think Zac is (or could be) alive the next day, as evidenced by sending the chauffeur at all. Sharma also knows the address to Zac's parents' house while still believing that his mom is in Dubai.

>At 10:35 p.m., Shamji texted a friend of his named Mervin Sealy, sounding agitated. “I have just been heating up knives and clearing up blood,” he wrote. A few minutes later, he followed up with a voice message to Mervin: “I’m not fucking around, ni---r, come to fucking Pimlico and pick up this fucking car and drop me home, bro.” He added, “Shit’s about to go wrong. Wrong!”

This message is weird for a few reasons. 1, it potentially shows that the situation was heated well before Shamji and Dominique left the apartment. 2, I have no earthly idea what 'heating up knives' means in this context. 3, he sends this text just an hour and a half after they arrive at the apartment. So an hour and a half after arrival Shamji feels the need to frantically text and leave a voice message for someone to come get him out of the apartment and drive him home using his own car. Shamji doesn't, at this point, feel like he can drive himself home and Dominique is either unable or unwilling to do this either. If he's drunk and 'heatin up knives and clearing up' is some kind of slang for trying to sober up, then why can't Zac drive him home? Why can't Dominique? Why can't he just call an Uber? For whatever reason he wants to get out of there and make sure his car isn't left at the scene.

>“Mr. Shamji is then seen to look over the river wall in directly the spot that Zac has fallen into.” The wall is about four feet high, and Shamji cranes his torso over it, peering down into the water. Then he straightens, returns to his Mercedes, and drives away.

Shamji presumably sees the body and makes no calls or texts to Sharma. Sharma wakes up the next morning thinking that Zac is/might be alive and sends a goon to go find him. _Somehow_ he knows to send the goon to look for Zac at his parents' house without knowing that it's his parents who live there.

>“I’m thinking fuck this little kid,” Sharma messaged Shamji on the morning of November 28, 2019—Zac’s final day.

Whatever happened that night, it does not seem like a 'spur of the moment, Zac said something that seemed suspicious/off' scenario.

> Prices increase when costs go up

I'd contend that costs going up is _a_ cause of price increases.

The reason a soda costs more from a movie theater than a supermarket is not because a soda costs more to make in the movie theater, for instance.

Yes, the parent comment is describing M2. Do you have any rationale for why you believe it is a large factor in general price levels?

> I want the pendulum to swing the other way. Everybody gets and gets to keep forever an account at the Reserve Bank.

I believe this would result in more instances of funds being frozen when under the suspicion of doing something/being associated with someone doing something illegal.

Just as Social Security was promised to never be used as a national ID, but was ultimately used as an identification mechanism[1], accounts with the Federal Reserve would be sold as a way to have a permanent bank account, but would ultimately be used as a way of implementing financial ruin upon those who choose non-compliance.

Conversely, I also believe crypto serves the same end. There is nothing a financial regulatory body would enjoy more than having every transaction take place on a publicly auditable ledger.

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/26/weekinreview/the-nation-n...

Oh, I may have missed the nuance there, thank you!

I very much am against the corruption we witness so blatantly. Personally I thought that if wealthy people were elected to office we may be able to eliminate some of that, but it seems as though if anything they are just better at it.

The notion that wealth prior to politics might deter in-office enrichment is understandable, but the reality is a bit more complex.

Wealth doesn't inherently negate the potential for conflicts of interest or policy biases that could benefit a politician's own financial interests. After all, the same drive that helps individuals amass their fortunes—ambition, competitiveness—doesn't just switch off once they're in a position of public power. And personal integrity isn't tied to one's bank account balance; it's about character and the robustness of political and legal accountability systems.

So, regardless of whether someone is wealthy before politics, without strong ethical standards and transparent oversight, the risk of using political office for personal gain remains.

It is quite literally the subject of the article you are commenting on.

It is confirmed they have lied under oath to Congress about the very thing Snowden blew the whistle on.

So yes, they are perfectly acceptable sources of information regarding Snowden.

"My friend who worked directly on this told me about it, so I don't understand how everyone else didn't already know about it."

If someone shoots me in the foot I don't need to understand the mechanics of a gun to get upset about it.

>The military bought the hammer, Kelman explained, bundled into one bulk purchase of many different spare parts. But when the contractors allocated their engineering expenses among the individual spare parts on the list-a bookkeeping exercise that had no effect on the price the Pentagon paid overall-they simply treated every item the same. So the hammer, originally $15, picked up the same amount of research and development overhead-$420-as each of the highly technical components, recalled retired procurement official LeRoy Haugh. (Later news stories inflated the $435 figure to $600.)

"we didn't ACTUALLY spend that much on a hammer, we just averaged it out across a bulk purchase! See, we aren't terrible with money."

Framing something as 'the myth of the $600 hammer' is implicitly pointing to external sources (congress, journalists) and messaging that they 'invented a myth' that the military spent $600 on a hammer. They didn't invent anything. They worked with the information that was provided to them by the military.

If you wanted to discuss the same issue, but under a framing that wasn't disingenuous, you could title it something like 'the reality of abysmal and misleading accounting throughout the military and their contractors'.

>Again, if you don't like it, don't buy it.

Obviously? I'm not searching for a personal shopping solution in this thread; I would hope it's obvious that I'm not going to buy this pair of headphones.

>The more you rant, the harder they will make it for next time.

I think, and this one might just be a wild and crazy idea, next time they can not deliberately break their product line to sell at a lower cost.

My hope when I buy a product is that the company is selling me the best product they can at a particular price point. I don't mind the company making a profit. In fact, I want them to! I just don't appreciate the expectation that I need to break apart every product to determine if they are intentionally sabatouging their product line.

> Temporarily complying then reverting the censorship in 2021 then suing the Indian gov in 2022 is not "capitulation".

Capitulation is the cessation of resistance. It does not stipulate perpetuity. A person/entity can capitulate and then at a later point change their mind. This does not mean they never capitulated.

>Only recently did Twitter stop fighting back

Complying with censorship is not what I consider fighting back. Once you have aided the government in censorship at the moment when dissidents have the opportunity to create change, the damage is done.

>and Musk just announced it - it wasn't something hidden.

I did not state or imply that "it" was hidden.

1. I didn't state that it was. I was replying to the individual who made the claim "There were cases of "report received and acted on", but no proof of "action forced even though employee disagreed".". The censoring of Indian farmers is the clearest example of this claim being false.

2. It is also bad when Elon Musk does it.

I am not interested in any back and forth of "well ackshually now its this percentage worse", I only have a desire for it to stop entirely.

Jack Dorsey has publicly stated he capitulated to the Indian government to censor around the Farmers protests because the Indian government was raiding employees homes and threatening to shut down service in the country. [1]

1. https://time.com/6286814/india-twitter-jack-dorsey-clash/

But they are selling the premium tier for $150. It's the same set of headphones.

It would be as if Apple sold you one computer for $1,000, but the exact same computer in a different case for $2,000, with the only difference being they put a bunch of malware on the first one so it runs slower.

That's not "re-use design and manufacturing processes for multiple segments", it's intentionally breaking half the product line to sell at a lower price.

Then sell them snacks.

I'm struggling to identify how it's not glaringly self-evident that the person you're replying to would not enjoy sitting next to people at bars.

I'm not sure if you read the link you posted but I would consider the following wrongdoings:

>The leaked cables revealed that diplomats of the U.S. and Britain eavesdropped on Secretary General Kofi Annan in the weeks before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, in apparent violation of international treaties prohibiting spying at the UN.[27][28] The intelligence information the diplomats were ordered to gather included biometric information, passwords, and personal encryption keys used in private and commercial networks for official communications.[28][29] It also included Internet and intranet usernames, e-mail addresses, web site URLs useful for identification, credit card numbers, frequent flier account numbers, and work schedules.[28][30][31] The targeted human intelligence was requested in a process known as the National Humint Collection Directive, and was aimed at foreign diplomats of US allies as well.[31] WikiLeaks released the cable on 28 November 2010.

Julian Assange is thrilled we live in such a free and open society where revealing the wrongdoings of government is protected.

I think it's reasonable to assume one's "role in society" can extend beyond their economic utilization.

Also elevenlabs ai started as an offshoot of the MLP voice generation threads.

> They don't have to discredit them, the Feds are doing that.

The Fed == the Wall Street banks. The Wall Street banks are the overwhelming shareholders of the Fed.

I can't vouch for the validity of the statistic you mention, as you didn't source it.

However, I can provide with 100% certainty that I would prefer being paid 1 trillion dollars an hour instead of my current wage. In fact, I would prefer being paid every dollar amount between my current wage and 1 trillion dollars an hour.

Labor preference does not dictate market conditions. Labor preference has an especially low impact in circumstances where the compensation is low and competition for good paying jobs is fierce. It is wrong to state that if a serious majority of ride-share drivers wanted employment Uber and Lyft wouldn't exist.

Sure it would be called those things and then nothing would come of it. If a country uses morally compromised methods to win a war history just calls it winning the war.

Imagine writing this unhinged mental fanfiction for every news article you read.

Headline: Man Steals Car

"Well, if I fancied myself a racewar enthusiast of course I would _say_ it was for money but it would obviously be in support of creating chaos and undermining the government institutions to allow for our brothers to rise against".

They weren't executed.

> Ross Ulbricht built his empire, in large part, by profiting off people's suffering.

He built Silk Road, which allowed people to sell drugs to one another.

If the 'people's suffering' you are referencing is the use of drugs, I hope you have this same ire for the pharmaceutical companies and physicians prescribing opioids linked to over 500k deaths in the US over the past two decades[1]. I hope you feel the same ire for the CIA who facilitated and supported the Nicaraguan Contra groups' smuggling of crack into the US to finance their coup attempt[2].

I would hope the "nothing short of evil" rhetoric isn't exclusively saved for the kid who built an onion site and then was entrapped by FBI agents into a murder-for-hire scheme of their creation.

[1]https://www.npr.org/2022/11/02/1133523740/cvs-health-agrees-... [2]https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB113/north06.pdf

Taleb is another in a long line of people who have accomplished very little outside of selling themselves as a person who Really Understands The WorldTM.

His central thesis that models can't account for everything is............................painfully obvious. He's Malcolm Gladwell if Malcom Gladwell's selling point was that he predicted that, during obvious market bubbles, those bubbles would pop.

Considering this is based off Forbes list, and Forbes has Peter Thiel's net worth at ~1\5th the amount that's confirmed to be in his backdoor IRA, I doubt the accuracy.