• Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca
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    I’m reminded of a quote from the great Mel Brooks’ film Dracula: Dead and Loving It starring the magnificent Leslie Nielsen.

    Dr. Van Helsing: My friends, we are fortunate! He’s an imbecile!

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      18 hours ago

      For now… I fear the day a competent Government tries its hand at the corruption game.

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        They already did. It’s why you didn’t hear about Operation Northwoods for 50 years and also why Wikileaks came into prominence. Also why, even after everything this year, we still don’t know who all of Epstein’s co-conspirators were, and probably never will.

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      “I just got called on by the teacher but was fantasizing about the lunch lady instead of paying attention” face

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            Honestly I have no idea what a man like Patel would fantasize about, but I’m sure it would horrify me.

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          No, we didn’t. But, about a year after I graduated, I was delivering pizzas and ended up seeing the lunch ladies, the janitor, and a couple bus drivers smoking weed, drinking beers, and playing D&D on a Saturday. It was evening and it looked like they had been going at it all day. So, they may not have been hot but they were way cooler than I gave them credit for in high school.

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      Yeah, some of it was banks that paid off the victims, which is weird too. I don’t have faith in the journalists to look into it, but I really hope someone does.

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        Allison Gill on Daily Beans is t going to drop it.

        She’s the one that broke the news that FBI teams had training videos on how to flag mentions of Trump in the Epstein files, as well as that Maxwell’s sex offender status has been waived so she can be in a low security facility (and is actually allowed to leave the facility similar to the original plea deal with Epstein.)

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    Yeah, I remember my first year, before I learned you need to uncheck a box to make sure the pdf can’t be unflattened…

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      I’m wondering if the flattened ones can still be bypassed with vector software. If the pdf’s don’t have security: open with illustrator or inkscape, delete black shapes, font get left behind as outlines, resave as pdf, OCR with acrobat. Hey presto… Searchable documents again.