I live on the border, and when I moved here, I was surprised to see that the light was actually kind of sepia toned for real. The Northern Mexican dust really adds a visible tint sometimes. Don’t get me wrong, it isn’t as extreme as this picture unless there is a dust storm, but it is noticeable.

I’m glad to see that it wasn’t as severe as originally reported.

I agree that it’s unfortunate he’s not running, but smear campaign? Unless I missed something, I thought there was no dispute that a massive crime was being committed on his watch. In my opinion, it’s pretty negligent to not even check if there are kids in the childcare facilities that are getting funding. One inspection at funding renewal time would have been doable.

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U ok, bro?

It’s all good, friend. I, too, apologize if I misinterpreted your response.

Look at us—just two civil lemmings having a polite conversation. This really is the superior social media.

Generally speaking, I agree with you, but in this case, there is a massive amount of evidence in the released documents that suggests there is an international network supplying women to powerful people. Several of these people are still in office or hold aristocratic titles, and they will do damn near anything to hold on to those.

Let’s say it was basic incompetence that led the guards to fall asleep and the cameras to malfunction—how did Epstein know that was happening to act at the moment that he did?

You misunderstand me—I can see them being ok with torturing family members, but if the options are to either die by suicide or die by murder plus they demolish your empire, I think there’s a chance that they choose the former.

To protect the overall organization and potentially to protect other people in his life. My impression from looking at the documents is that this is a very large international network. I imagine there would be consequences for being caught, such as the torture and murder of everyone you hold dear. If your only options are to kill yourself or to get murdered and have everyone around you also tortured and killed, I could see a narcissist choosing the former option.

I don’t know anything for sure, but the released files definitely gave me the impression that Epstein was not the top of the chain. Rather, he seems like the American representative of an extensive global cabal. Somebody out there was putting together those sample albums of girls for him. Somebody was running the brothels he seemed to be visiting. He was getting calls from all over the globe with descriptions of new girls. It seems to go much deeper than just Ghislaine trolling the local middle schools for fresh meat.

So, if he did kill himself (heavy on the if), then I’d imagine it was partially because there is a scarier monster out there who is ready to take out the trash if anybody gets sloppy.

I’m willing to believe he killed himself to protect the organization, but someone on the outside created the conditions for him to do so. The idea that one of the most closely guarded prisoners in the country just happened to know exactly when the guards were negligent and when the cameras were malfunctioning is just absurd. He was given a window of opportunity by somebody, at the very least, or murdered at most.

I have no doubt that the contract required to enter an international sex trafficking organization also includes exit obligations if you are caught. There are a whole lot of dead people around this case, and the chance of it being a conspiracy is way higher than the chance of it being a coincidence at this point.

I searched EFTA0000 after realizing that those datasets had a lot of photos. Those documents say it all. Pictures of politicians mixed in with redacted CSAM. Clinton with a girl on his lap.

They’re all implicated. They all need to be held accountable.

I work for doctors. They literally can’t upsell because insurance won’t pay.

Your doctor makes a bullet pointed list of diagnosed conditions called medical codes. A licensed medical coder (whose license is dependent on accuracy) reviews the doctors codes and edits the bill to only charge for conditions that are within the scope of the specialty and justified by the data collected in the visit notes.

The bill is then passed to the insurance company who has their own medical coders who review the work of the previous medical coder. If they believe the bill is inaccurate, it is reviewed by another doctor who works for the insurance company. If the bill is determined to still be inaccurate, the insurance company refuses to pay and kicks the bill back to the practice.

If many bills are determined to be inaccurate, the medical practice is audited to see if there has been a pattern of upcharging or inaccurate coding.

This is the point where a multi-million dollar lawsuit can start, and the practice finds themselves in court to have a judge determine if they should be paid for their work. If they lose those lawsuits, they lose coverage from the whole insurance company, and that is how a practice goes bankrupt.

Don’t get me wrong—for profit healthcare can lead to problems, but believe it or not, the system is designed to keep things above board and make sure that people are charged accurately.

The real issue is that each insurance company has contracts with each network of practices to pay them a designated percentage of the overall bill as a deal to keep them in network, so healthcare costs are extremely high because the practice will only get a percentage of the billed cost as pursuant to the individual agreement with that insurance provider. If you have to pay out of pocket because you went out of network, you are eating a huge cost while an in practice provider would be getting much less money after it was processed by your insurance company.

The real mistake is looking like a cop in the first place. /s

Look up the most dangerous area in your town and talk to the guy who stands outside the liquor store. Voila! /s

As part of the normie brained section of Lemmy, I, too, do not wish to make eye contact with the sun.

Always wear a rubber. 🙄

Care to share a link?

Edit: never mind, I found the pictures. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/fq3vn18ltfd83re8ggtle/AHYB3CbERvyT38o_vHllVx4?rlkey=tz5pq4zr9i6nofkpi2g7l5vne&e=6&st=z46l8nor&dl=0

For what it’s worth, I interpreted your original comment as a joke, but then the doubling and tripling down made me think you were serious. Sometimes you should just let the original lol stand alone.

He is the grinch who mandated Christmas.