celtoid

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Comment · 3 years ago
They forgot the /s after "sincerely".
Comment · 3 years ago
Jeez...why can't they launder their money through the Seychelles and Dominica like normal people do?
Comment · 3 years ago
Alt headline: Crazed military contractor teams up with public university to torture animals in the name of science.

"Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man." -Schopenhauer

Comment · 3 years ago
> 2. Assume good faith until iron-clad evidence to the contrary (X years later). Then after that, of course, in any new scenario keep assuming good faith because there has been no FOIA or release of declassified documents yet

A lot of Americans suffer from "lazy decency bias". It allows for the worst of humanity to regularly skate for some heinous actions.

Comment · 3 years ago
> "The CIA ~was~ clearly prepared to kill innocent American citizens."

Is.

Comment · 3 years ago
And most people can't be troubled to seek out the answers.
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Elon came from a very privileged background. Of late, he's been trying to spin his bio as as plucky guy with little money. His family was upper middle class. Poor little rich boy.
Comment · 3 years ago
Can't forget Elon.
Comment · 3 years ago
Sassaman was probably Satoshi. He and Finney worked together at PGP.
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Len's connection to Hal Finney, the first recipient of a Bitcoin transaction and a hell of a cryptographer in his own right, is quite the breadcrumb.

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