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fauxgnaws 4 points ago +4 / -0

The sole source of the allegation is serial criminal liar.

The story is that while running for office Gaetz met this scammer who right away got him to have sex with a 17-year old with a fake ID. Then four years later when scammer tried to extort Gaetz the first thing he did was go on air and name the scammer and tell everything he knew about it. The scammer was then convicted for a separate case where he made fake sex abuse allegations against a rival, and the Gaetz allegations were investigated and the case dropped.

After all that Gaetz was re-elected to the House.

There's near-zero chance he slept with this girl or that it would end his political career. Maybe he was always red meat or resigned because he really thought he would be AG, but something else is afoot.

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fauxgnaws 2 points ago +2 / -0

Even Rumble with it's advantages of being new and designed for it from the ground up, more limited upload limits, and not having a long tail loses twice as much as they bring in.

Youtube does make Google many billions now according to their reports.

But only because of leveraging Google's monopoly position in ads and taking 30% of superchats. Anybody buying youtube wouldn't have monopoly advantage and they'd sink like a rock.

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fauxgnaws 0 points ago +1 / -1

I wish Warner would make Steam crack down on TF2 bots and bring sprays back.

Also make Left 4 Dead 3d in VR.

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fauxgnaws 1 point ago +1 / -0

I found one source for that but it doesn't make much sense, as then the song is sung by the woman. Doesn't seem likely given the time period.

Wikipedia (ugh) and others I found say the low road is death, which is how I've always heard it. Graves being underground and all. Also "low" isn't an old english word and comes originally from words meaning flat or to lie down - like when you're dead.

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fauxgnaws 3 points ago +3 / -0

I think the intent not to take office next term is just advisory, like go ahead and scramble to hold a special election and get somebody in there to start the Jan 3 term in case of important votes early on.

But if Gaetz is going to be in 2025 Congress after all they won't hold an election for somebody to serve a few days in a recessed Congress.

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fauxgnaws 1 point ago +1 / -0

You're a useful idiot, doing the bidding of Israel and you don't even know it.

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fauxgnaws 1 point ago +1 / -0

Actually they rejected his appeal because saying "maybe I should talk to a lawyer" isn't invoking your right to a lawyer so when he said "why don't you just give me a lawyer dog" it was the "why don't you just" that was the reason they denied his appeal and quoting "lawyer dog" was just them mocking the defendant.

But, yeah, don't try to be cute when asking for your lawyer. Ask for a lawyer and just keep asking if they don't stop.

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fauxgnaws 3 points ago +3 / -0

That's why in Who Wants To Be A Millionaire if you're unsure you should always change your answer after the 50/50.

Your first choice is 1/4 chance to be right, but if the 50/50 eliminates two of the other choices the remaining one is 3/4 chance to be right.

/s

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fauxgnaws 28 points ago +28 / -0

Even as a witness, say you're in the subway car and you're afraid for your life and you tell the police you said "somebody stop him!". Did you incite murder? Who knows.

It's a shame, but there's so many things that are technically illegal it's impossible to know if you're implicating yourself even if you're just a witness and not even involved.

We really need some repercussions for these out of control prosecutions. Juries or judges or somebody should be able to reach a verdict that the prosecutor be fired because the case is total bullshit.

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fauxgnaws 0 points ago +1 / -1

Ok well in that phrasing of the problem you're right, the show has put the goat/car behind the doors ahead of time.

I don't know that's how it works on the Price Is Right or other actual game show. I would assume so, but they could set it up differently for the reasons I mentioned.

edit: although that still doesn't mean you should switch doors - that relies on the assumption that the host always opens another door (not stated in the problem) and didn't just offer you the choice (like "is that your final answer?" in Who Wants To Be A Millionaire) because he knows you picked the car.

You can see this in Savant's second follow-up article where she says "remembering that the original answer defines certain conditions, the most significant of which is that the host always opens a losing door on purpose". This is certainly not defined in the original question, which is entirely phrased about a single event and says nothing about "always". Instead of writing how she was right based on her assumptions, and they right with their assumptions, she's retconning the problem definition so only she's right.

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fauxgnaws 0 points ago +1 / -1

You're saying your assumption is a fundamental rule... really? The insightful thing here is don't confuse assumptions with rules.

It's an entertainment show that's giving away free cars for advertisement. If they give contestants 50/50 they lower their prize payout, or if they give 2/3 odds maybe they get more audience investment. Maybe it's more work for them to keep giving out goats than cars because they have to train them to be calm on set. I have no idea how game shows prioritize these things.

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fauxgnaws 58 points ago +58 / -0

This is why you don't talk to the police. He didn't know the guy had died, but they did.

They've got good cop and bad cop to manipulate him, they got him admitting he's a trained killer in the marines, that he never saw him actually touch anybody, they almost got him to admit it was a rear naked choke hold.

And this guy did absolutely nothing wrong except for this. The only thing he did wrong was not say "lawyer" and right away.

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fauxgnaws 1 point ago +1 / -0

Also avoid Star Wars now, but sometimes bias makes you miss something good.

Like Andor season 1 was pretty good. A little slow, but reminiscent of the original three.

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fauxgnaws 1 point ago +1 / -0

It's a game show. In what way does giving out free cars make sense other than as entertainment?

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fauxgnaws 1 point ago +2 / -1

It doesn't have to be 'fake and gay'.

Typically in regulated gambling, like with slots, they tell you your odds of winning. Slot machine doesn't know what the roll will be before you roll it.

Same principle. The game show may give all contestants a 50/50 chance of winning regardless of what doors they pick.

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fauxgnaws -1 points ago +2 / -3

The odds only change if what's behind the doors are fixed ahead of time.

If the host chooses a door, the game show rolls 1 out of ndoors chance of car behind it, and then puts the car or goat behind it before opening it then the odds don't change at all even if the host didn't know.

Switching your choice is the classical hidden-information answer, staying with your first choice is the quantum changes when-observed answer.

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fauxgnaws 1 point ago +2 / -1

Or that the car and goat are already behind a door. There may be nothing behind any of the doors until you choose; they're always wheeling stuff around behind the scenes in game shows.

The answer in the original Parade magazine column way back relied on assumptions not stated in the description, and the smart people coming up with the 'wrong' answer just had different assumptions.

The author of the column went by a pretentious "vos Savant" assumed name and lied about her credentials; she claimed to be in the Guinness Book as highest IQ, but was never the record holder at the time of publication and the one year she was listed was for a test taken when she was like 3 years old. The whole column was a sham.

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fauxgnaws -7 points ago +2 / -9

They didn't stop Gaetz from being in the House even though he's anti-zionist, he crowd funded his campaigns instead of taking banker money. They couldn't keep (((Eric Cantor))) as Majority Leader.

You're just furthering their agenda by saying they're oh so powerful.

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fauxgnaws -10 points ago +1 / -11

The exact same things were said before, but in German. Turned out in the end all those bankers and wealthy elite didn't have much say after all.

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fauxgnaws 16 points ago +21 / -5

I think it's highly visible as more of a bogeyman - it's real power comes from everybody being afraid of them.

"Don't say anything bad about 'Israel' because AIPAC will come in the night and eat your babies". That fear keeps people talking in a whisper.

AIPAC is so visible to pounce on even the slightest dissent so it's never loud enough to start an avalanche, but the reality is that's not power that's weakness; they know we could cast them out at any time if we make enough noise and they're terrified of it.

edit: as if to prove the point, an 'oh no AIPAC so scary be very afwaid' comment with no response to major failures of theirs. This is their real power, getting the johnny's to insist they are oh so powerful. He doesn't even know he's part of their plan.

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fauxgnaws 2 points ago +4 / -2

Ozempic lowers your weight while increasing the number of fat cells you have. You end up with more, smaller fat cells.

Which presumably will be screaming "feed me Seymour" whenever you stop taking it, because that's what fat cells do. Fat cells that lose fat tell the body "hey, running out fat here!".

Cannibalism about to skyrocket as people not able to afford more Ozempic eat the first thing they see.

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fauxgnaws 6 points ago +6 / -0

They'll call him "Former President Trump", referring to his 45 term.

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fauxgnaws 1 point ago +1 / -0

Were you considered on the right back then? Because that was certainly the impression lefties had of the right twenty years ago.

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