I didn't go to the gym a single day for November and December and it was heart-breaking when I started again in January how much I had set back. But slowly I got back to a good rate again.
A week ago someone asked why I was going to the gym that evening and I said, "Because it will make going tomorrow so much easier."
I’m cycled almost ever day for a few years them took a 6 week holiday where we walked 15-20k steps per day. I thought that I’d be ok when I got back on the bike.
I can't believe people aren't more upset about this.
AFAIK he hooked up with some adult Russian escorts. There as also a bridge player and I think she was an adult at the time. People know about the escorts because he asked for help getting STD drugs from Epstein. Had he put it in his wife's food as intended that could get him into serious trouble at the time. Not a lawyer but I think planning to do it but not doing it, the statutes of limitations would kick in but I'm certainly no expert on such things.
Adultery / extramarital sex is very common these days and I doubt most people would care. Had he put STD drugs in his wife's food might get a different reaction. In my opinion that is nothing compared to some of the things he is accused of doing to many people in Africa but that's a different topic all together and unrelated to Epstein.
> People know about the escorts because he asked for help getting STD drugs from Epstein.
Technically, this was something Epstein alleged in an email to himself, one that he never sent to Gates, but apparently contemplated sending, after Gates broke off their relationship. It does call into question how many escorts he had affairs with, though. He publicly only acknowledges two, one with a Russian bridge player (who took selfies with Ana Chapman (!)), and another with a Russian nuclear physicist: https://nypost.com/2026/02/25/us-news/inside-bill-gates-sord...
Technically, this was something Epstein alleged in an email to himself, one that he never sent to Gates, but apparently contemplated sending, after Gates broke off their relationship.
Thankyou for the correction. I forgot that was a draft from Jefferey.
Being a draft, it deprived Gates any opportunity to respond, so it's possible Epstein was playing "4D Chess" and planting defamatory disinfo in anticipation that his emails would be subpoenaed in some civil suit and leaked to the public, but that seems much less likely than Epstein boorishly bringing up an unpleasant episode that in fact did happen to use as emotional leverage over gates. (Epstein was known to be very pushy.)
It's also crazy to see a man like Bill Gates willingly compromise himself in this manner. Even setting aside the Epstein affiliation, did the Russian spy angle just not occur to him?
> Even setting aside the Epstein affiliation, did the Russian spy angle just not occur to him?
Ha, ha. Imagine a Russian women doing "something" to Gates and whispering in his ear: Can you tell me some undocumented Windows functions ?
Or asking him what else did he found in garbage cans (ah, sorry, recycle bins) at Xerox.
Belief, confession and hard evidence are distinctly different things. AFAIK the emails [released thus far] do not confirm any hanky-panky with under-age people. Have we found any pictures of him fornicating with those under the age of consent? Jeffery had video cameras in every room of every property so if that were a thing I would expect the feds to have it.
We're all under a bad star right now. There aren't many options, lots of people underemployed and many more completely unemployed. Competition is fierce. I don't have much to say, unfortunately, other than recognizing that it's hard and wishing the best for you.
And I don't want to add fuel to a strange fire, but in 1764 when Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote a letter to Beaumont regarding the absurdity of belief despite evidence, he used this as an example:
"If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete."
Now try copper, aluminum and more. I saw a clip from a conference that said for copper, at 3% GDP growth, the global demand in the next 18 years will exceed the last 10,000 years, but 80% of known reserves have already been mined.
It seems to me that development in the future is going to be constrained. Not to be dramatic but are we in the sort of happy pre-pandemic days not knowing the changes heading our way? Or am I being too dramatic?
Good news, that’s a tiny drop in the bucket compared to mining operations. Rocket payloads are measured in the metric tons; copper mining is measured in tens of millions of metric tons per year. It’s not even a rounding error, you’d have to launch hundreds of solid copper rockets a day to even make a dent.
An older ThinkPad is a great choice. Sometimes when a company goes out of business or upgrade, they dump a bunch of laptops and you can get used ThinkPads on the cheap.
sadly, on purpose
We need active journalism to watch out for our interests as citizens. What happens when it dies?