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On Thu, 19 Feb 2026 15:59:04 -0800, Dude wrote:
>On 2/19/2026 11:39 AM, Tara wrote:
>> On Feb 19, 2026 at 1:25:31?PM EST, "Dude" wrote:
>>
>>> On 2/19/2026 7:09 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 18 Feb 2026 22:43:06 -0800, Dude wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 2/18/2026 9:07 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
>>>>>> On Wed, 18 Feb 2026 19:24:33 -0800, Dude wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 2/18/2026 5:30 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Wed, 18 Feb 2026 23:21:23 +0000, Julian
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On 18/02/2026 20:56, Dude wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On 2/18/2026 10:56 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> On Wed, 18 Feb 2026 10:10:59 -0800, Dude
wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/18/2026 8:27 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Wed, 18 Feb 2026 15:48:49 -0000 (UTC), Tara
>>>>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Feb 18, 2026 at 10:34:49?AM EST, "Noah Sombrero"
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Wed, 18 Feb 2026 15:07:27 +0000, Julian
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Twitter ? or X if you must ? is essential for bypassing
traditional
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> institutions
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> At the time of writing, the British Government is apparently
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> preparing
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> legislation that many expect will lead to Twitter, formally
known as
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ?X?, being blocked. Officially this is because the platform?s
in-
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> built
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> AI language model allows users to manipulate images of third
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> parties so
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> it appears that they are wearing nothing but lingerie. Yet
critics,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> including the US government, regard it as a thinly-disguised
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> attempt to
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> censor a primary forum of opposition. Either way, millions of
people
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> across the country are now faced with the horrifying ? and,
for
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> many,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> unprecedented ? prospect of actually having to do their jobs
in
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> order to
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> stave off boredom.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Stave off boredom. There is something to that. Naked people
always
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> were a tititlation.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> everything will be abused (or used) in some way if given enough
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> freedom. I use
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> X to (once in a while) read what people I am interested in say
what
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> they have
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> to say. And I've never seen a naked person on X. Maybe because
I'm not
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> interested in seeing a naked person on X.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Understood. You are discerning. Many others are not. And it
is the
>>>>>>>>>>>>> others that drive the enterprise.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> And, you would know this how?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> The whole thing falls apart for me when I consider that there is
no
>>>>>>>>>>>>> truth requirement, and no way for you or even x to really know
that
>>>>>>>>>>>>> people are who they say they are. Why leave yourself open to
that?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Why would their name matter? You appropriated your handle
impersonating
>>>>>>>>>>>> an immigrant guy nodding off under a snow bank. LOL
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Actually there is a story behind that. It relates to a time in the
>>>>>>>>>>> late 80's/early 90's when I ran a BBS. I called it Noah's Kitchen
and
>>>>>>>>>>> I was the sysop, noah sombrero. Noah's kitchen had to be a magical
>>>>>>>>>>> place because it was where all of god's creatures got fed without
>>>>>>>>>>> consuming any.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Do you imagine that important, interesting people are busy?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Get real. These people get paid to post their views online.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> And these important, intelligent people are short of cash? Can't
>>>>>>>>>>> think of any better way to pick up a few bucks?
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> More likely, they pay somebody else to do that. Or the accounts
are
>>>>>>>>>>> simply fake.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> That they might not get a lot out of spending time entertaining
us
>>>>>>>>>>>>> with their twits?>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Using X to see people naked requires a search, Senor.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Otherwise, you read your feed - your favorite tweeters. It's all
about
>>>>>>>>>>>> bias confirmation.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> How did you get so truthy? Not that you don't traffic in such
>>>>>>>>>>> confirmations.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> My guess is that all the writers at the NY Times, posting tweets on
X,
>>>>>>>>>> are on paid staff, or at lest getting paid for free lance work.
YMMV.
>>>>>>>>> The NYT maintains several X accounts and it's staff,
>>>>>>>>> like every other professional media organisation, have
>>>>>>>>> an account, being as an essential work tool, on expenses.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> And you think the nyt is giving away their news.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> All news should be free. Free because its yours.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I suspect they charge me to see it because they don't agree with you.
>>>>>>
>>>>> I suspect it's the opinion pieces you're paying for. The NYT probably
>>>>> gets most of their news from reading the new wire from AP.
>>>>
>>>> They have correspondents in most places. Never have I seen them
>>>> credit ap. International reputations don't come cheap.
>>>>
>>>> The big news this morning is former prince andrew has been arrested,
>>>> so says their london correspondent.
>>>>
>>> Apparently, Andrew was arrested for being a rude boy!
>>
>> He was arrested for misconduct due to a breach of confidentiality during his
>> position as the UK's Special Representative for International Trade and
>> Investment from 2001 until July 2011.
>>
>> "The latest files released by the US Department of Justice appear to show
the
>> former prince forwarded sensitive government documents and commercial
>> information to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein."
>> -BBC
> >
>The question is, did they just not have appropriate evidence before the
>Epstein files were partially released?
Yizzit that indictments could not be brought before public release? I
imagine, for one thing, the uk govt did not know about that before
release. Although, they certainly could have, ynot?
--
Noah Sombrero mustachioed villain
Don't get political with me young man
or I'll tie you to a railroad track and
<<>> to <<>>
Who dares to talk to El Sombrero?
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