From what I have read, most of the swatters are tech savvy and tend to use all possible means to disguise themselves, so finding the real swatter is not necessarily easy. Some seem to have been caught, but those have usually been ones who keep doing it and have caused several incidents, which makes finding the patterns and in the end, them, easier. Plus of course will draw more attention to them.
Single time swatters, or ones who keep longer periods between their calls, are harder.
And most of them have also been younger, teenagers, at that point in their life when they tend to think they are invincible, so even occasional arrests of others is not necessarily going to deter others from doing the same. Because they are knowledgeable enough to know how to disguise themselves, and so think they are just too smart to get caught, period.
Hm. Looks like some of those types have actually been selling swatting calls online.
https://cybernews.com/security/us-swatting-epidemic-teen-arrest/
Presumably a lot of people in his circle who are mostly there because they have connections he needs.
In order to function and do his job he needs to also deal with people who do not think like he does, including people who may be actual enemies but who are perhaps willing to bend to some of his "deals" as long as they get something for themselves.
And connections seem to be something very, very important both to successful politicians and successful businessmen. A complicated and large web of connections so you can always reach somebody who knows somebody who can get you to somebody who can maybe get you what you need right now.
To be fair to the woman, she does say it as a joke.
Otherwise she sounds like a person who is perhaps more focused on the outer forms, perhaps to the point she may be ignoring the inner meaning. Maybe impressed more by something like "OOH, I WALKED ON THE GROUND JESUS WALKED ON!!!" than by what he taught.
Didn't he have cancer or something? So not going to keep the crown all that long, hopefully.
Is William any better? At least I don't think I have seen any news of him spouting woke ideas loudly.
The Brits really should give up on that whole "royalty" tradition already. But Diana's older son and his whole family do seem to be kind of popular, so I suppose they won't, not yet anyway.
Says what he thought would keep him in power or get him into power best? Gotta please the voters with at least something? He knows how to please his listeners, would back then do whatever getting into power and staying there for those two terms took. Please the liberals enough, don't scare the conservatives too much.
I suppose it is possible he, if he was the power behind Biden, might have allowed his side to go more overboard than he did just because it would no longer be connected to him. Although I suppose the real power may really be somewhere else, mostly invisible to us. In which case perhaps he just no longer truly cares what the liberals do, he got his, and is perhaps trusting that no matter what happens now his reputation will not be too tainted, and anyway he has got a nice retirement ahead.
Besides, considering how much a game of thrones that party seems to be, perhaps he is even liking the thought of them self-destroying, thinking that in the future he will be remembered as the last good Dem president.
Okay, makes more sense, however there is always the possibility that the opening was staged, but possibly just in the sense that they had gotten there earlier, had already opened the hatch before the journos got there, closed it again so that they would be able to get that "live on TV" version, but hadn't closed the hatch properly again before that. Always possible one or more of the women had, for example, not enjoyed the experience as much as they now claim but had gotten a bit hysterical, so they needed to calm her down before they were willing to do anything on film.
So, still not positive proof, but admittedly suggestive.
But, this is supposed to be "the public face of Q". If the point here is to wake up more people who still believe in the MSM etc you should be very careful before claiming anything as absolute proof for something. If it doesn't sound fully believable when looked at using common sense you lose them. If, even once, you are proven wrong, most of them will stop listening to you. Speculating is fine, raising doubts is fine, discussing something those ways is far less likely to drive anybody away, but claims like "absolute proof", often even just "proof" are risky.
Do you want to change minds, or just drive anybody who disagrees with you away so you can feel comfortable in your echo chamber?
Sorry, konadog, that last part is not really aimed at you. This place can sometimes be rather irritating, getting any actual conversation going can be almost impossible at times, you are just expected to either agree or disagree but nobody seems to be able to actually play with ideas, looking at them from more than a couple point of views.
Okay, that sounded kind of dumb.
That guy talks about "pressurized capsule" - duh, of course it's pressurized, if it was supposed to go into space it would still need to have air inside or the passengers would be dead. So, if there is a near vacuum outside, and air, at let's assume one atmosphere, inside, that air pressure will keep a hatch that opens to the inside closed tight, and you probably would not be able to open it from the inside then unless you bled the air, or most of it, out first, provided there is some way to do that.
But once the thing is back on ground surface the pressure inside and outside is the same, or close enough not to matter, and it should be quite easy to open it from the inside. In fact if the pressure inside was much higher than on the outside you still would not be able to open it from the outside either, at least not without using considerable force.
So the women opening it from the inside doesn't really prove anything at all, except that they were too impatient and possibly getting a bit claustrophobic, that is a rather small space for, was it six women? And they tried to get outside before it was scheduled, maybe Bezos and co were waiting for some journos or something.
And BTW, while I was not able to find what pressure is used inside that capsule, I gather that in most spaceflight these days they may use lower pressure than what we have on the sea level or near it because it reduces the chances of leaks, so after landing the pressure outside the capsule might even have been higher than inside, which of course would have made opening the hatch quite easy, no matter which side you did it from.
That would be nice.
What is irritating about the present situation that there are bound to be subversives or moles on both sides. Some we think are idiots or criminals or something similar may very well turn out to actually be on our sides, and having suffered for years because they needed to appear otherwise for whatever reason. Except if the tide fully turns some of the people who maybe then claim that actually weren't, and are just trying to ride that tide to a better position for themselves.
And same for the people we now think are fully on our side, some will be found out as having been moles. And there will always also be those who are, but will never be found out.
Well, that is, however, the main reason why I don't like fully judging anybody unless they are proven criminals, or there is a lot of proof out in the open you could judge them for - actual proof, not just guesses or allegations or "that looks like" assumptions - even if no official court has done that. I don't like the idea that I might end up judging somebody who maybe even turns out to be an actual hero, and somebody much better than I am, after all the facts finally come out.
I'm from the government, and I'm here to help?
I think I agree with Reagan, government should be kept out of our lives as much as possible. Sure some level of rule from it is necessary, including making sure that clever businessmen will not be able to take over the rule government maybe gives up, but still, maybe try to figure out some other ways to do that instead of giving all the power to some overarching institution that does attract people who like power for powers sake, not as a tool for helping others, as much as do banks and other more private institutions, if not more?
Wasn't that something she actually never said? I think she said that you can see Russia from some part of Alaska, which is true, never said anything about her porch, but then somebody made that porch version as a joke?
It is kind of interesting how strongly something like that can get stuck in the culture, and then hell of a lot of people will think it is even true. Useful if you figure how to use it, and until these days the left has actually been a bit better there. They may not be all that good when it comes to using memes, but they used to be able to be pretty funny once. Fortunately not so much anymore.
Even if Xi was, he is one man who does not have absolute control over his people, he, like all politicians, will have to take the opinions of both his rivals, his people in general, his allies who may have different opinions of several things and so on into consideration, and sometime that also means doing things, and allowing things to be done, he may actually oppose.
And yep, one man, big country, huge political machine running that country. Nobody is going to be able to know about everything that is happening there all the time.
And for him presumably China comes first anyway, so I'd guess it's going to be something like now he co-operates, now he doesn't, now you can't really tell if he is or isn't co-operating, even if he was some sort of an ally. And if there isn't that type of agreement between him and Trump, said or implied, it is going to be even more murky. They may have some shared enemies but that doesn't mean that they would always see eye to eye when it comes how to deal with those enemies. Not even if there actually was some sort of an alliance between them. And whether there is - who knows.
One part of the world Ancel Keys used in his study was eastern Finland. High fat diets, high levels of heart disease.
However, that is the same area of Finland that back then also used to have high incidence levels of goiter. Due to the fact that Finnish soil, especially on the eastern parts of the country, has hardly any iodine in it, so back when Keys did his study people in that area were mostly chronically deficient. And guess what, iodine deficiency is also connected to cardiovascular disease.
Maybe. But that was once thought of the Amazons - now it is thought that the story is probably based on Scythian nomads. Also, everybody knows about Troy, thought to be a myth until somebody went digging on the right spot. Underground cities were once thought to be a myth, until one was found in Turkey. Greek fire - we still don't know its formula, but now we know that it is possible to create something that burns even in water. Ancient flood myths seem to have some basis in fact, the Black Sea deluge may have happened only a bit more than 5000 years ago, and when the last glaciation ended sea levels everywhere did rise pretty fast.
If we ever find something that Atlantis story is maybe based on it is not going to be exactly what Platon told, but there may still be an "Atlantis" waiting to be discovered somewhere (unless it has already been discovered and the story is based on the Santorini eruption).
Whatever may be the truth about that particular myth, still the idea that there may very well have been way more advanced ancient civilizations that is currently accepted in official archeology is starting to look like a fairly likely thing. They probably didn't have technology on our level, no AIs or atomic bombs or spaceships or jet planes, but something a lot more advanced than primitive hunter gatherers is starting to look more and more likely. Earth can be a fairly dangerous and unpredictable place to live on when you are talking about longer time periods, so humans starting civilizations and learning more advanced technology only for all that to be destroyed again and again during hundreds of thousands of years seems quite possible. There would not be much left, and who knows how much is now under sea after that last rise of oceans when that last glaciation ended.
Because she was a lot more popular than her heir, and she didn't want him to sink the whole royalty thing. Now Diana's older son again seems to be fairly popular, so if the current king's reign is terminated before he does too much damage that family may be able to keep the crown for at least a generation or two longer.
What I would be interested to know is if the Windsors are the ones really in charge there - of their own part to start with, or how much real power over the country they may still have - or if they are the front for something else.
Sounds like he was either stupid, or criminal. The women were presented as "photo models" and "given to him as a gift". Now if they looked adult enough and he wasn't actually told that they were not willing participants in the deal he was stupid to accept that "gift", as presumably that is how criminal groups and everybody else can get blackmailing victims for themselves. Don't sleep with women you don't know, least of all women introduced to you by shady characters for just one night or other short time.
And if he was told, well, he is a criminal, although even then there is still the chance that he was mostly just stupid, maybe assuming that it was part of some type of kinky role play thing. So I suppose it is also possible he was both stupid and criminal, or ended up as a criminal because he was stupid. Not very flattering either way.
And if he was just dirty and knew exactly what was going on... too bad.
All alternatives, actually. He made crappy movies, but lately he has seemed sort of good sport about his whole career, somebody who could laugh at himself and tolerate being laughed at, so this is kind of sad to know, no matter what alternative it is.
Although I suppose there is also still the chance that it didn't happen, or if it did during some party he was drunk enough or under the influence of some other drug that he didn't get what was really happening particularly well. He was never a real movie star, but is very well known, and supposedly pretty rich. And that presumably would make him a tempting target for false allegations too, in hopes that they could squeeze some nice sum from him. This is ten years after the supposed fact, much harder for him to prove it didn't happen if it didn't, so it may be left to something like he said she said.
Maybe at least get there quietly, if it is something like a single house, and observe for a moment before starting to break doors. Maybe even call the number of the person who should live there, if it is possible to find that out, and see what the person answering sounds like, or if they do answer. Claim something like a neighbor calling about seeing something if it sounds like the person might be in some sort of distress, or not the right person.