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New comment by durnygbur in "Lawsuit alleges Epstein victims were paid from JPMorgan accounts"

durnygbur — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 14:55:53 +0000

as in "demeaning work"

New comment by durnygbur in "Lawsuit alleges Epstein victims were paid from JPMorgan accounts"

durnygbur — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 14:33:47 +0000

If by careers you mean simply making a living... there are very few truly success stories. If your friends were successful in the privatization during the 90s, or in public sector, or fossil fuel related... that's why the rest of the society had to "whore" themselves abroad. Let me guess what they do at most - outsourcing for German of American corporations, maybe some software for gambling?

New comment by durnygbur in "Lawsuit alleges Epstein victims were paid from JPMorgan accounts"

durnygbur — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 13:20:05 +0000

Somehow from the tone of both of you I feel you both assume that a woman around 20 can be only a victim and never a pimp or a recruiter.

New comment by durnygbur in "Lawsuit alleges Epstein victims were paid from JPMorgan accounts"

durnygbur — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 12:18:38 +0000

a whore, a pimp, a victim, sex worker, primadonna ... I believe an adequate investigation is ongoing and we will know who's who, right?

New comment by durnygbur in "Lawsuit alleges Epstein victims were paid from JPMorgan accounts"

durnygbur — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 08:58:29 +0000

Some of them were recruiters so not victims at all. The recruitment was done by deception and lying. 18-19 years old is an adult and still a teenager. The urge to show up back home was massive, many women were ready to take life shortcuts, ready for many sacrifices. Arrangements like this are not 1-3 masterminds and then remaining being exclusively victims, cash in solid currency fills the holes in conscience very well.

New comment by durnygbur in "Frankfurt rail work damaged fibre, causes global Lufthansa check-in system fault"

durnygbur — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 18:55:29 +0000

Except when you rent and the landlord says "Internet is internet, why do you need different one?" then a next desperate tenant will rent whatever there is.

New comment by durnygbur in "EU sues Member States who refuse to bring in new copyright rules"

durnygbur — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 18:01:17 +0000

Germans coming both with the disease and a pinch of a cure. What's the role of German publishers and media companies in lobbying for the new rules? Had their activists been so special, they'd keep their copyright lobbyists chained and gagged somewhere domestically.

New comment by durnygbur in "EU sues Member States who refuse to bring in new copyright rules"

durnygbur — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 17:30:52 +0000

I presume countries like Finland and Denmark somehow oppose these rules, while countries like Bulgaria and Poland don't know what they are doing and slacked on the topics in this particular domain.

New comment by durnygbur in "EU sues Member States who refuse to bring in new copyright rules"

durnygbur — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 17:29:04 +0000

Copyright reforms pushed by American and German copyright bullies, lobbyists, predators, and stalkers. The days of your entertainment and content will come to an end. Unfortunately the bullies will likely remain unpunished.

New comment by durnygbur in "Swiss to vote on preventing cashless society, pressure group says"

durnygbur — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 15:47:17 +0000

So yeah it's the duopoly from my previous comment. When you buy a bloody apple in your nearby shop and pay with it, Americans are salivating.

New comment by durnygbur in "Swiss to vote on preventing cashless society, pressure group says"

durnygbur — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 15:39:28 +0000

My favourite were videos of horse police in Hague/Netherlands wading through people like 17th century cavalry. Looked reasonable enough.

New comment by durnygbur in "Frankfurt rail work damaged fibre, causes global Lufthansa check-in system fault"

durnygbur — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 14:09:31 +0000

Why don't they communicate over DSL like most German households? Maybe 6Mbps but it's a sicher 6Mbps.

New comment by durnygbur in "Swiss to vote on preventing cashless society, pressure group says"

durnygbur — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 12:15:14 +0000

War costs money. Civilians will be cut off from money and pushed down by security services and "law" enforcement, rewarded with privileges and confiscated money. So obvious, such a cliché, and works flawlessly every time ad infinitum.

New comment by durnygbur in "Swiss to vote on preventing cashless society, pressure group says"

durnygbur — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 12:07:34 +0000

Can you pay with your bank's app in a neighbour country? Does it simply boil down to a virtual Visa/Mastercard card?

New comment by durnygbur in "Swiss to vote on preventing cashless society, pressure group says"

durnygbur — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 11:04:02 +0000

It's more a problem why European countries gave up to American Visa/Mastercard duopoly for cards, where the alternative is... Google Pay/Apple Pay duopoly for mobile. Their only answer are miserable local debit/ATM card systems working only in individual European countries, or superfrauds like Wirecard.

New comment by durnygbur in "Swiss to vote on preventing cashless society, pressure group says"

durnygbur — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 10:14:20 +0000

During covid for a moment red/green status in a mobile app was determining basic civil freedoms and freedom of movement of an individual. This is the future if we go cashless. If things start going wrong, it takes few days for tyranny to creep in. Most people are ecstatic when given authority to control others and to toggle their rights.

New comment by durnygbur in "Data brokers are now selling your mental health status"

durnygbur — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 11:16:14 +0000

The budgets and incentives are all wrong. We have to do something which will make ad and profiling zombies stay in bed every morning and look at the ceiling, instead of leaving the bed and starting their workday.

New comment by durnygbur in "In 2023, advertising budgets for cryptocurrency brands shrank to almost nothing"

durnygbur — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 09:48:49 +0000

How much to install a billboard on the wall of your building? Simply give a number.

New comment by durnygbur in "The New York City kosher meat boycott of 1902"

durnygbur — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 06:43:17 +0000

Kosher, halal, whatever. Have middle eastern people heard about hygiene and freshness of meat? I don't need food with your voodo.

New comment by durnygbur in "Plant remains from a 15th century royal shipwreck in the Baltic Sea"

durnygbur — Sun, 12 Feb 2023 21:17:07 +0000

> Hembane is useful in dying and medicine and as a hallucinogen. Which purpose did it fill?

For consolidation of power. I guess most historical occurrences of "insanity" were simply attempts of elimination by deliberate poisonings.