Seven defendants – including former intelligence agents, soldiers and businessmen – face possible life sentences. Prosecutors allege the group carried out murder, attempted murder, aggravated assault and criminal conspiracy on behalf of a mafia network inside the Athanor lodge in the Paris suburb of Puteaux.

At least four Freemasons from the lodge’s roughly 20 members are among those in the dock. Other defendants include four officers from France’s DGSE foreign intelligence service, three police officers, six executives, a security guard, a doctor and an engineer. Most of the accused, whose ages range from 30 to 73, have no previous criminal record.

Statistically it appears that Freemasons are just as involved as French foreign intelligence and nearly as involved as the police. So this isn’t a story about revealing a crime by Freemasons but a dragnet that found people who work for the French government are about half of a nationwide conspiracy.

Nevermind the government employees who are okay with murder. Look at Freemasons! Whoever cooked up this cover is trying to use Edwardian levels of thinking and history to hide the infiltration of government by terrible people.

How good must that shower feel? After a year of fighting in all-season mud and debris. Seems a valuable psyop for Ukraine would be to target the showers. Keep them miserable.

So Vizio is offering dumb TVs without Walmart accounts? I am actually kind of interested.

AI put Generals out of work

Tell AI to download more RAM

In trying to read it and it’s got some abbreviation that is never clarified. What is an AE? This entire thread is formatted like bot info and it’s so fucking hard to parse on mobile. I wish Wikipedia used some of donations to update their UI.

“when you fly, you can go anywhere!”

Still uses Strait of Gibraltar

Good content but that period needs friends. It’s too much sentence for just one break.

Buying real estate in the Metaverse used to be compared to buying land on the moon. But Zuck can’t turn off the moon, so it’s arguably a better investment.

Amazing game that was super tense in the final inning. Suarez was too performative at the end. Most of the team was celebrating the pitcher and Suarez brings out a flag and kneels in front of the dugout. Like, let the pitcher get his kudos before declaring Venezuela better than Americans at their own past time.

Ground private jets

MAGA uses the most powerful military in history and still can’t win. The biggest losers…

All this for a war that was won?

So true. Stupid moving pictures don’t show anything imagination can’t do cheaper, easier, and more realistically. Such a dumb waste of people’s own resources that they would otherwise hoard and never use, depriving society of the value and thus starving people of resources. They should just sit in their high castles and ivory towers enjoying their wealth to themselves. Fuck other people. Fuck letting them have fun.

Somewhere between Snow Crash and Hackers it became the dream instead of the nightmare.

Conservatives will run themselves to ruin over a long enough time. The idea of rigid traditionalism that doesn’t adjust for people or culture is foolish. The best thing to happen to Japan will be the population crash bringing humanism to the culture of the islands.

Super useful! It’s also how to deprogram cultists and a likely approach to MAGA/AfD brained people.

Hard to imagine only half of the Arabian Peninsula or just a minor sliver of the Levant would be enough. “We’re here, why isn’t it ours” seems like the Israeli motto.

The only reason he even remembers McDonalds is because it has so much his name.

I’m learning that Hegseth is getting rid of analysts and trusting the Averaging Engine to find datum that are obvious but still sound insightful to people who don’t read for fun.

The longer I love the more wisdom I see in Tolkien’s notion that evil is self defeating. It is terrible for a time but not forever. Evil uses the most incompetent people for the job.