HEALTHLAND.TIME.COM • 2011-12-21

Got Money? Then You Might Lack Compassion

Are the rich really the unfeeling boors they're made out to be? Studies suggest that the richer people are, the less compassion they show.

Quote from: TDoS on Feb 08, 2026, 07:18 AMThose at the top of the heap don't have to pimp themselves.   

Then you must be at the bottom of the heap.  You've barely taken a breath between self pimping posts for the last decade.

RE

Quote from: K-Dog on Feb 07, 2026, 10:01 PM

QuoteWhat conspiracy accounts for someone of high moral fiber and expectations as well as experience deciding to risk it all?

I can't believe this is serious.

Well, I haven't found any evidence that the medical examiner was in on a conspiracy. Have you? The only part of your quote that matters is:

"forensic specialists note they appear more frequently in strangulation homicides"

Being one of those experts that chips in, in my field of expertise, I am quite willing to allow another most certainly certified expert venture their official opinion and in order to contradict it, you need more than "more frequently".

Quote from: K-DogWhen I was 12 years old I believed stuff like that too.

Not sure what "like that too?" is referring to. That accredited experts know more about their topic than amateur hour folks?

The three of us here are all smart guys. None of us are forensic pathologists. I don't argue with you about EE issues, no one here is qualified to argue with me about the geosciences, and I don't tend to argue with RE about genetics and microbiology stuff.

<shrug>

So....what does another forensic pathologist say? "Appear more frequently" isn't even a reasonable statistic expression for anyone educated on calculating probabilities...which is where experts come in to make the call. One fully capable professional did that. So....how have you discredited HER or involved HER in your conspiracy angle?

And I wasn't 12 when I learned how to do statistical investigations, so you must have been quite precocious as a youngster. I was took busy learning to feed my family back at that age by hunting and trapping and whatnot. World class statistical analysis and stochastic modeling didn't happen until after I was out of college, learned it as a lark.

Quote from: RE on Feb 07, 2026, 06:53 PM

Quote from: TDoS on Feb 07, 2026, 06:10 PMCan't disagree with this meme. Oh...but Epstein wasn't a duck.

The analogy doesn't reference & compare Epstein, it references & compares Suicide.  I taught Analogies on the LSAT for The Princeton Review.  You would not have scored well.

RE

Really? Well...an interesting factoid. And I doubt the Duck analogy is limited to just suicide. Never had any teachers or instructors from Princeton....I learned from Harvard grads. Lawyers, mathematicians, and a very particular resource geologist running an E&P.

His story on why he accepted Harvard was very interesting. He interviewed with several Ivys, including Princeton, Yale and  Brown. Stanford just for fun. He said they all touted the quality of their professors and their accomplishments, how many Nobel prizes, their facilities, accomplishments, and future potential.

Harvard didn't say a single word about anyone else. Those at the top of the heap don't have to pimp themselves.

Among my graduating class in high school, the most popular destination were the military academies. Out of the 40 of us 8 went to Annapolis, 1 to West Point and 1 more to Air Force Academy. Everyone I've ever worked with from BCG were Harvard grads. No more than another 10 in my high school went to various Ivys.

Deffeyes got his PhD from Princeton. You know....Mr "Peak Oil Happening Thanksgiving Day 2005".

Forgive my looking askance at what anything related to Princeton. Other than they get kudos for having Einstein and Oppenheimer hanging around at one point.

 

Quote from: RE on Feb 08, 2026, 12:27 AMIn the Diner Tradition of renaming organizations with labelss which more accurately describe their function, I hereby dub this new abortion the Board of Genocide.

RE

And your TV and phone hears what you say.  So many rhymes with that novel.

Perpetual, non-victorious war to consume surplus, maintain scarcity, and prevent general prosperity profit from war industries supply the ruling class with their lifestyle.  Trump's policy is focused on securing critical minerals and reshoring supply chains. Executive power prioritizes defense contracts and his new focus on domestic production means Oceania here we come, along with Airstrip 1.

Proles are controlled by propaganda and Trump has his two minute hate going on.  He tweets it at 2 AM on his Department of Truth Social.  Deliberate manipulation of language and facts make Trump's mental diarrhea acceptable.  With Trump's fake news trope putting horse blinders on all of us.



In Orwell's novel, sustained economic inequality preserves political power.  Our upper class is doing everything they can to widen that gap.

APNEWS.COM • 2026-02-08

Trump aims to hold the first meeting of his new Board of Peace in Washington this month

Trump's new board was first seen as a mechanism focused on ending the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. But it has taken shape with his ambition for a far broader mandate of resolving global crises and appears to be the latest U.S. effort to sidestep the United Nations as Trump aims to reset the post-World War II international order.

In the Diner Tradition of renaming organizations with labels which more accurately describe their function, I hereby dub this new abortion the Board of Genocide.

RE

QuoteWhat conspiracy accounts for someone of high moral fiber and expectations as well as experience deciding to risk it all?

I can't believe this is serious.  When I was 12 years old I believed stuff like that too.  Besides which there was nothing to risk,  much more to risk by defying the wishes of the men in black.  Orders of magnitude more risk.  Risk or a nice gift. 🎁  Maybe they told her that national security was at stake.  That going with the flow would save western civilization.  Going with the flow feels like it does.  The warm fuzzy feeling of doing what somebody important tells you to do.  Makes it not hard to do.  Like you are part of things.

MSN.COM • 2026-02-03

Sickening Jeffrey Epstein autopsy photos reveal staggering neck injuries

Images from Jeffrey Epstein's autopsy documentation exposed the devastating severity of the convicted sex trafficker's neck trauma.



"The postmortem examination revealed that Epstein's alleged suicide resulted from multiple fractured bones in his neck. While bone breaks can occur in hanging cases, forensic specialists note they appear more frequently in strangulation homicides. The report documented that investigators observed numerous "hemorrhages" extending from Epstein's lips to his eyebrows."

Quote from: TDoS on Feb 07, 2026, 06:10 PMCan't disagree with this meme. Oh...but Epstein wasn't a duck.

The analogy doesn't reference & compare Epstein, it references & compares Suicide.  I taught Analogies on the LSAT for The Princeton Review.  You would not have scored well.

RE

Quote from: RE on Feb 07, 2026, 12:34 PM

RE

Can't disagree with this meme. Oh...but Epstein wasn't a duck. Maybe Monsta or someone we know has some decent forensic pathology experience and can review the evidence? As opposed to...you know....ducks being involved somehow.

Quote from: K-Dog on Feb 07, 2026, 08:43 AM

Quote from: RE on Feb 07, 2026, 01:29 AMCui Bono?  Who benefits from Epstein's death?  Who has enough money to bribe the people necessary to pull it off?  Who has goobermint connections and access to the full list of staff, schedules, floor plans, cell assignments etc?  What does Occam's Razor say?

RE

Exactly - And it turns out the noose was not around the body.  Forensic evidence establishes that he was strangled.  Hyoid bone injuries. 

There is your razor pivot point Mr Occam.  Forensic evidence knows the difference  between being strangled to death and being choked by a noose.

So between your EE and my precognitive abilities when it comes to oil and whatnot, you figure that the Chief Medical Examiner lied?

QuoteChief Medical Examiner Dr. Barbara Sampson said she stands "firmly" behind her findings in the August autopsy report, which ruled Epstein hanged himself and temporarily quelled much of the speculation surrounding the financier's death.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/medical-examiner-dismisses-doubts-about-epstein-autopsy

What conspiracy accounts for someone of high moral fiber and expectations as well as experience deciding to risk it all?

I'll stick with Occams Razer because it is still working fine. Unless you've collected a decent forensic pathology certification along the way somewhere? And then reviewed the evidence?

Hey, I'll take your word for EE stuff without much quetion as long as it matches my basic courses in the same, and I'll trust RE's microbiology opinion.

But we are talking about a conspiracy again. I am trying to get past Toothpaste + electrical current and a splash of pepper = steak.