https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/business/jeffrey-epstein-bill-gates.html

And unlike many others, Mr. Gates started the relationship after Mr. Epstein was convicted of sex crimes.

https://www.soapcentral.com/human-interest/news-when-bill-gates-first-meet-jeffrey-epstein-former-microsoft-ceo-reportedly-regrets-ties-disgraced-financier

Bill Gates made his acquaintance with Jeffrey Epstein in 2011 when Epstein had been jailed for years for soliciting prostitution from a minor.

https://jacobin.com/2021/08/bill-gates-jeffrey-epstein-mistake-cnn-interview

They were two of the richest men on Earth, meeting after Epstein had already been convicted for child sex trafficking, very intentionally scratching each other’s back and bolstering each other’s charitable endeavors. The relationship between them — and what compelled both to build one — should be seen not as a lapse in judgment but as an indictment of billionaire philanthropy itself.

There’s plenty more out there if you look.

I just setup vaultwarden a few days ago for a small group, it’s very simple.

Bill Gates became friends with Epstein AFTER he was convicted.

I have to nitpick slightly; Holland is not a country. Amsterdam is in the North Holland province of the Netherlands.

Source: I’m on the train from Amsterdam to my home in Nijmegen, Netherlands, which is not a part of either Holland.

My rule as DM is that players can freely expend their normally limited resources if it’s done for role playing or fun and doesn’t affect the story, combat, etc.

Druid wants to spend all evening as an owl in the rafters of the barn? Cool. Wizard wants to create a pocket dimension in which he can then use Wish to create the universe’s best ganja and smoke it in peace? Awesome.

Artificer wants to … wait, he wants to do WHAT with his pants? Okay fine, but we’re cutting to black for the evening. And there may be assassins in the morning now.

I have to disagree here. We all have a moral responsibility to not be evil, murderous dickheads. I’d even go so far as to say that we all have a moral obligation to at least attempt to help our fellow people when we can.

Just because nobody stopped him from doing evil doesn’t mean that it’s not his fault for doing evil shit. Others may be complicit, but he sure as fuck was guilty the evil he committed.

When will archeologists just admit that sometimes we don’t know the purpose of things, and say so. Maybe somebody just liked carving turtles, surely not every fucking thing ever crafted in antiquity was religious.

Fuck off, nazi

Not a teacher, but my mother is a retired professor.

It would absolutely work on a large percentage of students, especially the type that are so lazy they are plugging their assignment into an ai. She retired in 22 and had students that had never used a desktop computer with a mouse and keyboard, only phones, tablets, and ChromeOS laptops. Text formatting, beyond the very basics of bold and colors, were a new concept for them.

The Dutch word for ‘potato’ is ‘aardappel’ which translates literally as “earth apple”

What a weird thing to say.

K9 Mail on my phone, neomutt on the desktop.