StringJunky

I read she was pressured by Maxwell and him to get pregnant, but didn't and escaped when she was in Thailand. She could have taken money up to that point, then stopped. She said he lost interest in her once she reached about 18. No surprise there

Evidence?

No doubt there are self-motivated, libidinous, exhibitionist young persons, but I would guess they are outliers. Most likely, many are deceived with promises of jobs unrelated to the sex industry. Maxwell lured Virginia Roberts with the promise of training to be a peripatetic masseuse. Maxwell probably impressed her with signs of Epstein's wealth, and she was reeled in.

When an adult is so far outside the younger person's expected peer group (age groups that one would expect to socially and sexually mingle) the possibility for elder abuse and exploitation increases with the rising disparity in ages. What would very rich and high status, aged individuals want with poor, low status youngsters?

Knowing facts is not understanding them.

Nicely laid out for this neophyte. Cheers.

I was just thinking of the main prize.

If you don't buy a ticket, you have a zero chance of losing. If you do buy a ticket, you have, ball park, 45 million - 1 chances of losing.

Sensi: "And now we have a couple who are, for example, 16 years old and 20 years old. And they come to Florida for vacation, where it is a crime. So what now?" This is irrelevant because you are talking about a couple who are much closer to being peers, plus liking each other, than a forty-plus rich guy using a much younger person purely for sexual gratification. There is an obscenely large power dynamic in the latter.

Hold my beer.

What was the background of their upbringing? Is it ok for 40. 50, 60 year old millionaires and billionaires to fuck 12, 13, 14 year olds and then blackmail, even kill them, to keep their silence? Children that age in developed nations are not considered to have sexual autonomy, especially with people that could be their grand and great grandparent. I'm not interested in the facts of each case, the principle of protecting naive/disadvantaged children from elder abuse supersedes all that. There is no circumstance, with consent or not, where a child can be sexually available to a person several times their age.

There is so much wrong with what you've written. You are talking about pubescent and prepubescent GIRLS like they should be self aware and be sexually familiar.

I see aphantasia as a difference in cognition, rather than a deficiency. Ultimately, a deficiency is usually defined as an absence that has a pathological effect in some way, don't you think? People with aphantasia don't seem to suffer practically or socially, do they?

Click on Notifications bell icon, top right, then Settings. That's on a laptop view.

That's Trump projecting right there, as he always does when he accuses someone of wrongdoing that he intends to do himself.

The 'joke' that tickled me really was the double entendre. Usually, when someone asks for 'a second opinion to a doctor, they mean they want another doctor's opinion.

If the mods think this is not a political issue, they can move it.

I had a recent experience of seeing a lithium battery ignite whilst being solar charged. It is unstoppable and the jet is ferocious. Sodium-ion batteries are being geared up for mass production this year; thermal runaway is much harder to induce in these, I've read.

Says an old man.

Because they don't disagree with what they are saying. What they are saying is in line with the theoretical principles that are understood amongst the scientific community, at that point in time.

I used to watch The 'Water Margin'. Have you seen that series? 1970's. 'Monkey', late 70's, was another.

Worse than that: Nobel God-Emperor.

Anecdotally, sample one, high temperature light is great looking for stuff or at small details, but it keeps me awake at night. I consciously choose lower temps at night to tire my eyes and brain out. I think that might be due to the increased effort the brain and/or eyes undergo trying to chromatically recorrect the warm light to neutral white. I have a mix of 3000K, 4000K, 5000K, 6000K torches that I've played around with.