He was a boy genius. A prodigy of some obscure brass instrument or something. He graduated school at like 14. And he went to the most prestigious art conservatory in the US on a scholarship at that. He played Carnagie Hall at like 8 or something.
He was likely abused for the first time at this conservatory, as he would return there to commit abuse himself.
Anyways, after that he went to college for a bit. He then went backpacking around Europe with a friend. They spent a good while walking around continental Europe before going to England.
There they met and befriended a very famous cello player, who introduced them to the royal family. They hung out there with them for a bit.
After that he and his friend returned to the US and went to New York. There he started attending high society parties.
He was then hired to teach at Dalton shortly after that.
This means he likely made connections in the parties that led to that job. But that job was likely a front.
Because from that teaching job he was handpicked to start working at Bear Sterns.
He rose super quickly at Bear Sterns, allegedly because of his genius with numbers, but also likely due to the connections he started making.
He became a VP super fast, but left just as fast. His boss, Alan Greenberg was being investigated for financial crimes, and Epstein took the fall for him.
He then opened his own firm, and became a “free agent” for some time. He was a “financial bounty hunter”, finding and hiding stolen money for the uber wealthy. He was really good at this as well. One of his main customers at this time was an aristocratic family from Spain. Epstein allegedly helped them find hundreds of millions of stolen euros.
After this, he met his first mentor. He was a “client” of Epstein’s firm for years, but he was really his mentor. Adnan Khashoggi, the Saudi arms dealer.
So Epstein was already a very prolific financial operator, and became an arms dealer. Epstein was likely involved in getting arms to many groups in Africa and the Middle East.
After that he got involved with his second mentor, Robert Maxwell. A spy, with a blackmail ring.
So Epstein was a high level financial operator, an arms dealer, and a blackmail ring owner.
Also, he was involved in so many financial crimes. He was involved with the second biggest Ponzi scheme in history. His partner was arrested, convicted for decades, and Epstein’s name was dropped from the case after 3 months…
His other financial firm was the first to use mortgage amortization. Like they were the first to use the instrument they caused the 08 crash.
Epstein was NOT a dumb guy, who just got rich from giving children to billionaires. That was maybe his hobby.
He was one of the biggest financial criminals in history, a massive arms dealer, and a spy.
I feel saying they look horrible is quite bold. The movies were universally lauded for looking amazing. Denis is generally loved for his visual language. He is a very visual director.
You might have visualized something different reading the books, but saying the movies look horrible is honestly baffling 😂
Also yeah the 2000 mini series is really great despite the super low budget. Still, it looks very much like* the sci-fi of its era. The Denis Dune movies look at least very unique.
I don’t know what to tell you. I read the books before watching either film. And I NEVER imagined anything looking like the David Lynch movie. Not sure what other one you’re referring to.
I imagined things much closer to the Denis movies. Specially the Harkonen side of things, I thought that was amazing.
To me the two Dune movies by Denis are some of the best sci-fi movies ever. But to each their own I guess.
Look… I don’t like Nolan. I think his movies are boring, and pretty superficial. And I don’t think he could ever properly direct a movie with this kind of costuming. He would be incapable of getting a real looking story out of people dressed like this.
To me the tragedy isn’t that the movie doesn’t look “time accurate”. I mean it’s a mythological story, it’s not about accuracy. There are gods roaming around ffs. To me the tragedy is Nolan doing it… why Nolan?
I weirdly feel the 2000s movie Troy is more his vibe, than the actual Odyssey lmao
There’s a problem in adapting Dune because the vibe of it is that it’s so far into the future it ends up feeling ancient and alien. If they just hung a bunch of Persian rugs and had Islamic architecture in a more obvious way (like in the movies everything in Arrakis was clearly inspired by Islamic architecture, but in a “brutal” and “alien” way), it would like like Earth and Earth cultures but a couple millennia into the future. But that is not the vibe at all.
I think Dennis captured the vibe of Dune perfectly, as a big big fan of the books 🤷♂️
But piracy is a MUCH smaller issue than theft. Piracy doesn’t deprive the original owner of any material thing. Piracy might decrease sales and profits (research actually says the opposite 🤷♂️).
And we have no idea the actual material impact AI will have on the arts. From the reaction we’re seeing it might even make people turn more and more to physical hand crafted art.
We’re already seeing that social media is favoring videos of artists’ processes much more than the final results.
So yeah, no, I don’t see this situation as so much more terrible than theft. I really don’t understand how it could be.
To me it seems the main issue is not even AI, it’s capitalism. If artists didn’t need to sell their art to survive, we wouldn’t even have this discussion.
You mean the guys that literally genocided native peoples? That wrote into the constitution that black people were worth less? That only rich land-owning people should be allowed representation?..
Well they did just release a vaccine for dogs that slows down their cell degeneration and increases their lifespan by 5-10 years. But since it decreases degeneration they keep their quality of life until just the final years like they do right now. So idk 🤷♂️
And how since the Soviet Union fell they all started to revert their safety nets and worker rights and progress immediately 🤔 to a point that Sweden has some of the worst inequality in the “developed” world.
That’s not true. But their signifiers of wealth are invisible to the common folk. They wear sweaters that cost as much as a used car. Jackets that cost as much as new cars. Their watches cost more than a house.
I think a good look on how they live really is succession. The clothes they wear don’t look crazy expensive, to us. But they are more expensive than you could even imagine.
Also the population wouldn’t be increasing by millions every few years if over 60% were systematically killed over a decade or so… almost like it’s an absolutely immaterial claim with no basis other than trying to prove a point
This is basically their only sponsor. It’s always odoo. It always confuses me. What is odoo getting out of this? It can’t be that such a good portion of the audience is petty bourgeois 😆
This comes from the unfortunate viral idea that communism has stages.
Some people get really attached to this idea, and either become super against it or super for it. Then they end up wanting to either fully concentrate on “lower stage communism” and idolize militaristic aesthetics of early communist revolutions, and the perceived “toughness” and “authoritarianism” they had. In the extreme this becomes shit like the ACP.
On the other hand, others completely forgo any large scale timeline thinking, and start fantasizing and theorizing about a possible quick jump to “stateless, classless, moneyless” society (which is in itself a misinterpretation of what communism is but that’s another thing completely) in a single revolutionary moment and process.
There are no stages, communism is not total anarchy either. Communism is the means and methods the working class uses to abolish itself. This should start with a revolution, and continue until it’s finished. This process likely would take many generations. And it would be one continuous revolution. This is communism, this state of affairs. Of the long revolution of self-abolishment of the working class.
What comes AFTER, is a stateless classless moneyless society. What is dissolved first and when depends on the revolution, but it wouldn’t all be at once, or it would. Who knows.
He was a boy genius. A prodigy of some obscure brass instrument or something. He graduated school at like 14. And he went to the most prestigious art conservatory in the US on a scholarship at that. He played Carnagie Hall at like 8 or something.
He was likely abused for the first time at this conservatory, as he would return there to commit abuse himself.
Anyways, after that he went to college for a bit. He then went backpacking around Europe with a friend. They spent a good while walking around continental Europe before going to England.
There they met and befriended a very famous cello player, who introduced them to the royal family. They hung out there with them for a bit.
After that he and his friend returned to the US and went to New York. There he started attending high society parties.
He was then hired to teach at Dalton shortly after that.
This means he likely made connections in the parties that led to that job. But that job was likely a front.
Because from that teaching job he was handpicked to start working at Bear Sterns.
He rose super quickly at Bear Sterns, allegedly because of his genius with numbers, but also likely due to the connections he started making.
He became a VP super fast, but left just as fast. His boss, Alan Greenberg was being investigated for financial crimes, and Epstein took the fall for him.
He then opened his own firm, and became a “free agent” for some time. He was a “financial bounty hunter”, finding and hiding stolen money for the uber wealthy. He was really good at this as well. One of his main customers at this time was an aristocratic family from Spain. Epstein allegedly helped them find hundreds of millions of stolen euros.
After this, he met his first mentor. He was a “client” of Epstein’s firm for years, but he was really his mentor. Adnan Khashoggi, the Saudi arms dealer.
So Epstein was already a very prolific financial operator, and became an arms dealer. Epstein was likely involved in getting arms to many groups in Africa and the Middle East.
After that he got involved with his second mentor, Robert Maxwell. A spy, with a blackmail ring.
So Epstein was a high level financial operator, an arms dealer, and a blackmail ring owner.
Also, he was involved in so many financial crimes. He was involved with the second biggest Ponzi scheme in history. His partner was arrested, convicted for decades, and Epstein’s name was dropped from the case after 3 months…
His other financial firm was the first to use mortgage amortization. Like they were the first to use the instrument they caused the 08 crash.
Epstein was NOT a dumb guy, who just got rich from giving children to billionaires. That was maybe his hobby.
He was one of the biggest financial criminals in history, a massive arms dealer, and a spy.