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[–] 5 points 6 days ago

I've never heard of dinocon, I'm not interested, nor am I interested in paleontology, but now I want to go. Best advertisement ever.

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  • [–] 37 points 1 week ago (1 child)
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    A pretty huge amount of people on the epstein files though are just individuals who were emailing regarding grants, donations, etc

    Which is extremely normal, they just email all rich benefactors known for donating to causes.

    Id expect like over half the names in the files just fall under that category...

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  • [–] 29 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Re-read the note they put. It's people who continued to email the org and ask for money and shit after Epstein was convicted

    These are people who did not give a fuck and continued to work with a rapist

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  • [–] 9 points 1 week ago

    These are people who did not give a fuck and continued to work with a rapist

    Oh there are absolutely people in this very thread who don't understand why it's immoral to continue to do business with a rapist as long as it's in pursuit of science.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    I don't think being wrongfully persecuted for being in the Epstein files is a thing. It's kinda the point of the meme that plenty of scientists did go on his plane and to his island. And some of those emails from scientists were commiserating over how "me too has gone too far".

    But sure, not all scientists....

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago

    I don’t think being wrongfully persecuted for being in the Epstein files is a thing

    There absolutely are some cases of people who were in there, pre-conviction, simply for such reasons. Had nothing to do with the pedo stuff, never were on planes, merely were just emailing for whatever normal reason.

    But idiots in the public can't distinguish such things.

    However others have corrected me here in that these are scientests who were emailing after the conviction which is a valid reason to ban them yeah

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago* (2 children)

    Yeah but what paleontologist doesn't get excited when the insanely rich guy funding your research shows up and offers them to take a plane ride to his private island?

    That's literally the stuff of movies, man.

    He was a shitty human but he did appreciate science/academia...or at least that's what his public spending seems to have indicated.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Paleontologists who've read "The Island of Doctor Moreau"? Private islands and science lead to a bad time.

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  • yeah, like i don't know anyone cool with a private islan... does a couple of rocks in a backyard koi pond count? because aside from that, i don't know anyone cool with a private island.

    the koi pond island is pretty cool though, we rigged up a waterfall to run through the rocks.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Yeah but what paleontologist doesn’t get excited when the insanely rich guy funding your research shows up and offers them to take a plane ride to his private island?

    Paleontologists that aren't pedophiles that want to go to pedophile island?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    I think there is value in how those who asked or accepted funding think about it. People who just see the cash, yeah, deplorable. People who feel conflicted about it, but can provide for their aids and families because of funding, maybe not so much. Anyone excited to go interact and associate directly, going to the island; super slimy and needs to be excommunacated from the scientific community.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 week ago

    What happened to fossilesque?? :(

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    What about those responsible for the mooses?

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