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sylver_dragon, in DOJ announces arrests in ‘high-end brothel network’ used by elected officials, military officers and others

Customers are not named in the affidavit, according to the agent, because the investigation into their involvement is “active and ongoing.” these are the type of people who don’t get held accountable, ever.

EatATaco,

Or, you know, they don’t have any evidence that a crime actually was committed. These people aren’t morons and know that unless they are caught exchanging money for sex they are off the hook. The fact that they have their name in this group is not even remotely enough to even charge someone with a crime, let alone get a conviction.

stella,

Accountable for what? Something that should be legal in the first place?

Do you also think marijuana users should be named and shamed?

Zahille7,

Heyo, I’m a heavy smoker!

Zrybew, in Christian photographer wins right to discriminate against LGBTQ+ couples

You folks got the priorities upside-down

NOT_RICK,
@NOT_RICK@lemmy.world avatar

Our backwards, unelected Supreme Court is to blame for this bullshit.

nulluser,

Thank You RBG, for clinging to power right to the bitter end.

NOT_RICK,
@NOT_RICK@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah I do question why she didn’t retire.

HappyPornDaze, in DOJ announces arrests in ‘high-end brothel network’ used by elected officials, military officers and others

Legalize sex work.

FlashMobOfOne,
@FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world avatar

Except for Lady G.

Cethin,

I don’t give a shit what he does in his personal life. No one should. I care that he’s a bastards who’s fucked this nation for his own self interest.

5PACEBAR,

Decriminalize sex work

stella,

Legalize.

EmpathicVagrant,

Both.

rmuk,

Goodbye.

LazaroFilm, in Christian photographer wins right to discriminate against LGBTQ+ couples
@LazaroFilm@lemmy.world avatar

Sigh. US politics really wants me to become an anarchist.

Viking_Hippie, in London Gaza rally: Rishi Sunak vows to hold Met chief 'accountable' over march

“There’s something particularly askew with an argument that says a protest calling for a ceasefire is somehow inappropriate on Armistice Day”

Ya think? Totally on brand for Sunak, Braverman and other genocide denying bigots, though 🤬

girlfreddy,
@girlfreddy@lemmy.world avatar

From my Canadian vantage point it seems Britain needs a raft of new politicians who aren’t rich dumbfucks.

Mind you the same thing can be said for almost every nation rn … including mine.

Viking_Hippie,

Same from my vantage point in Denmark, on all counts 😕

Candelestine, in A turning point in Myanmar as army suffers big losses

… those scam centers must be pretty bad if China is willing to accept that kind of instability on their border just to be rid of them.

derf82, in Millennials Control Just 4.6 Percent of US Wealth

People will claim millennials will inherit the wealth of the boomers as their children. But most won’t. It will be spent on cruises, gambling, healthcare, assisted living, nursing homes, and so on.

I expect to inherit nothing.

doublejay1999,
@doublejay1999@lemmy.world avatar

n=1

foggy,

By design.

Medicare pays for nothing until you are worth $2000. Then they will cover everything you need.

If you are old and you’re not hiding cash in the floorboards, you should be.

silentknyght,

I mean, I’d rather have my parents around in my life and my children’s, than have their money.

derf82,

Sure. I’m just responding to an often reported “fact” that no one should worry that millennials have no wealth, because they will inherit their parents’ wealth. A few will sure (particularly the already wealthy), but many will inherit little to nothing. Wealth concentration will just get worse.

dlok,

Yeah my mum will need to sell up to live on through retirement and my dad has a much younger wife that is not blood related to me so I’ll never see anything there.

I managed to work my way to home ownership but it’s still a struggle.

chemical_cutthroat, in Transgender people can be baptized, Vatican says
@chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world avatar

I’ve got nipples Greg, can you baptize me?

Stamets,
@Stamets@startrek.website avatar

Okay this is the second time I’ve seen a quote like this in the past couple days. Yet the only time I’ve ever seen this quote was on QI. Rich Hall asking Stephen Fry if he could be milked.

Is… Is this the reference? Or am I totally lost

LemmyIsFantastic, in An Auto Loan Debt Crisis Looks Imminent

People should stop buying 40k vehicles and get the shitty econbox then 🤷‍♂️

Yes, it sucks you can’t get a free loan and stretch your $700 to 6 years.

NotSoCoolWhip,

Shitty econboxes don’t exist anymore

KpntAutismus,

the last gen Aygo was 10K€ new.

the current gen Aygo “X” crossover SUV replacement is 16K€.

i would have bought one.

sad to see toyota of all companies to stop making small cars.

Mirshe,

Shit, entry-level cars still run you $20k or better in the US, and that’s without any options. I just had to price a new car last year and literally nothing new was on the market in my area for less than $25k. Your old Toyota Tercel that you bought for $6k in the 80s doesn’t exist anymore. That brand-new Camry that’ll run for 30 years and only costs $12k is now double that, at least.

cantsurf,

$6000 in 1980 is equivalent to over $23k in 2023.

data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=6%2C000.00&…

snippyfulcrum,
@snippyfulcrum@lemmy.world avatar

I got a 2023 Hyundai Elantra Limited with all the options for $27,000 earlier this year and that was brand new. The standard/base Elantra was several thousand less. There was another model below the Elantra for even less. I also didn’t haggle and took the price as marked, so who knows. Perhaps someone more charismatic than myself could have done better on it.

I still over paid, don’t get me wrong. The same car with all the features before Covid would have probably been around $22-23k.

Mr_Blott,

*in the US, because we’ve all got tiny-penis trucks

Shitboxes are the bread and butter of car companies in modern countries

OsrsNeedsF2P, (edited ) in Omegle shuts down after 14 years of operation.

Youtube pranksters in shambles

Edit: Wow, after reading the page, this is way worse than I thought. Omegle founder was an actual hero, and the reason for shutdown is incredibly unfortunate

Zealousideal_Fox900,

Yeah, there was a fuckton of paedophiles on it sadly and there was a lot of illegal shit on there.

fmstrat,

I hope more people read this article than just the headline. I mean, I always do, but people should hear the details on this one. I’m not even a user.

lolcatnip, in Transgender people can be baptized, Vatican says

Makes me wonder if a previous Pope had to specifically decree that left-handed people can be baptized. I swear people will invent the most bizarre and arbitrary rules to exclude people who are different in some way and then pretend the rule they just made up appears verbatim in whatever book they think God wrote.

Stamets,
@Stamets@startrek.website avatar

The primary existence of the Pope just seems to be a social update system. Because of the whole divine appointment nonsense, whatever the Pope says is supposed to be from the lips of God. But the only thing I’ve ever seen that used for was for nutty stuff by nutty popes and these types of decrees. Basically just updating the Bible to what’s currently socially acceptable.

The Pope is literally just a religious version of Windows Update. For a God that’s supposedly infallible and never makes mistakes, no less.

The whole thing makes no fuckin sense.

hogunner, in DOJ announces arrests in ‘high-end brothel network’ used by elected officials, military officers and others

Alleged prospective sex buyers in this scheme first had to respond to a survey and provide information online, including their driver’s license photos, their employer information, credit card information, and they often paid a monthly fee to be part of this.”

Wait, what? (͡•_ ͡• )

That should make the prosecutors jobs much easier.

IWantToFuckSpez,

Could be a honey pot. Either the guys running it wanted to use the info to blackmail the clientele or sell the info to foreign intelligence

SheeEttin,

Or they use it for further identity fraud to open new locations.

squiblet,
@squiblet@kbin.social avatar

Wow, imagine willingly providing that information to what you know is a criminal organization. The people who signed up are obviously a major security hazard to whoever they work for.

hogunner,

100%. I wouldn’t even give all that information to my online pharmacist and I need some of those medications to survive.

Lemjukes,

Yeah my employer don’t need to know fuckall about what meds I’m on.

cuibono,

Seriously. How dumb do you need to be to be in an actual high ranking (government) position and willingly give up all that info to an even slightly shady organisation? Never mind an illegal prostitution network you are sure is both illegal and easily blackmailable.

givesomefucks,

Say something is exclusive and idiots will do anything to get in.

Facebook got so huge because at first you had to be in college to be on it. After a couple years they opened it up to everyone and pretty much everyone signed up.

wahming,

Doesn’t always work. See Google+.

Pregnenolone,

how horny*

Phlogiston,

Yeah. This is the real issue here.

Sex work should be legal and the morality discussion here is about people lying to their spouses and if anybody is being forced into sex work… all interesting topics.

But anybody implicated in this situation needs all security clearances and access dropped because they are high risk morons.

ChaoticEntropy,
@ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk avatar

It’s signing up to a blackmail scheme.

hemmes,
@hemmes@lemmy.world avatar

…to get your dick wet

Coasting0942,

Oh, well in that case will you need me to provide my clearance number as well?

Obviously it’s the sex workers that are going to jail for this, for tricking all these high level citizens.

bassomitron,

I’m guessing it was that one P411 website or whatever. That site has been in the news in the past. It baffles me that people would willingly comply with such invasive identification requirements for something that’s illegal. I get the idea behind it is to try and prove that you’re not a cop/murdery type of criminal in order to protect the sex workers, but… yeah, lol.

ubermeisters,
@ubermeisters@lemmy.world avatar

honeypot

DigitalTraveler42, (edited )

Criminals and criminals masquerading as religions love to get blackmail on their clientele/members, it’s probably the more lucrative part of their enterprise, and it keeps those members/clientele loyal, because who wants their nasty ass secrets leaked out or sold to their enemies?

ininewcrow, (edited )
@ininewcrow@lemmy.ca avatar

The ease of prosecuting is directly proportional to how wealthy and influential the accused is.

Remember, it’s a legal system … not a justice system … you can easily distinguish the difference by how wealthy you are (or are not)

hogunner,

Sad but true

EatATaco,

Not really, because the people who made the survey are probably smart enough to not include anything about exchanging money for sex. Basically, there’s nothing illegal about filling out a survey about who you are and what are your likes or dislikes. There’s also nothing illegal for someone to pay another person for their time.

So no mention of exchanging money for sex and it’s incredibly hard to prosecute.

hogunner,

No idea if you’re right or not but that’s not what I meant. I meant they don’t have to hunt down the johns, the johns already provided all the possible info the prosecutors would need to find them.

EatATaco,

How exactly does that help? It’s not like they are going to do stake outs on these guys. It’s not enough probable cause for any type of warrant or anything.

It would help support a case if you already had one, but as an entry point it’s all but completely useless, if not actually completely useless.

Which is why they won’t release the names, because doing so would open them up to lawsuits. All risk no reward.

Furbag,

I think what the person above was implying is that having your name on that list is not de-facto evidence of participation. I’m sure the DOJ has more than just that one piece of evidence if they’ve already made arrests, because sex workers in America are nothing if not extremely careful about how they conduct their business to avoid exposing themselves or their clients to law enforcement stings.

RedAggroBest,

Hell, if they’re actually smart, they have red herrings in the list that muddies who is actually a client

tookmyname,

Are Johns (and sex workers) even worth prosecuting? I think the DOJ is interested in a organized prostitution ring and it’s leaders, involved in conspiracy and money laundering, not a few dudes paying for (adult) sex.

I don’t think they’ll waste their time.

PhlubbaDubba,

None of that’s illegal, aside from the card info it’s actually a lot of the things a trustworthy sex worker will be asking you for as a background check before agreeing to meet you.

NPC, in Ohio votes to legalize marijuana for adult recreational use, becoming 24th state to do so

About god damn time!

badbytes, in Colorado funeral home owner, wife, arrested on charges linked to the handling of at least 190 bodies

Colorado has some f-uped people.

GiddyGap,

Not a Colorado thing. A US thing. Having spent most of my life outside the US, I can tell you that most people in other developed countries often shake their heads in disbelief at US events and news stories. And it’s not getting any better.

badbytes,

But it seems to be. As a CO resident and native, as progressive as we are as a state we are, we sure have some weirdos.

quindraco,

Absolute nonsense.

Japan.

India.

Mexico.

Romania.

And so on and so forth.

GiddyGap,

Not saying there aren’t crazies in other countries. The nutbag stories originating in the US are just overwhelming in sheer amount.

aniki, in Court rules automakers can record and intercept owner text messages

What the fuck is wrong with that judge?

lolcatnip,

Judges are supposed to rule based on what the law says, not what they think is a good idea. Most likely the law is just inadequate.

aniki,

Fuck no. The judges interpretation is bullshit.

But the appellate judge ruled Tuesday that the interception and recording of mobile phone activity did not meet the Washington Privacy Act’s standard that a plaintiff must prove that “his or her business, his or her person, or his or her reputation” has been threatened.

Privacy violations ARE A THREAT. Identity theft is a massive threat. Any man in the middle attack is a threat.

Federal judges are corrupt as fuck. I bet that was a Trump appointee.

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