Contrary to what the DOJ and MSM would have you believe, Sam's parents did not have to post a $250M bond or even 10% of that amount. Instead, they secured their son's release by pledging their $4.5M historic Palo Alto home.
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Barbara Fried and Joseph Bankman bought their home a year before Sam's birth. The home features expansive windows looking out onto the swimming pool. Inside, the home features hardwood floors, floor-to-ceiling bookshelves, and a grand piano.
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Under the terms of Sam's release, he can only leave the house to visit his doctor, therapist, and gym. So if you frequent Equinox Palo Alto you may run into SammyB.
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Sam will be in good company. In 1958 Philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine contracted hepatitis and was home-ridden in the house recounting that he was “convalescing by the pool” finishing his most important work, Word and Object.
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Sam's house sits feet from undergrad housing, including its closest neighbor, the quirky “naked, pagan, and vegan” dorm Synergy. It's just behind Fraternity Row, and across the street from the president’s mansion. nytimes.com/2009/07/26/edu…
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Stanford has decided to shut down the streets around SammyB's new residence to avoid a possible circus event. Stanford said the closures will be “temporary and limited,” as most students are not expected to be back on campus until Jan. 7.
In other news, SammyB's trying to keep the $450M in Robinhood stock he owns in a shell company he set up in Antiqua. FTX says it is theirs. His ex-girlfriend evidently pledged it to another guy. Court will decide.
When I was in my 20s I raised millions from George Soros for my first technology startup. Soon after my Jewish friends told me he was a N*zi collaborator. Just the other day ChatGPT told me they were lying and I had been wrong about Soros for years.
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If you ask #ChatGPT if George Soros cooperated with the N*zis the answer is a resounding NO! So what is the truth? Is ChatGPT right? Have I been wrong all of these years?
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I decided to go back and listen to George Soros explain his experience in N*zi-occupied Hungary in his own words during an interview with @60Minutes:
Under @GovAbbott's leadership, TX has increased its electricity-generating capacity to the point where the state generates 2.76 times as much as CA. On a per capita basis, TX has about 4.01 kW capacity per person, while CA has about 1.45 kW per person.
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Under @GovAbbott's leadership, TX has grown wind power generating capacity per person to 1.07 kW compared to CA's .21 kW per person (5X more).
TX generates 31,118 megawatts of wind power while CA generates only 8,183 megawatts.
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But it is VITAL to realize that the actual power grid - called #ERCOT - is run by a board of 11 people selected by a committee of 3 people - one appointed by @GovAbbott, one by @DanPatrick, & one by @DadePhelan - the ERCOT board is now 100% independent.
LONG SHOT case headed to SCOTUS conference on Jan 6th, 2023 (ironically) that would throw out the results of the 2020 election and make legislators who certified the election ineligible for future office. supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/2…
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THE SHOCKING THING ABOUT THIS IS THAT ONE JUSTICE DECIDED HE WANTED HIS FELLOW JUSTICES TO CONSIDER HEARING THIS CASE. CRAZY!!!
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In fact, one Justice's clerk helped the plaintiff write a Rule 11 to circumvent the lower court that was stonewalling the case.
A fractal of Rube Goldberg machines is a hypothetical concept that involves creating a series of interconnected Rube Goldberg machines, with each machine functioning as a smaller version of the overall system.
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Essentially, it would be a self-sustaining loop of complex machinery that achieves a simple task through a series of convoluted steps.
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For example, imagine a Rube Goldberg machine that was designed to turn on a light bulb. This machine might include a series of pulleys, levers, and other mechanical devices that work together to ultimately flip the switch and turn on the light.
If the FBI had 88 agents dedicated to censoring conservatives on Twitter, how many Twitter employees were dedicated to following the government's instructions? Why weren't the FBI and Trust & Safety MORE concerned about its MASSIVE child porn crisis?
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In fact, Twitter tasked 84 employees to form the so-called 'Red Team' to determine how the platform could attract MORE pornstars to the platform by allowing them to sell subscriptions to their pornographic content.
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Twitter management disbanded the Red Team after they were told just how massive the company's child porn problem was. Twitter didn't bother to work on the child porn problem they just stopped working on their porn business.
The irony is that the FAA was forced by journalists to allow anyone to track the real-time location of @elonmusk's jet. Prior to a lawsuit filed by ProPublica private plane owners could request their tail numbers be removed from the system.
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The FAA created the system to remove tail numbers from real-time tracking because of concerns that the proliferation of websites posting real-time flight tracking presented a security threat to executives and could jeopardize business deals.
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ProPublica reported that the block list was being abused by televangelists who didn't want bad publicity. The FAA believed preventing people from removing their tail numbers from the system was an invasion of privacy that created a security risk.