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Did I just hear your inbox explode? Let me hi check your profile rq before I apply!

You moved me to tears, and I’m not even out of bed, yet. Thank you so much for this genuine display of human compassion.

I have the incredible, uncontrollable urge to shout, “Gulf of Mexico!” suddenly.

This is how real troubles begin.

Echos of Ireland.

Yes, I was thinking a lot of us would be valuable in guerilla warfare. Which side would be taken by individuals depends on the individuals.

Except those of us stuck here with no means of escape.

When would that be?

Vape if you want.

But a closer examination of Fulcher’s career also suggests his accomplishments don’t always add up, according to internal company documents and interviews with 10 people who have worked with him. Fulcher’s Singapore-based telehealth company, RingMD, for instance, went bankrupt after he raised more than $10 million from investors. His attempt to restart it in the U.S. led to litigation with a business partner, who claims Fulcher owes him hundreds of thousands of dollars. And the half-billion-dollar manufacturing facility promoted by the Biden administration appears to be one of a few claims that never materialized. Fulcher’s national security credentials are also unclear. In 2023 he received a master’s degree in nonproliferation and terrorism studies from Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. One of his professors there, Jason Blazakis, described him as “a bright guy, hard worker.” On his LinkedIn, Fulcher also claims a doctorate of international relations and affairs from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. But John Bates, who oversees student records at the university told Forbes that “we have no record of this individual as a student.” The South Carolina-based non-profit Fulcher started in 2023, the Palmetto Initiative, stated on its website that it was a U.S. 501©(3) U.S. public charity. But the organization’s employee identification number does not match Internal Revenue Service records. In a statement, Shannon Wiley, general counsel for the South Carolina secretary of state’s office, said the organization was incorporated as a non-profit, but “has not registered to solicit charitable funds in the state of South Carolina.” The IRS declined to comment. Fulcher didn’t respond to multiple comment requests. After Forbes contacted him, the Palmetto Initiative’s website removed mention of it being a charity. On his LinkedIn page, mention of his Johns Hopkins doctorate was updated to state it is “in progress.”

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidjeans/2025/03/04/pentagon-doge-official-justin-fulcher/

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/vaping-vs-smoking#quitting

How many vape, which is more harmful, more addictive?

I knew a lawyer who thought he was working too hard, tried investment advising for a few months and returned to practicing law because he said it’s more honest.

Probably thousands or millions. We just tend not to be loud.

I’m so glad you had supportive parents!

I was also born and bred rural. I credit my mother for insisting I learn to read early, and look up definitions and how to spell words - before internet.

ETA: better than driving the car into the ditch fiddling with the radio. ;)

Federal prosecutors claimed in their new filing that Mangione deserves the death penalty because of “the impact of the victim’s death upon his family, friends and co-workers” and because “he expressed intent to target an entire industry and rally political and social opposition to that industry, by engaging in an act of lethal violence.”

I just want to remind everyone of the impact of many of Thompson’s murders on their family, friend, and co-workers, all in the service of the money masters’ sheer, unadulterated, insatiable greed.

Are you from the USA? Because that’s an extremely concise, cogent, accurate post and I see them so seldom from fellow USA -ians

Oh c’mon! Insider trading, setting up offshore accounts and shell companies is work!

I’d suggest banning them from existence, but maybe that’s just me.

By design. It reminds me of another article posted on Lemmy recently, that “tough on crime” jurisdictions are making it less safe to live in those jurisdictions.

“Is it worth the trouble to go to court?” Reppucci asked. “I think it’s going to make it much harder, inherently harder, and more likely that people will disregard lawfully issued subpoenas, both by the prosecution and by defense attorneys and by civil attorneys and, even perhaps, dare we say, in divorce cases or custody case hearings that people are going to evaluate whether or not it makes sense to follow lawful state orders.”