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Elon Musk has said an Axios report that the Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had concluded there was no evidence of a Jeffrey Epstein client list was the "final straw".

The report also said the agencies had concluded there was no credible evidence the disgraced financier and pedophile blackmailed high-profile and prominent individuals, and confirmed that surveillance footage showed Epstein had killed himself in prison.

"So... umm... then what is Ghislaine Maxwell in prison for?" Musk posted to his X platform, referring to Epstein's former girlfriend and associate who procured underage girls for him to abuse.

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[–] Mjpasta710@midwest.social 0 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

@madison420 why?

They laid out the uses for the apostrophe very clearly.

All you needed to do was read, understand, then clarify.

You're using the apostrophe incorrectly and now you've acted like an angry pedantic individual.

Nearly anyone who's bothered to read your garbage has disagreed with you.

Are you even a person -with your obstinance, you're behaving like an LLM.

That is to say, you're confidently incorrect while hallucinating the facts.

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 0 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Why what?

Are you even a person -with your obstinance, you're behaving like an LLM.

Tell me your alt without telling me your alt.

[–] Mjpasta710@midwest.social 0 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Regardless of how you arrived here, your attitude is not vibing with 420 at all, not of late.

A normal human user would understand the context and respond appropriately.

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Because I don't let people talk down to me? Yeah I'm not a doormat and you don't know me ya judgy twat.

A normal human user wouldn't start with insults and preconceptions they refused to be swayed from despite all reason and logic.

And again it's specifically and explicitly again sub rules to call people chatbots, read the fucking rules or at the very least take that chucklefuckery away from me.

[–] Mjpasta710@midwest.social 0 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I'm my own person, look at my post history.

I'm reading a thread and responding to someone thrashing irrationally due to their own error.

It sure reads like exchanges I've experienced with LLMs of late.

Confident incorrectness has been a characteristic of both of these instances.

I don't have any other federated accounts, by any other name(s).

So - you're still denying the fact that you used the apostrophe incorrectly? The other guy spelled it out for you, and tried to be nice it seems.

I'm about to give you a link about the proper usage, to reflect your prior posting attitude.

You're being a dishonestly rude individual.

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

No thanks.

No, you're reading a dispute about the intent of my point. He made a grammatical correction that is an editorial error so when he says he's right he's incorrect. Did they bother to inquire further instead of insulting my intelligence as you are right now? No because their wish is to win not to be correct hence the unwillingness to admit their own error that I can't help not notice you haven't mentioned.

It's explicitly against this subs rules to call people chatbots so I'm not even going to bother delving into the stupidity required to assume an llm can carry a reasonable conversation not can't figure out English syntax.

Correct, he's confidently incorrect while I may have made a error in the formation of a sentence which btw I haven't denied he's made an error in demanding he knows the writers intent better then the writer which is both absurd and incredibly egomaniacal.

I don't care about your accounts boss.

I haven't over denied I used it incorrectly, I've denied their assertion that it was an attempt to pluralize Clinton rather then imply possession as a slight to the Clinton family and Trump as well.

Notice I haven't denied proper usage, I've denied his assertion that I'm wrong about my intent.

I'm rude? You started by calling me a chatbot how fucking kind do you think that one is? So I may be rude to the person who's second comment to me was essentially a sarcastic "is it really?" Implying I'm lying or I don't know what my own point is. Why exactly should I be kind to that person when they're at the jump unions to me like you're being now.