• Kairos@lemmy.today
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    23 days ago

    This is 1000x more likely to be a clerical error or time zone thing rather than a conspiracy.

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      23 days ago

      His body was supposedly discovered on August 10 at 6:30am. Which time zone are you suggesting?

      Edit: also it says Friday, August 9, 2019 which is much harder to make a mistake.

      I don’t see the document in the article, here it is: https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet 8/EFTA00013180.pdf

      This looks like it was a draft. Here’s the final version https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/statement-manhattan-us-attorney-death-defendant-jeffrey-epstein it is slightly modified and adds “of apparent suicide”

      Occam’s Razor says that explanation with fewest assumptions is likely the right one. With all the other coincidences that led to his death, his apparent suicide requires a lot of more assumptions.

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        Occam’s Razor says that explanation with fewest assumptions is likely the right one.

        Yeah, the Occam’s razor answer definitely isn’t that someone reused an existing document from the day before and forgot to change the date. That’s just unbelievable. It’s more likely that this was a premeditated murder and someone filed the paperwork a day early on accident.

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          23 days ago

          Yeah:

          • someone reused an existing document and put wrong date
          • the camera observing his cell failed
          • the redundant camera observing his cell also failed
          • the remaining cameras that could capture something apparently turn off for 3 minutes every day (that’s apparently normal for security cameras)
          • they accidentally removed him from suicide watch
          • he managed to kill himself despite cells being designated to prevent that
          • he was missing a cell buddy just for that night
          • three fractures on his neck which are unusual to hanging

          Each of them could be explained somehow through assumptions, but there are quite a lot of assumptions, don’t you think?

          I would imagine that in 21 century, FBI would have system to enter such notices and it would populate it with current date, because why would you want to modify date if you aren’t doing anything shady?