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So's my grandmother's Amazon prime account. Lol.🤫
A fair point, my mom is still using my dad's amazon and netflix accounts. It has been years now.
Sorry about your Dad. Mine died about nine months ago and it is just starting to really hit. Our relationship was… complicated.
Nothing to add to the conversation, but I like your posts and I hope you are doing okay.
Yeah same. It gets weird. I'm quite good and it's been years but you get weird reminders and feelings over bizarre things. Nothing that makes me sad just... Odd feelings? I can't describe it tbh.
....Actually scratch that, I do occassionally get angry and it's because I blame the covid response for failure to extend his life somewhat more and the lack of oxygen the ambulance team had due to shortages. I also get viscerally angry about how much of his life was spent on being exploited for him to go out like that. I wasn't even close to him but I feel rage on his behalf in part because while he was terminal I know he was angry at the world too because he occasionally talked about just taking some people he disliked with him. I don't think he was ever going to be the man that would act on that, but I know how angry he was at the world underneath and unlike his analysis of the world I know who the real fucking blame for that is.
This was written mostly train of thought.
Sure but who was using Epstein's account? Does he have living family?
i imagine once someone is at the level of having personal assistants and articles of incorporation, lots of accounts function independently of their official owner's capacity. that's without even getting into weird shady shit that i'm epstein was surely connected to with who knows who still having access.
like what better way to send something somewhere without a papertrail but to have a dead guy's account doing it lol.
The dude was a billionaire, mossad agent. I'm sure he's still got people using his accounts for untowards activity.
He had enough friends/servants/sycophants.
I know someone who is still using a friend's former accounts, despite that friend going radiosilent and vanishing into a foreign country years ago.