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Re:What's up with all those equals signs anyway? by xg15 on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @07:22AM (#46870098)
I'm just wondering why this problem shows up now. Why do lots of people suddenly post their old emails with a defective QP decoder?

> For some reason or other, people have been posting a lot of excerpts from old emails on Twitter over the last few days.

On the risk of having missed the latest meme or social media drama, but does anyone know what this "some reason or other" is?

Edit: Question answered.

Re:What's up with all those equals signs anyway? by jychang on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @07:29AM (#46870197)
That's clearly a joke, pretending to be unaware of all the emails from the Epstein files that were posted in the past 3 days.
Re:What's up with all those equals signs anyway? by sd9 on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @09:05AM (#46871132)
Of course the Epstein files are serious.

But not everybody has every single global development / news event IVed into their veins. Many of us just don’t keep updated on global news such that we may not be aware of an event that happened in the last 3 days.

Important news tends to get to me eventually. And there is usually nothing I can do about something personally anyway (at least within a short time horizon), so there is really very little value in trying to stay informed of the absolute latest developments. The signal to noise ratio is far too low, and it also induces a bunch of unnecessary anxiety and stress.

So yes, believe it or not very many people are unaware of this.

Re:What's up with all those equals signs anyway? by SCdF on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @07:24AM (#46870132)
Presumably the Epstein files, but I'm not on twitter so not sure
Re:What's up with all those equals signs anyway? by xg15 on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @07:28AM (#46870178)
Ooh, that reason. Sorry for having been dense. Thanks!
Re:What's up with all those equals signs anyway? by grimgrin on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @08:40AM (#46870839)
Re:What's up with all those equals signs anyway? by xg15 on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @08:47AM (#46870916)
Huh, Noam Chomsky, nice one!
Re:What's up with all those equals signs anyway? by mxfh on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @10:29PM (#46881102)
Yet somehow there is always a version of the same thread that's not mangled https://www.jmail.world/thread/EFTA02512795?view=inbox

Can only assume DOJ overpaid the law firms like 5x by not specifying deliveries need to be deduplicated first.

Re:What's up with all those equals signs anyway? by avemg on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @09:07AM (#46871150)
Jeff Epstein? The New York financier?
Re:What's up with all those equals signs anyway? by ropp on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @07:24AM (#46870130)
the DOJ published another bunch of Epstein emails