Truly, once you pass a certain threshold of capital accumulation nothing can dethrone you. Not even your brain being turned to mush. The things Thiel says are the ravings of a lunatic. If he weren't an oligarch they'd put him away. And obviously he's not the only one. One has to wonder if perhaps it is the power itself that drives a man mad. There ought to be a marginal wealth tax that starts wherever the gains to happiness begin to diminish and build exponentially towards 100% at, say, 1000x the median net worth of a single individual. The way things are isn't good for us or them.
The question itself is solid, I'll give drunk me that, but the vagueposting attached to it does not feel good to read the day after lmfao. I participate in capitalism, is all I can come up with. But we all participate in capitalism, idk what's embarrassing about that
I have no idea what I was asking, but it's probably a sign to take a break from substances for a while lmao. This post is mildly embarrassing, but I'll leave it up because I hate when people nuke their posts.
If and only if someone is insane enough to develop off-planet manufacturing with the bulk of the raw materials originating from somewhere in deep space, e.g. asteroid mining, putting data centers in space might be useful for problems that demand intensive compute and can work with extreme latency.
Then again that's like saying inventing the airplane would have been a good strategy for Neanderthals to find better firewood.
The value clearly lies in the gnomes that live in the goose and design and build the eggs. The goose itself is but an empty vessel, a fiction of convenience for the goose's owner.
I'm still so nervous around black people that I'm scared of doing some microaggression and pushing someone into beating the shit out of me that I act super too nice which is just another fucking microaggression.
Maybe I misread this but I don't think it's fair to say i made it up out of whole cloth. No well adjusted person is going to beat the shit out of someone because of a microaggression. I cannot imagine where this fear would come from unless this person has actually been beaten up or knows someone who has been beaten up.
I was quite drunk and reading between the lines. I still think it's wild to be afraid of being around black people because you think you'll get physically harmed for a microaggression. Like, that's gotta come from somewhere. The way they framed it as "pushing someone into beating the shit out of me" makes it sound like they think they'd deserve it. Which if they were screaming slurs or parroting Nazi talking points, yeah maybe, but those aren't really micro aggressions are they
i am going to laugh my ass off if he gets heatstroke and passes out on live national television