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For the curious

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My guess is they have no one telling them “no.” I’ve yet to find someone who didn’t go more than a little crazy in that kind of environment. I suppose being a billionaire tends to induce occupational psychosis.

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“CEO said a thing -articles are the future of journalism!” says Sam McZuckermusk

Or it could have something to do with being politically surrounded by warmongering dictators on all sides. Kinda builds solidarity when you have to rely on those who are on the same boat as you. The only time I see anyone identifying as European is on American TV shows that can’t be bothered to figure out the culture their characters are coming from.

You be the judge. Here’s a recording of a candid conversation between Hitler and the Finnish president during WWII.

Nothing Is Too Small Not to Be Wondered About by Mary Oliver

The cricket doesn’t wonder
if there’s a heaven
or, if there is, if there’s room for him.

It’s fall. Romance is over. Still, he sings.
If he can, he enters a house
through the tiniest crack under the door.
Then the house grows colder.

He sings slower and slower.
Then, nothing.

This must mean something, I don’t know what.
But certainly it doesn’t mean
he hasn’t been an excellent cricket
all his life.

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78% of NFL players are in financial trouble couple of years after retirement. I imagine there’s something similar going on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_finances_of_professional_American_athletes

According to a 2009 Sports Illustrated article, 35% of National Football League (NFL) players are either bankrupt or are under financial stress within two years of retirement and an estimated 60% of National Basketball Association (NBA) players, 78% of NFL players,[2] and a large percentage of Major League Baseball (MLB) players (4x that of the average U.S. citizen)[3] go bankrupt within five years after leaving their sport.[4] Originally the statement “60% of NBA players go bankrupt within five years after leaving their sport” was released by a representative of the NBA Players’ Association in 2008.[5] A Fortune magazine article states, however, that a working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research found that the percentage of NFL players who go bankrupt after two years is a much smaller 1.9%, climbing to 15.7% after 12 years.[6]

With the caveat that I’ve blocked all news and politics communities… not saying you’re wrong, but can you give a practical example of the kind of opinion you’d like to see voiced here?

To me the Lemmy userbase seems rightfully distrustful of corporate curated talking points and it’s easy enough to see those by going to any social media platform. I don’t know who you’re talking to in real life, but after meeting hundreds of AI tech bros (and many others too polite to vocally disagree with them) that seems like a breath of fresh air.

I could do without the endless barrage of guillotine references though. Anyone who thinks of the French Revolution as the ideal model for societal reform would be wise to take a moment to read up on it.

I’M AFRAID OF EVERYTHING LIKE A REAL MAN!

Do people think this? Please tell me people don’t think this.

As a NixOS user, can confirm, power level is over 9000.

Travel is the perfect product.

It can be luxurious, yet is affordable enough for most people in some form. People love to tell everyone the places they’ve visited; some people, given the chance, will talk about nothing else. It’s endlessly novel and requires little physical investment. It’s literally impossible to run out of places to visit. There are practically no limits to how much money you can spend on travel.

That is to say, it’s consumerism dressed up as virtue.

Just try to make sure you don’t end up as narrow-minded as they are.

I don’t know, guys like Elon Musk can’t seem to shut up about it.

You don’t publicly demand access to classified files of another sovereign nation state. There’s only one world leader I can think of who’d be dumb enough to do a thing like that.