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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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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.

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.

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.

That sounds a lot like saying that the obese are needed to provide food for the thin.

“Hey doc before you slice open that guy over there and wiggle your fingers around inside them, wash your fucking hands!”

It was quite a controversial idea at the time.

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

It also tells that you’re likely to have a vat of boiling oil dumped on you when attempting to breach the walls.

Build a moat.

It’s not impenetrable, but let’s be honest, who’s crazy enough to break into the house with a moat?