Fireworks must be aggravating for billionaires. No way of preventing the plebs from seeing the show you paid for, if itâs not in the middle of your sprawling estate.
Yeah, itâs not easy for them to go âFull Fontainebleauâ anymore, right?
In theory, they do things like this because they need a challenge. Iâm sure there are other ways to keep them busy⌠
Itâs like running a drive-in theater in Kansas and expecting folks half a mile away not to look at the screen.
[The Coast Guard] said on Tuesday that the recovery and transfer of remaining parts was completed last Wednesday, and a photo showed the intact aft portion of the 22-ft (6.7-meter) vessel.
Photo is from October 1st, 2023
This highlights how some of the rich in the US became billionaires:
Wasnât sure whether to put this in the assholes thread, or the Republican assholes thread.
Or in a billionaire / techbro submersible one way ride to the bottom of the ocean. That would be preferred.
Trigger warning: so much bullshit. So very much.
@mspie500 posted that in the odd stuff threadâŚ
Pretty much, anywhere it goes, we should dunk on it, since itâs so full of bullshit⌠Just endless spewing of BSâŚ
We had a problem with thalidomide; so we discontinued it.
We had a problem with rapacious capitalism; so we broke up monopolies and started unions.
We had a problem with racism and sexism in technology companies; so we ignored it.
⌠for some reason I also find the âMore About Marcâ portrait very disturbing 
This reads like Jerry Maguireâs manifesto (which got him fired)
indulging in abstract theories, luxury beliefs, social engineering, disconnected from the real world, delusional, unelected, and unaccountable
Is Andreessen Horowitz someone I should know or care about?
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is like an AnCap Hogwarts for grifters. They take in budding Valley Bros, and teach them marketing hype wizardry, longtermism, and then at the end, the Grifting Hat gives them corporate paperwork, a big bag of VC money, keys to offices already staffed with libertarian types, and most importantly: their grifting gimmick.
âBankman-Fried, your gimmick is an imaginary bank.â
âAltman, you get a fancy autocomplete and a ball that steals souls.â
âHolmes, your gimmick is fabulous medical testing devices.â
âDo they work?â
âWhy would that matter!â
âRight, sorry.â
We are told to denounce our birthright
Has anyone ever invoked their birthright that wasnât a selfish asshole?
I couldnât read more than 10% of that idiotic drivel, but I did scroll to the bottom to his âPatron Saints of Techno-Optimism.â And there was one name that generated an insane laugh of disbelief:
Friedrich Nietzsche
Wow. Just wow
Sure there are other names on the list that would think he was a slobbering moron, but has he ever read literally anything by Nietzsche?
⌠also âJohn Galtâ was never a real person 
Which is why Galt belongs on the list the most. The whole thing is describing a fictional world unencumbered by reality
