Meta, company formerly known as Facebook, lost 24% of its value today, and is down 73% from last year's high

Yeah, but Russian Nihilism is a bit different from the “just watching the world burn as long as I get mine” kind of existential nihilism that Mark and Murry want to practice. At least with Russian Nihilism the idea was that you had to destroy the existing power structures first, then move on to creating more equitable systems. That part is missing from Mark and Murry’s worldview. They just want to be allowed to do whatever they want without consequence. It seems very different from the goals of anarchism

Then again, I will admit that my knowledge on the historical side of this is cursory at best.

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Only the meaning we create

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But there were three Catos

The Elder Cato was the guy who appended Delenda est Carthogo to every speech. The younger Cato was an opponent of Caesar and Pompey. And then there was a pseudonymous British author who, wishing to imitate the younger Cato, wrote political essays. The Cato institute is named after the third.

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Always nice to see the mighty fall. Who should be next, Google or Apple?

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How about if we go with people instead of companies? Peter Thiel. It would make the world a better place than getting rid of Apple or Google and we can always get them later

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