Maybe they can’t be rehabilitated. Maybe they can. Idk. I’m not here to make that call. All I’m saying is that they make for very interesting case-study.
I don’t think you can get to any level of extreme wealth without some amount of personality disorders. Is this what happened when those personality disorders are left untreated, or worse, enabled?
Por que no los dos?
I edited my parent to you to elaborate more on my train of thought.
Think less illness and more…idk…corruption of the mind?
Like we all know power corrupts people. But absolute power, extreme wealth? There’s gotta be an underlying spiral of mental health that allows these people to continue to function, and left unchecked leads to…well, extreme, unimaginable corruption.
I find it hard to believe a bunch of pedophiles became the richest and most powerful people in the world. I find it much easier to believe a bunch of the richest and most powerful people in the world became pedophiles.
Like, when all the other forbidden fruit are easy to get (and were all fucking awesome), and you don’t see others as people at all…there’s the most forbidden fruit.
All I’m really saying is, statistically, the odds of so many billionaires being pedophiles is very low…unless either closeted/repressed pedophilia is way more common than we think, or it can develop out of an array of personality disorders that can be amplified (and, importantly, enabled) by extreme wealth/power.
Psychologically, this is very interesting.
These are your Friends.
These are your Friends on Epstein Island.
Any questions?
Note, I don’t think there’s any direct link between these two and Epstein. There is with Gates tho. And Perry died of a ketamine overdose.
Ngl I think the second half is kinda dark.
Ootl, what happened? Did he shit his pants on live TV again?
They told him to keep the tip, and, well…
That’s a post-nut nap if I’ve ever seen one.
All I can think about is the absurd amount of corn that gets shat after eating a famous bowl.
I didn’t even think famous bowls had that much corn to begin with.
Uh salt gets rid of ICE.
Ask for it by name. “Uh Salt”.
Ehhh…it breaks the half-plus-7 rule (I’d call 37 ‘late 30s’)…but it beats 20s. I’m only forty and I can barely relate to my 20-something BILs. I couldn’t imagine dating someone in their 20s, and not just because I’m happily married. The culture gap is so real. I could relate to X so much more than Z.
Still…even mid-30s doesn’t give much time to plant the seed before you have to worry about the first frost. You gotta sow while the soil is warm. Having your own kid is great and all but maybe look for a divorcee/widow with a toddler…
Which would mean either a subscription model, ad model, or somewhere in between. In all cases, it’s doomed from the start because who the hell wants to deal with that when YouTube provides the same.
Privacy enthusiasts, maybe, but there’s 10000 proles for every one of them.
I have a nebula subscription because there’s a handful of creators that I like.
Oh it goes deeper. I encourage you to read about the Trojan Room Coffee Pot at University of Cambridge. This was, essentially, the invention of the webcam.
Also, the Linux Coffee Howto
Boss gets a dollar, I get a dime…so I shitpost on company time.
A Gebra named Al, I think. I remember reading that in class in like eighth grade.
One of the best examples of how it’s expensive to be poor.
We got a BJs (regional wholesale club) membership around the time our first was born. It was worth it just for diapers and wipes. Hell, when he was on formula, a giant jar at BJs cost the same as a medium jar at the supermarket.
A lot of things were like this, but the best examples were the ones that take up the most space and either get used (comparatively) slowly or go bad relatively quickly. Like paper goods. Frozen anything. Fresh meat, produce, dairy.
But if you don’t have the space to store that stuff (and especially to stock up when there are coupons/sales), you’re missing out.
I’m thinking of buying a chest freezer just so I have a bunch of frozen pizzas on hand so we have no excuse to order delivery when we get home too tired to cook. On that use case alone, the freezer would probably pay for itself by 6 months, including electricity.
Can’t do that if you’ve got a 600sqft studio.
Sometimes one big purchase might be worth it to get a membership for. Like tires. How much you’d save on a set of tires would be less than the cost of a first-year membership, especially if you got a Groupon. But if you don’t have the space to store wholesale goods, it’s probably not even on your radar.
That happened to me on vacation, and why I was a member of the Houston Museum of Natural History (I think that’s what it was called), despite only being there one time and living like 1200mi away. For my family of four to go and park, tour the museum, see a planetarium show, etc, it was cheaper to become a member, even if we’d never be coming back during its term.
Is she…staring directly at the X-ray itself?
Like, I don’t pretend to understand how X-rays work. I know they emit a wavelength of light that goes through soft tissue like nothing.
And I know normally, nowadays (or at least before digital came around), there would be a piece of x-ray sensitive film on one side of the object, and a bulb that shone x-ray onto it, which would then be developed (i think in a process sort of similar to polaroid but I could be mistaken again).
The dentists panoramic X-ray that swung around your head like something out of a sci-fi VR movie was the coolest, imo.
But…it looks like she’s looking directly at his foot through a special lens? Does it just put some sort of filter between her and the X-ray that makes it look like a really bright flashlight through the fleshy bits between your fingers?
Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me.
I think an underlying personality disorder is a prerequisite, sure.
But does that mean that even somewhat self-made billionaires did not always start with good intentions?
I think the Steves…Jobs and Woz…are a good pair to look at for the kind of example in talking about. They had equal opportunities. In an alternate universe, Jobs could have ended up like Woz. Or Woz could have ended up like Jobs.
There’s an underlying catalyst that gets triggered and fed and allowed to grow. It starts as an untreated personality disorder…you mix that with money/power and a circle of yes-men and that’s a recipe for disaster.