Mark Zuckerberg is building a 5,000 square foot doomsday bunker for $270 million. Bezos' new mega yacht can stay at sea for months on end. What do these gentleman's long-term investments tell you about their views of what our future society might look like?

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Why? It's great engagement on social media. Stated otherwise, it's a license for the tech oligarchs to print money. Our culture is a gameshow and we've all been played by the world's corniest gameshow host and his billionerd patrons.

Word.

Nah. Accepting that I was a gluttonous POS is much easier than that kind of penance. Good job, tho.

Just when you thought advanced terminal capitalism was the endgame, behold: techno-feudalism!

I am cool with oligarchs having experimental rocket vanity projects....so long as they are aboard the rocket.

"per se" when used incorrectly as a linguistic filler.

Don't act as if his obituary isn't going to be a self aggrandizing piece of fan fiction penned by Don Jr. as a petulant last word to "own the libs" on his way out.

Darth Grifter....but let's be honest: the dude is much more of a Hutt than he is a Sith.

Filing for pre-action discovery rather than just filing suit suggests Drake's team doesn't know what evidence UMG has of his pedophilia. Once they file, truth is an absolute defense to defamation and all of it comes out.

The LOTR trilogy, the Alchemist, Crime and Punishment, 1984, and 100 Years of Solitude.

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More acutely, children need to be taught at an early age how to responsibly consume media. An informed citizenry now means the abilities to identify biases and motivations underlying the media they are consuming and to critically engage with it.

Culture war is a symptom of inequity. Fighting Culture war issues directly is like fighting a ghost. Only through a singleminded focus on combating inequity will culture war issues lose salience.

If we're *really* serious about immigration, it would make more sense to impose more strict criminal penalties for hiring undocumented immigrants. Mass deportation is like fighting a war on drugs by ignoring dealers. You have to address the incentive structure that drives immigration.

That obituary is going to be so batshit crazy and chalk full of so many superlatives that even Joseph Stalin would blush.

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