He’s completely missing that betting on something like the pope isn’t like a random or skill based outcome. The cardinals could literally choose to pick based on the betting markets or even to profit from them if they really wanted to. Polymarket is smooth brain degeneracy for many, many reasons, but this is smooth brain degeneracy turned up to 11.
Imagine being such a degenerate that you bet on the Pope.
Amphetamines
It worked in Blazing Saddles 🤷
I mean this is like saying “I only agree with that one thing Hitler did” and then trying to explain to everyone why you felt the need to defend Hitler. I mean sure, there were probably a handful of policies the Nazis got right, but people are going to look at you funny if you go around phrasing it like that. Especially, in this case, if that “one thing” was actually just praise for shitty authoritarian policies.
This. It’s amazing how naive people here can be just because they fanboyed some random CEO before they were revealed to be problematic.
Working in a remote environment
At a certain point you get over the ritual, and the ability to get high on a ski lift or an airplane bathroom kind of takes precedent over the “experience” and becomes its own subversive ritual in its own right.
Explaining to my parent why the knives were all sooty and burned up because we were cooking dinner and someone left it sitting on the burner.
I sort of can’t imagine a situation where I could obtain a mcnugget but not a soda can or some foil.
Even if a school is completely funded, fundraising still pays for things above and beyond what any funding buys. Elite private schools still do fundraising drives. Nobody has ever said “you know what, we’ve run out of things this school could spend money on.”
Shoulders of giants, indeed
The biggest savings being time, and this doesn’t really hit home until you realize that you never have to divert to a gas station during rush hour because you can’t put it off for a sixth day in a row. For all the discussion about how you might have to spend an extra ten minutes charging on a 400 mile road trip, very few people talk about the literal hours saved never visiting a gas station the rest of the time.
It’s partially an ego thing for Musk. I work with tons of these dunning Kruger techbro types who think they know better than everyone else and will eat a lot of shit to “prove” it. They have a chip on their shoulder because they think their engineering degree should give them some mythical status and get increasingly agitated when nobody fucking cares.
Don’t forget calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. The Gaza virtue signallers really hated that.
This exists pretty much everywhere in the world.
I was in DC for Trump’s first Reich and it was all just MAGA hats going around acting like they were triggering the libs by buying overpriced shit on the mall. But in general, they are shit people so they make for shit tourists as well.
Honestly a lot of people in this thread clearly don’t get out much. There’s plenty of high enr boutique chocolatiers in the US, they just aren’t on the shelves at Walmart.
This lemming eating beans