ME5SENGER_24 ,

What the fuck psycho-babble bullshit did I just read?! Are there not random sharks, orcas or other wildlife in the SF area that are hungry??

Cavemanfreak ,

Hey, don't mix orcas in with sharks! They don't attack people. (their boats, close to the mediterranean, have not been as lucly lately though...)

Baguette ,

Sharks have a bad reputation just because of movies like jaws portraying them as killing machines, but in reality shark attacks are extremely uncommon worldwide. They're cool animals and the hate they get is pretty undeserved

If you want to look into shark statistics, here's one
https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/shark-attacks/yearly-worldwide-summary/

r00ty ,
@r00ty@kbin.life avatar

Pretty sure I read this book a few years ago. It was called Jennifer government.

MusketeerX ,

Damn, haven't thought about that book for many years.

The concept behind the story seems a lot less fictional/unlikely than it used to 20yrs ago!

BlackNo1 ,

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    BertramDitore ,
    @BertramDitore@lemmy.world avatar

    This is one of the more disturbing things I’ve read in a while, and there’s a genocide going on.

    It strikes me that this guy and his followers simply never grew up, because they didn’t have to. Instead of being faced with everyday challenges like the rest of us, their money could insulate them from any degree of hardship or friction. When you live a life where literally everything can be solved with your money, and you’re pretty much guaranteed to never run out of it, there’s no motivation for you to empathize with or even understand other people’s points of view, and thus this scary techno-authoritarianism is born.

    These are the people who will prevent us from making any socioeconomic progress. They actually want us all to wear colored shirts and be discriminated against based on our color. Their dystopian vision is genuinely the stuff of my nightmares.

    Cryophilia ,

    It's comical imo compared to the actually dangerous religious fascism that's currently threatening our democracy. Aww, litte baby tech bro wants to do a fascism, how cute.

    These tech bros are not going to win over cops. It's a ridiculous fantasy.

    Tech bros are just gross. This is a particularly gross one.

    Cosmos7349 ,

    Wait is this not satire?

    Evotech ,

    I eat pretty sure at "Gray pride parade'

    Haagel ,

    Here's an example of a corporation demonstrating positive socio-economic change:

    The Basque Country’s Mondragón Corporation is the globe’s largest industrial co-operative, with workers paying for the right to share in its profits – and its losses.

    I grew up in Silicon Valley and I can testify what you already know: venture capitalists and tech CEOs are just dumb kids with a lot of money. Many of them landed in their positions by chance alone. We are not obliged to give them more credence than anybody else.

    lemmyreader OP ,

    That's inspiring, thanks.

    avidamoeba ,
    @avidamoeba@lemmy.ca avatar

    Silicon Valley needs unions yesterday. Curbing these bros' enthusiasm via the ballot box alone would be very difficult given the amount of money they can deploy onto politicians. Without workers, they can't do anything.

    Cryophilia ,

    Politicians hate these tech bros too.

    Kaput ,

    That's good old fashion fashism.

    hoot ,

    By the beard, this is some next-level shit. Imagine listening to his jibber-jabber about Grays and thinking "that sounds like a good idea"?

    This new "ruling CEO" class is bloody dangerous.

    lemmyreader OP ,

    This new “ruling CEO” class is bloody dangerous.

    Definitely!

    moon ,

    The speech won roars from the audience at Y Combinator

    Starting to get why everyone else in the Bay area hates the tech people

    umbrella ,
    @umbrella@lemmy.ml avatar

    the burgeoise is not new, they just seem to be getting more sheltered and stupid.

    toothbrush ,
    @toothbrush@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

    This guy sounds like he snorted every 60s-70s sci fi at once and now his goal in life is creating the torment nexus. I had no idea that the CEO of Y Combinator(hacker news?) had "friends" like this?

    lemmyreader OP ,

    Yeah, I like to read Hacker news from time to time. Since reading this article I will surely remember that friendship.

    TheFonz ,

    Tan himself is pretty unhinged too

    aseriesoftubes ,

    The quotes in this article were some of the weirdest fucking things I’ve ever read. Is there something in the water in SF?

    tsonfeir ,
    @tsonfeir@lemm.ee avatar

    There’s something in the water. The air. The food. It’s lead. Microplastics. Carbon monoxide. “Forever Chemicals.” And void knows what else.

    It’s poisoning the brains of people everywhere.

    I_Fart_Glitter ,

    Sources and Toxicity of Mercury in the San Francisco Bay Area, Spanning California and Beyond:

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7519205/

    Ultragigagigantic ,
    @Ultragigagigantic@lemmy.world avatar

    I've read history, I know what pure unadulterated humanity is like.

    Getting our bodies clean (while important) won't cleanse our poisoned minds.

    tsonfeir ,
    @tsonfeir@lemm.ee avatar

    Oh for certain. Humanity is a pox upon this planet. Hopefully mother Earth solves the problem.

    yamanii ,
    @yamanii@lemmy.world avatar

    Nihilists should help by killing themselves first.

    tsonfeir ,
    @tsonfeir@lemm.ee avatar

    Or you?

    Neato ,
    @Neato@ttrpg.network avatar

    Privilege and money. When you are that rich you aren't really connected to people and humanity as a whole. No one tells you that what you're proposing is fucking insane and awful. Notice most of San Franciscoans aren't calling for stupid shit; they're just struggling to survive.

    kromem ,

    There's always people like this in various industries.

    What they are more than anything is self-promoters under the guise of ideological groupthink.

    They say things that their audience and network want to hear with a hyperbole veneer.

    I remember one of these types in my industry who drove me crazy. He was clearly completely full of shit, but the majority of my audience didn't know enough to know he was full of shit, and was too well connected to out as being full of shit without blowback.

    The good news is that they have such terrible ideas that they are chronically failures even if they personally fail upwards to the frustration of every critical thinking individual around them.

    Cryophilia ,

    Tech bros are gross caricatures of real people. Imagine 35 years of social ineptitude plus billions of dollars.

    The good news is they don't have any real power, they just have power fantasies.

    capt_wolf ,
    @capt_wolf@lemmy.world avatar

    This reads like someone played The Outer Worlds and was like... "You know what?"

    tsonfeir ,
    @tsonfeir@lemm.ee avatar

    Fucking Spacer’s Choice.

    yamanii ,
    @yamanii@lemmy.world avatar

    Great summary lmao

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