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[–] [email protected] 94 points 1 week ago (9 children)

“I still think you should try to make an argument, and I think this is—there may be things wrong with our healthcare system, but you have to make an argument, and you have to try to find a way to convince people and change it by that,” Thiel eventually said.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 week ago (7 children)
[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 week ago

I could only find the big booty version when I stole it, haha

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago

Doc Manhattan has full molecular control over his body. he can be as thicc as he wants to be, atomically speaking.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You may not like it but this is what peak performance looks like

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

to signify that he is the hero in this situation

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The only debate I’ll have is which CEO to kill next.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Jesus what the fuck. That guy's eyes are abbout to roll back and turn red and he's going to grow a hundred pointy fangs and start shrieking.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He just looks like he's been binging for days.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah it's meth/coke and no sleep.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Isn't he the guy who proposed methhead Olympics?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

If it was founded I'm sure he'd be on the board

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

that ain't just a studio light causing that. i wonder what he's on...

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 week ago

cmon cardiac arrest! do your thing!

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Peter Andreas Thiel (born 11 October 1967) is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and political activist. A co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies, and Founders Fund, he was the first outside investor in Facebook. As of July 2024, Thiel had an estimated net worth of US$11.2 billion and was ranked 212th on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Huh I never knew anything about him except he supported stuff to make society worse and was a billionaire, yeah I repeat myself. I thought he'd be older like a Koch for some reason.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Imagine being worth 11 Billion (that we know of) and only being 212th on the billionaires list.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

This is fucked beyond end.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I say it every time, I am astounded the Tolkien estate allowed the use of the word Palantir...

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Id probably be drunk too

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 week ago

We tried every form of peaceful protest. They make protest illegal. They wouldn’t listen. The fact of the matter is we’re in a fight for the very survival of humanity and these people want to drive us all off a cliff.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You know, it doesn't even take 5 more CEOs being blue shelled to really scare them.

It really only takes 1 more, but that person happens to be a member of the security firm they hire to protect them.

At that point, the paranoia would eat them up way more than any future violence ever could, because it'd be impossible for them to feel safe with money.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

They have to succeed in defending from attacks every time, the slayers have to succeed only once.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 week ago (2 children)

He looks like the kind of guy who gets violent when drunk

and also when sober

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"I don't think....um..."

yeah I get that about you Thiel... beginning to wonder if you wanted to win this election at all.

also, this is the first time I've seen an anime-style head vein bulging IRL.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I dont think...um...*

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Thiel has a bunker in NZ that he plans to retreat to if "shit hits the fan".

How hard would it be to convince him to bug out and seal himself up in that place, cutting off all communications? Obviously, I'd prefer if he were dead, but sealed up in a hole in the ground terrified about what's happening in the outside world would be an acceptable compromise.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (2 children)

They’re absolute fools to think they can survive long in a bunker.

The only solution to survival is building community - a sustainable socialist society where people work together to live good lives and take of each other and our planet.

These absolute fools think they can turn the world to ash and go live in a concrete prison underground. Then emerge when? To what kind of existence?

If shit really hits the fan the first thing we’ll do is go after the bunkers and space ships.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, Douglas Rushkoff has a book about that, Survival of the Richest. For some reason, billionaires consulted him about their "shit hits the fan" plans, and he laughed at them and wrote a book about it. They had all these elaborate fantasies about how they were going to keep their security team loyal after civilization collapsed, or about how they'd avoid having any humans working for them and use robots instead. But, they hadn't even thought about the most basic things.

Like, one guy had an underground bunker complete with a swimming pool (or at least plans for one). Rushkoff said to the guy that his neighbor had a pool and frequently had contractors over to clean it, or replace parts, etc. He asked what the guy was going to do about basic pool maintenance. The guy got out a notepad and wrote "get replacement parts for the pool" or something. He basically hadn't even thought 1 step beyond the initial idea.

You're right that the best plan for an apocalyptic scenario is to have useful skills that other people will appreciate, so that you can be a valuable, contributing member of their community. And no, billionaire CEOs, "leadership skills" don't count. Or, if they do, the leaders will either be strongmen who are personally very comfortable with using violence to ensure everyone falls in line, or they'll be very empathetic people who resolve disputes and make sure everyone works in harmony. It won't be people who make "cut-throat decisions" but who faint at the sight of actual blood.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Yikes. Watch the short video… he is not okay.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's really hard to watch. Def. not ok. If I was standing next to a person who was acting, talking like that I would be wondering what's really going on here. If it was someone I knew, cared about, I'd be thinking of questions to draw out what got him to that state. And how to walk him back to normal. I've never heard Thiel speak before, is he always like that? Weird.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I don’t know much about Ketamine other than it is Elon’s drug of choice. But I know Elon and Thiel are in cahoots since forever. Is this a WAY too much Ketamine symptom? Bro couldn’t form a sentence.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Nah this isn't ketamine. Ketamine disassociates you from everything. Maybe it's a smallish dose, but he's pretty sweaty, so probably uppers.

This looks like a come down from a coke binge, maybe some meth thrown in. Hell, maybe he did ketamine and some coke after to try to balance it.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Agreed!! Anyone who hasn't watched it yet is def in for a treat. Dude is definitely not ok 🍳

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It would be great if this dude just destroys his liver or kidneys with whatever ghoulish, experimental life extension treatments he's constantly trying...

And I mean like in a way that makes it so they can't just replace them. What a wonderful Christmas gift that would be.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago (8 children)

This is what peak CEO looks like. Anything less is phoning it in.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago

ItsAfraid.jpg

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago

Drugs are a hell of a drug…

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

Hey look it's one of the immigrants that's actually ruining this country

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Where's Hulk Hogan when you need him?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why, did he find a redeeming quality under one of his many very hard to rip off shirts?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

He's fucked up on something and should never had agreed to a live interview. Jesus Christ some of these people are out of it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

My first thought is that man is severely constipated and pushing as hard as he can.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

His fucking veins on the side of his head are bulging. He's scared shitless.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Did his blood boy suffer from class solidarity?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Did he have a stroke on tv, wtf

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