Okay not sure about this based on on the other responses but...sure why not, so here goes:
"It looks like you already have".:-P
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But somehow he still managed to pay himself $193 million - it boggles the mind, does it not, how he can pay himself >3x the amount that he LOST!?
[snorts] Floridans don't want to take care of their kids during the daytime.
What "experimentation" is being done here? We KNOW what's likely to happen - there is no real knowledge to be gained from this?
Two heads? And no butt?
I would believe it more if it was an animal with 2.3i butts. :-P
Now, I know what you are thinking - that doesn't exi... (hold my beer):
I should probably read that - I figured that I get the gist having read Animal Farm but hey, if we are going to live out the irl version then it might be good to at least say that I read about it first!:-P
It is fascinating how some people see far (ahead), by virtue of seeing clear (to the soul/center of the human condition) - technology may change but we don't seem to. Asimov, Jules Verne, George Orwell, they are like techno- or cultural prophets, not that we listened, sadly:-(.
C.S. Lewis (Chronicles of Narnia) in addition to being a christian apologist also wrote philosophy about how Hitler was able to influence Europe during WWII, and I found that just fascinating e.g. if you avoid ever saying a thing but instead just act as if it is true then it is a way to avoid it being questioned. Evil people have access to so many tricks that a free & just society would never condone using (another big one lately is misinformation), nor would it even so much work in the other direction b/c getting people to question things is a major bonus in such a society so it's at best an anti-pattern there, and yet I wish we were much more aware of them b/c otherwise it is like facing a pathogen with no immune system.
Anyway thank you for reminding me of those quotes:-).
Yup. And look how much the CEOs of like Alphabet, Apple, Meta, etc. are making by comparison. Although most of it is stock so... this sounds like literal fraud then, meant to make the company look far more "profitable" than it actually is (though ianal). Wouldn't it be funny if he went to jail? :-P (haha j/k, rich people don't go to jail, nor suffer consequences of any kind:-|)
He is telling you to run away - do it, do it now! :-P
^ THIS - whoops, old habits die hard.
/s btw, b/c I've mostly only ever done that ironically (iirc)
Okay, so you may not even think that's funny, but at least if you get mad, there's a chance that I would LISTEN and we could have a REAL discussion about that! I've changed people's minds here and vice versa, and yeah been brought down a peg or two, b/c as you said these are actually people.
Tbf Reddit has some irl people too, mixed in there, but they are... of a different kind. Some are indistinguishable from bots, while others may as well be.
I don't want to be social media-ist - if it was merely "another place" then that's entirely their call, to live however they want, but dayum, it really is different over there, especially after all the best people left, though it was becoming more that way all the time even before that.
Same - well, at least in regard to r/popular, though I did keep going back to the small niche sub that I used to mod and felt a connection to, but while I couldn't call it "dead" now, it definitely does not seem as vibrant as it used to be, and nowadays I only check it perhaps once a week, and haven't commented in a LONG while. Just people trying to drum up content, sorta like here except more inane posts there vs. just silence here. I prefer here regardless:-P.
A couple of months ago, r/popular seemed mostly people arguing with bots - or else I couldn't tell the difference and that is just as bad - while in my smaller sub at least it is people wishing they had something to say, and arguing with what looks like literal and actual children.
Wherever the actual content creators went, they don't seem to be on Reddit anymore.
I think that one was inevitable, due to humans encroaching upon the bats territory and how fast it mutates - people were warning about it being inevitable over a decade ago. But yeah, climate change could bring about the next one. (Link)