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Kory wrote:
18 Oct 2022, 6:56pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
18 Oct 2022, 6:43pm
Kory wrote:
18 Oct 2022, 6:40pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
18 Oct 2022, 4:55pm
A healthy society would shove them both into a volcano and then shoot the volcano into the sun.
According to author Devin Gordon who appeared in the BBC‘s new docuseries, The Elon Musk Show, the SpaceX and Tesla CEO believed that Grimes was his “perfect companion” but not “real”.

“She [Grimes] told me repeatedly that Musk has this theory of her that she’s not real,” Gordon told the TV show via Cosmopolitan. “That she’s a simulation who was created by him and exists in his cerebral cortex as sort of the perfect companion to him. Which sounds a little crazy and maybe even a little creepy, except, she agrees with it. She said she does feel like this simulation which was perfectly created for him.”
https://www.nme.com/news/music/elon-mus ... ed-3330301
I'm getting pretty close to wishing this motherfucker dies before Trump or McConnell.
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Agreed, I can't even watch that one anymore. Not least because he's fucking terrible at voice acting.
Which is a shame because it's so rich with Dan Harmon's contempt for heist movies. And Rick's line, "Your boos mean nothing; I've seen what makes you cheer." Such a beautiful fuck you to toxic fandom.
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It's completely unsurprising that the world's richest man would be a ridiculous delusional conman and right wing freak.
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Kory wrote:
18 Oct 2022, 6:40pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
18 Oct 2022, 4:55pm
A healthy society would shove them both into a volcano and then shoot the volcano into the sun.
According to author Devin Gordon who appeared in the BBC‘s new docuseries, The Elon Musk Show, the SpaceX and Tesla CEO believed that Grimes was his “perfect companion” but not “real”.

“She [Grimes] told me repeatedly that Musk has this theory of her that she’s not real,” Gordon told the TV show via Cosmopolitan. “That she’s a simulation who was created by him and exists in his cerebral cortex as sort of the perfect companion to him. Which sounds a little crazy and maybe even a little creepy, except, she agrees with it. She said she does feel like this simulation which was perfectly created for him.”
https://www.nme.com/news/music/elon-mus ... ed-3330301
I'm getting pretty close to wishing this motherfucker dies before Trump or McConnell.
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https://www.wired.com/story/overemployment-work/
Counterintuitively, proponents say the idea of working more—and the obligation to, in theory, work 80 or more hours per week—is not just financially freeing, but emotionally and professionally liberating as well.
lol fuck you
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20 Oct 2022, 2:21pm
https://www.wired.com/story/overemployment-work/
Counterintuitively, proponents say the idea of working more—and the obligation to, in theory, work 80 or more hours per week—is not just financially freeing, but emotionally and professionally liberating as well.
lol fuck you
In as counterintuitive a way as possible

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Low Down Low wrote:
20 Oct 2022, 2:47pm
Kory wrote:
20 Oct 2022, 2:21pm
https://www.wired.com/story/overemployment-work/
Counterintuitively, proponents say the idea of working more—and the obligation to, in theory, work 80 or more hours per week—is not just financially freeing, but emotionally and professionally liberating as well.
lol fuck you
In as counterintuitive a way as possible
So counterintuitive that it's not even real!
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Kory wrote:
20 Oct 2022, 2:21pm
https://www.wired.com/story/overemployment-work/
Counterintuitively, proponents say the idea of working more—and the obligation to, in theory, work 80 or more hours per week—is not just financially freeing, but emotionally and professionally liberating as well.
lol fuck you
You're risking the classic deathbed regret: "I should have spent more time at the office."
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Kory wrote:
20 Oct 2022, 2:21pm
https://www.wired.com/story/overemployment-work/
Counterintuitively, proponents say the idea of working more—and the obligation to, in theory, work 80 or more hours per week—is not just financially freeing, but emotionally and professionally liberating as well.
lol fuck you
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Kory wrote:
20 Oct 2022, 2:21pm
https://www.wired.com/story/overemployment-work/
Counterintuitively, proponents say the idea of working more—and the obligation to, in theory, work 80 or more hours per week—is not just financially freeing, but emotionally and professionally liberating as well.
lol fuck you
This seems somewhat common. I interviewed a guy who said he was going to do this without saying it explicitly. I've also had people tell me that if I wanted to work a 2nd job they could set me up. One guy said he's basically on call.

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Seems like maybe the wages are too low!
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eumaas wrote:
21 Oct 2022, 7:49am
Seems like maybe the wages are too low!
We're not interested in hiring people who only care about money; we want them to work for love.
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Straight in for the kill
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
21 Oct 2022, 10:04am
eumaas wrote:
21 Oct 2022, 7:49am
Seems like maybe the wages are too low!
We're not interested in hiring people who only care about money; we want them to work for love.
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Kory wrote:
21 Oct 2022, 6:18pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
21 Oct 2022, 10:04am
eumaas wrote:
21 Oct 2022, 7:49am
Seems like maybe the wages are too low!
We're not interested in hiring people who only care about money; we want them to work for love.
"We're like a family here."
"Me, I'm the abusive father."
"I never doubted myself for a minute for I knew that my monkey-strong bowels were girded with strength, like the loins of a dragon ribboned with fat and the opulence of buffalo dung." - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft

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