• 9point6@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    Let’s not forget Peter Thiel

    make sure there’s space in the rocket we’ll be firing into the sun for him too

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      It’s much easier from a delta-v point of view, and has much the same effect lethality wise, to fire them into Jupiter or even Venus.

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        I’ll grant that it would be easier, but as a counterpoint, do we care if it successfully hits the sun? I’m pretty sure they’d die even if we missed.

    • Jo Miran@lemmy.mlOPM
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      For sure but Thiel, Musk and the rest of the silicon valley are nowhere near as scary as Ellison. They are loud and clumsy buffoons. Even now there’s very little coverage putting a spotlight on Ellison’s slow and quiet takeover of American media, even though he’s the second richest person on the planet.

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        From what I’ve read, Thiel is possibly the most dangerous of them all - in a nutshell, he’s a fucking psycho, working in the shadows.

        He’s currently promoting the dangers of the anti-christ coming to disrupt what he considers technological ‘progress’…he’s even suggested Greta Thunberg is the anti-christ!

        That might sound mad, but I suspect there is method in his madness.

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          I am less afraid of a raving lunatic than I am a highly intelligent, determined, ruthless and calculating son of a removed. Thiel’s Palantir is dangerous but Oracle is far more pervasive.

          The right answer is to drop them both into the volcano.

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        100%. Musk is obviously known by everyone at this point. Thiel tries to fly under the radar but is increasingly well known. Ellison is basically unknown outside of tech nerds and people who are terminally doom scrolling

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        I am personally not specifically worried about how far past the “holy shit they should disappear into the sun” line each of them are, or their rankings relative to that. Just that there are many past that line, and should they be yeeted into the giant blast furnace in the sky, the world would be better off.

        Edit: Oh ffs autocorrect. Though if I turn it off I just end up with mpmdrmdr.