• I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world
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    Because there is an impending global catastrophe they have determined is unavoidable and unpreventable that they have kept under wraps due to the inevitable collapse of society once people learn of it. This is why there are no long term plans for anything anymore. Because there won’t be a long term.

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      1 hour ago

      Because there is an impending global catastrophe they have determined is unavoidable and unpreventable caused through their greed and selfishness

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    Come on. If you had all the money in the world you’d probably build one too, tbh. I know i would. I would build a freaking underground network like extra homes. It would be awesome

    but yeah, zuck probably is doing it for evil reasons.

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    This delights me… to be a fly on the wall of that bunker!

    Should he ever use it, he’ll find out that locking himself in with his staff was a massive error in judgment. They will tear him apart.

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      Should he ever use it, he’ll find out that locking himself in with his staff was a massive error in judgment. They will tear him apart.

      I’m sure these billionaires have found a solution that makes perfect sense to them.

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    Its not really all of a sudden though. These assholes have been building their bunkers for a decade. All part of their schemes.

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    People refusing to work for them would put a quick end to them.

    They need us way more than we need them. They’re the parasites, we’re the hosts.

    If you know someone who works directly under a billionaire’s umbrella, shame them. Make it uncool to work at Meta, or SpaceX, selling Teslas, or Amazon at any level. Make it uncool to work on their yachts, or in their homes, or as their driver, etc.

    We DO have the power, we need to exercise it together.

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      I 90% agree with, but given the state of the economy, lots of people gotta pay the bills and finding another job is difficult if not impossible right now. And that’s exactly by design. Not to mention working inside one of these companies comes with the potential for sabotage. Maybe lets not shame people who don’t get the luxury of choice right now.

      And of course, encourage union participation as well as any form of sabotage that one can perform that won’t end in the death or harm of innocents.

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      Make it uncool to work on their yachts, or in their homes, or as their driver, etc.

      Hang on a sec, some of these jobs come with the opportunity to, uh, do something very cool.

       

       

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    Zuck building a bunker for his ex-military head of security who will murder him instantly.

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      They are not living in reality anymore. There is something within these Techbros that denies consensus reality and substitutes some kind of simulation of their own.

      That’s the reason this guy can build a bunker on an island close to the water on a volcano.

      There is also some interesting symbolism in there.

      They feel the need to hide from the people, because they know they would face the fate of Johan de Witt if the people ever found out what they did to them.

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        There’s something that happens to your brain when you get lots of money it seems.

        Sam Bankman-Fried the disgraced crypto entrepreneur was an effective altruist with a few of his coworkers and their goal was helping people. I was reading up on them and it was initially about feeding people and earning money to give to others. When they started getting more and more money they were like: “what if there’s a zombie outbreak?” Obviously, we’re really smart and society needs people like us to survive so we should be spending money on private islands and having our own country to make sure we can keep humanity going or some shit. It was weird.

        Despite what anything thinks about Bill Burr now … I think he had a really good point about these “end of the world” catastrophes – I simply don’t want to be alive for any of them. I don’t wanna be scrounging around the remnants of humanity with a dying ecosystem and dwindling human race.

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      There are no active volcanos on Kauai; they are only active above the hot spot which Kauai has been moving away from for about 5 million years.

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        Hot spots are by nature in constant flux. Kauai isn’t nearly far enough from the main plume to say for absolute certainty that a flare in the mantle couldn’t cause the dormant volcano there to reactivate. At the very least there are seismic events to consider. There was a 6.0 quake about a week ago just outside of Kona. That is plenty to potentially cause a landslide of cave-in on Kauai. These could also cause tsunamis which could cause all sorts of issues for a bunker.

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    The only satisfaction I’m getting out of any of this bullshit is the knowledge that these fuckers will at best live a few weeks longer than me after it all goes to shit. In that time they’ll have plenty of opportunity to reflect on where they went wrong.

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      No they won’t. Locking yourself in a bunker is about the worst thing you can do in a major crisis. At worst, you are locking yourself in with your own murderers, at best your supplies will dwindle until you have nothing and die. Real life crisis scenarios prove that peppers are only the haves for about an extra week before they join the have-nots. The only way through hardship is together.

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        Real life crisis scenarios prove that peppers are only the haves for about an extra week before they join the have-nots

        After having pissed off the have-nots by being insufferable selfish assholes…

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      And, while they have the resources to do something to prevent it, they chose instead to make the situation worse.

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        Because they only care about their own well-being, as long as they have their money, stuff and slaves everything else can burn.