well, before the black monolith first appeared, mostly fighting against other tribes for positioning near the watering hole

the cartoon

yes! But also they get unfiltered access to ours, which I think might be the important factor in their madness now not looking 'special'

Archer rarely good news either

Less Howard Hughes and more your demented relative, only they have more money than God. Seriously, read an Ackman {other examples redacted on advice of counsel} post with your prior knowledge of him shut off. It's just the family member going off at the Christmas table.

>> one consequence here (and really an undercovered aspect of the long 2010s) is how the same unattainable people now randomly get absolutely insane from the Internet juices, in exactly the same way as a nobody drawn at random from the similar demographic distribution

There is a case to be made that a feature of modernity is despite huge (and perhaps rising) life station gaps, the everyday consuming experience of unattainable people is the same as ours. As per the Warhol (iirc) quote, Liz Taylor drinks the same Coke as us. Elon is tweeting from the same iPhone >>

as many have said elsewhere, it's that but it also seems way personal and looking at behaviour patterns of similar people going down that route, I'll take the under on 30-40%

I thought this joke, on this point, was nails bsky.app/profile/aaro...

+1. The people I was with looked at me like a freak when I was explaining that these things are actually a huge deal.