• Juiceyb [any]
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    1 year ago

    So the show Silicon Valley was a documentary more than a comedy show. Like I have seen it multiple times now and I am starting to get its point more and more especially as it comes to capital. No wonder our boy recommended it michael-laugh RIP bud

    • notceps [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      No that's another vampire guy I think they based it on Peter Thiel that has just random young guys give him blood, wonder how many tech guys are doing it.

      • GaveUp [she/her]
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        1 year ago

        Quite a bit, you can get it commercially and it only costs a couple hundred per appointment per month (for the lowest tier of blood) and some health insurances cover it after deductibles

        It is a bit more expensive to reserve a personal blood boy/girl but you can choose the exact traits you want from the person you're getting it from and is worth it imo

        I personally have a cute fit blonde blood girl with sparkling light blue eyes to help with my feminization process

      • Juiceyb [any]
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        1 year ago

        Oh yeah, but I always saw the characters of that show to be composite of real-life people. And as composite characters, they aren't specific to one person but the whole industry as a whole. Gavin Belson is a Steve Jobs but we are seeing he's more of a Musk-type person. I would argue that Mike Judge made these characters out of the people who are in the industry rather than one specific person. Because this industry is going to collapse and the people who collapse it are going to teach in a prestigious university where they only perpetuate their bullshit and it becomes a cycle of capital. Today it's the internet and tomorrow whatever comes after that gets destroyed by capital's very extractive nature.

    • mittens [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Which boy recommended it. When Mike Judge gets it, he gets it. When he doesn't he makes fuck awful shit like Idiocracy.

      • Juiceyb [any]
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        1 year ago

        Michael Brooks, on his show. I would say that whether Mike Judge knew it or not, it really shows the bullshit of the Tech Industry in the early 2010s and even now because it is based on the industry rather than the people. It gets you with the people but the boring parts are what really makes the show relevant to this day. I didn't understand the whole AI debate until the second time I watched the show during Covid.

  • betelgeuse [comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    You know when conservatives post those awful boiled meat images and pretend it's gourmet cuisine? This guy is the health version of that. He's the color of boiled chicken.

    All those supplements and lotions and creams and serums are just leftover products. They don't exist because they work and the people who make them want to give you something that works. It's that there was a bunch of spare goo from some other industrial process and they found a way to package it and sell it. And even for the things that are honestly grown, they will quickly become diluted and adulterated because all mass products must become cheaper to make over time.

    The rich can't live forever because the system that creates them will end up pricing them out of immortality. The science will be junk science because actual studies were sold out to be marketing for dubious products. The doctors will be paid to say whatever.

  • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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    1 year ago

    You got two choices in the dystopia kiddo: a.) be a blood bag slave to a local warlord (who's also your dad) b.) work on a water caravan

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  • a_blanqui_slate [none/use name, any]
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    1 year ago

    > be me

    > year is 2053

    > mechaBernie's envelopment of the capital is nearly complete

    > President Buttigieg vows to calmly and civilly fight to the bitter end

    > Kissinger has flown back to his 1950's moon base.

    > Steiner doesn't attack

    > 253rd Mechanized Posting division overruns Discourse positions in San Francisico Bay Area

    > Get back to rear area after 36 hours of heavy fighting

    > sit down to eat some rich

    > Holy shit this guy tastes just like veal.

    • PZK [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      President Buttigieg vows to calmly and civilly fight to the bitter end

      If you mean by nuclear hellstorm nuke to protect capitalism, then yes. I would not be surprised to see the U.S. nuke itself if it meant protecting capitalism.

  • GarfieldYaoi [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    "It's not blood libel when WE do it!" EVERY antisemitic accusation is a confession.

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    1 year ago

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  • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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    1 year ago

    Okay, so here's the thing. The dad's image is photoshopped to absolute shit.

      • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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        1 year ago

        I mean, I'm sure he does. But his head is too small and all the coloring is very weird, particularly relative to his son.

        maybe there's something about protein levels in the blood?

        It's pure hookem.

        I've heard that protein levels in blood fall pretty drastically when you hit 30's and again in the 50's and 70's

        Certainly possible, but transfusions don't solve aging. This is a symptom of a decline in function, not a cause.

      • mar_k [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Lmao moisturizing can make your skin healthier but it's not gonna make you THAT much younger, he's 45. Not the only thing at play here considering he does a lot more than blood transfusions and moisturizer, including taking 100 supplements a day and devoting an incredible amount of time to anything anti-aging you can think of.

        But that photo does actually seem shopped. His age is more apparent in other photos:

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      • biden [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Retinoids (especially tretinoin) will do a lot more than moisturizer

  • PZK [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Me knowing that no matter what billionaires desperately try to do, father time wins.wholesome