Note that my-hero didn’t unfollow Grimes until this specific chosen moment. I hope he dies mad. Very mad. bridget-pride-stay-mad

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      I was a credulous bazinga brained “futurologist” myself, and even believed in the Singularity™. I am grateful that when I started to lose faith in the cult and walked away that my-hero was only starting to become DAE LE EPIC REAL LIFE TONY STARK in pop culture so I never actually prayed at his altars.

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      Hey at least you’re cool enough that you can admit it here, comrade. And at least you didn’t buy into his worse scams.

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          I remember customizing a dream te$la on my work computer almost a decade ago. Imagine being someone who invested money into his company and believing he would colonize mars.

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            Captures the energy of much more benign dreams of transitioning to a spacefaring species and turns it into grift. thurston

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              Captures the energy of much more benign dreams of transitioning to a spacefaring species and turns it into grift.

              Bittersweetly, I feel it would have been worse if he actually was some kind of actual genius bazinga that magically invented the means to bring late stage capitalism into space. If intelligent life was found out there, imagine the atrocities he’d want get off to. It’d be worse than Avatar Na’vi extermination “Humanity Fuck Yeah” greentext. frothingfash