ZMoney

joined 2 years ago
[–] ZMoney@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

"In the middle of 1985, I got an invitation from Adnan Khashoggi, a Saudi Arabian and a billionaire at the time, to come to his apartment in Olympic Tower. I went, and while I didn’t particularly go for the apartment, I was impressed by the huge size of its rooms. Specifically, it had the biggest living room I’d ever seen. I had plenty of space in my triplex, but I figured, What the hell? Why shouldn’t I have exactly the apartment I wanted—particularly when I built the whole building?

I decided to take over one of the other apartments on the top three floors and combine it with mine. It has taken almost two years to renovate, but I don’t believe there is any apartment anywhere in the world that can touch it. And while I can’t honestly say I need an eighty-foot living room, I do get a kick out of having one."

Guess who said that.

[–] ZMoney@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Artificial general intelligence built by people who don't have any. Sounds great, give them half a trillion dollars!

[–] ZMoney@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Sometimes I think Lemmy is an echo chamber but then I hear a phrase like I used to show hogs.

[–] ZMoney@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (7 children)

It's weird because Xi is a chemical engineer. Putin and Kim I understand being gullible and clueless about scientific matters but I don't expect the same from Xi.

[–] ZMoney@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't want to type stuff into a command line. Like ever. If this is possible then I'm in.

[–] ZMoney@lemmy.world 28 points 2 months ago (11 children)

This might be when I finally jump ship and go to Linux. I should do Mint, right?

[–] ZMoney@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

There's a whole section in The Art of the Deal devoted to how a Saudi guy had a nicer apartment than him and how he built a whole apartment building so he could have a nicer $50 million penthouse.

[–] ZMoney@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago (5 children)

The fake reason he gives for this suicidal policy is aesthetics, right? So he prefers the sight of a coal fired power plant to wind turbines? Or should I just give up trying to understand?

[–] ZMoney@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

The thing all of you militarist posters have in common is you're completely convinced that you have the correct position and you manage to come off as arrogant as well. Enjoy your globe-spanning military industrial complex that wages forever wars and sanctions genocides.

[–] ZMoney@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

What part of having Japan's military annihilated, their cities firebombed, and their population starving is "letting them roll over us"? The war was won already. Why was it necessary to carry out a land invasion?

view more: next ›