#2261

yeah, remember reading an article on his dad and finding him terrifying. Just the heartwarming rags to riches story of emerald mines and child slave labour that meant he could build rockets!
I also always thought he created paypal, but he had another company that they merged with.

#2262

Also he was one of the group who set up Paypal along with noted nasty piece of work Peter Thiel (one of Trump’s big financial backers). They then both got rich by selling it on to ebay.

Peter Thiel is a weird guy too- an out gay man who financially supports far right candidates who think he doesn’t deserve any rights. He also took down (mostly left-wing) Gawker Media by helping Hulk Hogan sue them for huge amounts of money over a leaked sex tape.

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#2263

Yeah and at least Elon used his paypal millions to build magic cars and spaceships, Thiel used his to found friends of the thread Palantir, data analytics firm for the CIA and cops the world over

#2264

When you have to reach the levels of ‘He’s not Peter Thiel’ you know you’re defending the indefensible

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#2265

They took different routes in their attempts to reach supervillain status

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#2266

Is there a lower limit on revolut that prevents you taking out your cash or something?

Asking because a friend had some Gamestop shares and wanted to take her money out but couldn’t. It’s second hand info so I’m not sure what the reason was exactly. Coincidentally this was the day before the whole gamestop run took off.

#2267

Seems that the House are going to absolutely roast Robinhood for this by the sounds of it.

#2268
#2269

I hope they give it back

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#2270

This is what I think is kind of incredible about Thiel, at least Musk pretends to come from a vaguely altruistic place.

Thiel writes articles about how expanding democratic participation in government was/is a mistake and finances programs to elongate the lifespan of wealthy people by taking plasma transfusions from youthful volunteers

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#2271

Oh look the blood of the young adrenachrome narrative placed on liberals by the trumpian Qanon tribes is actually being done in a different way by trumpians.
I know i’m a broken record but if you want to know what the worst people are doing just look at the most batshit conspiracy theory change it a little bit and you’ve got the answer.

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#2272

might start a Silicon Valley rewatch tonight

#2273

I actually completely forgot that this was one of the theories the Qanon people were on about :eyes: incredible.

#2274

Young Peter Thiel: Watches Superman
Young Peter Thiel: There’s something to this Lex Luthor guy, y’know?

#2275

Take.

#2276

Bitcoin’s on a normal one. Crash this weekend I think.

#2277

It’s quite fun to tag an alt coin on Twitter with something slightly disparaging about it, like questioning its utility or the fact it isn’t pumping and getting some incredibly angry alt bros within minutes pile in and get very, very angry. Some dude made a video reply.
It’s odd people being seriously wedded and passionate about cryptotulips :joy:

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#2278

$202k

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#2279

come on man, that really isn’t cool. I know I’d be feeling sick asf without people sticking the knife in for a laugh

#2280

I’m just posting pretty much the same thing as safebruv did :man_shrugging: