cygnus @ cygnus @lemmy.ca

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Not even close - megayachts are 9 figures and that doesn't include the absurd crewing and other operational costs. There's no way he could own let alone operate one on a $4M income.

Sure, but choosing to live on $160k/yr would be a bit much when you're starting with $1.6B. I can't fault him for still wanting to enjoy being wealthy instead of upper-middle-class and definitely don't think it's reasonable to complain that giving away 95% of his wealth is somehow not enough.

Americans will do anything but face the fact that a majority of them actually wanted Trump to be president. It can't be true, it's a conspiracy...

O’Kelley’s [sic] says billionaires represent “such an incredibly ludicrous waste of money in a world where there’s so many people who don’t have that,” but he says actually being one is also “othering”—separating you from the limits and consequences that define normal life. “There’s something about keeping connected to normalcy that is really, really important,” the entrepreneur explains. “I don’t want a yacht and I don’t ever want to be able to be without consequences. I think that’s the biggest risk, is, how can we be accountable when we have so much money we can buy anything?”

He gets it. Past a certain point, wealth erodes your humanity. I think I'd have picked $100M too - at a safe 4% return that's $4M per year, plenty for anybody to live on but not megayacht money.

120k in silion valley in particular is barely a livable wage. CoL is incredibly high there.

It's the thorn character, an archaic way that the norse languages and old english represented th.

Reject modernity, retvrn to El

I'm reminded of the quote by Heraclitus: "Though reason is common, most people live as though they had an understanding peculiar to themselves." Religion is not immune to this, with people often twisting it to suit their own goals.

I've been doxxed! Delete this immediately

As I get older I find it increasingly hard to get mad at them. It isn't their fault that their intellectual growth was stunted at the oppositional defiant stage - I blame society and their upbringing.

My head-cannon

Whoa, be careful where you point that thing!

Even regular laptops do just fine for less demanding or older titles!

"Hello, I want to play a game"

Or take screenshots and print them off and compare the two sheets of paper using a highlighter to mark them up. Easy!

To me they look like thy just had a fight and half-apologized but aren't over it yet.

Nah, it'll be the usual crypto and supplement scams that already pollute Twitter, Truth Social, etc.

And it was a Roman province for longer than either of those, so it should rightfully be given back to Italy.

Wow, you don't say.

The local Vox party posted on X: “Thanks to Vox the first measure to ban Islamic festivals in Spain’s public spaces has been passed. Spain is and will be forever the land of Christian people.”

What a bunch of Al-Andalosers.

Respect to his comrade still cranking his crossbow despite an arrow clean through his thigh.

Edit: I figured this was Crécy, and sure enough: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cr%C3%A9cy