Related: Lex Fridman just dropped a 4 hour podcast with Durov https://youtu.be/qjPH9njnaVU?si=_pkEi-SDML08AASJ
you don't have to listen - get google gemini to make a transcript & summarize key points.
I'm turning 41, but I don't feel like celebrating
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Re: I'm turning 41, but I don't feel like celebrating
#122i haven't celebrated a birthday in decades. i think prince or the artist formerly known as is right. you were born on a day years ago, that's not the same day as the yearly rotation around the sun even if it matches silly marks on a calender.
Re: I'm turning 41, but I don't feel like celebrating
#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
The answer is, unfortunately, yes. The problem is the court of public opinion can easily be swayed by insulting someone, and if that someone can not insult back, that's a political instrument that gives asymmetrical power to the current rulers.
I'm guess I'm too European for this discussion to make a lot of sense.
This shit was literally invented in Europe.
> No one can say that your propaganda is too crude or low or brutal, or that it is not decent enough, for those are not the relevant criteria. Its purpose is not to be decent, or gentle, or weak, or modest; it is to be successful.
From https://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/goeb54...
Re: I'm turning 41, but I don't feel like celebrating
#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
The CEO of that healthcare company probably thought the same thing.
Yeah, that sure showed those greedy healthcare CEOs in the US. The US almost managed to get universal healthcare out of it. Sarcasm aside, what kind of argument is that? And how is it related to what I'm saying?
> Yeah, that sure showed those greedy healthcare CEOs in the US.
Yeah, it scared the hell out of them: https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulat...
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/unitedhealth-spent-1-7-millio...
... avoiding losing C-level executives could very quickly become an exercise in corporate cost avoidance, as the expenses of additional layers of security cost more than a change in corporate behavior... where paying more attention to customers reduces shareholder risk in executive turnover.
Re: I'm turning 41, but I don't feel like celebrating
#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
He mentions on his recent Lex Fridman podcast episode[1] that he lives in Dubai, U.A.E. He expressed fear about France's actions against him. 1. https://youtu.be/qjPH9njnaVU
He does have a French passport (in addition to his other passports) but does not live there. This may be the source of the confusion.
I mean the arrest. But as I just learned [1] he is being allowed to make periodic travels to Dubai since recently. So things got better for him now, but that's just since July 2025. Before that he was physically staying in France since August 2024, which I would call as "living" as it's the place where he spent most of his time.
[1] https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250619-france-soften...
Re: I'm turning 41, but I don't feel like celebrating
#126I agree with every word Pavel put there - and what is most threatening ... we are about to lose it.
Why?
Normies.
They were 'played' in C19 time - and they will be 'played' next time ... and EVERY next time.
There are just too many IGNORANT people out there that trust TV.
Re: I'm turning 41, but I don't feel like celebrating
#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm guess I'm too European for this discussion to make a lot of sense.
This shit was literally invented in Europe. > No one can say that your propaganda is too crude or low or brutal, or that it is not decent enough, for those are not the relevant criteria. Its purpose is not to be decent, or gentle, or weak, or modest; it is to be successful. From https://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/goeb54...
This discussion has officially fallen off any reasonable rails.
Re: I'm turning 41, but I don't feel like celebrating
#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, that sure showed those greedy healthcare CEOs in the US. The US almost managed to get universal healthcare out of it. Sarcasm aside, what kind of argument is that? And how is it related to what I'm saying?
> Yeah, that sure showed those greedy healthcare CEOs in the US. Yeah, it scared the hell out of them: https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulat... https://finance.yahoo.com/news/unitedhealth-spent-1-7-millio... ... avoiding losing C-level executives could very quickly become an exercise in corporate cost avoidance, as the expenses of additional layers of security cost more than a change in corpora…
Those costs where in the millions while UnitedHealth profits are in the tens of >illions.
This belief could be characterized as "misguided optimism".
Plus is has 0 connection to any kind of discussion about "freeze peach".
Re: I'm turning 41, but I don't feel like celebrating
#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, but denying people the ability to express part of the human condition under reasonable circumstances is cruel.
Aren't you grasping at straws, at this point? The rule says: don't insult. Is it so hard to verbally destroy a person's stance on something without insulting the person itself?
When you are some random person on social media, you aren't likely gonna be debating a policymaker or talking head. Not being allowed to express anger without risking legal penalties is cruel. I stand by that.
Re: I'm turning 41, but I don't feel like celebrating
#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Yeah, that sure showed those greedy healthcare CEOs in the US. Yeah, it scared the hell out of them: https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulat... https://finance.yahoo.com/news/unitedhealth-spent-1-7-millio... ... avoiding losing C-level executives could very quickly become an exercise in corporate cost avoidance, as the expenses of additional layers of security cost more than a change in corpora…
Those costs where in the millions while UnitedHealth profits are in the tens of >illions. This belief could be characterized as "misguided optimism". Plus is has 0 connection to any kind of discussion about "freeze peach".
You just need a little imagination.