The problem is definitely that screens are bad for people and social media is inherently bad, not that we have handed over power in our society to rightwing silicon valley moguls with these kind of batshit crazy beliefs, and not just general power over society… power to shape how we socialize with one another online.
sigh
I mean someone like Steve Jobs was essentially the “”“best”“” case scenario of this type of person being given power in society and Steve Jobs was incredibly problematic as a person on multiple levels… including that he believed batshit crazy things.
“He annoyingly feels younger than me!” the 30-year-old tells triple j hack.
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Anyone who would have tried the kind of bullshit he’s trying, a century ago, would have died of radium poisoning or something equally dreadful. The only reason this idiot is still alive is regulations; however he’s pretty good at risk compensating greater safety of quack treatments in 21th century with the sheer number of quack treatments he’s doing.
I’m going to prognosticate that he’ll die through some combination of the sheer brute force effort he’s putting into finding a lethal quack treatment, and the weakening of regulations and corresponding societal norms relating to quack treatments.