There is a very large contingent of people who laugh gleefully when one of Elon Musk's rockets explode on takeoff or a submersible with wealthy adventurers is lost to the sea.
These are people whose envy and dissatisfaction with their own mediocre, unimpressive lives have driven them to despise anyone who does anything different, bold, or daring. They take pleasure in failure because they will never have any successes of their own to celebrate.
I guess pathetic assholes of this type have always existed. But it worries me that they are so numerous in our culture, and that over time they are only becoming more and more cartoonishly sadistic.
The most difficult Chinese character in the world means 'biáng', a Chinese noodle dish. It's made up of 58 strokes in its traditional form and it was encoded in Unicode in 2020 only [read more: https://t.co/YrUyTv60vr] [source, HD: https://t.co/3wOQfav606] https://t.co/Al06oDjX3o
Piers Morgan just walked off the Good Morning Britain set (!!!) after co-presenter Alex Beresford defended Harry and Meghan and condemned Piers' treatment of them in yesterday's programming