Fun fact: Jeff Bezos has been paying a $1,000 monthly fine for years because the hedge around his Beverly Hills estate is taller than city regulations allow.
He’s worth over $200 billion. He generates roughly $300 every second.
The fine is $12,000 a year. He makes that in 40 seconds.
So the hedge stays.
Because for some people, the law isn’t a rule. It’s just a bill they can afford.
"Trickle down economics doesn't work, so let's try piñata economics. That's the one where we beat the billionaires until the hoarded wealth falls out."
Unfortunately, I have to admit that I have not done my best. My current situation is a direct consequence of my incompetence. I suck at doing this life thing.
My parents would do a bit where my mom would tuck me in and my dad would come in as the "tuck-in inspector" and find my mom's job to be subpar. He'd step out in the hallway and fire her and she'd scream, begging and pleading for her job, even offering sexual favors sometimes.
When scrolling through torrents, a big size often means that the person who made it put great care into it.
It reminds me when I was scrolling sukebei and found a 1,5TB torrent. I was suprised, because who in their sane mind would torrent a terabyte of porn?
So naturally, I downloaded it and found the material of extreme quality, all properly categorized and annonated. Even the videos had handcrafted substitles with Speaker names on it. FOR PORN.
I deleted it after for obvious reasons, but the effect it had on me persists to this day.