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  • The main problem with modern civilization is that it’s no longer possible to rob rich people. If Peter Thiel’s money actually physically existed, in like a vault somewhere, SOMEBODY would have burgled the vault by now, purely because of the insanely favorable risk vs reward ratio - like a lottery where the cost of buying tickets of every possible combination costs less than the jackpot, once the reward is high enough, there will always be SOMEONE who will make the necessary investment to negate the risk. And “robbing the rich” would always have enough popular support that there would be little effort to find the thief as long as the oligarch was unpopular enough. But now Thiel’s money no longer physically exists, and it’s basically impossible to forcibly take it from him without basically having to destroy the entire global banking system first in order to get at it.



  • You’ve basically just described “confession”. You go into a little box designed to make it as difficult as possible for the priest to identify you, you talk about all the ways you feel like you’re a bad person, and the priest talks to you for a while about it, then gives you some actionable items to make amends and once you’ve done them God officially forgives you. The whole concept of confession is designed to allow people to let go of their regrets and live in the now. It’s actually quite clever as a bit of societal design. If modern priests had psychotherapy degrees then everyone in the world would have access to free therapy - unfortunately they wouldn’t be very useful for LGBT+ people.









  • Yeah at the moment IMHO no matter what one’s feelings on Multiverse of Madness are, at the moment, the “magic” corner of the MCU (AKA the Wong Cinematic Universe) is the one that’s delivering the most consistently good storyline.

    • WandaVision

    • Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

    • What If… Doctor Strange Lost His Heart Instead of His Hands?

    • Spider-Man: No Way Home

    • Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

    • Moon Knight

    • She-Hulk: Attorney at Law

    • Werewolf by Night

    • Ironheart

    It’d be nice if they could bring back Ghost Rider, too.