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“I stand against confiscatory taxes, totalitarian collectives, and the ideology of the inevitability of the death of every individual,” Thiel wrote in an online libertarian journal in 2019 (awful.systems)

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Bwahahahaha get fucked you unbearable scumsucking dork

I mean just look at his fucking sentence construction with the rule of three and the cute internal rhyme/alliteration on “ideology/inevitability/individual”

I’m sorry, and this isn’t massively SneerClub except insofar as the death bit is obviously very Yud-coded, it’s just this quote came up again in the middle of a long and really bleak article, and for whatever reason I just burst out laughing

He’s always so goddamn indignant, like he’s being bullied for his lunch money but he came prepped with the most badass comebacks he could think of in the mirror - I mean seriously, read the quote back to yourself out loud and see if it would ever work outside “an online libertarian journal”, let alone on a stage

Look at his fucking face, how does this guy get up in the morning and not only take himself seriously, but take himself that goddamn seriously

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[–] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 11 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Yes, he intends to be frozen as a fashion statement.

His belief is such that he has signed up with Alcor, the leading company in the field of cryogenics, to be deep-frozen at the time of his death – as much as an ‘ideological statement’, he says, as in any expectation of being thawed out any time in the near future. ‘In telling you that I’ve signed up for it [cryogenics], there’s always this reaction that it’s really crazy, it’s disturbing. But my take on it is it’s only disturbing because it challenges our complacency.’

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/11098971/Peter-Thiel-the-billionaire-tech-entrepreneur-on-a-mission-to-cheat-death.html

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[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

the leading company in the field of cryogenics

I'm sorry, how do you measure that? Aren't all companies exactly tied in cryogenics for having successfully revived exactly ZERO people?

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[–] strangebirds@mastodon.xyz 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

@V0ldek They haven't accidentally unplugged a freezer yet?

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[–] m@blat.at 9 points 2 years ago

@strangebirds @V0ldek I’d like to think that every human cryo facility has a “Days Since Last Accidental Thawing-Out” sign. Or maybe “Days Since Last Midnight Dumping of Several Lumpy Sacks”.

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[–] dashdsrdash@awful.systems 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Is that actually true? Have they been audited? One problem with long-term storage is "long-term" is a thing that humans are bad at.

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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 9 points 2 years ago

Just the other day, a bunch of cryo tanks holding scientific specimens in a research hospital in Sweden failed and destroyed 30 years worth of data.

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[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 years ago

best you can get is attestation from some obscure company in Bahamas

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[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 6 points 2 years ago

Supposedly the head of baseball legend Ted Williams was frozen, but was dropped and cracked at some point. Don't know if that was the same company.

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[–] self@awful.systems 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

But my take on it is it’s only disturbing because it challenges our complacency.

Peter what in the Sam fuck are you talking about?

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[–] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 13 points 2 years ago

peter is so brave for going after Big Death

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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 10 points 2 years ago

Thiel is a serial fool for the patient-funded-trial scam, e.g. the young blood scam

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[–] grumpybozo@toad.social 8 points 2 years ago

@self @sneerclub Thiel is more actively terrified of death than any other person alive. He is disappointed in your complacency about the possibility that he might die. Why do you not recognize the apocalyptic tragedy *for the universe* that his death would be?

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[–] thesmokingman@programming.dev 9 points 2 years ago

I don’t think it’s disturbing. I think it’s a crock of shit but a fool and his money and all that. It sounds like Thiel doesn’t actually understand why people think he’s crazy.

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[–] grumpybozo@toad.social 9 points 2 years ago

@Amoeba_Girl He definitely needs to do it while he still is young enough to be considered fashionable when he comes back.

Last year would have been best. No time like now.

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[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 8 points 2 years ago

In the old days rich people just donated money to build a chapel, with priests or monks continually praying for the rich dead person's soul.

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