Is this what philosophers mean by the hard problem of consciousness?
Thread drift in general is probably fine. This drift specifically is unfortunate, because it’s easy to see it as additional attacks on Greta.
FWIW, I don’t think that was the intent of the person who first brought it up either, and it’s fine in a different thread. But I really don’t think this is a good place for it.
Okay, yeah, I take your point.
I’m going to plunge right in here and applaud this new, new tangent the thread is rapidly growing.
This. He isn’t trying to compensate for the size of his penis. He’s trying to compensate (even if subconsciously) for his shitty personality by flaunting flashy expensive items like a Bugatti.
News update:
On Saturday, Romanian authorities descended upon the Tates’ compound in Bucharest to confiscate 29 assets, including 15 sports cars and 14 luxury watches, according to a statement from the Romanian Asset Recovery and Management Agency. Alongside several sums of money in multiple currencies, the total value of the goods is estimated to be 18 million lei ($3.9 million USD).
<nelson>Ha-ha!</nelson>
If $4M of loot constitutes being seriously rich, the world is in deep shit.
If he had 15 sports cars and one of them was, as he claimed, a Bugatti, that would mean overall, the rest of those cars would average less than $15K. Unless, of course, he had turned the Bugatti into a hooptie making it worth much less than one would expect.
The median household income in the US is under 70 thousand a year. So four million is the gross income of a full family for 60 or so years of work.
Quite right.
But this guy is loudly holding himself out as a member of the extreme elite. If indeed his toys are that much, his financial assets probably aren’t much more because he’s an emotional child and blew most of it on them. And although $4M is a lot compared to the US’s extremely skewed median, it’s far, far short of fatcat money.
IOW, the guy is four-flusher from the word go. I meant nothing more than that.
When I was a teenager, ITBC and its accompanying phrase was available as an iron-on for t-shirts.
He has a “compound”. That’s probably worth a bit, even in Romania.
Can you clarify what this means?
It means if he had taken this very valuable car and done classless modifications to it, the value of the car would drop. Like if he had bolted an aftermarket spoiler to the back and done a poor camo paint job.
Heh. I’m getting a mental image of King David looking down from the Great Beyond as Michelangelo is working on his statue, and saying “Thanks a lot, douchebag!”
While it is true that codpieces were worn during the Middle Ages to make it seem like dudes had big packages
a large member was actually considered gauche by the Ancient Greeks.
So the Greeks were already into Big [ Dick Energy ] , as opposed to [ Big Dick ] Energy. I guess when Andrew Tate buys a Bugatti, it is analogous to Homer writing The Odyssey? Or something.
Guess who was arrested today (and quickly got out)?
Now that’s some big dick energy.