Thank you so much for sharing that!

The fact that we didn't jail/banish him after leading an insurrection against the US Capitol was the "too far gone" moment.

Anything after that, is just Yet Another millimeter along the same trajectory:

Well, if we let him get away with J6, then I don't see how this is too much worse.

To tie this to your point, I honestly don't see why the Greenland letter should suddenly be the straw that shatters this particular dromedary's spine.

You might like David Mason's short story "Road Stop":

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61309

The most potent and impactful agent "dismantling the western civilization as we know it" is not on foreign soil.

Reminds me of SpeechJammer:

https://sites.google.com/site/qurihara/top-english/speechjam...

(which won the Ig Nobel prize in 2012)

Why the fuck is this flagged?

I have always supported Adafruit -- Limor's principles shine through in the products, the website, the tutorials, and in the long-term track record of standing by their products. Even when I can source things from AliExpress, I often get them from Adafruit.

Speaking for myself, SparkFun has lost me as a customer.

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The title of this blog post immediately reminded me of "Big Ball of Mud":

http://laputan.org/mud/

That was a fun read, maybe worthy of its own post (presumably again, if it’s been long enough)

I think you have a point.

I often think of Tony Hsieh (Zappos founder/CEO), who was a much more grounded and humble person before he became extremely wealthy. Perhaps he had the tendencies/propensities (that ended his life) dormant all along, and his wealth suddenly boosted those deadly habits.

He went from this:

https://youtu.be/jJ5k_Byd9Fs?si=XeYpu-rUNos_dwgI

...to this:

https://straightforwardinteractive.com/2020/12/08/tony-hsieh...

Tony was a genuinely good person from all the information I’ve consumed on him. The wealth was kryptonite to him. For the others, it is an accelerant.

Sometimes I think if Tony had given all the wealth away, he'd still be here. A cautionary tale.

His story really is a tragedy. We have a long way to go to properly treat mental health issues as a health issue (no different than allergies, cancer, etc), and to eradicate the stigma of acknowledging, accepting, and ultimately addressing them.

You can't be a billionaire without pathology. The power, unlimited access to every resource, the inherent isolation, security implications, factual immunity to most consequences, morbidly twisted self-efficacy, the ethical dissonance of having it all while others starve... the human brain evolved adapted to scarcity and existential group boundaries to check on social pathology. These guys are holistically unchecked, inherently dysregulated on every axis. Their brain is constantly in an extraordinary, extreme state, trying to reach homeostasis for a life that couldn't be more distant, trying to find a model of reality which explains the abnormal signals it is getting.