• zbyte64@awful.systems
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      1 month ago

      Thing is, they need to bring their help and the help won’t be happy if their families are left high and dry. These people are just too fucking stupid

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          Oh I am sure they planned and maybe even got the Saudis to consult. But I still think they are too stupid to realize the flaws of those plans. Even if they were as smart as they think they are, it’s difficult to predict how things will work after the civilization they depend on for their power collapses. Hell, it probably doesn’t matter how smart you are, such a scenario is inherently unpredictable.

          • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
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            But I still think they are too stupid to realize the flaws of those plans.

            Blinkered I’d say. Self-obsessed. Neverending greed is a mental condition. Either way, it has very little to do with intelligence imo.

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          Someone last year was talking about plans being discussed involving “obedience collars” which I assume are just shock collars that have the ability to kill.

          You can come into safety as a slave or die outside.

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        They probably have a small group of people whom they treat very well specifically so they won’t shoot them in the back once they’re the only ones with the guns in post-apocalyptic world.

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          I always wonder about that because you need a lot of people to function in an “end of the world scenario”. It just feels like the ones that are doing the real work are the ones with the power in that case.

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      This is weirdly similar in many ways to Dungeon Crawler Carl. Dwindling numbers of people, digging ever deeper… Different in most other ways, but I’m a little obsessed right now.

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      They made interconnected ones during covid, fallout irl. They have private islands with stem cell clinics. Adam devine talks about how he goes to one on the workaholics podcast since they give way more than the dose you can get in the US.

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      If they want to go hide in a hole, that’s fine by me. It’ll presumably be simple enough to just seal it up completely.