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Guy Shammguy

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Middle aged blueskyer. Which is to say, a blueskyer.

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Guy Shammguy @guyshammguy.bsky.social · 2h

Okay, $34.08 from Facebook now directly deposited to my account. This is what it must feel like to be Warren Buffet.

Guy Shammguy @guyshammguy.bsky.social · Nov 26

Oh hell yeah, it only took 5 years, but I'm finally about to get that sweet, sweet Equifax Settlement Electronic Prepaid Card. Time to quit my job and truly live.

The Equifax Data Breach Settlement Agreement says any remaining funds in the Consumer Restitution Fund will be distributed to Settlement Class Members with valid claims.

You have a valid claim and are eligible for an additional payment. It will be sent to you by electronic pre-paid card.

You will receive an email from distribution@EquifaxBreachSettlement.com the week of December 9th, 2024 with instructions to redeem your electronic pre-paid card.

For more information about the Settlement, please visit the Settlement Website at www.EquifaxBreachSettlement.com.

Guy Shammguy @guyshammguy.bsky.social · 2h

The wedding scene with the viral dance was when the series fully and entirely broke from its original premise

Guy Shammguy @guyshammguy.bsky.social · 2h

The Office (US) was established as people trying to get through their workday with a bunch of freaks that they have to interact with to survive, worst of all their egotistical and socially awkward boss. Over time it became a story about how all of their co-workers are actually their best friends.

Guy Shammguy @guyshammguy.bsky.social · 2h

Bullshit that it has no nutritional value. That's just false.

Guy Shammguy @guyshammguy.bsky.social · 1d

If its not UW someone is fucking up

Guy Shammguy @guyshammguy.bsky.social · 1d

Just bark "WAKE UP!" in his face randomly. He'll thing you're the coolest aunt on tbe planet

Guy Shammguy @guyshammguy.bsky.social · 2d

Let's circle back and take this offline on a future engagement.

Guy Shammguy @guyshammguy.bsky.social · 2d

Guy Shammguy @guyshammguy.bsky.social · 2d

This man is a child

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

Guy Shammguy @guyshammguy.bsky.social · 4d

Love paying $10 for yogurt and $20 for store brand coffee at the local grocery store. I'm doing my part to atone for Brazil punishing Jair Bolsonaro

Guy Shammguy @guyshammguy.bsky.social · 4d

Mr. Snrub is right! This is a masterpiece!

Guy Shammguy @guyshammguy.bsky.social · 4d

I've never watched it and this reference (followed by like 10 emphatic "no" answers) was when I first became aware of its existence

Guy Shammguy @guyshammguy.bsky.social · 4d

3-D Homer asking if anyone saw the movie Tron

Guy Shammguy @guyshammguy.bsky.social · 5d

Guy Shammguy @guyshammguy.bsky.social · 6d

Aw fuck they got the Superfans?

Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 6d

Don’t think these Texas National Guard guys are going to be chasing any immigrants around Chicago on foot

Guy Shammguy @guyshammguy.bsky.social · 6d

Oh fuck I hate that song

Guy Shammguy @guyshammguy.bsky.social · 7d

All the boys are gonna be out doing the watusi at the local bookstore

Guy Shammguy @guyshammguy.bsky.social · 7d

Ecstatic to not have any idea what song you are talking about. I thought you meant "if I were a carpenter" for a second, but that's a good song.

Guy Shammguy @guyshammguy.bsky.social · 7d

Not a fan of Stevie Wonder's Part-Time Lover?

Guy Shammguy @guyshammguy.bsky.social · 8d

Are those THC drinks any good? How about for someone who hasn't smoked weed in like 15 years?

Guy Shammguy @guyshammguy.bsky.social · 8d

Oops, I pooped my pants

CNBC @cnbc.com · 8d

To shut down rude behavior instantly, try a simple yet powerful five-word response.

Use this 5-word phrase when someone is rude to you—it's like 'holding up a mirror,' says public speaking expert

When we encounter a rude person, our first instinct might be to fire back with a snarky comment. But that's not the right move, says public speaking expert John Bowe. Here's the perfect response to instantly shut down rude behavior.

Guy Shammguy @guyshammguy.bsky.social · 8d

Noah Smith increasingly just becoming Dr. Strangelove. Just a matter of time before he starts involuntarily sieg heiling

Guy Shammguy @guyshammguy.bsky.social · 9d

The VC pitch

Guy Shammguy @guyshammguy.bsky.social · 9d

Wasn't the original pitch that this would be a device unlike anything the world had ever seen?

Guy Shammguy @guyshammguy.bsky.social · 9d

"It should be like Siri, but better"

Wow way to think outside the box, you geniuses