Caltrops - Balance of Power





	[quote name="blackwater"]<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/11/fashion/peter-thiel-donald-trump-silicon-valley-technology-gawker.html?_r=0">Peter Thiel talks Trump.</a> And it is hilarious. [quote name="NYT"] [Mr. Thiel] ... was intrigued by parabiosis, a blood regeneration trial in which people over 35 would receive transfusions from people aged 16 to 25 — an experiment that Anne Rice gave a thumbs up to. “Out of all the crazy things in this campaign, the vampire accusations were the craziest,” he says... [/quote] It's true, young people have delicious blood. IT'S JUST A FACT, PEOPLE. [quote name="NYT"] When I remark that President Obama had eight years without any ethical shadiness, Mr. Thiel flips it, noting: “But there’s a point where no corruption can be a bad thing. It can mean that things are too boring.” [/quote] That's a joke, right? It's definitely a joke? I'm curious how he delivered that line. [quote name="NYT"] “I think the crazy thing is,” he says, “at a place like Twitter, they were all working for Trump this whole year even though they thought they were working for Sanders.” [/quote] <img src="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/01/12/fashion/12THIELJP3/12THIELJP3-master675.jpg"/> [quote name="NYT"] He recalls a story from his and Mr. Musk’s PayPal days, when Mr. Musk joined the engineering team’s poker game and bet everything on every hand, admitting only afterward that it was his first time playing poker. Then there was the time they were driving in Mr. Musk’s McLaren F1 car, “the fastest car in the world.” It hit an embankment, achieved liftoff, made a 360-degree horizontal turn, crashed and was destroyed. “It was a miracle neither of us were hurt,” Mr. Thiel says. “I wasn’t wearing a seatbelt, which is not advisable. Elon’s first comment was, ‘Wow, Peter, that was really intense.’ And then it was: ‘You know, I had read all these stories about people who made money and bought sports cars and crashed them. But I knew it would never happen to me, so I didn’t get any insurance.’ And then we hitchhiked the rest of the way to the meeting.” [/quote] Elon and Peter must be a lot of fun. Probably a lot more fun than Eric Schmidt. [quote name="NYT"] “People thought the whole Trump thing was fake, that it wasn’t going to go anywhere, that it was the most ridiculous thing imaginable, and then somehow he won, like Hogan did,” Mr. Thiel says. “And what I wonder is, whether maybe pro wrestling is one of the most real things we have in our society and what’s really disturbing is that the other stuff is much more fake. And whatever the superficialities of Mr. Trump might be, he was more authentic than the other politicians. He sort of talked in a way like ordinary people talk. It was not sort of this Orwellian newspeak jargon that so many of the candidates use. So he was sort of real. He actually wanted to win.” [/quote] Trump and pro wrestling: the realest shit out there.[/quote]