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Re:Eli Lilly CEO pushes back on Dario Amodei's ludicrous med... by throwaway_7274 on Friday November 13, 2026 @10:00AM (#50484538)
The whole Bay Area is on a fatal cocktail of amphetamines, money, and neurodivergence. It's rather impolite to acknowledge, but when you take 100 people on that combination and put them in a room together, some, uh, unusual beliefs inevitably develop. Of course they do. What else would happen?
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Re:Eli Lilly CEO pushes back on Dario Amodei's ludicrous med... by CPLX on Friday November 13, 2026 @10:08AM (#50484656)
Yeah exactly. And it's not the first time a highly technically proficient culture had their leaders all become amphetamine abusers with dramatic effects on world events.
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Re:Eli Lilly CEO pushes back on Dario Amodei's ludicrous med... by throwaway_7274 on Friday November 13, 2026 @10:41AM (#50485144)
On a bit of a rant now, please forgive me.

I never feel more like the one sober guy at the party than when I go to SF. Even when there's no reason to believe anyone is literally on drugs, it has that vibe every time. It's really unsettling. Uncanny. It starts to get under your skin, too. You start to believe, just a little bit, that everything is possible, that there are no limits, that you can and should remake the world. Just a little bit. I can never take it for more than a week at a time, no matter how beautiful the weather is. It's a relief to get back to the "real" world.

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