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Why do these rich Silicon Valley dudes always talk about getting up when it's still dark, like it's some kind of great virtue?
@RickiTarr Because it sounds better than “I couldn’t sleep because I haven’t QUITE managed to drown out my conscience in the dead of night.”
combined ketamine and amfetamine use will lead to exactly these sort of sleeping patterns. Eventually though the sleep deprivation will turn people psychotic, make them prone to impulsive and irrational behaviour, and if they already lack empathy it is only going to make their behaviour far worse..
but that doesn't sound like elon at all (/s)
@RickiTarr because they're narcissistic sociopaths and completely wired on something not quite legal, and usually don't have a life
@RickiTarr having been a (very minor and not particularly rich) Silicon Valley dude, part of it is that the west coast is on the west coast. And the northeast and western europe have a center of gravity that the west coast doesn't. Getting up early is part of dealing with the time zone diffs. Of course, none of them want to admit that they're adapting to another place so they make it a virtue. Plus, sleep disorders go along with the relationship and psychology disorders SV dudes cultivate ...
@RickiTarr Because America glorifies working so hard you can't have a life of your own to profit others to such an extent that it has seeped into the very way people think. Yes, capitalism as a whole does this, but we're among the worst.
In other words "if you're getting up super early, it's because you're a really hard worker which is a great thing." (Implied, if you get up later you are lazy and bad.)
Of course those people aren't, but they're using the narrative to imply that they are.
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What if you get up super early so you can have 3 hours of fun before work? 
Unsure now if I am lazy or an overachiever...
@Misanthrope @RickiTarr In practice I would say neither, but these people would probably think you were really enthusiastic about making absolutely sure you were 100% ready so you don't miss a single minute of work.
@RickiTarr Cognitive dissonance. They don't actually do the work, but they have to somehow believe they earned their mountain cave full of gold to justify breathing fire on any poor villager who requests enough to get by.
@ShiitakeToast Yeah that sounds about right.
Yeah, like they gotta work or something. Silly dudes. 
@RickiTarr GOLLUM: The ring, it came to us. It’s ours! Our birthday present. Isn’t that right, precious?
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They can go brag to a dairy farmer who’s up “milk-maxxing”
Farah 
@anguinea @RickiTarr This gave me a good chuckle
These techbros don't have an inner life, it's all performative competition for other techbros.
It’s their publicly closeted mating dance
@RickiTarr At first I thought they were afraid to walk the streets in daylight lest the next Luigi Mangione gun them down. But the UHC CEO got gunned down before sunup, so that isn't it.
Must be some kind of half-ass virtue signaling.
@RickiTarr Because the traffic sucks so hard and so bad here. And everyone you want to conference call lives to the east of you. Their massive egos turn every triviality into a personal victory.
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something something grindset
@RickiTarr They are just afraid to admit about their terrible sleep schedules
@RickiTarr They have to get up early so they can go to their gym and kill an endangered species as part of their morning exercise. Today, Jeff is going to use a trussed-up Hawaiian monk seal as a punchbag.
@RickiTarr it’s code for Morning wood.
It’s hand exercises until well after dawn.
Also: designer amphetamines
@MishaVanMollusq well crap, I've been doing it wrong this whole damned time 
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@RickiTarr I spend quite a lot of the year getting up when it's dark. This is because I have a job and live at a high latitude, where it's often dark.
Because they have so little social life, so few real friends, and so little artistic sense and emotional intelligence, their only reason for living is "work".
With actual work replaced by endless parading of their (very limited) intelligence and business acumen. Meaning they have to virtue signal all the time they are very busy and important people, while their underlings are the ones doing all the work.
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They're vampires!
@RickiTarr Is their coffin part of the internet of things? Does the lid automatically open with an app? Is this an explanation for their obsession with the blood of youth?
Inquiring humans would like to know.
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Grasping at anything to make themselves feel superior?
@RickiTarr Ah but you are not the audience... see most people don't talk about how they couldn't sleep etc the the night before
but if you are showing off for other rich assholes... 
