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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 4 hours ago

trying to copy THIEL his master, but he got chased out of NZ for doing the same thing. thiel wanted his harem of young males.

[–] minorkeys@sh.itjust.works 18 points 14 hours ago

Buying land to transfer wealth before AI bubble bursts.

[–] ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 17 points 16 hours ago

Keep this creepy cunt off of our continent.

[–] CalemitousVariantK@lemmy.world 12 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah... This is the face of a guy hunting humans on that land. He probably got the land there instead of a more private island somewhere remote in order to have lower latency to drones in Ukraine.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

he looks like eats humans too. being the thiels apostate that is.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 24 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Foreign ownership, baby! I don't need to be a citizen, I just need to buy your government. And I can!! /s

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Isn't wealth neat!

[–] MolochHorridus@piefed.social 20 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Probably for a post-apocalypse bunker that can be used as a hunting lodge for poor people before that.

[–] manxu@piefed.social 5 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Could you please clarify: a hunting lodge where poor people stay, or a lodge for the hunting of poor people? /s

[–] MolochHorridus@piefed.social 5 points 19 hours ago

For hunting of poor people.

[–] pmk@piefed.ca 7 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I wonder if he knows about Allemansrätten.

[–] lambipapp@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago

I bet he will just flatten all of Härjedalen for his data centers.

Either that or he has found the location for his post apocalyptic bunker

[–] lokalhorst@feddit.org 53 points 1 day ago (3 children)

37000 Acre = 149.73 km² or 14973.37 ha

[–] dracc@discuss.tchncs.de 41 points 1 day ago

Swedish sources state its 150 km² flat. He (or well, his company) paid 240 million SEK (~$20M USD) for the property which is mostly forrest free due to elevation. Buying that kind of property for "forestry" sure sounds like a thinly veiled lie.

[–] snoons@lemmy.ca 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] noob@lemmy.world 6 points 23 hours ago (2 children)
[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 4 hours ago
[–] CovertOperative@piefed.zip 9 points 20 hours ago

It's in the center, someone's holding it up in the town square.

[–] vane@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago

Small country

[–] susieq0044@sh.itjust.works 42 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Smart move. With the deepening climate collapse (also caused by his company ;-), land in the north will increase in value. Already today, many Europeans are refocusing their vacstion destinations; from the south of France to Scandinavia.

[–] Loui@feddit.org 4 points 14 hours ago

Unless AMOC collapses.

[–] architect@thelemmy.club 11 points 23 hours ago

Since America gets blamed for all these foreign born billionaires I can say fuck Sweden, Sweden is the exact type of shit hole that would slow these shut peoole in.

[–] chahn.chris@piefed.social 4 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

So maybe people don’t want to hear this but as a hunter I have to say this area is likely to become a wildlife disaster.

If humans are a regular predator and the predator is removed the fight for food resources among the prey species is going to result in a lot of animal deaths and suffering. This will cause ecological devastation to the area, waste meat that humans would have used, and potentially cause other shifts in wildlife that are harder to predict.

The government, in addition to taxing this land heavily, should procure an easement for hunters to maintain ecological stability.

If this guy is planning to tear everything down and install data centers out there we should build a rocket and yeet him into the sun.

[–] Mad_Punda@feddit.org 11 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

Yeeting him out of the solar system takes less energy.

[–] chahn.chris@piefed.social 4 points 17 hours ago

lol ok let’s do it your way!

[–] JillyB@beehaw.org 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Outer Wilds taught me that it's actually quite easy to fly into the sun.

[–] Little1Lost@gehirneimer.de 2 points 14 hours ago

finally i can use a bookmark :D
This guy tells why its not that easy: https://lemmy.world/comment/24689663

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 0 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

lol this trope again “it will be bad for nature if nature is allowed to be natural. Only humans can help and only by killing animals”

[–] chahn.chris@piefed.social 2 points 10 hours ago

I’m not saying that.

I’m saying that humans have already played a role in this environment and it has adapted to it. We are part of nature, we’re literally animals and we are part of the ecology of any environment we live in. If we weren’t part of it then we’d be an invasive species (and in industrial ways we are which is a whole other topic). But when it comes lands that have been hunted by humans for ages and not industrialized we are a part of that system and hunting those lands helps preserve the balance there. There’s a reason hunting is heavily regulated, it’s to ensure we’re doing the balance thing and not the destruction thing.

It’s exhausting when people look at this as a trope, it just highlights human exceptionalism and your lack of empathy for nature even though you think you have it. The minute you take humans out of an ecosystem they are naturally a part of you actually increase the problem in a variety of ways.

I have sympathy for your lack of understanding here though, modern life does a great job of convincing us we aren’t part of nature, and when you think this way it makes it easy to continue the destruction while we bemoan our evil. It’s hypocritical and shallow in its logic.

Downvote me all you want, I don’t care I just hope I have provided something to consider when it comes to nature and humanity’s role in that nature. It’s a deeply complex issue and it’s worth consideration.

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