I think part of the problem is that the brain is never content with what it has. It becomes the new normal instead of luxuries.
Think about the a rich man, sleeping with beautiful women all the time - either escorts or gold diggers.
It becomes the new normal. He wants more. In what direction this want will go probably differs from person to person. There will be excess, perversion, cruelty, until that is the new normal. Getting more and more depraved. Limited only by that persons conscience and what he can get away with.
And for a sociopath and billionaire? There are are no limits, no crime he can't commit, no foul act he won't try. Torture. Children. Murder. Cannibalism. These people have been above the law for too long.
I'm still unclear if this is a real thing or an urban legend. Sure prostitution is one of the main economic activities in Dubai, and I'm sure many cater to very specific fetishes. But is it like a real thing that happens regularly?
These are soulless monsters who can have literally everything but since nothing satisfies them anymore they wish to hurt and degrade others for the thrill of it.
In case someone does not know what does the word mean.
Schadenfreude: The experience of pleasure, joy, or self-satisfaction that comes from learning of the troubles, failures, pain, suffering, or humiliation of another. Schadenfreude is a loanword from German. The closest word in English would be gloat. Schadenfreude has been detected in children as young as 24 months and may be an important social emotion establishing "inequity aversion".
You look at it, and you think, if I stare at this long enough, I can make it out. Most of the words are about the same size, and there has to be some Latin bases here and there...
Hehe, I'm married to a Dutch woman. I'm an American of non-European descent, for context.
I speak Gujarati and Spanish and a smidge of Hindi and Japanese, other than English. She speaks Dutch, Danish, German, and English.
When I moved to the Netherlands, I told her "We both know something about languages. I have to say this: speaking Dutch is like speaking German while spitting out your teeth after someone punched you in the mouth."
She answered back, and I'm paraphrasing, "Tja, het is wel toepasselijk dat "Dutch Directness" het eerste is wat jij onder de knie hebt, jij Amerikaanse betweter."
"Schat, dat is wel het meest diplomatieke wat ik vandaag had kunnen zeggen, gezien de daden van de VOC in het land van mijn voorouders."
I don't think you will. It's possible she's not even a woman. Or it's very possible that she looks nowhere near how she proclaims to look. Either way it's a fun account to watch.
I should have added a /s - that's the joke. She had mentioned living in the Gulf at some point, and is influential here, ergo she's an "influencer in Dubai" maybe, from our perspective.
This is several pictures. I saw them all. A guy came up to me, big guy, strong guy, tears in his eyes, and says "Sir, I've never seen all the pictures in the GIF. I'm glad you saw them for me." I'm a super picture-seer, the likes of which have never been seen before. I refer to every frame of the GIF as a picture because I'm also a four-dimensional time god.
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stoy@lemmy.zip · 62 pts · 147d
Ever since I learned about the Dubai porta-potty I lost what little respect I had for influencers traveling to Dubai.
gh0stb4tz@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 147d
Now I’m curious, but I don’t want to look it up.
searabbit@piefed.social · 7 pts · 147d
It's exactly what you're imagining, yes, even that.
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 147d
Smells bad because the chemicals can't keep up with the heat?
Dang. Gross.
lobut@lemmy.ca · 31 pts · 147d
I looked this up and between this and the Epstein Island stuff ... like is regular sex just not enough for people?
Also, why can't filthy rich people use their money to help others ...
SARGE@startrek.website · 40 pts · 147d
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 147d
But Elon Musk is going to pay the TSA himself. 🍆🍆🍆
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 147d
By divine right it’s theirs. That’s just how it is. They’re winners, there has to be losers, sucks to be you.
They really don’t invest much thought into it. They can’t.
ickplant@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 147d
Because they are sociopaths. You and I would never get to the status of filthy rich because we would start giving money away before that.
Xerxos@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 147d
I think part of the problem is that the brain is never content with what it has. It becomes the new normal instead of luxuries.
Think about the a rich man, sleeping with beautiful women all the time - either escorts or gold diggers.
It becomes the new normal. He wants more. In what direction this want will go probably differs from person to person. There will be excess, perversion, cruelty, until that is the new normal. Getting more and more depraved. Limited only by that persons conscience and what he can get away with.
And for a sociopath and billionaire? There are are no limits, no crime he can't commit, no foul act he won't try. Torture. Children. Murder. Cannibalism. These people have been above the law for too long.
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 147d
It isn't just the sex. It is a power thing.
seejur@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 147d
They are basically the dark eldars of our time
flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz · 18 pts · 147d
I'm still unclear if this is a real thing or an urban legend. Sure prostitution is one of the main economic activities in Dubai, and I'm sure many cater to very specific fetishes. But is it like a real thing that happens regularly?
Beep@lemmus.org · 22 pts · 147d
Search Maria Kovalchuk case, 2.
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz · 23 pts · 147d
Oh look. The mega wealthy brutalizing people when they calculate they can get away with it.
Who could have guessed that was a universal trait
hanrahan@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 147d
Ukrainian, invited to a party of rich Russians.
Not victim blaming as she for sure didn't deserve to have the shit beaten out of her but wtf?
TimeNaan@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 146d
Just looked it up.
These are soulless monsters who can have literally everything but since nothing satisfies them anymore they wish to hurt and degrade others for the thrill of it.
wieson@feddit.org · 6 pts · 146d
I thought we were talking about the fact that Dubai doesn't have a functioning sewage system and has to get the shite out via lorry.
But this is on a whole nother level.
obey@lemmy.wtf · 2 pts · 145d
Yes yes like trump and epstein gang
plantfeest@mastodon.social · 1 pts · 146d
@TimeNaan @stoy
Having that much money should be illegal. What do I hear?
Fax that bitch?
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 147d
There is no war in Dubai Sing Se
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online · 32 pts · 147d
As someone who grew up in Dubai you have no idea how much schadenfreude I am feeling right now!
Beep@lemmus.org · 17 pts · 147d
In case someone does not know what does the word mean.
Schadenfreude: The experience of pleasure, joy, or self-satisfaction that comes from learning of the troubles, failures, pain, suffering, or humiliation of another. Schadenfreude is a loanword from German. The closest word in English would be gloat. Schadenfreude has been detected in children as young as 24 months and may be an important social emotion establishing "inequity aversion".
RustyShackleford@programming.dev · 10 pts · 147d
The Dutch word for it is "leedvermaak", incidentally.
Sunsofold@lemmings.world · 10 pts · 147d
Leedvermaak: the experience of joy or satisfaction at someone else's pain or displeasure, but whilst standing on/near a dike/dam/floodgate.
RustyShackleford@programming.dev · 2 pts · 147d
Precies. Ik vind het heerlijke.
rumba@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 147d
God I love Dutch.
You look at it, and you think, if I stare at this long enough, I can make it out. Most of the words are about the same size, and there has to be some Latin bases here and there...
nope...
RustyShackleford@programming.dev · 4 pts · 147d
Hehe, I'm married to a Dutch woman. I'm an American of non-European descent, for context.
I speak Gujarati and Spanish and a smidge of Hindi and Japanese, other than English. She speaks Dutch, Danish, German, and English.
When I moved to the Netherlands, I told her "We both know something about languages. I have to say this: speaking Dutch is like speaking German while spitting out your teeth after someone punched you in the mouth."
She answered back, and I'm paraphrasing, "Tja, het is wel toepasselijk dat "Dutch Directness" het eerste is wat jij onder de knie hebt, jij Amerikaanse betweter."
"Schat, dat is wel het meest diplomatieke wat ik vandaag had kunnen zeggen, gezien de daden van de VOC in het land van mijn voorouders."
"Touché!"
"Jazeker!"
GreenShimada@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 147d
Oh, I've never seen a picture of Violet08
titanicx@lemmy.zip · 15 pts · 147d
I don't think you will. It's possible she's not even a woman. Or it's very possible that she looks nowhere near how she proclaims to look. Either way it's a fun account to watch.
SARGE@startrek.website · 12 pts · 147d
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 147d
nah i say violet08 is a hyperintelligent octopus at an aquarium sneaking out of her tank to hornypost at us when the aquarium wardens aren't looking
GreenShimada@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 146d
I should have added a /s - that's the joke. She had mentioned living in the Gulf at some point, and is influential here, ergo she's an "influencer in Dubai" maybe, from our perspective.
Beep@lemmus.org · 7 pts · 147d
That's not a picture.
This is a GIF.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Whimsical418@aussie.zone · 33 pts · 147d
Hmmm... I guess its an image, but not a picture 🤔
titanicx@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 147d
Pronounced "if" the g is silent.
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 147d
Real gifs move in silence like lasagna.
rumba@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 147d
It's an image, with extra steps.
GreenShimada@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 147d
This is several pictures. I saw them all. A guy came up to me, big guy, strong guy, tears in his eyes, and says "Sir, I've never seen all the pictures in the GIF. I'm glad you saw them for me." I'm a super picture-seer, the likes of which have never been seen before. I refer to every frame of the GIF as a picture because I'm also a four-dimensional time god.
sidebro@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 147d
Orange man, that you?
Townlately@feddit.nl · 5 pts · 147d
Dude, he already said he is green.
GreenShimada@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 146d
Maybe me, maybe me and the Iyatolah.
tackleberry@thelemmy.club · 10 pts · 147d
You do realise a number of these Arab family monarchial figures are criminally indicted in the Epstein case
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online · 9 pts · 147d
Yes, and they, not the enslaved migrant workers, should be subject to the drone boomers.
And by boomers I mean the flying things that go ka-boom on impact.
khannie@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 147d
What's this from?
jackal@feddit.uk · 9 pts · 147d
Euphoria (TV Series)
khannie@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 147d
Cheers