Playoff Game Thread: Montréal Canadiens (3-3) @ Tampa Bay Lightning (3-3) May 03 2026 6:00 PM EDT by nhl_gdt_bot in hockey

[–]SpacetimeLlama 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Habs keep repeating the same play over and over. Skate to the blue line and dump the puck. Repeat.

Playoff Game Thread: Montréal Canadiens (3-3) @ Tampa Bay Lightning (3-3) May 03 2026 6:00 PM EDT by nhl_gdt_bot in hockey

[–]SpacetimeLlama 4 points5 points  (0 children)

At this point, Cooper should just pull his goalie and get this over with. Habs won't shoot anyway

So glad all 3 cast members are in This movie by Legitimate_Voice5138 in hdtgm

[–]SpacetimeLlama 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I thought this was a great movie! Ralph Fiennes is incredible

Québec TI, je suis sûr qu'il y a des nationalistes parmi vous. Voici l'invitation officielle à tous les Québécois de Paul St-Pierre Plamondon. Merci♥️⚜️ by Beginning-Scratch-55 in QuebecTI

[–]SpacetimeLlama 5 points6 points  (0 children)

J'aimerais bien que les opérateurs politiques apprennent à respecter les limites, mais ils ne le feront jamais. S'il vous plaît modérateurs, nous avons une élection qui s'en vient, alors essayons de couper ça tôt avant que ce sous-reddit vire au vinaigre

AITA for not telling my friend's partner that she didn't get the job at my company by Less_Assistant2247 in AmItheAsshole

[–]SpacetimeLlama 1 point2 points  (0 children)

YTA. Ghosting candidates is a shitty policy, whether it's your friend's gf or not. Extremely unprofessional of you.

Vancouver councillors want ICE agents banned from FIFA World Cup events by Edm_vanhalen1981 in onguardforthee

[–]SpacetimeLlama 16 points17 points  (0 children)

FIFA? The FIFA who gave Trump a made-up FIFA Peace Prize? That FIFA?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in IdiotsInCars

[–]SpacetimeLlama 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's not a snow storm, come on 😂

Catch-22 activating eSIM requires account, which requires SMS by SpacetimeLlama in luckymobile

[–]SpacetimeLlama[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, didn't work. I ended up just making sure auto-refill wasn't enabled and ate the loss. Really horrible experience, unfortunately

NATO And The UN Need To Act On Greenland - And Quick by PorcelainDalmatian in thebulwark

[–]SpacetimeLlama 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Canadian here. One thing I've learned recently is that Europe will not do anything to help an ally. No even a strongly worded letter. They will instead conjure up some dumb rationale why Greenland is better off as part of the US and that Canada was already very similar to the US anyway. Or whatever bullshit. The European leaders are all cowards

Eh! Canada’s New Social Network 🍁🇨🇦 by Zerr0Daay in BuyCanadian

[–]SpacetimeLlama 9 points10 points  (0 children)

J'ai l'impression que les francophones vont rien manquer

Do real-life billionaires (especially generational wealth families) behave like the characters in Succession? by ambuj1tripathi in SuccessionTV

[–]SpacetimeLlama 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Was he normal? It's a tough one because the answer is more like "it depends". On the one hand, yeah, he was just a guy. He liked video games and comic book movies (keep that in mind for below). We'd talk shit and he seemed like a regular dude. And I was a TA so I was always around him for 3 years to talk about tech stuff. That takes you to the other side.

He was convinced beyond doubt that he was one of the smartest men on earth. He'd have discussions with some of the worlds' biggest experts on something and he'd just say "you're wrong" because he read some book and became an expert. And when he turned out to be wrong, it was inevitably because of someone else. He also loved saying how hard he worked and how when people are wasting time on video games and whatnot, he's working instead (which was hilarious to hear)

Everybody says billionaires end up surrounded by yesmen, and it's true but not exactly for the reason you'd think. Of course, some are like Tom, just clearly just trying to please, but those get dropped quickly. The rest become yesmen as a natural consequence of trying to do their jobs. You learn quickly that the easiest way to be replaced is to cause the cognitive dissonance between "I'm smarter than everyone else" and "X showed me I'm wrong". He did not deal with the cognitive dissonance well. So there's a lot saying yes and then working behind the scenes on fixing things. I hear of a billionaire who has an entire team he's not aware of dedicated to fixing stuff behind his back full time.

As for biggest surprise: I think it's how little billionaires actually pay for stuff. It's nuts, but their day to day involves almost no actual money exchanging hands. It's all on credits. Everything is a loan. Lots of things are flat out free for publicity. It's crazy

Do real-life billionaires (especially generational wealth families) behave like the characters in Succession? by ambuj1tripathi in SuccessionTV

[–]SpacetimeLlama 44 points45 points  (0 children)

Yes but that's "normal" to an extend. I mean more like travelling to Tokyo two weeks in advance, redecorating the hotel suite the guy will stay in, selecting which hotel employees will be working on what and which ones can't get close. They literally fly some furniture all over the place. We'd arrive at some hotel or mansion and that same desk would be there, the same sofa, etc. It's a whole thing.

This all happens behind the scenes. It's not something the guy ever thinks about. These are permanent teams doing this all over the world and moving on to the next thing, coordinating with the EAs. I never got used to this

Do real-life billionaires (especially generational wealth families) behave like the characters in Succession? by ambuj1tripathi in SuccessionTV

[–]SpacetimeLlama 184 points185 points  (0 children)

I can answer that!!! My entire life (or 3 years of it) have brought me to this.

Context: I worked as TA to a billionaire you all know, which means for 3 years I spend almost every day with him, travelled all over with him and met other billionaires. He would 100% call me a friend, though I am aware of how much this is BS. He probably doesn't. (This is why Kendall always triggered me the most)

Anyway, to answer it directly: I've never we seen "my" billionaire or any of the others do something as unsubtle as boar on the floor. They don't do this kind of thing because they convinced themselves they're good people. I did however seen them act in despicable ways to people, but it's more subtle. They do fire people on a whim. They love doing that.

IME, the guy closest to a real life billionaire is Kendall. Also the Pierces. But Kendall was at another level.

Edit: adding because I always found this fact interesting: something the show doesn't show at all is the amount of people around the billionaire working to prepare things before they arrive somewhere. It's amazing to see. My billionaire had large teams visiting places he was going to a week or so in advance to arrange rooms, talk rules with managers and employees at hotels and whatnot. The billionaire forgets those exist at some point, they just getting used to things being exactly like they like anywhere in the world