Mark Zuckerberg’s Latest Startup: A Cattle Herd Raised on Beer and Macadamia

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While his fellow globe-straddling tech titans are building giant rockets and superyachts, Mark Zuckerberg is building something a little more quaint: a herd of cattle. But, of course, they’ll be roaming around on his controversial $100 million Hawaii doomsday compound, and they’ll be fed an appropriately over-the-top diet of beer and macadamia nuts. Compared to other billionaires, it’s maybe not so wild, but one must wonder: Why is his water glass covered like that in his Instagram post?

Also this week, rich people contribute to global melting by literally melting down glacier ice in their cocktails in the desert because it has less air than normie frozen water. A wedding is the crasher, and ruins the days of already beleaguered coffee shop employees. And move over girl dinner, we’re all pizza rat now with the arrival of rat snacking

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If you’ve ever had the sneaky feeling that the ultra-wealthy are indeed fueling the environmental destruction of our planet with a wanton disregard for the well-being of literally everyone else, well, I have some good news and some bad news for you. The good news: You’re right! And it’s nice to be right. The bad news: Those people have moved on to literally drinking glacier ice shipped to the desert from halfway around the world in their cocktails. I know, I agree, it’s a little bit too on the nose. A company in Greenland is selling glacier ice from fjords to cocktails bars in Dubai. The glacier ice, according to the Guardian, will replace the standard ice used in Dubai cocktail bars, which is currently made from frozen mineral water (?!). Drinking glacier ice is both a weird flex, and a classic Martha Stewart move, but apparently it’s about more than the prestige of drinking frozen fjord water—glacier ice doesn’t have any bubbles in it because over millennia, all the air has been pressed out, which means it melts more slowly in your cocktail. Well at least there’s a reason they’re shipping ice around the world. 5/5 distressing —Sam Stone staff writer

Smoked meats aficionado and MMA brawler Mark Zuckerberg announced yet another foray into beef. This time, he’s raising wagyu and angus cattle on his $100 million Hawaiian compound on the island of Kauai. According to his Instagram post, he’ll be feeding them macadamia nuts and beer, ostensibly to make the beef taste better. Zuckerberg seems confident that the diet will affect the taste of the beef, but he admits there’s no proof that it’ll do much of anything. “It’ll take a couple more years to fully explore how this diet affects taste, but at a minimum, macadamia nuts are very high nutrition density with lots of proteins and fats,” he wrote in reply to a comment on his post. Perhaps this is hater behavior, but I personally cannot imagine using an enormous amount of resources to raise cows that will most likely taste like most other cows, but that’s just one non-billionaires opinion. I’m giving this a very nutty—see what I did there. 3.2/5 distressing. —SS