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BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
Oh then that's ... better, although dumber.

Still a toolbag.

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Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe

Darkman Fanpage posted:

it's a fungus cucky ducky

lol as if we would all be drinking fungus brew

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe
lol at thinking wine is fungus grape juice

Baku
Aug 20, 2005

by Fluffdaddy
silicon valley people are poo poo but technology is still a net good idk

and yeah maynard has always been a tryhard douchebag, there's a zero percent chance that guy doesn't think he's the smartest person in almost any room

Montasque
Jul 18, 2003

Living in a hateful world sending me straight to Heaven

Darkman Fanpage posted:

from the phiz picture thread


james is extremely edgy and cool

phiz picture thread was the best thing on SA until TRUMP made politics the most absurd thing possible.

Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012

Baloogan posted:

lol at thinking wine is fungus grape juice

are you always this stupid or just while drunk?

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe
im already faililng this course prof fanpage!!!!!!!!!1

Talorat
Sep 18, 2007

Hahaha! Aw come on, I can't tell you everything right away! That would make for a boring story, don't you think?

KomradeX posted:

I really don't understand why people worship Musk.

It's largely because he's the only person who seems to be committed to making futuristic technology real. He's also a turbo nerd who's super awkward on stage so I'm sure a lot of people identify with him on that level.

He's an interesting dude, I think the cult of personality around him is a bit much, but his heart's clearly in the right place. He does want to bring the world into a zero carbon future, one way or another.

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
He's also an Iain Banks fan which scores points in my book

I'm an easy date

Dreylad
Jun 19, 2001

KomradeX posted:

I really don't understand why people worship Musk.

blood oaths

Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

He's also an Iain Banks fan which scores points in my book

I'm an easy date

doesn't he name spacex ships after the Culture

Kurtofan
Feb 16, 2011

hon hon hon
https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/885900055093358592

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe

:shrug: you can be friends with someone while not having the same politics!

Kurtofan
Feb 16, 2011

hon hon hon
friendship centering around being bad presidents

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy

Al! posted:

doesn't he name spacex ships after the Culture
yeah and people think he's a possible Contact agent

Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012

trump is a malleable substance easily influenced by whoever is being nicest to him at the moment. macron invited trump to watch a military parade and now trump loves him.

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 30 days!)

Talorat posted:

but his heart's clearly in the right place.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVcn4lznUOs

Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:



yeah and people think he's a possible Contact agent

he looks like he could be one

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe
yeah Contact, advanced alien cultures trying to uplift the states
its obvious because hes a canadian american

Zikan
Feb 29, 2004

elon is working to actively destroy any attempt at unionization at his factories and horrifically emotional abused his ex-wife

he is not a good person, he's just self aware enough to realize that his money won't save him from burning up due to global warming unless he fucks off to mars which is why he's insanely gung ho about that as well

Baku
Aug 20, 2005

by Fluffdaddy

Zikan posted:

he is not a good person, he's just self aware enough to realize that his money won't save him from burning up due to global warming unless he fucks off to mars which is why he's insanely gung ho about that as well

it owns that our standard for "good one" millionaires stops short of "good person" at "probably isn't retarded and isn't actively trying to destroy everyone and everything"

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 30 days!)

Musk's intention is to establish a monopoly power on "green tech" because that's obviously where capitalism has to go if it wants to avoid an existential ecological collapse (which may already be unavoidable). He's not doing it out of a kindness of heart.

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy

Baloogan posted:

yeah Contact, advanced alien cultures trying to uplift the states
its obvious because hes a canadian american
that would make you the guy from Use of Weapons i think

Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

that would make you the guy from Use of Weapons i think

Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:
not zakalwe, the drunk guy from the beginning

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe
chairmaker

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 30 days!)

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

that would make you the guy from Use of Weapons i think

I need to go back and finish that.

Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:
cspam should read that one where the donald trump guy gets iced at the end, surface detail

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe
postmaker

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

He's not doing it out of a kindness of heart.
but.... is the Culture all sunshines and lollipops?

Al! posted:

cspam should read that one where the donald trump guy gets iced at the end, surface detail
i'm working my way there.

1994 Toyota Celica
Sep 11, 2008

by Nyc_Tattoo

Baloogan posted:

yeah Contact, advanced alien cultures trying to uplift the states
its obvious because hes a canadian american

is there an alien faction in the Culture novels that actively tries to destroy and devolve civilizations

that's what cruz is

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe
lots wasabi peas
tears flying coating my face
mucous rebellion

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy

zeal posted:

is there an alien faction in the Culture novels that actively tries to destroy and devolve civilizations

that's what cruz is
Idirans

Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

but.... is the Culture all sunshines and lollipops?

i'm working my way there.

spoiler alert

Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:
spoiler alert: at the end of a culture novel, the culture wins

Coolness Averted
Feb 20, 2007

oh don't worry, I can't smell asparagus piss, it's in my DNA

GO HOGG WILD!
🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗

Zikan posted:

elon is working to actively destroy any attempt at unionization at his factories and horrifically emotional abused his ex-wife

he is not a good person, he's just self aware enough to realize that his money won't save him from burning up due to global warming unless he fucks off to mars which is why he's insanely gung ho about that as well

he's also been smart enough to let someone else take the fall for his horrible labor abuses for the most part
Elon wasn't the monster who used immigrant slave labor and deported injured workers, the contractor building his factory in California was! Bad contractor bad! See? Ol Musky even wrote an open letter saying that shouldn't have happened.

Chillgamesh
Jul 29, 2014

wizard on a water slide posted:

it owns that our standard for "good one" millionaires stops short of "good person" at "probably isn't retarded and isn't actively trying to destroy everyone and everything"

I don't think it's possible to be that wealthy and be what most would consider an objectively good person. Like any other extremely wealthy person, his hands are likely soaked in blood from the decisions he's made. You can't shift that kind of capital without crushing people under its weight.

deadgoon
Dec 4, 2014

by FactsAreUseless

Al! posted:

spoiler alert: at the end of a culture novel, the culture wins

yeah the splitting and mass suicide the culture experienced because of their participation in war sure was a win

1994 Toyota Celica
Sep 11, 2008

by Nyc_Tattoo

i thought they were 'just' hegemonizing religious imperialist

the only one of these novels i ever read was consider phlebas, and that was a long time ago

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whaley
Aug 13, 2000

MY DOODOO IS SPRAYING OUT
i never really got into tool but went to see them with a friend last year and the lead singer says I JUST WNAT TO SAY ONE THING IF YOUU ARE OFFENDED BY RAPE JOKES YOU NEED TO GET YOUR rear end OUT OF HEREEEEEE and everyone went WOOoOOoOoOoO!!!!

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