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Speaking of rich space emperors, Jeff Bezos stepping down as CEO of amazon, working on his space company.
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Cenen posted:I always kind of hoped the assassin had a sense of humor and jabbed Epstein with an epipen while braking his neck. And a few good blows to his egg shaped dick for good measure. Epipen?
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Feb 2, 2021 23:27
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Lol. Elon rocket go boom. https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/02/tech/spacex-starship-sn-9-test-launch-faa-scn/index.html
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Feb 2, 2021 23:40
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Syrian Lannister posted:Speaking of rich space emperors, Jeff Bezos stepping down as CEO of amazon, working on his space company. gently caress Amazon, vote union https://twitter.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1356680745146793984?s=19
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Feb 2, 2021 23:40
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The tech we’d need to make Mars livable would save earth. Like there’s no point in bailing because by the time you can make it worth the trip, you don’t need to go.
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Feb 2, 2021 23:41
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Best Friends posted:If it's any consolation, neither Elon musk or any living human will colonize Mars. The game Surviving Mars (pretty, pretty good) is about that. Has a bit of mood whiplash in the notifications: "First child born on Mars! You get the Marvin the Martian achievement!" "The tennis courts are now taking reservations!" "Your failure to building adequate healthcare has led to the first alcohol related suicide!"
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Richard Bong posted:The tech we’d need to make Mars livable would save earth. Like there’s no point in bailing because by the time you can make it worth the trip, you don’t need to go. I'm starting to think that it's not about figuring out tech to help this planet or generate a future for mankind at all
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Feb 2, 2021 23:42
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Hyrax Attack! posted:The game Surviving Mars (pretty, pretty good) is about that. Has a bit of mood whiplash in the notifications: Your obscenely long water pipes broke, all your plants are dead and there’s a dust storm!  Living on Mars without some sort of multiply redundant robotic extraction and factory going for all of your basic needs and any needed replacement parts is suicidal. They should be underwater cities or something in international waters, it’d be safer.
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Feb 2, 2021 23:45
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Godholio posted:What the everloving gently caress? Seriously, the entire Trump administration needs to be hauled out and shot.
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Feb 2, 2021 23:48
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The Caucacity https://www.thedailybeast.com/capitol-rioter-jenny-cudd-asks-court-to-let-her-vacation-in-mexico quote:One of the rioters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 is asking a federal court to let her leave the country so she can make the most of a Mexican vacation she booked prior to the insurrection. In a court filing on Monday, Jenny Cudd’s attorneys said their client ”planned and prepaid for a weekend retreat with her employees” in Riviera Maya, Mexico, later this month and would like to attend. Cudd, the owner of a Midland, Texas, flower shop, told the court that the trip is “a work-related bonding retreat for employees and their spouses.”
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Feb 2, 2021 23:53
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Riot Carol Danvers posted:I mean honestly if they'd done it years ago they'd be insanely rich from the taxes alone This is kinda ultimately the goal, though - I'd bet money that the legalization of marijuana will come with extremely stiff penalties and/or jail time for "non-certified growers." There's too much money in putting people in jail for drugs - so it'll become legal for rich people, but local co-ops and closet-growers will get busted even worse than they do now because they'll be costing the government money and inconveniencing ultra-rich people. It'll be like HR 127 only for weed. BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 00:19 on Feb 3, 2021 |
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Feb 3, 2021 00:05
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Remember when John Walker Lindh got 20 years for fighting our dumbass invasion of AFG? The Insurrectionists should face at the very least the same. He was acting on behalf of a legitimate enemy force against a uniformed opposing force- they attempted to overthrow ours. We need to send a message, because otherwise we normalize it to an extent. I say charge them with treason with the addition of during a time of war to justify their executions.
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Feb 3, 2021 00:11
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bulletsponge13 posted:Remember when John Walker Lindh got 20 years for fighting our dumbass invasion of AFG? I wish they would push for treason or insurrection charges, but who knows if it'll actually happen.
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Feb 3, 2021 00:17
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Richard Bong posted:The tech we’d need to make Mars livable would save earth. Like there’s no point in bailing because by the time you can make it worth the trip, you don’t need to go.
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Feb 3, 2021 00:18
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The "it's a bad idea and everyone will die, full stop" thing with Mars isn't the lack of useful atmosphere or poison ground made of microparticulate rust, it's the complete lack of magnetosphere. Probably the only thing the original "Total Recall" got right were the mutations.
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Feb 3, 2021 00:21
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BIG HEADLINE posted:The "it's a bad idea and everyone will die, full stop" thing with Mars isn't the lack of useful atmosphere or poison ground made of microparticulate rust, it's the complete lack of magnetosphere. Probably the only thing the original "Total Recall" got right were the mutations. And that's a perk they'll charge extra for!
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BIG HEADLINE posted:This is kinda ultimately the goal, though - I'd bet money that the legalization of marijuana will come with extremely stiff penalties and/or jail time for "non-certified growers." There's too much money in putting people in jail for drugs - so it'll become legal for rich people, but local co-ops and closet-growers will get busted even worse than they do now because they'll be costing the government money and inconveniencing ultra-rich people. It'll be like HR 127 only for weed. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/27/marijuana-legalization-corruption-450529 What legalization we've already had has been a license for corrupt mayors and local politicians to print money in marijuana permit bribes. Leaving things up to the discretion of small town officials usually meant that there was a bidding war to bribe the local small town official.
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Feb 3, 2021 00:29
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BIG HEADLINE posted:The "it's a bad idea and everyone will die, full stop" thing with Mars isn't the lack of useful atmosphere or poison ground made of microparticulate rust, it's the complete lack of magnetosphere. Probably the only thing the original "Total Recall" got right were the mutations. Then I think "Well dig underground," but then I think "we can do the same thing here without the trip," and it's just a loop. It'd just be so much easier to "terraform" earth and unfuck the environment than to bail and do it somewhere else.
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Feb 3, 2021 00:47
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I hate the Mars thing, but I guess that's why I would be a bad billionaire. Why not spend a fraction of that money and do something that would make a huge difference, like fixing food inequity in a community? Like that's what I would do if I were rich. Or do a space thing, but tone it back a little and figure out some Neal Stephenson poo poo, like put a data center in space or something.
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Feb 3, 2021 00:57
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They don't work to avoid disaster, they work to ensure they stay on top.
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Feb 3, 2021 01:00
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Sigh, I'll be the one...why can't we just go with both? Saving the planet and having galactic expansion don't have to be a zero-sum game. Hell improving things on Earth probably makes it easier to support space colonies. Like I totally get that dislike of focus on Mars and ignore things here, but I don't think they can't work in tandem though for the betterment of humankind.
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Feb 3, 2021 01:01
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Brah the ultra wealthy who pull strings are building doomsday tombs and asking futurists if they should put shock collars on their guards we ain't working to better anything anywhere without some serious systematic changes that they'll fight every step of the way to prevent
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Feb 3, 2021 01:06
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Oh amazon was also fined 61 million for non payment of tips to its driver's. I didn't even know that was a thing.
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Feb 3, 2021 01:07
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Cugel the Clever posted:But don't you see‽ All AOC wants to do is attack Republicans, why can't they work across the aisle https://twitter.com/elivalley/status/1356674466449936385
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Feb 3, 2021 01:14
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No one who makes a billion dollars is a good person. You can't achieve that kind of thing without being terrible. I like Shark Tank for the concept, but I hate the people involved. You have 9 BILLION dollars. More than your family can spend in a hundred generations. Why the not throw 60k to some half baked fish gizmo- that's like couch money. But to me, happiness is more important than money. And all I can do is think of how much America could use that loving money spent right. Free Meals for every school kid year round with a food pantry. That right there is a game changer. I grew up poor, but above the poverty line poor, and school lunch kept me alive. I'm all riled up because I picked up my Daughter's birth control, and looked at the cost before INS- 112.50$. It costs 112.50 to keep yourself out of the poverty cycle for three months at a time. I don't think a majority of Americans understand how much that is when you are poor. It's so god drat upsetting. There is no reason every American shouldn't have a basic Quality of Life.
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Feb 3, 2021 01:20
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bulletsponge13 posted:But to me, happiness is more important than money. This is why you aren't ultra-wealthy fyi I don't mean this as a negative
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Feb 3, 2021 01:22
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bulletsponge13 posted:I like Shark Tank for the concept Prior to 2013, just to get through those dramatic double doors, entrepreneurs had to part with 5% of their company or 2% in royalties, and that remained whether they made a deal or not, and stacked *on top* of any deal they'd made. They only ended that policy after Cuban threatened to walk, and he's the richest douchebag on the show and Kevin's foil so they caved.
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maffew buildings posted:Brah the ultra wealthy who pull strings are building doomsday tombs and asking futurists if they should put shock collars on their guards we ain't working to better anything anywhere without some serious systematic changes that they'll fight every step of the way to prevent Oh hey, Peter Watts wrote an amusing story based on that article. https://www.patreon.com/posts/new-decameron-37158539
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https://twitter.com/ACTBrigitte/status/1356729705349709824?s=19 Everything about the space force is funny Pine Cone Jones fucked around with this message at 01:31 on Feb 3, 2021 |
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MazelTovCocktail posted:Sigh, I'll be the one...why can't we just go with both? Saving the planet and having galactic expansion don't have to be a zero-sum game. Hell improving things on Earth probably makes it easier to support space colonies. we can go with both but space shouldn't be for private enterprises
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Feb 3, 2021 01:31
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Syrian Lannister posted:Oh amazon was also fined 61 million for non payment of tips to its driver's. I didn't even know that was a thing. Wow what a great way to start a mutiny
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Feb 3, 2021 01:37
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https://twitter.com/jstein_wapo/status/1356731365862100999?s=21 Someone who made 51k two years ago can't possibly be hurting now.
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PookBear posted:we can go with both but space shouldn't be for private enterprises Oh that's fine. I just meant that concepts in generally being presented as polar opposites.
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facialimpediment posted:https://twitter.com/jdawsey1/status/1356723410106253313 Probably a bit late but I love people ON NATIONAL TELEVISION bitching about being censored because of "cancel culture"
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Pine Cone Jones posted:https://twitter.com/ACTBrigitte/status/1356729705349709824?s=19
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Best Friends posted:https://twitter.com/jstein_wapo/status/1356731365862100999?s=21 100k for married couples? There goes my Biden bucks even though my wife is out of work and the avg rent for a house is around 2.8K in the neighborhood.
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UP THE BUM NO BABY posted:gently caress Amazon, vote union Is there a way to send the people organizing this union money?
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Best Friends posted:https://twitter.com/jstein_wapo/status/1356731365862100999?s=21 Key phrase there is "start phasing out".
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wins32767 posted:Key phrase there is "start phasing out". I mean 50k is too low. Especially since they're going off of last tax return filed which would be prior to covid, so someone who made 75k but lost their job in June and has been hosed for 6 months or is working as an uber driver or what-the-gently caress-ever would not get the full benefit. There's no key phrase about it, it's too loving low. Means testing is dumb as gently caress anyways, a fig leaf to appeal to centrists, especially if you're using year old data from before the pandemic started. orange juche fucked around with this message at 02:07 on Feb 3, 2021 |
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