While for Bezos, heaven is a place on earth.
(By "on," I mean slightly above, looking down with contempt.)
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 14:20 (two years ago) link
treeship is otm about extremely rich people having no access to spirituality and otm about why bezos is doing this imo. it's also extremely pathetic and funny.
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 14:25 (two years ago) link
it's not necessarily that the wealthy can't access spirit but that obsession with money/capital/exploitation is incompatible with it.
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 14:26 (two years ago) link
exactly. thanks map.
― treeship., Tuesday, 8 June 2021 14:28 (two years ago) link
I remember an interview with some Japanese shipping magnate who had spent years in a Zen monastery before coming back to run the family business. The interviewer asked him how his spiritual training informed his shipping magnate-ism. The guy said, "Zen is good for many things. But not so much for business."
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 14:28 (two years ago) link
odd then that spiritual people tend to gravitate toward money/capital/exploitation
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 14:29 (two years ago) link
o rly
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 14:30 (two years ago) link
If by "spiritual people" you mean "religious institutions," sure. But that's probably not the best way to define that.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 14:31 (two years ago) link
society is sick in a lot of ways, fabrication of spiritual well-being for capital is one of them
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 14:32 (two years ago) link
prosperity gospel, sea org, sexual exploitation of followers, etc. etc. etc.
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 14:32 (two years ago) link
i don't think cult leaders who sexually exploit their followers are necessarily spiritually enlightened either.
i was talking about the sublime specifically, or an aesthetic/spiritual intuition of infinity. it requires a kind of humility and an ability to step beyond your immediate attachments and strivings.
― treeship., Tuesday, 8 June 2021 14:46 (two years ago) link
anyway, I told my 6 yo that Bezos was going into space and he said, "I guess the people on earth will be free for a few days then."
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 15:19 (two years ago) link
lol for real?
― im dum (rob), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 17:04 (two years ago) link
I guess when your dad's the president you get political at an early age
― im dum (rob), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 17:05 (two years ago) link
yes, he hates Jeff Bezos. Not sure where he picked that up.
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 17:14 (two years ago) link
it's only human to hate these motherfuckers
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 17:20 (two years ago) link
Please god https://t.co/wPcLbKtS4W pic.twitter.com/zT74NrKEcR— Mr Demos of Pnyx (@gem_ste) July 20, 2021
― MoMsnet (calzino), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 09:07 (two years ago) link
Bezos announces in post-launch presser that he’s starting a new initiative called the “courage and civility award,” a $100 million award so the recipient can give that money to a charity of their choice. Van Jones is the first recipient. pic.twitter.com/ZboaXTNYuX— Joey Roulette (@joroulette) July 20, 2021
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 20 July 2021 17:50 (two years ago) link
Bezos really needs to be chucked out of a helicopter
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 20 July 2021 17:51 (two years ago) link
i just learned that his little "space" flight this morning lasted 11 minutes
― criminally negligible (harbl), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 17:52 (two years ago) link
I know rockets are phallic by design but come on
https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/iDedHLpCQNbdQmJdXWN63P.jpeg
― Karl Havoc (DJP), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 17:53 (two years ago) link
I figured there was already a thread for this which is why I didn't create a "Jeff Bezos launched himself into space on a dick" thread
― Karl Havoc (DJP), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 17:54 (two years ago) link
the billionare version of a jacked up gmc sierra
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 17:56 (two years ago) link
elsewhere it says the recipient can give to charity or keep it. so he just gave a rich person money that they could just keep. what a guy.
― criminally negligible (harbl), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 17:56 (two years ago) link
if you told me at 18 i would live to see a second space race, except infinitely stupider than the first, i would have turned 40 in a day.
this is so silly it's honestly difficult for me to believe.
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 17:58 (two years ago) link
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― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 18:01 (two years ago) link
Presumably Bezo's rocket was designed with that particular shape so that it could neatly dock in the center of the ship from Battle Beyond the Stars.
https://www.monstersinmotion.com/cart/images/18SFP25_Nellship_02.jpg
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 18:06 (two years ago) link
oh my god! WHAT?
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 18:13 (two years ago) link
ilx posts with striking imagery
gotta love a man with a singular vision:
Jeff Bezos, hours after flying to space: "We need to take all heavy industry, all polluting industry, and move it into space. And keep Earth as this beautiful gem of a planet that it is." https://t.co/MibdgfkTFd— Axios (@axios) July 20, 2021
― rob, Tuesday, 20 July 2021 18:53 (two years ago) link
Is there a way to make all toilets flush directly into the troposphere
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 19:00 (two years ago) link
what an unbelievable asshole
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 19:00 (two years ago) link
“Oh my god, I’m in space! We should put all of our trash here!”
― Karl Havoc (DJP), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 19:07 (two years ago) link
Good of Jeff to reinforce that he is That Neighbor
― Karl Havoc (DJP), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 19:09 (two years ago) link
lol
I know "Bezos is a supervillain" jokes have been around a while, but like: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/20/jeff-bezos-space-travel-philosophy-500300
But Bezos, a billionaire who made his fortune building Amazon into a global online marketplace but has dreamed of space travel since he was a child, has said that he believes almost religiously that sustaining the human race will require building space colonies — beginning on the moon — where millions can live and work and develop new resources to meet growing demands on Earth.He has described these as “very large structures, miles on end, and they hold a million people or more each.”
He has described these as “very large structures, miles on end, and they hold a million people or more each.”
this reminds me of something but I can't quite put my finger on it...
― rob, Tuesday, 20 July 2021 19:12 (two years ago) link
as bezos himself said earlier today, he wouldn't have gotten to go there, to space, if it weren't for all of the amazon employees and customers.
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 19:12 (two years ago) link
he has us to thank
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 19:13 (two years ago) link
i would rather die than live on the moon with jeff bezos
― criminally negligible (harbl), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 19:15 (two years ago) link
what if offered you life & death on the moon in a massive structure you cannot leave and receives no sunlight, but JB will stay on earth?
― rob, Tuesday, 20 July 2021 19:16 (two years ago) link
only if there is a way to make him spend the rest of his days moving boxes around in a sweltering warehouse as we laugh at him from the moon
― criminally negligible (harbl), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 19:18 (two years ago) link
spacehow high can you goonce againwhat a magnate know
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 19:19 (two years ago) link
xpa Wall-E sequel I could support
― rob, Tuesday, 20 July 2021 19:20 (two years ago) link
Excuse my (mostly) incurable optimism, but could two successful private space launches in 9 days be something all Americans rally around together?— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) July 20, 2021
― criminally negligible (harbl), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 19:21 (two years ago) link
another CNN person who loves jeff bezos. which is why i hate CNN and hate that my parents watch it several hours a day.
― criminally negligible (harbl), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 19:22 (two years ago) link
looooooooooool
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 19:22 (two years ago) link
it's time to rally behind our space barons
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 19:23 (two years ago) link
fuck me for spreading that term, sorry.
i was annoyed that the post kept referring to them as "Space Barons" in their recent headlines. then i looked into the term and realized the only person using the term "Space Barons" was the journalist, who had also recently written a book with the title "Space Barons" in it. and now i'm here spreading his dumb term. space baron.
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 19:24 (two years ago) link
we can call them "space knobs" instead
― Karl Havoc (DJP), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 19:35 (two years ago) link
also lol @ Jim Sciutto invoking the American exceptionalism of... Richard Branson
― Karl Havoc (DJP), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 19:36 (two years ago) link
https://i.pinimg.com/474x/41/8f/31/418f310896dc7dca4896e287d4d2bda8.jpg
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 19:54 (two years ago) link
i keep hearing people make the same joke -- "can jeff bezos *stay* in space!" -- and then chortling to themselves. this is more annoying to me than anything else, the impotent hatred of bezos that everyone has. and with everything like this, this hatred is really a self-hatred because i also despise amazon in a pointless way, cringing whenever one of those trucks drive by with the half-smiles, those fucking smirks.
― treeship., Tuesday, 20 July 2021 20:00 (two years ago) link