in space tang eats you
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 22 July 2021 16:33 (two years ago) link
Karl, I think I understand where you're coming from, but there can be more than multiple kinds of incoherence or disinformation.
― rob, Thursday, 22 July 2021 16:34 (two years ago) link
i feel like this person is trying to resolve some cognitive dissonance he is feeling from his friends saying this is bad while he thinks rich guys going to space is cool. sort of a bedtime story.
― criminally negligible (harbl), Thursday, 22 July 2021 16:41 (two years ago) link
haha, yeah i think you're right harbl!
xp rob i think you're right about multiple kinds, but there are also multiple degrees of incoherence. i think i may have spent too much time growing up around the worst kind, because this facebook friend seems like he would be the mayor of my hometown :-o
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Thursday, 22 July 2021 16:51 (two years ago) link
I myself really won't be impressed until Bezos launches a ICBM strike on Microsoft or Cosco.
― earlnash, Thursday, 22 July 2021 17:41 (two years ago) link
I wrote an absurdly long post explaining my take that no one needs to read, so let me focus on what matters here: citing Star Trek in defense of your belief that space should be privatized is very irritating! I did skip a few Ferengi eps of DS9 though, so maybe I missed something
― rob, Thursday, 22 July 2021 18:29 (two years ago) link
reminded me of the time in high school choir when we were impeaching our Choir President for not doing anything on the job all year and her best friend wrote into the choir newspaper decrying the action, stating MUTINY WASN'T GOOD FOR THE BOUNTY, AND IT ISN'T HERE EITHER!
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Thursday, 22 July 2021 18:31 (two years ago) link
that...might just be the least cool post I've ever made anywhere
https://cdn.geekwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/bezos-2-630x545.png
MAKE IT SO!
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Thursday, 22 July 2021 18:31 (two years ago) link
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Thursday, July 22, 2021 7:31 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink
lmao
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Thursday, 22 July 2021 18:33 (two years ago) link
that is solid gold
yeah, that is amazing! lol
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Thursday, 22 July 2021 18:34 (two years ago) link
also just the impeaching of the choir president in general
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Thursday, 22 July 2021 18:35 (two years ago) link
yeah you've definitely made less cool posts :)
― rob, Thursday, 22 July 2021 18:35 (two years ago) link
the choir president had abandoned any pretenses of holding office with integrity. it was as if she thought she was above the job
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Thursday, 22 July 2021 18:36 (two years ago) link
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Thursday, 22 July 2021 18:36 (two years ago) link
impeachment failed btw. she kept her job.
outrage.
the choir having its own newspaper is too many levels of extracurricular activities
― criminally negligible (harbl), Thursday, 22 July 2021 18:36 (two years ago) link
my friend was the editor (even though she was terrible at spelling and grammar and editing). still friends with her, now she's married with a kid and is a neurologist.
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Thursday, 22 July 2021 18:37 (two years ago) link
if only her supporters had staged a jan. 6 when the new choir president took office
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Thursday, 22 July 2021 18:38 (two years ago) link
*image of choir reading the Choir Times newspaper in the choir room*
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Thursday, 22 July 2021 18:38 (two years ago) link
Neanderthal, you should pitch this as a series
― rob, Thursday, 22 July 2021 18:38 (two years ago) link
xxpost
"Onlookers called it the least threatening mob in recorded history"
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Thursday, 22 July 2021 18:39 (two years ago) link
look, we can try to impeach the choir president. again. we know what happened last time. it will fail again. i hate to use this tired phrase, but...i kind of feel like we're preaching to the--
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Thursday, 22 July 2021 18:39 (two years ago) link
reluctant lol
― rob, Thursday, 22 July 2021 18:39 (two years ago) link
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― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Thursday, 22 July 2021 18:40 (two years ago) link
loooooooooooooool Karl
i would like it to be one of those series where episode 6 is entirely about the day there was a substitute choir teacher
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Thursday, 22 July 2021 18:40 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ulhz75reeAw
― Two Severins Clash (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 22 July 2021 19:49 (two years ago) link
― Yours in Sorrow, A Schoolboy: (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 22 July 2021 22:06 (two years ago) link
Part of a historic bridge in the Netherlands will be dismantled so that a superyacht built for Amazon’s founder, Jeff Bezos, can pass through the river that flows through Rotterdam, the city said on Thursday.Netty Kros, a spokeswoman for the city of Rotterdam, said that the middle part of the 95-year-old Koningshaven Bridge would be removed this summer so that the sailing yacht could pass. The bridge, known locally as “De Hef,” will then be restored, potentially on the same day, she said.Mr. Bezos’s yacht should be able to fit under all the other bridges in Rotterdam, Ms. Kros said. She did not have an estimate of how much the deconstruction would cost but said that the shipbuilder, not residents of Rotterdam, would pay.There will not be any structural changes to the bridge, Ms. Kros said, adding that the city had to weigh the economic benefits of having the yacht built in Rotterdam and the jobs that would create.
Netty Kros, a spokeswoman for the city of Rotterdam, said that the middle part of the 95-year-old Koningshaven Bridge would be removed this summer so that the sailing yacht could pass. The bridge, known locally as “De Hef,” will then be restored, potentially on the same day, she said.
Mr. Bezos’s yacht should be able to fit under all the other bridges in Rotterdam, Ms. Kros said. She did not have an estimate of how much the deconstruction would cost but said that the shipbuilder, not residents of Rotterdam, would pay.
There will not be any structural changes to the bridge, Ms. Kros said, adding that the city had to weigh the economic benefits of having the yacht built in Rotterdam and the jobs that would create.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 3 February 2022 17:28 (two years ago) link
posted this in the Amazon thread before I saw this. Jesus christ that last line :(
― rob, Thursday, 3 February 2022 21:07 (two years ago) link
yeah I wasn't sure which thread was best for this depressing example of modern capitalism, lots of options!
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 3 February 2022 21:08 (two years ago) link
what gets me is it is both a depressing example of modern capitalism and of almost comically feudalistic insanity
― rob, Thursday, 3 February 2022 21:14 (two years ago) link
lords of the manor: the original job creators
― rob, Thursday, 3 February 2022 21:15 (two years ago) link
yeah this sort of thing was par for the course for early modern royalty. like if the princess was travelling with her 250-person retinue it would simply be understood that if he had to a truly gracious host would dismantle an exterior wall in order to carry her bed into the best room of the house
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 3 February 2022 22:45 (two years ago) link
It's really the fault of Rotterdam's founders for not anticipating that a future billionaire's mega-yacht might need to get through, sheesh
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 3 February 2022 23:22 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGhcSupkNs8
― organ doner (ledge), Friday, 17 November 2023 13:57 (five months ago) link