• Michael@slrpnk.net
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    1 year ago

    I always felt like when Amazon acquired The Expanse, it was likely Bezo’s fantasy to have an underclass of chronically ill, resource-starved people in space - to serve his interests.

    Glad to know I wasn’t off-base.

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      1 year ago

      I thought the only ones chronically ill while not on actual planets were a subset of the rock hoppers who stayed long-term on moon stations?

      e: I mean the guy definitely thought the wrong people were the good guys, but I’ll take twice as many seasons and try not to peer too hard into the sausage factory, thanks.

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          1 year ago

          Early on Tom Jane gets made fun of for his spinal surgery, but I think it was only relevant in that scene because the guys were rock hoppers and they were on Ceres which has more significant gravity than most of the belt. I may have misinterpreted, though.

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            1 year ago

            Oof it’s been a long time but I thought a lot of the OPA had tattoos on their necks to obscure their surgery scars, I thought it was common. Though maybe it’s different between the book and the show?

            And is Tom Jane a typo? I don’t remember that character. Omg just googled it. I was like, I think that happened to Miller? But how could Tom Jane be an autocorrect for Miller?? And it’s his actors name lmao

  • borth@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    “So 10,000 years ago, or whenever it was, somebody invented the plough, and we all got richer…. I’m talking about all of civilization, these tools increase our abundance, and that pattern will continue.”

    Can’t fucking help himself but think of how to get richer. He just came out and said it with his little unrelated example: “this is so we can get richer”… Who’s “we”? They want you to think it could one day be you, but we know that’s the opposite of what they think.

    Must be so fucking hard to imagine a technological advance that doesn’t make you richer as priority #1, but helps people instead.

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          1 year ago

          You should buy ALL of the ice cream at a McDonald’s and just eat ice cream until you pass out in a pile of regurgitated ice cream various types of ice cream in various stages of thawing, and of course two dozen copies of your manifesto on the evils of eating pork. Make sure it’s at least a couple hundred pages long and then make a hard pivot with no explanation like 20 pages from the end to blaming the people of the Sentinel Islands for all of the world’s problems, and then somehow tie it back into the pork thing.

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      1 year ago

      Right? Anyone else his age says that shit people say Okay Grandpa, let’s get you off to bed.

  • _cryptagion [he/him]@anarchist.nexus
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    1 year ago

    lmao you would think somebody who stole a bunch of surplus value from the world would understand that getting millions of people and the infrastructure to support them to the moon in the next 20 years would bankrupt the governments he depends on to protect him from us.

  • geekwithsoul@piefed.social
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    1 year ago

    “I don’t see how anybody can be discouraged who is alive right now,” the Amazon and Blue Origin founder said”

    I went into this article expecting the space thing to be the most unhinged thing Bezos said. But nope, it was the above quote. Insane wealth is a helluva drug.