Cory DoctorowElon Musk wants a Texas compound filled with women he will breed with to preserve his superior genes.
Imagine watching Fury Road and thinking Immortan Joe is the hero.
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Imagine watching Total Recall and thinking Vilos Cohaagen is the hero.
Imagine watching Total Recall and thinking Vilos Cohaagen is the hero.
Lazarou Monkey Terror πππ@Crispius @pluralistic "Give dees peeple air!"
MBybee@Lazarou @Crispius @pluralistic Musk would 100% restrict air supply to enforce his whims.
Or even just to make a buck.
The kind of guy who'd increase the nitrogen content while reducing the oxygen content to save a few cents.
@mbybee @Crispius @pluralistic he could be bored one day and just switch off 'Sector Four' or something, not that anybody useful would follow him to Mars.....
Allpoints@Lazarou @mbybee @Crispius @pluralistic now you have me thinking about The hitchhiker's guide and the ship's captain who enjoyed taking baths
@allpoints @mbybee @Crispius @pluralistic lol, I see so many 'B Ark' people in charge these days....
Lady ErrantThe joke there is, though, that the people that put them on the B Ark died from a disease transmitted by unwashed telephones. Its a remider that you cant simply whisk your problems away, down that path too lies danger.
cd ~
Jared Jennings@errant Ah, the quaint science fiction ideas of the past, where a full third of everyone, faced with existential threat to their planet, united to act toward a common goal
(now which third was i talking about, mahahaha)
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TheNovemberFella βπ³οΈβπ πΊπ¦βΈοΈπ°οΈπ@mbybee @Lazarou @Crispius @pluralistic Reminds me of that scene in The Expanse where a belter is leading a protest demanding air and water rights.
@errant @mbybee @Crispius @pluralistic before we start working in Space we need to get Workers Rights sorted so that sort of thing doesn't happen.
Because the way things are now, it absolutely would happen. 'Late Stage Capitalism' innit?
@Lazarou Slavery in Space.
Sounds like a late night movie, thank goodness our species is very unlikely to ever become multiplanetary.
@mbybee our future in Space will not happen with Capitalism, it's too short term and evil.
Star Trek didn't have capitalists, it's good to have noble goals.
Star Trek didn't have capitalists, it's good to have noble goals.
Passwordsarehard4@passwordsarehard4 @mbybee I think, like the Klingons, somebody had the misfortune to let them out into the wider Galaxy, probably why the Federation has that Prime Directive really, stuff like that....
@Lazarou @mbybee there were pirates and black markets outside of the federation. Capitalism still existed just not in federation aligned worlds. They still had scarcity and markets that were driven by it. Latium and dilithium crystals both come to mind. The federation was protected from capitalism but it hadnβt eliminated it.
Jon Gilbert@mbybee @Lazarou @Crispius @pluralistic I think you're giving him too much credit, he's more of the President Scrodge from Spaceballs -type of villain: Perriair for me, none for you, I have this great idea to fix everyone's problem oh wait that didn't work? well I'm bored, on to the next big thing, ta ta.
FandaSinYou've reminded me of this scene! (and yes, Trumps is that stupid)
12345! I've got same combination on my luggage!π
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Angus McIntyre@mbybee @Lazarou @Crispius @pluralistic The klept have good reasons for cutting off your air:
a. If you don't work, you don't get air.
b. If you wanted air, you shouldn't have spent all your money on water.
c. Free air would hurt the shareholders & the economy would collapse.
d. Can't spare any air; sending thoughts & prayers.
e. Oxygen is highly corrosive; people are healthier without air.
f. It would be a betrayal of everyone who didn't have air to give you air now.
g. We need the air for AI.
Jeremy Janzen 
@Crispius @pluralistic Imagine watching Star Trek and thinking the Borg is the hero.
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Tod Beardsley@log Welp, now I know about the (non-cannon) Mirror Universe Borg Kingdom. They still kinda sound like jerks.
Borg (mirror)
For the primary universe counterpart, see Borg. In the mirror universe, the Borg were a race of cybernetically enhanced lifeforms which originated in the Delta Quadrant and spread, as the Borg Collective, throughout the galaxy, aiming to create a perfect race and bring order to the chaos of the galactic population by assimilating themβtransforming them into drones of the Collective. While the Borg in the mirror universe had the same hive-like mentality, the same assimilation methods, and the sam
@log I guess the Mirror Universe isnβt exactly Bizarro World.
@todb I wasn't referring to Mirror Universe.
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Cooperative as sparked by the liberation of Hugh in TNG.
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Cooperative as sparked by the liberation of Hugh in TNG.
Cooperative
This Borg Cooperative was originally a group who escaped from a Borg cube disabled in the Nekrit Expanse. At some point in 2368, a Borg cube traveling through the Nekrit Expanse was disabled, apparently by an electrokinetic storm. This resulted in the death of the majority of the Borg on board and separated the survivors from the Collective. Because the equipment on the cube was no longer functioning, their collective consciousness collapsed and they regained their former senses of identity and
Marcus Aurelius 
@pluralistic He is Immortan Joe with AI
Lebramor@pluralistic π so wrong, even though it's completely true π
ferricoxide@pluralistic
Honestly, I'd probably rather untold generations of Immortan Joe offspring than Musk's.
Honestly, I'd probably rather untold generations of Immortan Joe offspring than Musk's.
@ferricoxide @pluralistic Them warboys may be pale, but they're loyal AF and worship their mothers.
@ferricoxide @pluralistic I wonder how many were returned after they turned out to not produce the desired war frenzy.
Jeff Zugale - Z Factory
Cats Who Code (cursed)@ferricoxide saaaaaame!!!! @pluralistic
jwz@ferricoxide @pluralistic Immortan Joe has a luxurious hairline, unlike that other guy. Strong genes!
Winter TrabexI think the word "breed" in your sentence really just means "Arabic-style harem."
And it's funny, because I've heard anti-gay bigots suggest gay marriage will lead to marriage equality for polygamists.
Kevin RussellNo, breeding program is correct, crazy crazy Musk's relationship with uteruses is purely mechanical.
Dizzy@pluralistic Wait... what?
Jeff Craig@pluralistic Now I want a mash-up of Musk, riding the bomb in Dr. Strangelove, spraying silver paint over his mouth.
@pluralistic This is the kind of thought that isn't worth any human putting the effort of creation into, but I also don't want to "validate" GenAI by using it here, even if I was just costing the companies money to do so.
Also, Musk is so bad at media literacy, he'd probably think it was awesome if he saw it.
maybenotboth he and the official wh account would retweet it unironically
@foxxtrot I breed! I die! I breed again! @pluralistic
Bruce Anderson@pluralistic
His genes will be Darwinized.
His genes will be Darwinized.
Longanimus@pluralistic Imagine the strong brew of Dunnig-Kruger and fawning sycophants required to connect those dots.
Robin Barton@pluralistic Musk has read for too much Ayn Rand
Tall Simon@pluralistic Ah, Fury Road: one of my favourite documentaries about the Australian outback... now in Texas πΊπΈ too...
chris
spacebarbarian@pluralistic Immortan Joe would make him a blood boy.
fabriziob@pluralistic I am still trying to understand if the writer of Mickey 17 is a time traveler.
Toni Aittoniemi@pluralistic The worldβs smartest idiot.