Mastodawn

RE: https://tane.codes/@tanepiper/116337081981568251

Same for me, too. And Elon Musk took all the joy out of his big rocket launch (and occasional explosion) livestreams when he unmasked as full nazi in public. And the Russian space program? Dead to me.

We should just get back in the sea. Our species is done.

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jwz 1d ago

@cstross But the billionaires have ruined submarines too.

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Charlie Stross 1d ago

@jwz

I blame Ian Fleming. He didn't just invent James Bond, he invented the Bond Villain trope. And now a whole bunch of billionaires have decided to spend their wealth Torment Nexusing their way into real life Bond Villainy.

Which is why we need James Bond. Not the camp secret agent but the original—a socialist government's on-payroll assassin for killing threats to democracy (and the crown). (I mean, come on: Elon Musk is a dead ringer for Hugo Drax per the Fleming novel: Nazi rocketer ...)

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Brian Swetland 1d ago

@cstross @jwz I feel like, for American billionaires at least, blame falls on our educational system (thus their poor reading comprehension taking entirely the wrong lesson from the books they love) and our healthcare system... can you imagine if Elon could have seen a therapist instead of buying Twitter?

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Charlie Stross 1d ago

@swetland @jwz Elon is a product of the South African Apartheid-era education system. Satya Nadella is a product of the Indian school system. And so on. The billionaire elite are multinational and their dysfunctions are globalized.

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Brian Swetland

@cstross @jwz Absolutely. I do think it's not unreasonable for the US to take a good share of the blame for not doing anything about Elon before (or after) it got this bad.