mountainriver

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[–] mountainriver@awful.systems 16 points 6 months ago

Biblically accurate gymnastics.

[–] mountainriver@awful.systems 10 points 6 months ago

"We can't get people to eat less meat and more vegetables, therefore we must invest billions so that we can get to the logical endpoint: million dollars steaks!"

"Or at least, that is what we told them. Now, feast on the most expensive meat yet as we now can literally eat up the planets resources!"

Evil laughter as the billionaires twirl their mustaches and salivates.

[–] mountainriver@awful.systems 19 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Great article.

I have long suspected that it was a dead end, because at most you get a slurry that you then have to process. We already have that, the slurry is just made of vegetables. Growing animal cells in a way is way more complex then mashing peas or beans and make processed food from that.

Or you know, be unafraid to try tofu.

[–] mountainriver@awful.systems 14 points 6 months ago

Geffen succeeded with a gift of $100 million to Lincoln Center and — perhaps more importantly — Lincoln Center paid $15 million to Fisher’s descendants so they would not sue. What that means is that the most prominent cultural organization in New York City lit $15 million on fire so that Geffen’s name would be on a concert hall.

No they did not lit them on fire, they payed of people.

In order to lit money on fire you need to buy something - like servers, electricity - and then just waste it. For example by running crypto schemes.

[–] mountainriver@awful.systems 16 points 6 months ago

But they make up for it in volume!

[–] mountainriver@awful.systems 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I think it is a reference to Funko calling the Itch guy's mom. Which they apparently did.

[–] mountainriver@awful.systems 5 points 6 months ago

I think it is odd that he in the several days between the murder and the arrest kept the gun and the fake id he used in New York. Doesn't prove anything, people have been known to do odd things, but then again police also have been known to plant evidence or make claims of evidence that doesn't stand up in court. Guess I will await the trial (if there is one).

[–] mountainriver@awful.systems 28 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I started thinking about when Emma Goldman's partner Alexander Berkman tried to kill a 19th century robber baron who had sent in Pinkerton to murder workers into ending a strike.

One can make an argument about the economic conditions creating the condition's for what the anarchists back then called "the propaganda of the deed". But that isn't where I am going. Instead let's look at the aftermath.

From an assassination perspective, the quality of the assassination was lacking. Also, Wikipedia (my bold):

Frick was back at work within a week; Berkman was charged and found guilty of attempted murder. Berkman's actions in planning the assassination clearly indicated a premeditated intent to kill, and he was sentenced to 22 years in prison.[5] Negative publicity from the attempted assassination resulted in the collapse of the strike.[19]

In other words, today's robber barons gets less sympathy than the O.G. kind. That's a bit interesting.

[–] mountainriver@awful.systems 4 points 6 months ago

A one with zeros is the roundest number?

[–] mountainriver@awful.systems 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

In the famous locomotive competition where Rocket beat Novelty (or was it the other way around?), other locomotives also participated. Some broke down and one was disqualified for containing a horse instead of a steam engine. Feels like there are lots of hidden horses today, and they are rewarded instead of disqualified.

[–] mountainriver@awful.systems 15 points 7 months ago (4 children)

So they named the product sucking the data after the Facehugger? At least they know that they are in the abomination business. Will they be releasing an AI named Bursting Chest?

[–] mountainriver@awful.systems 10 points 7 months ago

It says it isn't clickbait in the headline!

Do people really get on the internet and expect other people to lie?!

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