Even then…

https://spaceinsider.tech/2023/08/16/how-much-does-it-cost-to-launch-a-rocket/

Bezos and Musk can both go to space in their very own rockets just to have a massive wank, and it still wouldn’t cost them the rounding error of their total wealth. It’s functionally impossible for them to spend the amount of money they have, and yet for some fucking reason they still want more. They’re sick in the head.

It’s more that context is important. The thread is about “Police Unions”, so it’s not surprising that people would read “Company Union” as meaning a union at a commercial enterprise by contrast, rather than the highly specific and obscure 100-year-old definition that you’ve used that distinguishes a company union from a trade union.

You can either prance about in the thread about how dumb everyone else is, or you could edit your original statement to clarify what you meant rather than throwing up a load of links.

$2,000,000 : I can live a great life, and if I’m frugal don’t ever have to work again if I don’t want to

$1,000,000,000 : I literally could not spend all this money on physical possessions if I tried, so the only thing left I can spend it on is owning and controlling other people

Oh well if the jury failed to convict that must mean it didn’t happen, along with the dozens of similar accusations made by other victims.

They’re not sound logical reasons, they’re terrible bits of hand-wringing, armchair psychiatry, and lame excuse making that make a deliberate choice to ignore both the clear damage done to his victims and the massive pile of evidence of the things he did.

Also, I didn’t call him a pedophile, I said he abused children. Which he did.

I don’t understand how this notion is so readily accepted.

Tons of people have difficult childhoods where circumstances forced them to grow up quickly, without them developing weird childhood obsessions that involve them inviting other people’s kids to share a bed with them.

(edit: mind blown at how many people are lining up to defend child abuse. He didn’t have a childhood, which gave him the right to take other kids’ childhoods from them? Y’all must really not want to give up that awesome record collection.)

You can take it literally at face value. They want to know about you, so they asked. The idea that an interviewer would conclude that “renovated my house” is a wrong answer that get you blacklisted, is something that person seems to have just decided for themselves.

Too many people think of interviews like they’re exams, where there’s a set pass mark. There isn’t. There’s just, would I rather spend the next few years working with person A or person B, let’s ask them some questions to find out.

I’m still bitter at Steam for taking a bunch of my single-player games off me that I’d already paid for when I moved to another country, and refusing to refund me because I’d already played 10 hours. Also the support guy treated me like I was a criminal for even trying.

There isn’t a single question you can possibly ask in an interview that doesn’t have a million threads like this complaining about it and assuming the worst about its intentions or what the interviewer will conclude from its answer.

The general rule seems to be that any kind of question that you might do badly on, is a bad question.

I’ve noticed they’re ok with arresting celebrities for sex offenses, just not politicians or CEOs.

Where are those numbers from? They disagree with https://shotonwhat.com/skyfall-2012 . The IMAX release was done as a film print, which likely wasn’t made from the regular HD cut.

state controlled media is very bad

Hard disagree: if there’s one thing we’ve seen over the many decades, BBC News for all its various stumbles has done a good job of setting a high bar for all the commercial news TV in the UK.

Just compare it to the absolute trainwreck that is US TV news media. Sky News for example is a Murdoch station just like Fox News, and yet they don’t have even a fraction of the amount of crazy on there because the British people have come to expect their news presenters to act like adults and make at least some attempt at impartiality.

Even if you don’t like the BBC’s output, you still get the benefit from its effect on the independents, and it’s not like anyone’s forcing you to watch it.

LOL, I went to see what the availability was, and it looks like CloudFlare have decided that anyone going to AMC’s site from a duckduckgo search for “Melania movie tickets” is probably an attacker.

It seems so cartoonishly evil that you don’t think it would happen, but I’ve been around bigger companies long enough to see first-hand that the psychopaths genuinely do get promoted first.

Companies don’t deliberately set out to recruit and promote psychopaths, they just have systems in place that happen to reward inhumanity. CEOs that don’t increase YoY revenue get fired by their boards, and the fact that it may have been because they were trying to avoid killing babies doesn’t enter into the discussion.

Now you’re doubling down and being a snobby cunt. Looks like I shouldn’t have bothered trying to phrase things diplomatically after all. Blocked

Posting questions and then complaining that the answers aren’t good enough for you, is what I would, at my most diplomatic, call ungracious behaviour. You had the option of just scrolling past.

Capitalism eats itself

I think the urban myth part was some of the photos being shared that showed very dramatic results. There was one right here on lemmy that someone posted from the wikipedia page on exploding trees without bothering to read its caption - it that had been destroyed by a lightning strike.

My student days:

Curry Super Noodles

After draining most of the water crack an egg in there and give it a small stir, also add small tin tuna and some frozen sweetcorn

Tip into a bowl and drown in Sweet Chili Sauce

Easy to make, only dirties one pan, has pretty much all the nutrients you need. Corresponds to no known world cuisine so name it whatever you want.

15 years ago I’d have called this a conspiracy theory given how the evidence seems to be anecdotal, but given literally every single other thing we’ve learned in recent times about how cartoonishly evil and lying the tech bros truly are, it seems entirely likely.