Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez, 250 guests arriving on 90 different private jets at the wedding in Venice.
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It would be a shame if something were to happen to so many billionaires gathered conspicuously in one place on a very publicized date
That’s why they picked Italy, Italy loves fascism
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looks down at paper straw dissolving in glass of water
This is exactly why I don't feel guilt about my statistically insignificant contribution towards climate change.
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Richard Bachman’s (Stephen King) The Long Walk?
The book was pretty good, at least when i read it as a teenager. Don't know if i'd like it now
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It was the British that sent their criminals to Australia.
~/s~
They sent them to North America first. The charting and colonisation of NSW happened shortly after the US declared independence, not a coincidence. Of course now the inbred aristocracy doesn't run this place any more so you can keep your worst thanks
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No wonder you are poor
How convenient when I talked before about shaming poor people.
Shaming imprudent spending behaviour != "shaming poor people"
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A natural disaster of the Luigi variety
A happy little miracle disaster
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Nobody is going to visit his house in Florida in 100 years.
You'd need some scuba gear, probably.
I imagine Venice would still be first
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We need you Luigi
Send more blue shells
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90 jets just for 250 guests mean a fucktons of co2 being emitted needlessly.
Just to set this in relation, the transatlantic roundtrips of those jets are the equivalent to 540000000 questions to deepseek r1, or 1710000000 questions to quen 2.5. for quen, that means to ask about 36 questions per minute.
for the next 90 years.
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No wonder you are poor
How convenient when I talked before about shaming poor people.
How is that shaming poor people? It's shaming dumb behavior. New cars are the most expensive purchase a normal person can do. Thousands up to tens of thousands of euros of value gone in an instant. If you can afford it and you want to give yourself a treat, go ahead, but if you are poor, that's what keeping you poor.
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Article is in italian I couldn't find any news about this in english but i believe it's really important to share.
"Sono attesi dagli 80 ai 90 aerei all’aeroporto Marco Polo di Venezia. Jet privati da Los Angeles, New York, Londra e Dubai scaricheranno in laguna un carico scintillante di star, imprenditori, supermodelle, influencer e tycoon. Il traffico aereo privato sarà talmente intenso da richiedere un coordinamento speciale tra l'aeroporto di Venezia e gli scali di riserva a Verona e Treviso. "
Translation:
"80 to 90 planes are expected at Venice's Marco Polo airport. Private jets from Los Angeles, New York, London and Dubai will unload a glittering cargo of stars, entrepreneurs, supermodels, influencers and tycoons into the lagoon. Private air traffic will be so intense that it will require special coordination between Venice airport and the reserve stopovers in Verona and Treviso. "
unload a glittering cargo of stars, entrepreneurs, supermodels, influencers and tycoons into the lagoon
If only that were literally true
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Who the fuck buys brand new cars???
I bought a new car. I did so in late 2021. My wife and I needed a new vehicle (we had been using her parents’ car while they were away, but they had come back), and the used car market was insanely inflated. To the point where the value of a new car actually made sense, especially when coupled with the supplier discount I had access to and the features we wanted.
Someone has to buy new cars. Where do you think used cars come from?
Covid was the exception, where used cars were at times more expensive than new. At any other point, including now, it's an automatic 20 to 40% loss of value as soon as you drive it the first kilometer.
Someone has to buy new cars. Some has to buy rolexes. Someone has to buy business class seats and 5 star hotel rooms. If you are buying any of that while poor, that is the reason you stay poor.
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It would be a shame if something were to happen to so many billionaires gathered conspicuously in one place on a very publicized date
dont give me ideas...
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It's simple, don't use Amazon.
Sadly, they make a ton of money from AWS (amazon web services). A large portion of the internet relies on it. It's difficult or impossible to avoid using any amazon services. Like, you use a website and their backend uses s3 and rds. No way for you to know, much of the time.
I avoid shopping on amazon anyway, but the problem is wider spread.
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I wonder how many jet flights do a single year of collective paper straw using offsets
Well, a quick Google search says billions of straws are used every day.
A straw seemingly cointans 0.42 grams of plastic.
So by using paper straws, assuming just 1 billion straws a day, we save 420 million grams (420 tons) of plastic.
Assuming it takes the same amount of oil to create a kg of plastic and a kg of fuel, that is 420 tons of fuel a day, just over 150k tons of fuel a year.
An average private jet has a capacity of around 20 tons of fuel (looked up G650 on Wikipedia).
So, the global paper straw usage offsets at least 7500 private jet flights. More if we use more than a billion straws, and more if we assume a jet doesn't fully burn 100% of the tank on every flight.
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I’ve never hoped so hard for a natural disaster
Wishing is illegal
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Sadly, they make a ton of money from AWS (amazon web services). A large portion of the internet relies on it. It's difficult or impossible to avoid using any amazon services. Like, you use a website and their backend uses s3 and rds. No way for you to know, much of the time.
I avoid shopping on amazon anyway, but the problem is wider spread.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Yeah I know.. I heard they even make more money with AWS than with traditional sales. It's just outrageous how the US could let the development of such monopolies happen.
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Wait he has an ev truck now too?? Is this part of the douchebag checklist? Space company, ev truck, …
He’s working on producing a “bare bones” ev pick up.
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Sucks that a small frame single cab pickup truck has to comeback under Bezos, because it is the perfect example of a sane size and price truck, but being attached to Bezos and electric only kills it for me. I was super interested until I did research on the company. I really wish they’d bring back the tiny (by today’s standards) Toyota trucks with the full size bed. Like the mid 90s Tacoma with no lift
My first car was a Toyota Tacoma. I miss that thing. The bed was low so you didn’t have to kill your back, too.
And for all those “I use it for my job” types, they’d have more use out of a freaking transit connect.
When SUVs became “family vehicles”, instead of the dick-compensation-machines, marketing said “ahah! Big trucks!” And now big trucks are the dick compensation machines.
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It's not his truck, he was a series A funder among many. The CEO of Slate is a woman with an idea.
A woman with an idea who took funding from bezos.
Her choice.
My choice is to not have anything to do with bezos, as much as I humanly can. And that includes not buying products he will profit from.
