• dtc
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    1611 months ago

    As we disembark the planet please let oligarchs and billionaires go first. They took all the risk to achieve such great things. And if you look deep down (12,500’) you will see this is the way it has to be.

    • @[email protected]
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      511 months ago

      That reminds me of that scene in the Douglas Adam’s Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, where

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      the Golgafrinchans invent an incoming world-ending tragedy, in an excuse to send into space all people with useless/supefluous jobs (bureaucrats, hairdressers, telephone cleaners, etc.) to a new planet, saying that the remaining parts of society will come after.

      • @CeruleanRuin
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        1111 months ago

        One must not forget that after including people like telephone sanitizers under what they deemed superfluous, the Golgafrinchans all died out from a plague contracted from a dirty telephone.