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   Brian Tatosky (virtualbri@mastodon.online)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 16:39:49 JST Brian Tatosky

   Billionaire #2's rocket got to orbit. I'm still impressed by it all, but I do have to admit the fun of it is long over because of the owners involved.

   It doesn't feel like an achievement for *us* but for *them*. Not to make civilization better but to either line their pockets which don't need any more lining, or fluff their egos, furthering their weird ass ideas of the "perfect" future.

   It especially hurts as a sci-fi fan, because it's not even close to the future I dreamed of as a kid.

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     jwz (jwz@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 16:39:48 JST jwz

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     @virtualbri Normalize the understanding that they are "his" rockets just as much as Trump Steaks were made from "his" cows in "his" slaughterhouse. Both oligarchs were equally involved in those respective enterprises.

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     jwz (jwz@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 16:43:45 JST jwz

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     @virtualbri He bought a thing and used that thing to capture sweet government contracts from it! The system works!

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     Brian Tatosky (virtualbri@mastodon.online)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 16:43:46 JST Brian Tatosky

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     @jwz It's the worst combo of they didn't do the real work but the results are entirely being used for their ends.