Conversation

Notices

1. Embed this notice
   Lauren Weinstein (lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org)'s status on Tuesday, 06-May-2025 01:12:26 JST Lauren Weinstein

   If Alcatraz can be refurbished into a secure facility for billionaires where they would be kept permanently incommunicado and fed only bread and water, there might be some merit in the plan.

   • Embed this notice
     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 06-May-2025 01:12:57 JST Rich Felker

     in reply to

     @lauren Ok but how about Mars? Much less chance of them returning, or even surviving the trip.

     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: likes this.
   • Embed this notice
     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 06-May-2025 01:58:06 JST Rich Felker

     in reply to

     @lauren The problem with deposed billionaires/dictators/etc. shackled somewhere accessible is that there will always be a fool who assesses the expected profit/reward from freeing them and facilitating their return to power, and decides yeah that would be the smart thing to do... 🤦

   • Embed this notice
     Lauren Weinstein (lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org)'s status on Tuesday, 06-May-2025 01:58:07 JST Lauren Weinstein

     in reply to

     • Rich Felker

     @dalias Much cheaper to just pay for the one-way boat ride to the island. And it can still be a tourist attraction, with folks coming over to goggle at the billionaires shackled in their cells.