Notices by excds (excds@berlin.social)

@clacke OUT! :-)

@clacke Web searches had more value when it was based on actual human references to material. I miss those times.

@mekkaokereke @Unampho @thekernelinyellow Hi. EU reader here. Just read this.

And yes, my first reaction is "WTF is school lunch debt?!"

@mansr @davidaugust

Ok, today you win the Internet. That was the best response ever! 😄

@clacke And can we additionally ban the bots closing "stale" issues if there hasn't been any activity for a while? Just because a problem isn't discussed doesn't mean it goes away...

@rysiek It was waaay worth it!

@clacke Because he doesn't like genetic diversity?

@clacke OUT!

I had a thought about how #Musk would compare to #Bond villains and ran a google search asking: how much money did bond villains want

And I got this result:

- Hugo Drax - Net worth $7.6bn.
- Auric Goldfinger - 6.5bn.
- Max Zorin - 5.3bn.
- Elliot Carver - 3.9bn.
- Franz Sanchez - 1bn.
- Ernst Stravo Blofeld - 640m.
- Karl Stormberg - 625m.
- Elektra King - 420m.

#BondVillains #Musk #Coup #Trump

1/3

Ok, let's sum that up:

7.6 + 6.5 + 5.3 + 3.9 + 1 + 0.64 + 0.625 + 0.42 = 25.985

For simplicity (read: lazy) I'm picking Moonraker 1979 as the inflation adjustment start (I used https://www.in2013dollars.com):

$25,985,000,000 in 1979 is worth $112,961,376,377.41 today

#BondVillains #Musk #Coup #Trump

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Then I googled: elon musk money

"US$402 billion as of February 8, 2025"

Ok, then 402 divided by 113 is about 3.56.

So let me get this straight, the guy who almost has FOUR TIMES the amount of money as the TOP TEN BOND VILLAINS COMBINED is running around axing government organizations as he pleases?

Please explain to me how this is a reasonable thing to let happen.

#BondVillains #Musk #Coup #Trump

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@clacke I fully understand. I have not exactly the same experience, but similar enough.

@clacke That's crazy

@bkhl @clacke tlhIngan Hol Dajatlh'a'?

@cstross The last week I have started a re-read of the laundry files, and I have reached the end of my paperbacks. Is there an update of the amazon ebook maybe? In the version of my kindle the footnotes don't work and it says 77% even though I'm still at the oil rig.

Got to love computers, right? (Yes, sarcasm intended)

@cstross Ok, scratch that comment. I assumed it was on my kindle. It was only the sample. Hardcover recovered from bookcase.

Sorry for being a bumbling idiot.

@liaizon We have a recording studio at @cbase.

@liaizon I have access. Tuesday at 14?

@clacke That's good. But it could have been avoided if people actually read things properly.

@clacke Wow. People are the worst.