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Posted on August 14, 2023 via fleur aesthetic with 1,191 notes
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Posted on August 14, 2023 via play some well-tempered clavier, man with 3,815 notes
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This is dumb, but I had fun making it!
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Posted on August 12, 2023 via 自然 with 6,521 notes
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Daniel Egnéus’s stunning illustrations for Little Red Riding Hood (part 1 of 2).
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Alowyn Garden - Jesse Dayan , 2019.
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Oil on linen, 50 x 45 cm.
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“To me the important thing is not to offer any specific hope of betterment but, by offering an imagined but persuasive alternative reality, to dislodge my mind, and so the reader’s mind, from the lazy, timorous habit of thinking that the way we live now is the only way people can live. It is that inertia that allows the institutions of injustice to continue unquestioned.”
— Ursula K. Le Guin, A War Without End
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As sketchy as the oceangate submarine was… you can bet your ass every single one of musky’s endeavors would look just as sketchy if it wasn’t for the fact that he’s forced to work with government regulators.
Hell, most of his projects are this sketchy if you look a bit closer. For example: the tesla tunnels.
No fire suppression system, no emergency exits, no emergency lighting, no way for EMS to get through, no fucking nothing. I am pretty sure it’s not even big enough to open the car’s doors.
Or the Cybertruck that’s a deathtrap for both the people on the outside and the people on the inside because it utterly disregards the last 50 or so years of advancements in car safety technology such as crumple zones or safety glass
Or the tesla model 3 where you can’t even open the back doors without power. So if you’re in an accident and lose power… good luck getting your kids out of the back, especially when the huge battery is turning into a huge, unextinguishable flamethrower.
Or the fucking starship launchpad that was utterly destroyed by the rocket and threw huge concrete chunks and other debris around for miles… which, incidentally, also destroyed the rocket.
That’s what all these self-proclaimed Silicon Valley tech bro geniuses are like.
They all think they know better than everyone else, and that rules or consequences don’t apply to them, and they see safety as little more than an afterthought.
It’s why Ai and social media algorithms are used sooooo ethically. It’s why amazon and facebook try to find out everything about you and happily sell that data with no disregard for what it could be used for.
It’s about damn time one of these CEO dipshits got killed by their own dipshitery, I just wish it had been musk or bezos instead…
Once again, in conclusion:
I want to add that it’s not just humans whose safety is placed at risk by billionaire vanity projects - it's wildlife, too. I’m a local to the area where the Boca Chica SpaceX launch site is located. That site is dangerously close to a federally protected wildlife preserve, home to several endangered and vulnerable species of birds, sea turtles, ocelots, and more. Following that SpaceX rocket launch described above, debris was hurled over a 6.5-mile radius and landed right in the preserve, polluting the area with pieces of concrete and metal. The launch also started a fire that burned over 3.5 acres of protected land. We don’t know how many animals were killed by the April launch. SpaceX was recently sued by local environmental protection groups and a local tribe that uses the land for religious purposes.
Unlike the folks at NASA up in Houston, who take extensive measures to reduce the environmental impact of their launches, SpaceX cuts corners. NASA conducts frequent, rigorous safety and environmental analyses when designing and preparing to launch their rockets. This process includes a complete environmental impact analysis done in conjunction with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and its standards. Only when this evaluation is completed is the go-ahead given for a launch to take place. The result is that years of launches have led to very minimal environmental impact on the surrounding region, including the Merritt Island preserve and the Canaveral National Seashore.
SpaceX…doesn’t do this. Instead, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) essentially gave Elon a free pass. There were “”“suggestions”“” given to SpaceX to reduce environmental impact (such as taking measures to reduce light pollution and noise pollution, making SpaceX promise to clean up any damage to the environment, etc.). But there isn’t an oversight agency to ensure that SpaceX is even adhering to these suggestions.
So, essentially, Elon can do whatever he wants here in the RGV, consequences be damned. It’s infuriating. My biggest fear every time SpaceX launches a new rocket is that not only will innocent wildlife be harmed, but something could go horribly wrong and end up harming local people living in the surrounding communities as well, and Elon won’t care.
Billionaires need to be told “no” at least once in their life, especially when it matters.
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