Jeff Bezos wants to take you into SPAAAAAACE!

reminded me of the time in high school choir when we were impeaching our Choir President for not doing anything on the job all year and her best friend wrote into the choir newspaper decrying the action, stating MUTINY WASN'T GOOD FOR THE BOUNTY, AND IT ISN'T HERE EITHER!

― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Thursday, July 22, 2021 7:31 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

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that is solid gold

yeah, that is amazing! lol

also just the impeaching of the choir president in general

yeah you've definitely made less cool posts :)

the choir president had abandoned any pretenses of holding office with integrity. it was as if she thought she was above the job

lmao

impeachment failed btw. she kept her job.

outrage.

the choir having its own newspaper is too many levels of extracurricular activities

my friend was the editor (even though she was terrible at spelling and grammar and editing). still friends with her, now she's married with a kid and is a neurologist.

if only her supporters had staged a jan. 6 when the new choir president took office

*image of choir reading the Choir Times newspaper in the choir room*

Neanderthal, you should pitch this as a series

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"Onlookers called it the least threatening mob in recorded history"

look, we can try to impeach the choir president. again. we know what happened last time. it will fail again. i hate to use this tired phrase, but...i kind of feel like we're preaching to the--

reluctant lol

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loooooooooooooool Karl

Neanderthal, you should pitch this as a series

i would like it to be one of those series where episode 6 is entirely about the day there was a substitute choir teacher

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ulhz75reeAw

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Part of a historic bridge in the Netherlands will be dismantled so that a superyacht built for Amazon’s founder, Jeff Bezos, can pass through the river that flows through Rotterdam, the city said on Thursday.

Netty Kros, a spokeswoman for the city of Rotterdam, said that the middle part of the 95-year-old Koningshaven Bridge would be removed this summer so that the sailing yacht could pass. The bridge, known locally as “De Hef,” will then be restored, potentially on the same day, she said.

Mr. Bezos’s yacht should be able to fit under all the other bridges in Rotterdam, Ms. Kros said. She did not have an estimate of how much the deconstruction would cost but said that the shipbuilder, not residents of Rotterdam, would pay.

There will not be any structural changes to the bridge, Ms. Kros said, adding that the city had to weigh the economic benefits of having the yacht built in Rotterdam and the jobs that would create.

posted this in the Amazon thread before I saw this. Jesus christ that last line :(

yeah I wasn't sure which thread was best for this depressing example of modern capitalism, lots of options!

what gets me is it is both a depressing example of modern capitalism and of almost comically feudalistic insanity

lords of the manor: the original job creators

yeah this sort of thing was par for the course for early modern royalty. like if the princess was travelling with her 250-person retinue it would simply be understood that if he had to a truly gracious host would dismantle an exterior wall in order to carry her bed into the best room of the house

It's really the fault of Rotterdam's founders for not anticipating that a future billionaire's mega-yacht might need to get through, sheesh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGhcSupkNs8