• 2ugly2live@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    You know, I was confused when I heard about the “all women” crew. I was like, “how forward after all the craziness happening.”

    But it’s just more rich fucks. And how fucking tone deaf. Read the fucking room. “You’re all losing jobs and being denied rights? But what if a billionaire took a millionaire into space? Wouldn’t that be inspiring!”

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    4 days ago

    This is a rich people’s vanity project. Spinning it as some kind of victory for womens’ empowerment is complete bullshit.

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      4 days ago

      Who is spinning it that way? I’m really asking. I keep seeing this story in memes but I’m out of the loop

    • xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 days ago

      just like Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris running for president….
      i very much want a woman president, but not just any woman and voting for them solely because they’re women with virtually no other accomplishments (i did vote for both of them, but just because trump is cheeto hitler)

  • arandomthought@sh.itjust.works
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    4 days ago

    Just shooting rich people into space (and letting them return) for no particular reason is dumb enough. We really don’t need you to make it even dumber.

    • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.works
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      4 days ago

      I am, however, a big fan of shooting billionaires. Into space, or otherwise.

      Saves a lot of money if you worry about the followup later.

    • Geetnerd@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      “See, you’re just a sheep. You don’t see, or underhand, that they’re shooting the top shelf trim into space. To keep it away from us. Betacuck!”

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    3 days ago

    Well, if this is some attempt at a virgin sacrifice, I don’t think they’re doing it right.

  • Adalast@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    This is the clearest case I have ever seen of pareidolia I have ever seen, and I saw people talking about sphinxes on Mars.

  • Yardy Sardley@lemmy.ca
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    4 days ago

    I might just be seeing things, but do those flight suits have flared bottoms?

    Bezos has gone too far, he must be stopped.

  • RustyNova@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    That’s a pretty great coincidence. Upright you’re an astronaut, but flip and you’re the agent of the devil

    • BestBouclettes@jlai.lu
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      4 days ago

      These super secretive world controlling organisations are not very good at not putting their symbols everywhere

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    4 days ago

    Ah, yes, ‘they’. I forgot about this secret group who jokingly use symbols and codes to hint at what they’re really up to, like it’s some rule that you can’t be fully secretive and have to leave clues for the big-brains who are in the know.

    • LucidNightmare@lemm.ee
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      4 days ago

      I used to look into conspiracy stuff, and came out laughing at them after seeing the first tRump presidency, and realizing the government isn’t even smart enough to handle actual problems, let alone a “NWO” (“New World Order”). Sorry guys, incompetence all the way up!

      P.S. I never fully believed them, but some of the stuff was interesting to think about at the least. Now, I don’t ever care about them because they make less sense than ever. Jewish space lasers, amiright?

  • Battle_Maiden@lemmy.world
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    Remember when NASA was gonna send their first all-female crew but they cancelled last minute because they only had one small space suit? I remember.

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        You’re right, I did misremember a little bit. It was actually a “all-female” space walk that was cancelled. Which included two women. It was cancelled because they only had one small spacesuit for the space walk. For all of two women.

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          Well, the walk did finally happen, so there were adequate suits, although one of the astronauts had trouble with the suit she was initially assigned.

          You have to remember that of the 18 original suits, only 11 still exist, and something like as few as 4 might be on the station at a time. Also, the suits were originally intended to return to Earth often (shuttle days), but now are kept on the ISS longer and are maintained by the astronauts themselves. Given the losses of some suits, the limited nature of the maintenance, and the limit on how many are kept in orbit at a time, it isn’t scandalous that sometimes astronauts find themselves to be either too large or too small for the suits at hand.

  • Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 days ago

    Ah fuck is Katy Perry actually cool?

    Edit: didn’t think I’d need to indicate that I was speaking in jest but /s

    • RedSnt 👓♂️🖥️@feddit.dk
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      4 days ago

      Like the barcode person said, this was most definitely a PR stunt because she can’t sell her music like she used to. Her recent album after a long break was a total flop.

    • lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world
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      Oh hahaha oh my gosh no. No. Hahaha no, she was on this non-space airplane ride because she is so painfully UNCOOL that she’s having trouble selling tickets to shows. This was a “NOTICE ME” stunt by her PR people

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          4 days ago

          Given that she began as Christian Evangelical pop, then rose to fame with a song fetishising performative homoeroticism as “not what good girls do”, no. Quite far off.

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        Not a fan of her or her music but publicity aside, I’d jump at the opportunity if I were in her shoes!

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          Yeah I don’t understand how people can’t look at the very simple equation here. “Do I want to go to space? Yes that sounds awesome.“ End of deliberation

          Do I think we doing these silly space tourism runs for the rich? No. But you could bet your ass if I was offered a ticket I’d go.

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            Yeah, I wouldn’t even care about the publicity that comes with it.