• NullPointerException@lemmy.ca
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    What really gets me in this picture is that they’re not looking at each other and smiling. They’re looking at each other and hating that “his is bigger than mine”. They can’t even enjoy what they have.

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      They can’t even enjoy what they have.

      It’s worse than that. Many do enjoy what they have. They are extremely happy and simply don’t care.

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        Not a single one of them doesn’t strive and debase themselves every single day to get more than what they already have, to add billions to their pile of billions. I don’t think that is evidence of happiness.

        I mean when they attend one of their Epstein parties they are probably happy in the moment of it, but they do seem to be fundamentally unsatisfied creatures overall.

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          Not a single one of them doesn’t strive and debase themselves every single day to get more than what they already have,

          People like to think that because it makes them feel better about not being rich. But many billionaires are very happy.

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      Bold of you to assume that any of “them” are actually “there” to see each other. The people that own these are “too busy” to sail there and then out. These ships are manned by staff who bring them here and then wait for the .01% to fly in, spend a few hours and then fly out.

      Even better, is that I am willing to bet that more than a few are there to hold their positions, so they don’t get pushed back next year, but won’t be there this year at all. In fact I guarantee that at least a few are there to piss off someone else who is farther away, but can’t get closer because the other ship is there.

      I mean let’s be serious, do you really think that the type of person who spends this kind of money on something is going to sleep somewhere that someone in a speed boat could get close enough to cause noise or even a minor bobbing of the ship any time of day, much less in the middle of the night?

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        Its a fair assumption that “they” are all “there”. As “there” is Monte Carlo, and “then” is the Monaco Grand Prix.

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      That’s how they get stuck in the money game. They are incapable of being happy or content. They exist to serve The Hunger

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      If you’re referring to the direction each boat is facing, this is just because they are anchored and there is wind and current in the water. If you watch a time lapse of boats parked in a bay, you will see they all eerily move synchronously over time.

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    Yeah, but did Mary Antoin-ette have a stroke on live television after eating cake in a newly constructed ballroom!!?!?

    You know nothing about good storytelling.

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      Clears throat

      We gather here today on the 250th anniversary of “Cakeday”

      …As some of you may have read in the history pads, “cake day” was a day on which signaled the end of “The Trumpish Cuckholding of The Empty Minds & Weak Voiced”.

      It was the day a piece of human shit choked on cake/ a day of remorse for Karen & Kid Rock.

      The following days were brutal. Lots of slack-jawed pound folks riding on lawnmowers with commemorative plates & cups & flags. xxxl T-shirts were sold in record numbers. The water smelled like cholesterol.

      Somehow, the brass lamp remained.

      My brass lamp.

      A lamp full of stories.

      For more, please throw coin on ground.

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    It’s not even, “let them eat cake,” it’s “I have my delicious cake, those peasants can starve.”

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      It’s not even that. It’s “I have so much cake that I can literally never eat it all, even if I live ten thousand years. I need more and those peasants are keeping me from it”

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        “Say, this gives me an idea. I’m gonna share some cake with science hippies to see if they make me live 100 thousand years. THEN I can have all my cake.”

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    In today’s world, if the billionaires said “let them have canoes”, we’d probably thank them for the canoes

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      Probably easier to just use a small fleet of torpedo speed boats since its way cheaper and esch one can carry 4 torps.

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      according to the Wikipedia page, only 13 problems could be solved.

      A total of 13[35] heavyweight torpedoes of type DM2A4 Seehecht can be carried.

      Unfortunately I see a lot more boats than that.

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        How about a Class VII C u-boat? It has torpedos in five tubes, a 8,8cm deck gun and a 3,7cm aa gun.