three cheers for fate!

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brillotti@lemmy.world · 84 pts · 24d (29 replies)

What's up with the orcas? Am I missing something?

PP_BOY_@lemmy.world · 127 pts · 24d (8 replies)

A specific pod of them was attacking yachts in the north Atlantic and training others to do the same last summer IIRC

cavitationfetishist2@quokk.au · 74 pts · 24d (4 replies)

Heroes. How do I support their work?

kamenlady@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 23d

Never stop believing

Onyxonblack@piefed.social · 8 pts · 23d (2 replies)

You could read "Orca's Song" by David Zindell. He covers this from the Orca's perspective!

cavitationfetishist2@quokk.au · 12 pts · 23d (1 reply)

No I don't mean like awareness bullshit. I like their work and would like to do things that enable them to continue/expand. These are real (cetacean) people doing real work.

TheMinister@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 23d

Www.saviororcas.com

turdas@suppo.fi · 14 pts · 23d (1 reply)

They're not attacking billionaire yachts though, instead it's small sailing boats. Some of those are probably owned by fairly rich people, but probably not that rich.

ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 23d

Still cool.

ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 23d

Goddamn that's so cool.

bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 33 pts · 24d (2 replies)

I assume a reference to orca attacking yachts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iberian_orca_attacks

SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 16 pts · 24d (1 reply)

Orcas understand praxis.

ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 23d

I'm too dumb to actually understand this, but I can tell it's funny from how it sounds.

affenlehrer@feddit.org · 25 pts · 24d (16 replies)

What's up with the guy on the right? I don't know who that is.

yopyop@sh.itjust.works · 114 pts · 24d (6 replies)

Luigi Mangione. I don't know why he's there, this guy did nothing ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

manualoverride@lemmy.world · 71 pts · 24d (3 replies)

Right! All he did was enjoy a meal, a succulent McDonalds meal.

Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 24d (2 replies)

Then some cops showed up, and he yelled "THIS MAN TOUCHED MY PENIS!"

LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de · 16 pts · 24d (1 reply)

GENTLEMAN!

manualoverride@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 23d

Truly DEMOCRACY MANIFEST!

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 23d (1 reply)

Yeah and what sin did the submarine commit?

ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 23d

That submarine is a Goddamned saint!

Ioughttamow@fedia.io · 37 pts · 24d

Some guy I saw in Hawaii on 2024-12-04

manualoverride@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 24d (4 replies)

That is our lord and saviour Luigi, looking ripped.

affenlehrer@feddit.org · 21 pts · 24d (3 replies)

I'm jealous. Not because he's ripped (which is cool too) but because he can walk around without a shirt and not having a bazillion mosquitos harvesting his blood.

Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 24d (2 replies)

takes your shirt off, and begins sucking on your nipple

What? Oh, this? No. I'm not sucking your blood. This is a whole other thing. Just go with it....

continues sucking nipple

ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 23d

I've got nipples, Greg. Could you suck me?

0x0@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 23d

That's not my nipple.
Carry on,

snoons@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 24d (1 reply)

Luigi Mangione, the alleged killer of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

luthis@lemmy.nz · 4 pts · 23d

Alleged 'denier of not having bullets in his chest' actually

SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 24d

Those are orcas

SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 80 pts · 24d (9 replies)

Luigi didn't do anything though.

And that poor sub tried its best.

BitchPeas@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 24d (2 replies)

The live cam did nothing wrong. Its an objective observer.

The Orcas are simply accepting our terms of war.

quarkquasar@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 23d (1 reply)

As a representative of the Orcas, let me just say: There is a lot more surface of this planet that is water than there is land, a lot more.

BitchPeas@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 22d

.... what.... what are you proposing? Porpoising.

justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io · 13 pts · 24d

Moreover, the acoustic failure detection sensors seemed to have worked, but the process failed since they didn't know what to look for since they didn't do any testing.

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 23d (4 replies)

No it didn't. Its best would have been to collapse above water

captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 23d (3 replies)

No, it's best would have been to crush more rich people.

locahosr443@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 23d (2 replies)

Stockton crush was such a failure, there was space for another 6-7 billionaires in that sub I reckon

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 23d (1 reply)

W why we could have built such a submarine, we could crush six or seven BILLION billionaires

FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 23d

I agree with you on this lol

uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 56 pts · 23d (11 replies)

Seriously, we have multiple economists saying the only way out of this fine mess (and to save the world) is to massively redistribute the wealth at the top to the rest of the population.

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 23d (9 replies)

I'm an economist (I have a degree and everything. It's in underwater basket weaving but it's still a degree) and I say this. My cool brother has a degree in linguistics and yells at people that he has a degree in economics and says the same thing too

uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 35 pts · 23d (7 replies)

To be fair, when I took Economics 101: Macroeconomics in 1985, there was a big point about how important it was to maintain a fairly even wealth distribution, with a discussion of how it is a very bad thing™ for all the wealth to consolidate at the top. (In the meantime, Reagan was gutting all the policies that were used to keep wealth distributed and preserve a strong middle class.) So this is something that anyone who took a basic college course should know.

In time, I got confused that presidents and legislators kept pushing supply side (trickle-down) economics and kept passing laws that allowed the upper class to keep more of their money, while leaving the lower and middle classes to languish, when I was certain these officials were educated (or had experts who were) and should know better. Then I worked out that they are just captured and corrupt AF.

0x0@lemmy.zip · 23 pts · 23d (1 reply)

Piñata Economics 101:

FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 23d

Based pinãta economics pilled

marcos@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 23d (2 replies)

This and anti-cyclical spending avoiding depressions are the only two real¹ predictions from the guy that basically invented macroeconomics.

No politician cares about either of them.

1 - Meaning about things people actually need, not money.

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 23d (1 reply)

which dude who invented marco? because we have like three real schools of marco and then the austrians sitting around with they thumbs up they butts

because they scared of numbers

marcos@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 22d

Keynes did it.

Not exactly in a cave... But in a military prison cell in China.

FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 23d

We need another FDR and A new deal 2.0 at this point

ICastFist@programming.dev · 3 pts · 23d

Money (power) corrupts and people with lots of money rarely want to part with it. Also, money protects money, so the rich often deal in the shadows to protect themselves from us.

FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 23d

Yeah, as someone studying economics, I agree

Having a small group of people hoarding the money is bad actually

FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 23d

Yeah, as someone studying economics, I agree

Having a small group of people hoarding the money is bad actually

danekrae@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 24d

Times are bad. More sacrifices are needed.

EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 32 pts · 23d

This looks like something I've seen before, but I'm at a Loss

hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 22 pts · 24d (1 reply)

Hoping for a top 3 billionaire this year 😬

kevin2107@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 23d

no one should be worth 1 trillion

anon_8675309@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 23d (5 replies)

What’s with the orcas?

shneancy@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 23d (4 replies)

they flipped a yacht

No_Ones_Slick_Like_Gaston@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 23d

Several, but more. Importantly, they developed a "game" where teenage teach other teenage Orcas they can sink them. Is about their solidarity against these money pits.

Professorozone@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 22d (2 replies)

And a CEO drowned?

mosspiglet@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 22d

No CEOs died as far as I know. The orcas were unfortunately targeting smallish sailboats, not CEO yachts.

onipa@feddit.org · 2 pts · 22d

don't think so. The golden rule for orcas it to never kill a human

fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com · 16 pts · 23d (1 reply)

Ill take 50 fates please

webp@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 23d

God demands sacrifice

manualoverride@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 24d

It’s a really hot summer, does that mean it might be one of the big CEOs?

ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one · 12 pts · 23d

I prefer my billionaires to be sacrificed to The One Who Stirs Under the Mountain. We must keep the The One Who Stirs Under the Mountain content.

DudleyMason@lemmy.ml · 11 pts · 23d (2 replies)

I'll cheer for fate when it starts pumping those numbers up. One a year? What rookie bullshit is this?

Maroon@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 23d (1 reply)
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DudleyMason@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 23d

Fair. My only reason for not doing more is that not enough people would join me to make it anything but a fancy way to commit suicide. Someone let me know when the vanguard starts to assemble!

jontree255@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 24d (2 replies)

Luigi was in Nov/Dec though

SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 23d

4 December 2024. I remember because right after reading about it, I took my wife to her chemo appointment that had been repeatedly pushed back due to health insurance fuckery.

sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 24d

It's always summer somewhere

mathemachristian@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 22d

orcas.enjoying.yachts

ash@piefed.ca · 5 pts · 23d (16 replies)

Who is the shirtless guy?

modus@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 23d (4 replies)

Luigi Mangione.

No_Ones_Slick_Like_Gaston@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 23d (3 replies)

He will go free as he didn't do it, additionally the chain of custody was missing for the "proof" and was taken into custody with lots of circumstantional evidence, absolute police knee bent operation to please the Epstein elite.

Hell be free, then run for office and I'll campaign the hell out of that, vote Luigi for senate, then president of the. US.

FunStuffIsFun@eviltoast.org · 13 pts · 22d

It couldn't have been him, he was kicking my ass in Smash Bros when it happened.

Thalion@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 23d

Even if he didn't do it, he is not going free. You think anyone is going to admit that they have the wrong guy? Not a chance.

modus@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 23d

I thought they said the evidence could be used, no?

abc@suppo.fi · -58 pts · 23d (10 replies)

A not-yet-convicted murderer. But because he's handsome and killed an executive, we like him without any hint of moral irony. Even when he's himself old money.

stephan262@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 23d (2 replies)

People were happy about the killing of Brian Thompson the moment that news of his death spread. A health insurance CEO. A man who systematically denied healthcare to thousands of people, almost certainly leading to some of them dying.

You can say that murder is wrong, and be correct in that. But then surely being instrumental in running a system of denying and delaying people's access to medical treatment leading to their death is so much worse that directly killing one person.

CyberTheProtogen@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 22d

Precisely

Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 22d

VoteNixon2016@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 26 pts · 23d

Tell me you're an insurance company executive without telling me you're an insurance company executive

Caesium@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 23d (1 reply)

I still believe he's a look-alike scapegoat because they never found the actual guy who did it, but yeah go off I guess. Not like the CEO was responsible for millions of deaths himself but because it's a 'business' he gets to be called an entrepreneur instead :)

CyberTheProtogen@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 22d

I hope so. That means our morally good assassin is still out there

undefinedValue@programming.dev · 24 pts · 23d

Luigi was with me when that bitch got shot

Zink@programming.dev · 23 pts · 23d

An executive whose job it is to increase profits by systematically denying care to vulnerable people. (which also causes death, and more of it)

Wilco@lemmy.zip · 16 pts · 23d

I'd like the guy and think he is a hero even if he was ugly.

DudleyMason@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 22d

not-yet-convicted murderer

Using lethal force to stop a mass murderer from continuing their spree isn't murder.

Even if he'd done it (which he didn't), it wouldn't be murder, he should be given a public commendation, not a jail sentence.

BaraCoded@literature.cafe · 1 pts · 22d

That's a version of Yellowjackets I'd actually enjoy watching.