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Skunk Formerly Known As Stoner's avatar

Blue Origins rocket blowed up. Blowed up real good.

Skunk Formerly Known As Stoner's avatar

Enhanced Games, eh? How about my bike? Can I just strap a 10hp electric motor on my bike? Maybe add some whirling blades to the tires to clear a path when I lap everyone who’s just pedaling?

Erisian's avatar

"Thiel had financially backed the Enhanced Games, an athletic contest in which competitors were allowed to take whatever steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs they wanted."

While I doubt it, I wonder if Thiel and the doped athletes learned anything from the inaugural games:

> "42 athletes to compete at the inaugural Enhanced Games in Las Vegas

[...]

Of the 42 athletes who signed up, 38 elected to use drugs.

[...]

U.S. swimmer Hunter Armstrong was one of them [non-PED users]. He walked away Sunday with $375,000, including a win in the 50-meter backstroke.

[...]

Doping did not help on the track, where non-enhanced runners won both 100-meter races." https://www.nbcnews.com/sports/olympics/enhanced-games-drugs-dont-get-athletes-banned-get-rich-rcna343920

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"people should be allowed to put whatever they want into their bodies without the interference of any government or “paternalistic sports federation""

* IOW, body autonomy (unless you're a woman in the US seeking birth control pills or an abortion).

* I wonder if these fine folk -- the founders of the Enhanced Games -- object to a “paternalistic sports federation" banning trans women from women's athletic competition?

fnord

Uncle Betamax's avatar

So... once again the abdication of actual human achievement and the embrace of fake ass cheating.

Stephanie Hobbs's avatar

Those octopus have the right idea.

Mike_Cramer's avatar

Assuming anyone with a spine gets into power after Trump, we should send Seal Team Six down to relocate Thiel to the same place Bin Ladin currently resides.

John Ranta's avatar

Did taxpayers pay for Bezos’ sploded rocket?

jltympanum's avatar

Our legal system it totally backwards. It applies ever more lightly the more wealth you have. It should apply ever more strictly, because more wealth means you have more ways of breaking the law with impunity.

josephebacon's avatar

"Equal Ju$ti¢e Under Law" 😏

VaselineHabits's avatar

Reminds me of Ken McElroy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_McElroy

Had enough money to pay a lawyer to keep moving the cases and fucking around enough McElroy never really was punished and the cops acted like they couldn't do anything. Until one day "the town" took care of the problem.

Uncle Betamax's avatar

Oh but there was an incident. Oh dear. Regrettable.

Marlon Rando's avatar

Greetings from beautiful Skidmore MO.

Joe Schmoe, Troublemaker's avatar

Eat the rich! They's all whiny useless bitches anyway... Just turn them into Soylent Green.

😏

Tza's avatar

Lol of course today ended with an evacuation (small electrical fire but lot of smoke). It was already a weird day, why not

jltympanum's avatar

"one-time assessment of five percent". Fuck you, Petey. I pay HALF of my income to taxes. You can go suck assholes.

Oy!'s avatar

How's your 'metaverse' working out there, brohan? 🤪

Apollyon Danish's avatar

Zuck could get the love and respect he clearly desires by getting on his yacht and fucking off to nowhere and never coming back.

Uncle Betamax's avatar

Or using his wealth to improve the lots of people less fortunate. All of these pricks could be heroes with a modicum of effort, but they choose to be wankers.

So fuck them.

lotsacatsndogs's avatar

Maybe someplace underwater? 🤞

Apollyon Danish's avatar

Or Mars. I’m also good with all of the billionaires being shipped to Mars.

clairence's avatar

they're all geniuses* anyway, right? they'll figure out how to make it work

*"how else did they get all that money?"

Warren's avatar

go to Bison Dele’s island

verne's avatar

swimmin' with luca

clairence's avatar

she lives on the second floor

Generation Vax's avatar

Still weeping bitter tears that their vast wealth has not translated into universal love and respect from the people because said wealth is built on ripping us off?

verne's avatar

whar that deli slicer?

zuludaddy (SEAMONKEY!)'s avatar

and on this summery Friday afternoon,

yrrrrrr

smoking lamp is lit!

heeeeeeere's Hooper!

Elviouslyqueer's avatar

*Sweeney Todd*

[MRS. LOVETT]

It's Thiel

Have a little Thiel

[TODD]

Is it really good?

[MRS. LOVETT]

Sir, it's too gay, at least

Then again, he's committed sins of the flesh

So it's quite un-fresh

[TODD]

Awful lot of fat

[MRS. LOVETT]

Only where it sat

[TODD]

Haven't you got Zucker

Or something like that?

[MRS. LOVETT]

No, you see the trouble with Zucker is

How do you know that it's

Real?

Try the Thiel.

[TODD, spoken]

Mm, heavenly

Not as hearty as Bezos, perhaps

But then not as nuts as Elon, either

[MRS. LOVETT, spoken]

Good for business, too—always leaves you wanting more

/*Sweeney Todd*

verne's avatar

elvi is in the house...a grand jerb

Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻

SkeptiKC's avatar

*HOWLS of delighted laughter and thunderous approving applause*

Rooster Cogburn's avatar

Well, does the support yacht have a support yacht?

Marlon Rando's avatar

It's support yachts all the way down.

G-7 in Space's avatar

All it takes is one hole in the correct place...

Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

Yes, it has an Emotional Support yacht.

SkeptiKC's avatar

[agonized backround groan....]

G-7 in Space's avatar

It's a Child Support Yacht and needs to sit at the Kid's table...

Apollyon Danish's avatar

It's time for some yachtbortions.

DaveB's avatar

Just tie off their fuel lines.