I can’t wallow in bad news every day anymore. I could when I was younger and had some natural optimism, but those days are gone. Now the news is depressing every day, which perfectly matches my newly permanent mindset of cynical sarcasm and smoldering fury, while the forest fires burn, and heat domes kill people, microburst rainstorms kill hundreds with multi-feet rainstorms, and other terrible things occur every damn day.
It’s too depressing to write about daily like I used to. Climate change especially is too depressing to even think about every day. But here we are. Regardless, I can’t say enough terrible things about Jeff Bezos and Virgin Spastic or whatever it’s called because they seem determined to destroy what is left of the earth’s atmosphere and make space tourism a regular thing. At least The Guardian writes about it all the time, while American media is obsessed with COVID masking again (another thing I don’t want to think about because I just realized the because a large amount of selfish jerks don’t want to get vaccinated I’ll have to wear a mask in grocery stores and restaurants until the end of time.)
Below is a bit of summarization of the Jeff Bezos madness and for good measure some well-deserved criticism of the fawning braindead media.
Our media will do a massive wildfire story, and then seamlessly transition into a story about routine space tourism. Do they think people are going to jump up into space with giant springs ? or are they willfully ignoring that massive amounts of fossil fuels must be burned to get these fucking asshole richer-than-god dick-waving men up there for their thrill rides?
Mere minutes after touching the edge of space, Jeff Bezos and his fellow Blue Origin crewmates stood back on Earth, shaking champagne at the throng of cameras pointed their way with grins wide enough to see from … well, space. No matter which channel you turned to — CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, MSNBC — the praise was effusive and breathless. But no matter how many times networks replayed the brief launch or how much Anderson Cooper waxed poetic about Amazon founder once being “this young guy building rockets” from 3D printers, it was near impossible to imagine feeling inspired. In just 11 minutes, the Blue Origin flight encapsulated everything wrong with billionaires buying their way into the final frontier.
And I found the inspiration for Bezo’s dildo rocket ship design. He obviously saw this and though, “Hmmm, no, that saucer just doesn’t seem like the right type of space ship to be entering that “portal”.”
I need more details on this Pascal Scholten 2017 sketch showing a UFO and some kind of portal? #ufotwitter pic.twitter.com/bGG2IctLmi
— uapTO🇮🇪🇨🇦 (@UAPTORONTO) July 20, 2021
