Such a shame he wasn’t on board at the time
This should be in upliftingnews, despite the irony of the rocket’s lift being in all directions.
It’s especially nice to hear it was an anomaly. Bad news for Jeff is always good news for the rest of us.
That explosion probably cost him 7 minutes of Amazon profits.
You mean stolen wages?
It didn’t cost him anything. Lemmy space cadets don’t realize this is all your tax money.
That’s the one they take billionaires up to space for joy rides, right?
I support this development.
Someone posted video at https://lemmy.world/post/47479986
I wonder how many “years worth of climate impact I have” that thing just released
Too bad he wasn’t in it.
Hell yeah
Apparently you can’t vibe code a rocket, coz, checks notes, rocket science is hard and everyone who could moved from the US like smart people do.
Proudly built with stolen money
I have never used Amazon, and I don’t ever plan to
Maybe not consciously. But if you regularly use the internet, there’s a 100% chance you regularly use something that’s at least partially hosted on Amazon Web Services.
That’s the biggest underlying issue with Amazon: they’ve got their fingers in every pie they can find. And they get tax breaks and government handouts to do it.
bold statement. I guarantee you have used Amazon, just not willingly or knowingly.
OK, I’ll bite
How so?
AWS hosts a wide majority of internet content. if you have used the internet today, you would have a 90% chance to have used an Amazon product.
also, Amazon is more than an online retailer and provide distribution and logistical support. I have bought items from eBay that were shipped and delivered from Amazon. doesn’t stop there either, Amazon is one of the predominant worldwide shipping suppliers. there’s a chance that if you bought anything imported, it came from Amazon shipping.
a company as profitable as Amazon became profitable because they maintain a diverse service line. you use them even if you don’t intend to do so.
going out of your way to not use one of their many services is commendable, though has little impact on their quarterly profit goals.
They don’t have the same stranglehold in my country, and despite being here, I’m basically a Luddite
I live a very simple life with as little tech as possible outside of my electric car and solar powered house
My TV is fifteen years old, which is great because it doesn’t connect to the internet, and it’s seldom on anyway
I really wish there were decent alternatives. It’s one of the few places left with decent return polices, since it’s nearly impossible to go to a store and try on affordable clothes or other things that need to be interacted with before deciding to keep. The only stores these days seem to be expensive stuff or they’re small and only sell the most expensive stuff the store offers, the websites have the less expensive stuff, but return policies suck or you have to keep going to the store to return stuff (if you’re lucky enough to have one local with all of the malls and shopping centers basically barren) rather than just trying on a bunch in a changing room and putting it back on the hanger. Same for many other products. I’d be lost without Amazon, but I wasn’t lost before Amazon, just that they and Walmart, etc., destroyed everything else.
Maybe where you live
I’m fortunate enough to live in a civilised country
Congrats, I wish it was that way here, but the US is labor union and worker rights -phobic these days. Companies will sometimes literally murder you for trying to start one. Just joked about how I had 5 people’s jobs now and said “isn’t this when the unions are supposed to step in,” and everyone went super quiet and asked if the call was being recorded. Easy way to get fired by even discussing worker rights here.
As I said in another thread the only truly disappointing thing here was Jeff Bezos wasn’t anywhere near the rocket when it exploded.
It’s a shame this happened to one of the rockets NASA might use rather than a tourist rocket full of rich people.
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