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If this were a Bond movie, Bezos would be cackling in his secret lair about how his viral plan was coming to fruition. Bond (played by Idris Elba) would then co
by hirundo 7y ago
If this were a Bond movie, Bezos would be cackling in his secret lair about how his viral plan was coming to fruition. Bond (played by Idris Elba) would then cough on Bezos, who would whip out his antidote, which Bond would grab, escape, and release to the world before being killed by Thanos. (Pitch Meeting, call me)
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- rodneyg_ 7y agoTop comment of the month
- SQL2219 7y agoHe looks like Lex Luther.
- nixpulvis 7y agoMore like Mr Evil. Prolly has a base on the dark side of the moon.
- lobotryas 7y agoBut see, unlike Mr Evil, Bezos is competent.
- hkmurakami 7y agoAhem, that’s “Doctor” Evil.
- nixpulvis 7y agoDon't be silly, he doesn't wear a lab coat.
- dmd 7y agoFortunately, the new moon is just a week away, at which point the "dark side" of the moon will be facing Earth and we'll have a clear view of his base.
- dmm 7y agoThe dark side of the moon always faces away from earth. It is more accurately called the far side of the moon. During a new moon the "dark side" is lit by the sun. It receives as much sunlight as the near side but always faces away from the earth.
- nixpulvis 7y agoI thought the new moon was a new moon each time!?
- a3n 7y agoIt used to be, but they wash it in bleach each time these days.
- baddox 7y agoMore like Mr. Clean.
- reaperducer 7y agoIf Bezos needs an evil villain lair for his secret headquarters, I know a fortress in the American desert with three-foot-thick stone walls, solar and diesel electricity, and its own water facilities, perched on a mountain ridge for maximum visibility 150 miles from anywhere meaningful. Last I saw, it was for sale for $750k.
- tdsamardzhiev 7y agoDoes it have enough bathrooms though?
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- antsar 7y agoMore importantly... do those bathrooms come with toilet paper?
- a3n 7y agoWe used to ask if we could buy backup batteries already charged. "Oh ... No reason."
- zxcvbn4038 7y agoBezos uses the three sea shells. Plebeians like you and me use toilet paper.
- swsieber 7y agoI bet they all have fancy japanese toilet seats or bidets.
- hkmurakami 7y agoHe can give Larry Ellison a call to buy his island will all the infrastructure needed (Ellison owns most of Lanai island)
- Jagat 7y ago
- hr2016 7y agoScore by Hildur Guðnadóttir
- ceocoder 7y agoI appreciate a lighthearted thread among all the depressing scary things going on all day. With that said - Ramin Djawadi would like to have a word with you.
- VectorLock 7y ago>Bond (played by Idris Elba) would then cough on Bezos Thats on the nose enough that I'm wondering if you knew Idris Elba just announced he had Coronavirus.
- BetaDeltaAlpha 7y ago> ...before being killed by Thanos. I read Theranos at first.
- matthewfcarlson 7y agoIn some ways, it thematically works better
- aswanson 7y agoLiz Holmes inadvertently stumbles upon the cure, vindicating her reputation.
- harikb 7y agoShe will be given a clue for the cure, she stumbles upon it, but nobody believes her this time. Time stone is used to rewind all the way back to 2003 in a third attempt
- sudhirj 7y agoThe Time Stone can't be used to "rewind" anything. Did you not listen to the 10 minutes of exposition by multiple characters on the truth about how time works?
- mixmastamyk 7y agoAnd yet they used it that way at the end of infinity war.
- sudhirj 7y agoNot to rewind. Rewind implies changing something in your own past, but nobody's past changed. Only the futures of different timelines, if that makes sense.
- sib 7y agoIdris Elba, who just tested positive for SARS-CoV2...
- divbzero 7y agoCurse you Bezos for your evil plan to supply us with much needed goods.
- a3n 7y agoAt the physical expense of his wage slaves.
- AnthonyMouse 7y agoThe "wage slaves" are given the opportunity to leave and work at any other company that will hire them and yet willingly choose not to. That implies quite a non-traditional definition of slavery.
- a3n 7y agoYes, it does, doesn't it?
- modo_mario 7y agoCan you explain the strikes, complaints about work pressure (having to piss in bottles, ridiculous uncontextual performance requirements), high workplace injury rate compared to competitors, etc given this abundant choice.
- AnthonyMouse 7y agoIt's a large company with thousands of employees, and the company has stepped on a lot of toes by out-competing many, many brick and mortar retailers, so there is "consumer demand" for reports of their inherent wickedness and every malcontent gets a microphone. I repeat the same question -- if they don't like it there so much, why not go work for Walmart? Or Target, Home Depot, BJ's, etc.? If the way they're attracting employees is by offering better pay and benefits than competitors rather than by offering a less demanding job, it's not as if that isn't public information. Why would you choose a thing and then object to the trade offs inherent in it? People have this desire for them to do both, but if the job was less demanding then they could attract employees with less compensation, and they'd have every reason to not pay as much. So why is it wrong for employees to prefer to get paid more in exchange for fewer breaks? It's like people hate for anybody to have a choice. If you work for Amazon you get paid more but work inflexible hours with limited breaks. If you work for Uber you get paid less but you set your own hours and can take a break whenever you want. Yet somehow both of these are put up as examples of mistreatment. They're just the trade offs inherent in the unskilled labor market.
- sneak 7y agoFantasy-land aside, Bezos is the CEO of the organization that runs the GovCloud AWS region, which is almost certainly designated critical military infrastructure, JEDI-loss aside. I would be astounded if there are many billionaires in the USA who are not this moment already taking chloroquine/hydroxychloroquine in the recommended prophylaxis doses, even outside of those deemed mission-critical by the most powerful organization on the continent.
- rblatz 7y agoI’m a bit confused why would an anti-parasite drug be used now for covid-19
- a3n 7y agoThey're looking at it.
- CrazyStat 7y agoThere is some evidence supporting its use, e.g. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/32150618/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/32150618/
- Amygaz 7y agoIt should help alleviating the symptoms, but is in no way a antiviral. There's a phase 3 trial for treating pneumonia associated with coronavirus. This is based on prior work showing anti-inflammatory response in rheumatoid arthritis (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8278823 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8278823). Note that the trial is happening in China (https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04261517 https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04261517), where the barriers of entry and approval are quite low.
- mirimir 7y ago> After randomization, subjects take hydroxychloroquine 400mg per day for 5 days, also take conventional treatments. Huh. I'm on 200mg/day for rheumatoid arthritis. I wonder if I ought to double dose for a while.
- aswanson 7y agoThis may not be a movie, but there's no way in hell this timeline isn't some bored kid fresh out of doritos playing with random variables in his universe simulation.
- zxcvbn4038 7y agoIf Bezos was a villain then Amazon Basics would have Mao suits. And drones. With sharks. And lasers.
- peter303 7y agoGive Bezos a break. His companies allows quarantined people to suffer less.
- lopis 7y agoSo do plenty of others? Last I checked, most supermarkets, electronic stores, clothes stores, etc, all have online shops. Oh and mind you, those shops usually have curated list of products, not scamy products imported from China and sold at massive markups and inflated with fake reviews...
- gentleman11 7y agoThink of how much money he will make selling these workers pee-bottles too
- swivelmaster 7y agoWhat do you think this is, Reddit? No silly comments allowed on Hacker News! (kidding)
- LOLShiner 7y agoYeah it seems to be a designer-virus, indeed; it's not CIA, I guess Chinese Intelligence, Russia wouldn't directly bother with this. -- Too thin Hollywood'esuqe story; which means designed, OK, I'm CIA and would know about this. Don't blame anyone else than the Chinese mu friends, I know Cia did not design this drug. Don't delete dang