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The name felt like a nod to Iain Banks' Culture series, whose AI-piloted spaceships had pretty funny names. https://concord.fandom.com/wiki/Iain_M._Banks_Cultu
by plerpin 6y ago
The name felt like a nod to Iain Banks' Culture series, whose AI-piloted spaceships had pretty funny names.
https://concord.fandom.com/wiki/Iain_M._Banks_Culture_Universe_Spaceship_Names https://concord.fandom.com/wiki/Iain_M._Banks_Culture_Univer... (ctrl-f for Windward)
- trothamel 6y agoIt explicitly is.
- shrimp_emoji 6y agoIronic since the Culture is anti-capitalist. xD
- antepodius 6y agoSo is spacex. It's a dictatorship.
- ralusek 6y agoAll the people forced to buy contracts with them. All the people forced to work with them. Pure. Tyranny.
- antepodius 6y agoNo, just internally, where king elon makes decrees from high and you follow or are exiled from the nation of spacex. It's a private corporation: it's a mini-dictatorship. Basically everything functional in the world is built by one. Could you imagine the department of transportation making a car?
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- yellowapple 6y ago"By the way, I am actually a socialist." -- Elon Musk
- shrimp_emoji 6y agoOh word https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1008013111058526209 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1008013111058526209 Ok, he can use Culture names without irony. uwu
- plerpin 6y agoI wouldn't take him at his word. Musk says a lot of shit in his tweets.
- rst 6y agoIt is. The other one is Just Read The Instructions.