Big $ to us peons, that is. He still has around $128 billion, but this is a start! Whoever shut him down and cost him the $7 billion, keep going! Destroy the punk.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/10/zuckerberg-loses-7-billion-one-day-facebook-instagram-whatsapp-empire-go-offline-5-hours/
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Robots have no feelings, so I am sure he doesn’t care.
He has the same pasty complexion and vacant expression as Mr. Data but that’s giving him a little too much credit. Besides, I thought ol’ Markie Moneybags was one of the lizard people?
BTW, it just occurred to me that the anagram of the last three words in your moniker is “SAE” … Which of course is the Society of Automotive Engineers or in other words the standards set for American tools. As in SAE vs. Metric. Very clever and neatly subtle for an engineer. Kudos.
Purely coincidental. While my Professional Engineers license was Mechanical, I was a member of AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics in my younger days. I was going to build (as in be the person up there) space stations. Such were the dreams of my youth.
For reference – I didn’t want to be DD Harriman, I wanted to be Tiny Larsen.
LOL, roger that. Tiny Larson in the construction shack. From Delilah and the Space Rigger. I was thinking of that character while reading your post. GMTA
Too bad that thanks to short sighted men who never bothered to read Heinlein you missed that opportunity by a generation. Today you might have a shot at just something like that with SpaceX. Elon Musk is looking for Tiny Larsons, and people like G. Brooks McNye too.
Amazing that he wrote that in the late 40s. Essentially a story about how there were plenty of jobs at which either men or women could excel. A feminist story if you will, but a true one where the best excel regardless of gender not because of it.
If I was in school today like Ronette, I would move heaven and earth to work at Space X. NASA dying in front of me really changed my focus and it took me awhile to develop a plan B.
It’s sort of deliciously ironic that Plan B is turning out to be what we readers of Heinlein expected all along. It shows ol’ Bob was more on the right track than he’s credited for.
You’re right about the story being “feminist”, in that a girl actually does things as well or better than the boys do. What was funny about that in the story was that Tiny Larson would say something about the competence of one of his “boys” and Brooks McNye (the girl we’re talking about, for all you non-Heinlein types) would say something like “Of course they’re good at ____, I trained them.”
I can’t remember if it was the last sentence, or even last paragraph or not, but at the end Tiny Larson, having accepted the fact that a female can do the job as well as a male, radios back to Earth saying so. Then adds “Send up a chaplain too, we’re probably going to need him.”
Heinlein was not only saying that where they can play on an even field (where physiology isn’t a factor) girls can do as good as boys but that his job boss Tiny Larson expected everyone to behave in a civil and respectful manner. Not just come up to the orbital construction and bang your fool brains out in zero-g, if you’re going to send girls up they’re going to be treated properly and honorably and a guy with intentions better be considering marriage also.
I don’t know what Ronette is studying in school but there are positions for everyone from daycare and dietary specialists to aerospace engineers at SpaceX. It has to be one of the last truly challenging and exciting places on Earth to work, no matter what capacity you work in.
Couldn’t happen to a nicer POS.