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We learned just how small Valve really is this year, but also how good it is at raking in the cash: It's making more money per employee than Apple (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] index 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The yachts they buy, sit in dry dock 99% of their lives. You bitching about it is pure ignorance.

In the articles is it explained how they don't spend 99% of their live there and how they are polluting even when they are docked, they also get to show you how much of a problem that "1%" cause

You bitching about it is pure ignorance.

I really hope you are rich yourself and own a bunch of boats because otherwise you defending a billionare is as miserable as one can get.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

One such owner is Amazon owner Jeff Bezos, whose $500 million superyacht Koru incorporates sails to help power its voyage. It is the largest sailing yacht in the world, according to Oceanco, the Dutch company that built it. When not under wind power, however, Koru does rely on sports diesel-powered motors. Oxfam estimates that the 127 meter vessel has emitted 7,000 tons of carbon dioxide over the past year, an amount equal to the annual emissions of 445 average US residents.

Estimates and 445 US residents...there is no way yachts are causing even a blip of climate change compared to everything. It's the stupidest shit ever to point a fucking boats and be like "that's why we have climate change" on any level. You could snap your fingers and make every single on of them vanish and it wouldn't do shit to turn the climate change ship around.

Yachts spend 10% to 20% of the year sailing and relying on engine power.

So yea...they basically sit in dock like I said, doing nothing.

The report shows the stark gap between the carbon footprints of the super-rich—whose carbon-hungry lifestyles and investments in polluting industries like fossil fuels

Ah so investments are now pollution....got it.

This is why studies like these are bullshit. That right there was prefaced with "tax the rich, and it'll magically make climate change less"...which makes no fucking sense at all.

As for your "I better be rich bullshit"... that's such a copout. I'm not naive enough to think some boats are causing our climate change, I'm also not fool enough to think that rich people investing in industries is the reason we're in this predicament. Trying to blame others actions while we all contribute to it is a joke. Everything you do contributes to it, you bought anything recently that has plastic? Contributor. You have a 401k? Contributor(apparently). Drive somewhere? Yep you guessed it... contributing. Eat something not grown by you? Contributing.

So let's stop the non-sense virtue signaling. It detracts from the actual issues.

[–] index 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Trying to blame others actions while we all contribute to it is a joke.

You are defending the biggest polluting individuals in the world and probably in history.

I really hope reincarnation is a thing and you get to be reborn as a seaturtle and choke in diesel fuel left by a mega yacht

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You know who's the biggest polluters? Companies and governments... mainly the militaries. I'm not defending anyone, I'm telling you that you're worried about the dumbest shit ever to think that some mega yachts are the problem. Container ships and cruise liners make all those yachts look like green floating sailboats in comparison. You know who uses those cruise ships and the shit on those contrainer ships the most? Normal every day people.

[–] index 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Companies and governments

You know who own companies and control the government? Have fun figure it out

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Yea because the people totally have control over that...yea I forgot how fair and honest indias elections have been, same with china...tell you what, you keep harping on about how the rich are destroying the planet and nothing the rest of us do is causing it.