Removing Jeff Bezos from My Bed

Re:Removing Jeff Bezos from My Bed by cyberax on Friday February 21, 2025 @01:50PM (#43131369)

> It won’t function if the internet goes down

Come on. We can improve that! The next version of the bed will go into carnivorous mode if the subscription lapses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXrAK6sUZ_0

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Re:Removing Jeff Bezos from My Bed by EvanAnderson on Friday February 21, 2025 @02:00PM (#43131475)

I'm thinking a Thomas Midgley, Jr.[0] mode.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr.#Death

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Re:Removing Jeff Bezos from My Bed by hinkley on Friday February 21, 2025 @02:02PM (#43131509)

Thomas has three different inventions with a massive body count. The last one had a fatality rate of 100%.

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Re:Removing Jeff Bezos from My Bed by BizarroLand on Friday February 21, 2025 @07:08PM (#43134710)

I mean, even at the start 13 - 15 people were killed in leaded gas's infancy all because the oil companies couldn't make as much money from ethanol as from tel. That's insane.

A rational society would have shut those companies down and thrown the executives into prison.

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Re:Removing Jeff Bezos from My Bed by smitelli on Friday February 21, 2025 @04:49PM (#43133485)

Wikipedia seldom disappoints on this kind of thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_inventors_killed_by_th...

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Re:Removing Jeff Bezos from My Bed by hinkley on Friday February 21, 2025 @02:00PM (#43131491)

Well, you remember that total eclipse of the sun about a week ago?

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