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The latest billionaire trend? Doomsday bunkers with a flammable moat

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The latest billionaire trend? Doomsday bunkers with a flammable moat

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The latest billionaire trend? Doomsday bunkers with a flammable moat

www.theguardian.com /commentisfree/2024/feb/25/billionaire-doomsday-bunkers-end-times

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One of the projects Corbi is working on (for an unnamed business mogul) is an island fortress with a flammable moat. Try and breach it and it bursts into flames.
“We wound up literally building a 30-ft-deep lake [around the compound] skimmed with a lighter-than-water flammable liquid that can transform into a ring of fire,” Corbi explained to THR. “The only access to the island is a swing bridge.” And, of course, there are also backup water cannons to keep the poors out.
"Hello, we have severed your water intake and are now setting up these comically large fans in preparation for the throwing of several thousand pounds of tires and horse shit into your flaming moat."
- You gotta love just how utterly absurd these billionaire schemes are.
  
  When you have so much money that there's nothing left to do in life but play psychopath roller coaster tycoon irl.
For when building a secret headquarters in an volcano is both too showy yet not showy enough.
Also developing Orbit and Mars colonies, not precisely for the poor people.
- Don't worry, I'm sure those colonies are going to require lots of indentured servants to operate them.
  
  They won’t even last long because the technology is nowhere close to being able to develop long-term living on Mars
  
  Yes, Boston Dynamics and others are working of this.
Can we eat them yet? I bet Zuckerberg would taste real good slow cooked in Korean BBQ sauce. 😋
- The sauce can drown out the taste of lizard.
Betteridge's law of headlines strikes again

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