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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Today in you can't make this stuff up: SpaceX invades Cards Against Humanity's crowdfunded southern border plot of land.

Article (Ars Technica) Lawsuit with pictures (PDF)

Reddit Comment with CAH's email to backers

The above Ars Technica article also lead me to this broader article (reuters) about SpaceX's operations in Texas. I found these two sentences particularly unpleasant:

County commissioners have sought to rechristen Boca Chica, the coastal village where Johnson remains a rare holdout, with the Musk-endorsed name of Starbase.

At some point, former SpaceX employees and locals told Reuters, Starbase workers took down a Boca Chica sign identifying their village. They said workers also removed a statue of the Virgin of Guadalupe, an icon revered by the predominantly Mexican-American residents who long lived in the area.

Reading all of this also somehow makes Elon Musk's anti-immigrant tweets feel even worse to me than they already were.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Damn, 3 hours late to the party. Despite my disdain for their game, i can only recall enjoying CAH’s liberal antics.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

CAH is definitely a game you only play with people you've known your whole life, isn't it?

Once played with randoms at a hacker con and almost died of embarrassment.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Considering the style of humor they have and Musk tries to show, I do wonder how hurt Musk is over all this. And only a matter of time before his sycophants create 'CAH is dying' graphs and animal meme images with testicles.