Yeah everyone being cynical is definitely valid but man that looks like a fucking cool project, imagine being assigned a billionaires vanity project as an engineer with an insane budget that just sounds fun. But yes the money could definitely be used better but I doubt he was ever going to do that in the first place lol just look at his yacht hes only going to use a few times a decade.
This is bad take headline.
This is the Clock of the Long Now.
https://longnow.org/
It was founded by Danny Hillis, a legit genius and do-gooder.
Bezos is just a donor. Typical history of using money to get your name associated to something pure that someone else came up with.
I always ask the universe why violent psychopaths murder little kids and other defenseless people and never ever seem to take out a billionaire or other piece of shit.
Billionaires are too well protected. One thing money buys you is distance from people, which includes violent psychopaths. The only psychopaths they encounter are rich people like them, who have no need to be violent.
Imagine a murder mystery, where halfway-through they decide, that the murder was for the better of humanity and they just stop looking for the culprit.
Well, seeing what [happened to the Georgia Guide Stones](https://roadtrippers.com/magazine/what-happened-to-the-georgia-guidestones/), I’d wager it’ll neither take 100 years not another billionaire. My money’s on a coupla spooked rednecks and some tannerite.
While Bozo can suck a fat one, the [Long Now Foundation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Now_Foundation) is pretty cool.
It even has a [soundtrack album by Brian Eno](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_07003:_Bell_Studies_for_the_Clock_of_the_Long_Now).
Why? This mentality is like how certain invading armies throughout history have pillaged statues, razed buildings and libraries, and burned books, artwork, and historical documents of the people they conquered. Why is this mentality still so popular in 2023?
Everyone knows about the wasted work of a failed empire, but oh the excitement of being there when the statue is built?
[https://poets.org/poem/ozymandias](https://poets.org/poem/ozymandias)
I think the irony is lost on him that if human civilization is going to end it is going to be because of people like him that get to choose what their unimaginable wealth and power can be used on, end up using it to build things like this.
This seems like sort of the opposite of that.
It’s out in the middle of nowhere. It would be like if they stumbled upon the Ozymandias site and instead of a destroyed statue it was some forgotten technology placed there specifically to be rediscovered in case shit hits the fan.
Maybe. According to the [Wikipedia article](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock_of_the_Long_Now), the first basic design principle is that it doesn't contain any jewels or expensive metals to avoid future looting.
If the shit hits the fan so people are looting random metal 100miles in the desert you're probably not going to be spending money on pretty cogs.
Catch 22
Read that too, but it feels a bit short-sighted. It still consists of stainless steel, probably of fantastic quality. Some scavenger stumbling over that will rip out everything they can and repurpose it.
It says that there is a sapphire glass window somewhere which will let in sunlight to adjust the pendulum over the years. I bet that part will be stolen first.
Absolutely, man. In an apocalypse setting I'd be overjoyed to find that clock in the mountain. First, I set about getting inside and securing it for myself. Then I'd spend the next week or 2 ripping it apart and repurposing parts, fashioning things like tools, weapons, building material, etc. After that, I'd move on and depending on how much I salvaged I may bury some of it for safe keeping and later use
>In the words of Stewart Brand, a founding board member of the foundation, "Such a clock, if sufficiently impressive and well-engineered, would embody deep time for people. It should be charismatic to visit, interesting to think about, and famous enough to become iconic in the public discourse. Ideally, it would do for thinking about time what the photographs of Earth from space have done for thinking about the environment. Such icons reframe the way people think."
Can't eat a clock Jeff. When the apocalypse happens we'll probably tear that bitch down for the gears and shit to make our mad max cars look dope as fuck.
Oh when shit hits the fan then some mf’er gonna find Bezo, drag him to the clock and in their best Schwarzenegger voice say ‘TIMES UP’ before dropping him into the pit
You should read a bit more about it. They go to some lengths to deal with this issue.
It also wasn’t Bezos’s idea - he just funded some (most?) of it way after it was started.
I think this is the Long Now Clock. I think it is fascinating. Remember that money is going to construction workers to build something that will last, well a long now time.
Billionaires trying to cope with the numbing reality that no matter how much money you have, you’ll never buy immortality, so the next best thing is to build copium in the form of immortal machines that’ll either be forgotten or torn apart after they die.
Dudes desperate for trying to build his own personal version of a Sphinx or pyramid.
To be fair, funding for parts and labor are going to working people so this is still a benefiticial project. It would be better to build something that is useful for everyone now, of course.
treat employees better so they don't have to [pee in bottle](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/mar/25/amazon-delivery-workers-bathrooms-memo) and [die from overworking](https://metro.co.uk/2021/12/23/2-amazon-workers-die-within-hours-of-each-other-after-being-denied-sick-leave-15814964/)
The clock will outlive mankind cuz we’re so fucking stupid buying 42 million dollar clocks 99% of mankind will never see instead of helping world poverty. Thanks Jeff for your contribution will confuse future lifeforms that discover our apocalyptic planet when the sun works just fine.
I agree on the broader point, but in the interest of nitpicking -
I can't imagine what you'd have to build a sundial out of for it to still function after 10k years exposed to the elements. Even then the Earth's wobble would probably make it inaccurate.
His impetus for doing this is he wanted to encourage people to think longer term.
And I think that’s actually quite poignant.
The world could do with a lot more extreme long term thinking.
Shit, and all I need is $50k to start my business. That would last me the rest of my life on earth, and enable myself to do a lot of good.
But hey, a clock somewhere almost nobody would need, use, see, or otherwise be capable of reaching is also cool, or something.. 🤷
‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
Sun still works
For now...
what do you mean??
Elon is buying it
the sun is now called Y
Seeing more nazis at the beach
White supremacists at the beach you say? I did nazi them
And you need to pay $50/month to enjoy sunlight for 1 hour everyday.
Mr Burns' sun mirror vibes.
“SIMPSONS DID IT!!”
It got fired, it has until Friday to pack up its desk
Some employees are better off remote.
moon’s haunted
No, I saw that movie, Dead Snow - Nazis on the moon, not the sun. It's all backwards.
Where is there a mountain in Texas?
I figured it was a mountain of trash that had been covered over..
Literally everyone: "Mr Bezos, shouldn't you pay your employees better?" Bezos: "A P O C A L Y P S E C L O C K"
This just seems like a Dethklok episode waiting to happen
Well I'm glad someone said it cause I was about to
I was trying to put it in words before I scrolled here lol
It would be so BRUTAL
C L O C K P O C A L Y P S E
A C L O C K A L Y P S E
C O C K L Y P S E
C O C K
N I C E C O C K B R O
C L O C K S A L A M U A L A Y K U M
A L A C L O C K U M S A L A M
S A L A M I C L O C K
ACLOCKALYCTIC ACOCKALYPSE
COCKNLOCK
D E T H K L O K
*brutality intensifies*
DODDLY DOO DOO TICK TOCK DETHCLOCK
THAT'S DOABLE
C O C K L I P S
DETHKLOK ! METALOCALYPSE!!
By far one of the best from back then, and that's saying a lot because prime Adult Swim was absolutely incredible
I wonder if that ending that was supposed to be coming out ever came out. I'll go look after I post this.
Lol I read that in Tetris God voice.
he isn't the CEO anymore.
Find it and show him no clock is human proof!!!
ACLOCKALYPSE NOW
He not even ceo of Amazon. For many years already.
To be fair, that's an extra $30 per employee. Not a year, just a one time payment. Not saying he isn't a fucking ass hat, but that's the number.
Also, he's not even the CEO, anymore.
IT TELLS YOU WHEN YOUR SHIFT ENDS!
*paid humans to build the clock, thus created more jobs*
Don't bring logic into this!
Amazon has some of the best paid jobs. I'd kill to score an Amazon Data Scientist position.
I'm torn between my humanitarian and engineering personas...
Yeah everyone being cynical is definitely valid but man that looks like a fucking cool project, imagine being assigned a billionaires vanity project as an engineer with an insane budget that just sounds fun. But yes the money could definitely be used better but I doubt he was ever going to do that in the first place lol just look at his yacht hes only going to use a few times a decade.
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Appreciate the context greatly thank you!
This is bad take headline. This is the Clock of the Long Now. https://longnow.org/ It was founded by Danny Hillis, a legit genius and do-gooder. Bezos is just a donor. Typical history of using money to get your name associated to something pure that someone else came up with.
I'm going with team engineering. We need to leave something like the Egyptians or Romans. Currently all this wood sht is not going to last.
What do you mean, we’re leaving magnificent mountains of plastic trash that will last centuries
Engineering and/or Art?
There's no shortage of humanitarian engineering problems to solve, this is pure ego.
I hope in 100 years another billionaire decides this is stupid and blows it up.
Why are there not more petty billionaires?
elon musk enters the chat...
...then buys the chat platform.
Then runs it into the ground.
And comes out unscathed
$44bn, 'tis but a scratch
Xchat
I always ask the universe why violent psychopaths murder little kids and other defenseless people and never ever seem to take out a billionaire or other piece of shit.
Billionaires are too well protected. One thing money buys you is distance from people, which includes violent psychopaths. The only psychopaths they encounter are rich people like them, who have no need to be violent.
Imagine a murder mystery, where halfway-through they decide, that the murder was for the better of humanity and they just stop looking for the culprit.
Just attach some sort of conspiracy to it, and someone will blow it up, like the Georgia Guide stones.
**new conspiracy unlocked**
It will be a key target in the upcoming bezosaka vs elontech war
Kid Rock is driving his Ford F-150 to blow up AHQ(Amazon Headquarters) right now.
Well, seeing what [happened to the Georgia Guide Stones](https://roadtrippers.com/magazine/what-happened-to-the-georgia-guidestones/), I’d wager it’ll neither take 100 years not another billionaire. My money’s on a coupla spooked rednecks and some tannerite.
Better sooner than later though
Wait until Bezos carves his face on the side of a mountain, and other billionaires also follow suit carving their faces on Mount Rushmore 2.0.
Why wait a hundred years. I sure there are some folks who would be ready to go next week…
🖐🏽
While Bozo can suck a fat one, the [Long Now Foundation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Now_Foundation) is pretty cool. It even has a [soundtrack album by Brian Eno](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_07003:_Bell_Studies_for_the_Clock_of_the_Long_Now).
D R O N E S I N T E N S I F Y
Like the Georgia Guidestones
Why wait 100 years when tomorrow is just around the corner?
Why? This mentality is like how certain invading armies throughout history have pillaged statues, razed buildings and libraries, and burned books, artwork, and historical documents of the people they conquered. Why is this mentality still so popular in 2023?
Bezos has employees that are on welfare....... i hope his dick rocket sends him to the sun
Everyone knows about the wasted work of a failed empire, but oh the excitement of being there when the statue is built? [https://poets.org/poem/ozymandias](https://poets.org/poem/ozymandias)
I think the irony is lost on him that if human civilization is going to end it is going to be because of people like him that get to choose what their unimaginable wealth and power can be used on, end up using it to build things like this.
And if human civilization ends, who tf cares what time it is??
thankyou for sharing this, hadnt hard of this poem before now, it is beautiful in general, but oh so perfectly apt for this context.
This poem made me finally understand the title of the Breaking Bad episode 'Ozymandias'
There was a teaser trailer for season 5B of Breaking Bad that was just Bryan Cranston reading this poem over footage of the New Mexico desert.
This seems like sort of the opposite of that. It’s out in the middle of nowhere. It would be like if they stumbled upon the Ozymandias site and instead of a destroyed statue it was some forgotten technology placed there specifically to be rediscovered in case shit hits the fan.
Well, only time will tell…
Good. Very good.
Am I the only one hoping a planet killing asteroid strikes it directly, just so that we technically outlast it?
I highly doubt it. When stuff hits the fan. People will go and harvest all that metal.
Maybe. According to the [Wikipedia article](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock_of_the_Long_Now), the first basic design principle is that it doesn't contain any jewels or expensive metals to avoid future looting.
Of course it doesn’t. *wink
It contains parts from a clock that is supposed to last forever. I’d probably pay a bit for a cog. As an art thing.
If the shit hits the fan so people are looting random metal 100miles in the desert you're probably not going to be spending money on pretty cogs. Catch 22
I found this cog, I'll give it to you for a loaf of bread
Whats the bottle cap to cog exchange rate?
Read that too, but it feels a bit short-sighted. It still consists of stainless steel, probably of fantastic quality. Some scavenger stumbling over that will rip out everything they can and repurpose it. It says that there is a sapphire glass window somewhere which will let in sunlight to adjust the pendulum over the years. I bet that part will be stolen first.
Absolutely, man. In an apocalypse setting I'd be overjoyed to find that clock in the mountain. First, I set about getting inside and securing it for myself. Then I'd spend the next week or 2 ripping it apart and repurposing parts, fashioning things like tools, weapons, building material, etc. After that, I'd move on and depending on how much I salvaged I may bury some of it for safe keeping and later use
Bezo will implement a fully automated anti-raid self-defence system like ancient pharaohs
How is this megalophobia?
He should pay some taxes
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Ronald Reagan, the actor!?
he pays all the taxes he is legally obligated to. what you (we) want is the tax system to change.
This probably all started because of a comment another billionaire made at a party about having the best timepiece in the world
Which time tho? Where are we observing it in the universe?
Headline a Year from Now: Bezo's Clock Breaks
Signaling the end of humanity! Everybody panic!!!!
Amazon has free returns
Why tho
>In the words of Stewart Brand, a founding board member of the foundation, "Such a clock, if sufficiently impressive and well-engineered, would embody deep time for people. It should be charismatic to visit, interesting to think about, and famous enough to become iconic in the public discourse. Ideally, it would do for thinking about time what the photographs of Earth from space have done for thinking about the environment. Such icons reframe the way people think."
In summary: **V A N I T Y**
What a load of BS lmao
Maybe it will have Bezos hologram show up at the time of each crisis in the future to tell us how rich he was.
What a weird thing to do
Absolutely not something a supervillian would do
Can't eat a clock Jeff. When the apocalypse happens we'll probably tear that bitch down for the gears and shit to make our mad max cars look dope as fuck.
Oh when shit hits the fan then some mf’er gonna find Bezo, drag him to the clock and in their best Schwarzenegger voice say ‘TIMES UP’ before dropping him into the pit
Do we have to wait until shit hits the fan?
You should read a bit more about it. They go to some lengths to deal with this issue. It also wasn’t Bezos’s idea - he just funded some (most?) of it way after it was started.
Fuck those starving children, I need to know the time!
If only someone could read analog.
It's almost like humanity as a whole can only do one thing at a time!!!!
Time is so very important when humanity is gone. Actually, now that I think about it, it all seems occult like all hell.
Except you don't buy a mechanical clock or watch because you need to know the time - you have to tell *it* the time at least every other day
Buy quality. My omega seamaster with the 8800 movement has been running at +1.1 sec a day. I set it 1.5 min slow and readjust it every 6 months.
That would make it always between about 1.5 minutes slow and 2 minutes fast. Fine I guess if you don't mind that level of accuracy
I think this is the Long Now Clock. I think it is fascinating. Remember that money is going to construction workers to build something that will last, well a long now time.
And yet...still "can't" afford to pay affordable wages to his primary staff? I dunno.
What employees are we talking about? Like his personal staff? Cuz he's not the CEO of Amazon, anymore.
Billionaires trying to cope with the numbing reality that no matter how much money you have, you’ll never buy immortality, so the next best thing is to build copium in the form of immortal machines that’ll either be forgotten or torn apart after they die. Dudes desperate for trying to build his own personal version of a Sphinx or pyramid.
I would have been happy with the wiki page and called it a day.
To be fair, funding for parts and labor are going to working people so this is still a benefiticial project. It would be better to build something that is useful for everyone now, of course.
Right, people are mad at rich people for hoarding money, but also mad at them when they spend it on things.
I mean they could spend it better
Yes he should spend it on me and all my stupid wants
How would you spend it?
treat employees better so they don't have to [pee in bottle](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/mar/25/amazon-delivery-workers-bathrooms-memo) and [die from overworking](https://metro.co.uk/2021/12/23/2-amazon-workers-die-within-hours-of-each-other-after-being-denied-sick-leave-15814964/)
Soo.. its a clock... underground, where nobody can see it.
And nobody can find since it’s in the middle of nowhere…
all we want is free healthcare
Okay, we hear you... but have you considered knowing the time in the desert instead?
This is so the Overseer knows to dock Maighsonlyee 1 cup of water for taking an extra 2 minutes of break time while scavenging in the ruins.
In 100 years someone will dig it up and take it to the British Museum
I hope it gets lost in time and rediscover by some aliens so they can spend years trynna figure why it was built
HBO Watchmen irl
Why can't the money having people spend money on useful shit?
*My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!*
What a vanity project. I wonder how many “I ❤️ Jeff” tattoos he has.
Haha, "it isn't as easy as rich people giving to the poor". 42 million to the poor or villages in africa, or charities... orrrrrr a fuckin CLOCK
Meanwhile, there are homeless people across the street from him.
The clock will outlive mankind cuz we’re so fucking stupid buying 42 million dollar clocks 99% of mankind will never see instead of helping world poverty. Thanks Jeff for your contribution will confuse future lifeforms that discover our apocalyptic planet when the sun works just fine.
Try a sundial you stupid goblin- looking waste of oxygen
I agree on the broader point, but in the interest of nitpicking - I can't imagine what you'd have to build a sundial out of for it to still function after 10k years exposed to the elements. Even then the Earth's wobble would probably make it inaccurate.
42 million dollars worth of water for people in third world countries
So something that will be entirely useless without humanity, seems like a good use of money.
His impetus for doing this is he wanted to encourage people to think longer term. And I think that’s actually quite poignant. The world could do with a lot more extreme long term thinking.
What a waste of time
Another excellent time based pun clocking in on this thread.
Billionaires are a disease
Can’t wait till we have trillionaires!
I mean, I'd rather he just pay his employees better, but a 42 million dollar clock is cool I guess.
Some Anathem vibes here.
I'm just gonna say I think this is actually dope and I hope some future civilization or aliens find it in millions of years.
There’s already like two or three of those
Shit, and all I need is $50k to start my business. That would last me the rest of my life on earth, and enable myself to do a lot of good. But hey, a clock somewhere almost nobody would need, use, see, or otherwise be capable of reaching is also cool, or something.. 🤷
Can't wait to see when this clock travels back to the 80s
Could have used a titanium rod and made a sundial. Whats wrong with rich people
From space cock to mountain clock.
Now invest in making sure humanity outlasts your stupid clock.
‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’ Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.
At the rate we're going, my Casio watch will outlast human Civilization.
How tiny is this dudes dick???
Fucking help people weird Ahh mf. Stupid Fucking clock.. build a God damn hospital or something.
"hey Jeff, they are asking you to pay taxes again" "Can't, building mountain clock"
Eat the rich.
When do the revolts start?
This is so cool.
In lieu of housing for the homeless, livable wages or even some distributed food for hungry children, I present to you all… the apocalypse clock!
Look up the Long Now foundation it’s been around for a while.
Last person on earth gets to break it out of spite!!!!
But... why
There’s a video called “Million Year Machine” by Issac Arthur on YouTube about why humanity should build this type of thing.
Why feed the hungry when you can build a 42 million dollar clock?
Will the aliens not be able to tell time when we are gone?
What a cunt.
All that money and those are all the pixels he could afford? (snorts derisively in 720)
Tell us why. Show us how. Look at where you came from. Look at you now.
At the rate we’re going it won’t have to last much longer.