this post was submitted on 22 Nov 2023
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bezos was particularly jerky about it when its established fact that Shatner was one of the celebrity calls that astronauts asked to have in the early days of the space station when communication was more limited.

So this actor, who was an inspiration for astronauts, had been asked to talk to them during their missions and hear their perspectives for morale benefits. But when he finally has his own experience, Bezos assumed no one wanted to hear it. Just tone deaf and uninformed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah - that was jarring to see.