Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by the_biot 1597 days ago
Exactly, this is a pretty obvious publicity play.

My guess, informed by nothing other than my own cynicism, is that the Rotterdam city council will use the manufactured outrage to extract more money from Bezos to dismantle that bridge.

1 comments

All this is does is hurt the local shipyard. Do you think the next buyer of a super yacht is going to build there? Or even smaller yachts now that there's a political limit on the size of ship they can sell.

Also throwing eggs at the boat just makes work for some poor souls who will have to clean it. The boat is designed to withstand the ocean, it can get wet and be washed.

This whole thing is so silly, I'm compelled yet embarrassed to comment.