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A bottle of French wine from the personal collection of a revered wine maker recently shattered the record for the most expensive bottle ever sold at auction by fetching $812,500
The bottle, a 1945 Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, is one of only about 600 ever produced and is a coveted collectable among historic wine connoisseurs.
So The Grand Paladin must worth more than that, considering that only 300 bottles were produced.
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Not necessarily. Scarcity or low-production can be a price indicator, but it’s of course not the only one.
While, in universe, the Grand Paladin is apparently exquisite and deserving of its stature, DRC is famously the world’s most expensive, luxury wine.
In fact according to the Hitman wiki, the Grand Paladin is based off of DRC.
But auctions like these are opportunities for rich fucks to swing their you know whats around and show off.
Speaking as a wine professional, no wine is worth that much moola.
The most expensive bottle of DRC we’ve sold in my shop was $31,000. That was for a 2019 Grand Cru.
Yes, it’s ridiculous.
Eat the rich.
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You mean their giant throbbing chequebooks?
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That’s some low hanging fruit
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My “I didn’t blame the Underground Transgender Mafia” shirt is raising a lot questions answered by the shirt…
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Whaaaaat? that’s crazy talk (puts away fedora pinstripe suit and cigars)
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We’re about 12 hours from the (probable) launch of Artemis II, which will be the first time humans have flown to the moon in over 50 years. It is one of three test flights being made in preparation for Artemis IV’s moon landing in late 2028.
Artemis’ trip around the moon will be the furthest and fastest mankind has travelled from Earth. On board will be pilot Victor Glover, the first person of color to leave low Earth orbit; mission specialist Christina Koch, the first woman to do the same; mission specialist Jeremy Hansen, the first Canadian 
(and first non-US citizen) and commander Reid Wiseman, the token white male American. 
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NASA’s live coverage starts in about six hours.
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We could have been so much further along in this if funding hadn’t been cut since the 70s to fund America’s military industrial complex and buy billionaires their private planes and yachts that they get tax refunds for anyway. Pathetic that all this mission is meant to accomplish is coming this far out from NASA’s heyday.
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My connection is too unsteady to share videos but look for them on twitter if you could. Extremely funny, includes local tribes trying to shoot black hawks down with manual rifles.
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C-130 !!! The greatest aeroplane ever made (=
I miss that thing so much.
But back to the news, I don’t believe the US had ever lost an F-15 before. 104-0 was what the pilots always said. Now we have lost two in a couple weeks. One to friendly fire and one to enemy fire.
Edit: we had lost a couple to surface to air missiles and operational mishaps. The 104-0 is their air to air combat record.
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Well this is… idiotic.
It’s a bizarre read, but the strangest thing about it is Esquire’s justification for the stunt. “We were stoked to have some face time with the Japanese-American actor, but his schedule prevented it,” writes Esquire ’s Joy Ling. “With a driving need for a feature, we had to be inventive. Harnessing our creative license, we pulled his verbatim from previous interviews and fed them through an AI programme to formulate new responses.”
Yeah, gimme an interview with uhhh NOTHING
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Imagine if Richard Nixon just didn’t show up for those David Frost interviews so he and the editors at David Paradine Productions just did a YTP style edit of archival footage of Nixon.
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It’s like that time when Clint Eastwood argued against an empty chair, pretending it was Obama, and then say that was an actual argument.
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Don’t fucking tease me with a good time, Alito, you fucking turbo-reactionary, geratric fuck.
Yeah, let’s not do that. We don’t need to give Trump a chance to put some other young stupid Project 2025 fuck on that bench for a lifetime. Or even 18 years if by some miracle democrats get enough seats in both chambers or congress after November to pass that bill for putting term limits on SCOTUS and overriding Trump’s veto.
Oh no, it is the prospect of Trump replacing Alito, a psychotic reactionary who has spent his entire career siding with Trump unilaterally, with somebody who is… A psychotic reactionary who will spend their entire career siding with Trump unilaterally.
Yeah when I put it like that I am just going to be glad he is dead or gone and that schadenfreude will be good enough for me until the confirmation hearings.
Also eighteen years is still a long time for someone with so much power. If your role is to determine the legality of the acts and laws of your president then you should last exactly as long as your president does, a nice eight years still seems extreme but at least it isn’t a quarter of an American’s life span.
Better yet maybe the Democrats should stop the crazy train and restore the true purpose of the SC which is to be an official adjudicator of the constitutionality and legality of the acts and laws that are drafted and passed through the chambers of congress and enacted by the president.
If not then the only fair solution is to let the people elect and vote for Supreme Court judges just like any one else in the two other branches of government. You should not and cannot claim to be the law of the people if the people don’t elect you or represent the ideals of a person selected by the people to represent them in office.
All true and I agree, but I’d much rather Alito stay on until Trump is out of office and then he and/or Thomas have that stroke or go senile and have to be replaced with a Democrat president and Congress.
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