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2024-12-22 ┃ RE: acb

@acb @HighlandLawyer @Di4na @cstross The trouble with hiring bodyguards is a lot of emperors have been killed by their own bodyguards. (Modern billionaires don't even have poison tasters.)

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2024-12-23 Dss ┃ 4👤 1💬

@landley @acb @HighlandLawyer @Di4na @cstross Little need for a poison taster when you own 7 "homes", and have a personal chef (amongst other staff) on standby at each of them. Sneakily […]

2024-12-22 Petermid ┃ 1💬

@landley they don't??

2024-12-22 djr2024 ┃ edited ┃ 1#️ 4👤

@landley @acb @HighlandLawyer @Di4na @cstross
That was also the experience of #indiragandhi !

2024-12-22 lemgandi ┃ 4👤

@landley @acb @HighlandLawyer @Di4na @cstross Funny, I'd say paying more taxes is cheaper and more secure than a phalanx of mercenaries.

2024-12-22 zdl ┃ 4👤

@landley @acb @HighlandLawyer @Di4na @cstross Yet.
A few dead billionaires later and that job will open up.

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