Seen this shit before with Reddit's most astroturfed poison producers: Monsanto.

"Glyphosate is so safe that you can drink it." eco-porky

"Then drink it. Right now. With the cameras on you." ecoterrorism

"I got to go!" porky-scared-flipped

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    2 months ago

    You should go check out the Spacex glazing thread we had the other day, lots of folks getting into a lather to support the engineers who are enabling Spacex's enormous environmental disaster so that they can lob short-lived satellites into LEO that will degrade in no time and contribute to pollution, launched on rockets that don't stop polluting when they get shit into orbit but continue pumping out pollutants on their way down.

    I saw that thread. You might have wondered why I didn't comment in it; it was so fucking radioactive that I decided it wasn't worth giving my opinion in there if it meant picking up another superfan or two that might rage about me for the next year or so afterward.

    • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      Yeah I made a few comments and then just dipped out of reading my replies until today because the Elon glazing was so fucking thick. It was a mistake, I should only post in the newsmega with my people.

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        2 months ago

        Scientism is a helluva drug. A lot of self-described leftists (and especially self-described progressives) have big blinders on whenever something sounds like it'll make their favorite fiction books come a little closer to true, no matter the actual cost of whatever it is.

        • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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          2 months ago

          Scientism is a helluva drug

          As someone that is very much into science, I agree. That's why one of my favourite albums of all time is "Dear Science" by TV On The Radio. It's very much a critique of scientism and a critique on the "corruption of science", if you will.

          If you've watched Breaking Bad walter-shock before you've probably heard this song from the album already, but it just sums it up perfectly.

          • UlyssesT [he/him]
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            2 months ago

            I saw this said once about "I FUCKING LOVE SCIENCE" reddit-logo types: "You don't 'love science,' you stare at science's ass as it walks by."

            • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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              2 months ago

              Exactly, as the song says about the fetishism of science:

              Eternalized, objectified
              You set your sights so high
              But this is beginning to feel like the bolt busted loose from the lever

              • UlyssesT [he/him]
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                2 months ago

                This is beginning to feel like the dawn of the loser forever billionaire-tears

                • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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                  2 months ago

                  One can only hope, and he does seem to be really losing it lately.

                  But I have a strong feeling that the "death professor" referred to in the song could be Oppenheimer, which makes sense if you see the song as describing the progress of science towards a nuclear detonation, from the barely controlled locomotive (steam era) to the static explosion of a nuclear warhead.

                  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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                    2 months ago

                    I'm pretty sure that was the intended subject of the lyrics, too. I just wanted to apply them further.

        • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
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          2 months ago

          Sometimes I think I need to follow your example and disconnect from internet but my job is internet and I can't afford to go live on a boat without internet access kitty-birthday-sad

          • UlyssesT [he/him]
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            2 months ago

            Sometimes I think I need to follow your example and disconnect from internet

            I wasn't entirely without the internet while I was away, but I was very, very distracted with the early stages of my ongoing projects. Now that I have a bit more free time, posting here is habit forming and I sometimes feel like Lahey falling off the wagon again.

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          • carpoftruth [any, any]
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            2 months ago

            disconnect from internet but my job is internet

            Consider having an inexplicable log in issue that makes it so you can't log onto hexbear on your work computer. That's what I do