I haven't been able to find it since I got a new computer, but there was a copypasta-worthy bazinga cope screed I read once that was in a published magazine about some techbro in Silicon Valley dismissing climate collapse as a non-issue, and the way he said it was something like this: "The planet doesn't matter. We can have sustainable habitats in space. We can build orbital ranches that slaughter beef cattle for meat. Elon Musk."
I remember that last part the most. The bazinga said "Elon Musk" as if that was the decisive closing argument.
Bit idea: create a population of Elon Musk clones to be generated in test tubes and slaughtered for food. Musk will live in eternal anguish and we'll have an actually ethical source of edible corpse substance.
I just spent way too long trying to search for this, but I could only find the last time you posted this, which explains why I thought I remembered it, too. If you can find the original please post it, it deserves to be mocked thoroughly.
I really wish I could. It was unfortunately a magazine excerpt that was screenshotted from the early days of 's hype wave, which means a text search using even the words I remembered came up empty.
Thanks for looking. Maybe it will reemerge someday. As a consolation prize, I found an old New Yorker article about a proposed climate change museum:
“The museum could move the conversation from polar bears to people. It’ll be a museum of unnatural history.” She, along with Massie and the rest of the board, believes that the museum must focus on solutions. “Solutions are the most exciting part,” Browning said. “I would love an exhibit by Elon Musk that shows what the world could look like.”
“The museum could move the conversation from polar bears to people. It’ll be a museum of unnatural history.” She, along with Massie and the rest of the board, believes that the museum must focus on solutions. “Solutions are the most exciting part,” Browning said. “I would love an exhibit by Elon Musk that shows what the world could look like.”
"Move the conversation." These fucking GHOULS.
I never saw that before, but now that I have, I have a fresh wound in my soul that needs tending to.
Spacesteaders are the most bizarrely unhinged branch of Heinleinian libertarian dipshit. Like seasteaders and their dream of "what if we made conglomerate houseboat cities in international waters for reasons and farmed seaweed for food and if you didn't like the sea city you were at you could just take your boat and farming pontoons and go to a different one!" are silly enough, but "all you need is a hollowed out thirty meter wide styrofoam sphere and you can live on potatoes and if someone shoots a missile at you you could simply maneuver your giant styrofoam homestead out of the way!" spacesteaders are on a whole new level of why the fuck even (also both of those quotes are paraphrasing real arguments I've heard in earnest from real people, like I'm not even satirizing their positions I'm just summarizing them slightly that's how bizarre they are).
It's like a special kind of brainworm that develops when someone is socialized on manifest destiny propaganda where rugged manly patriarchs could just legally take property for themselves to become yeoman farmers instead of wage slaves, running into the material problem that everything is enclosed and owned and they're left with nothing for themselves, and instead of thinking "damn this system of tying personhood to property and letting oligarchs hoard it all sucks, maybe it should change" they just dream of doing sea settler colonialism or space settler colonialism like in their favorite Heinlein novel where Heinlein's immortal-product-of-techbro-eugenics author insert fucks off to a ye olde west planet with his adoptive daughter and then marries her before he then makes a harem out of her, his teenage female clones of himself, his daughter, and also his actual mother too thanks to time travel because what the actual fuck was Heinlein even doing in the 80s.
Spacesteaders are the most bizarrely unhinged branch of Heinleinian libertarian dipshit. Like seasteaders and their dream of "what if we made conglomerate houseboat cities in international waters for reasons and farmed seaweed for food and if you didn't like the sea city you were at you could just take your boat and farming pontoons and go to a different one!" are silly enough, but "all you need is a hollowed out thirty meter wide styrofoam sphere and you can live on potatoes and if someone shoots a missile at you you could simply maneuver your giant styrofoam homestead out of the way!" spacesteaders are on a whole new level of why the fuck even (also both of those quotes are paraphrasing real arguments I've heard in earnest from real people, like I'm not even satirizing their positions I'm just summarizing them slightly that's how bizarre they are).
One of the most comically damning moments of me reading about spacesteaders was when one of them openly admitted seasteading was a failure in every way they had already financed and attempted but decided going into space where all the problems with seasteading were even worse and decided in a moment of sheer fucking hubris that that'd go better anyway.
favorite Heinlein novel where Heinlein's immortal-product-of-techbro-eugenics author insert fucks off to a ye olde west planet with his adoptive daughter and then marries her before he then makes a harem out of her, his teenage female clones of himself, his daughter, and also his actual mother too thanks to time travel because what the actual fuck was Heinlein even doing in the 80s.
That's only somewhat worse than the ultimate creepy author jackoff session that was the conclusion of Ready Player One's sequel. It's bad. It's "mind controlled harem waifus follow sempai into space because the ungrateful poors on the dying Earth don't praise the ego-insert epic enough" levels of bad.
Birds need gravity to swallow and half the meat consumed in the US is chicken so that's already a problem.
I read that for every 100 kilocalories you feed a cow, you only get 2 kilocalories of beef back. Plus the amount of water you have to give them. Yeah its not looking good for that
I haven't been able to find it since I got a new computer, but there was a copypasta-worthy bazinga cope screed I read once that was in a published magazine about some techbro in Silicon Valley dismissing climate collapse as a non-issue, and the way he said it was something like this: "The planet doesn't matter. We can have sustainable habitats in space. We can build orbital ranches that slaughter beef cattle for meat. Elon Musk."
I remember that last part the most. The bazinga said "Elon Musk" as if that was the decisive closing argument.
The secular version of “God works in mysterious ways.”
We can build orbital ranches that slaughter Elon Musk for meat.
Bit idea: create a population of Elon Musk clones to be generated in test tubes and slaughtered for food. Musk will live in eternal anguish and we'll have an actually ethical source of edible corpse substance.
Soylent Musk
I just spent way too long trying to search for this, but I could only find the last time you posted this, which explains why I thought I remembered it, too. If you can find the original please post it, it deserves to be mocked thoroughly.
I really wish I could. It was unfortunately a magazine excerpt that was screenshotted from the early days of
's hype wave, which means a text search using even the words I remembered came up empty.
Thanks for looking. Maybe it will reemerge someday. As a consolation prize, I found an old New Yorker article about a proposed climate change museum:
"Move the conversation." These fucking GHOULS.
I never saw that before, but now that I have, I have a fresh wound in my soul that needs tending to.
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Spacesteaders are the most bizarrely unhinged branch of Heinleinian libertarian dipshit. Like seasteaders and their dream of "what if we made conglomerate houseboat cities in international waters for reasons and farmed seaweed for food and if you didn't like the sea city you were at you could just take your boat and farming pontoons and go to a different one!" are silly enough, but "all you need is a hollowed out thirty meter wide styrofoam sphere and you can live on potatoes and if someone shoots a missile at you you could simply maneuver your giant styrofoam homestead out of the way!" spacesteaders are on a whole new level of why the fuck even (also both of those quotes are paraphrasing real arguments I've heard in earnest from real people, like I'm not even satirizing their positions I'm just summarizing them slightly that's how bizarre they are).
It's like a special kind of brainworm that develops when someone is socialized on manifest destiny propaganda where rugged manly patriarchs could just legally take property for themselves to become yeoman farmers instead of wage slaves, running into the material problem that everything is enclosed and owned and they're left with nothing for themselves, and instead of thinking "damn this system of tying personhood to property and letting oligarchs hoard it all sucks, maybe it should change" they just dream of doing sea settler colonialism or space settler colonialism like in their favorite Heinlein novel where Heinlein's immortal-product-of-techbro-eugenics author insert fucks off to a ye olde west planet with his adoptive daughter and then marries her before he then makes a harem out of her, his teenage female clones of himself, his daughter, and also his actual mother too thanks to time travel because what the actual fuck was Heinlein even doing in the 80s.
One of the most comically damning moments of me reading about spacesteaders was when one of them openly admitted seasteading was a failure in every way they had already financed and attempted but decided going into space where all the problems with seasteading were even worse and decided in a moment of sheer fucking hubris that that'd go better anyway.
That's only somewhat worse than the ultimate creepy author jackoff session that was the conclusion of Ready Player One's sequel. It's bad. It's "mind controlled harem waifus follow sempai into space because the ungrateful poors on the dying Earth don't praise the ego-insert epic
enough" levels of bad.
Birds need gravity to swallow and half the meat consumed in the US is chicken so that's already a problem. I read that for every 100 kilocalories you feed a cow, you only get 2 kilocalories of beef back. Plus the amount of water you have to give them. Yeah its not looking good for that
France is bacon.