Cardboard and paper bags went out of style because of the “save the rainforest” narrative. Even though most paper products are made from trees specifically grown to be harvested for their wood.

That’s why we started using plastic bags at grocery stores, remember?

It’s one of the six tenets of the purpose of operating such a widespread Navy, enforce maritime security.

I don’t remember the other five, but that one made me chuckle. It always comes back to money.

My bet’s on Heinlein.

Theres oxygen on Venus like there’s argon on earth, it’s so miniscule it’s useless.

That’s because they’re politicians in a political structure where different views exist and matter.

As opposed to a group of insurgents where their level of extremism is irrelevant. If you’re a part of the group willing to resort to mass murder and kidnapping you’re in the “too extreme” group already.

Asking for a nuanced view of “resistance fighters” is like asking for a nuanced view of serial killers, they’re all a problem. Trying to identify which serial killer did it for the correct reasons or doesn’t really want to kill people but does anyways is a ridiculous concept.

The point is that the company employing gig economy workers expects us to pay their wages and for our food.

Hey you know what they say, the only two branches are the Army and the Navy. The Air Force is a corporation and the Marines are a cult.

What… Should my reaction be? Lol do you want us to all crowdfund an emergency evacuation of his wife?

Like… This doesn’t even make sense. “We are all ok with it” until five seconds ago I didn’t even know about this situation but being responsible or able to help is also a factor and neither of those apply to us so why the fuck would we do anything?

Some of you are just the worst when it comes to falling on a sword for anyone and anything.

I have friends that occasionally bitch about the way things are but refuse to engage with whatever systems are set up to help solve whatever given problem they have. “it shouldn’t be like that! It should work like X”

Well, it doesn’t. We can try to change things for the better but refusal to engage with the current system isn’t an excuse for why your life is shit.

Yeah only the Coasties lost anyone, surprised all passengers made it off of the air bus with the way that fireball went up.

It’s more the security risk of being on WiFi, assuming it’s not your home wifi.

Calm down boot, I was a squid. If you learned your own branch’s history you’d know the only commissioned surface vessel that’s ever scored a kill is the Constitution.

Hence the “and maybe more.” Jesus, you guys can’t read for shit.

Hop off the wifi for banking and wanking.

c/Linuxmemes would be a better place for this.

That’s just a bad take, he spent most of his term doing dick measuring contests with Iran/NK/China. To say he doesn’t care about foreign policy is a complete lie, he absolutely cares about the rest of the world insofar as it demonstrates his “strength” as a “powerful leader.”

Plus the last time we had an altercation with Iran during his presidency we almost went to war over it, we were on ready 30’s on deployment the whole week just in case the declaration of war was dropped.

Unless Iran’s goal is to drag us into war, there’s no way they’d prefer a Trump presidency.

Current US Naval vessels with a confirmed kill:

Constitution

…and maybe more, Iran.

I don’t see any attempt at the movie’s part showing that the products they were making weren’t somehow used by the citizens of Elysium. The droids are everywhere, implying that they fulfill a need based on what remaining manufacturing can be done on world.

It’s not meant to portray a society that has a fully automated economy, it’s about one that relies on the other for creating goods that will be used and priced out of the range of the laborers who created it.

Half caf and whole milk baybee.

Elysium has human laborers, though. The main character literally works at a factory creating the droids for the station’s uses.

Humans consumers will still exist, and at that point we would have no choice but to facilitate some kind of UBI or else there’s going to be a few billion people that aren’t going to just sit around and die.