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i dunno if people are ever serious when they propose migrating to mars or whatever, because its hard to tell when people are serious about anything nowadays, but even if you start a nuclear war, have runaway global warming, a pandemic and a meteor strike, all at the same time, the earth will still be far more habitable than the surface of mars will ever be
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Guyver posted:The precious metals and phosphorus (seriously we are going to run out of it and then starve) in the asteroid belt isn't going to mine itself if we don't start making space colones to force migrate poor people to. IIRC we collectively consume about 3m tons more than we need every year and the excess gets pissed and shat out. There's your goldmine right there.
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I just want someone to build an O'Neill cylinder.
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if someone proposed colonizing antarctica the way some people talk about space (it has abundant water resources! breathable air! raw materials can be drilled from beneath the surface and shipped back for profit!) theyd be laughed out of the room but somehow people take the elon musk space poo poo seriously
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Sep 15, 2020 17:56
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Space is only, like, 60 something miles from here. Antarctica is, like, alllllll the way over there, man.
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Sep 15, 2020 18:15
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Of course that's stupid since it's just an immense wall of ice surrounding the disc of our world.
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Sep 15, 2020 18:17
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I wanna live in an undersea dome personally
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Sep 15, 2020 18:18
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Manager Hoyden posted:Every time I see someone use those weird political abbreviations/contractions I feel a massive amount of secondhand embarrassment. Like "proglib" or "tradcath". I know it was a twitter garbagebaby thing for a while but now it's slipping into actual (bad) articles from reputable sources. What the hell is "tradcath"?  Shibawanko posted:yeah i hate that poo poo too. "cool and good" too "Cool and good" is weirdly redundant, and it has grown less and less clever the more it has been used, just like every other catchphrase. Did it originate here? Because I don't remember seeing it anywhere else. My unpopular opinion is that I have a soft spot for catchphrases in general, which I think is because I like stuff that reflects the SA community, which I have spent almost half my life with.  Shibawanko posted:im not a fan of "poc" or "woc" either because they both sound like twitter words and are phonetically unattractive PoC/POC and WoC/WOC are better, in my opinion. That way it's more obvious that it shouldn't be pronounced like "pock"/"wock".
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YeahTubaMike posted:What the hell is "tradcath"? Tradcaths are far right Catholics who are opposed to Vatican II
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Sep 15, 2020 18:26
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Tradcaths believe only the comics up until her marriage contain the truth, and that those produced afterwards are forgeries.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Tradcaths are far right Catholics who are opposed to Vatican II Ah okay, thanks for the explanation. That sounds odd. Aphrodite posted:Tradcaths believe only the comics up until her marriage contain the truth, and that those produced afterwards are forgeries. Cathy got married? Well, good for her.
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Sep 15, 2020 18:39
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In my opinion people shouldn't say "We're going to get through this" when there is a very distinct possibility that we will not.
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Sep 15, 2020 21:17
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Animal-Mother posted:In my opinion people shouldn't say "We're going to get through this" when there is a very distinct possibility that we will not. It's like when people say we'll get through Brexit because "we" survived the Blitz. Ignoring that quite a lot of people didn't in fact survive the Blitz and were blown up in their homes. Or the "we never had all these allergies and things when I was a child." No, you just had children dying without explanation because bread was literally poison to them.
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Sep 15, 2020 22:19
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salespeople deserve zero respect and should be at the absolute bottom rung of society
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Sep 15, 2020 22:25
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When is Brexit happening? Seems like it should have happened by now.
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Solice Kirsk posted:When is Brexit happening? Seems like it should have happened by now. It happened on January 31. The transition period ends December 31.
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Appeals to "be kind" or twee, didactic infographics with pastel backdrops and little clouds and rainbows are activism entirely for the benefit and reach of the social media users who use them, and their hectoring but cutesy tone is an anathema to many viewers who will at best disengage and at worst react in opposition. It's okay to be angry and/or anxious about injustice and the cosy aesthetics of lovely illustrations of people drinking tea cross legged on the floor feels tone deaf right now.
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Shibawanko posted:if someone proposed colonizing antarctica the way some people talk about space (it has abundant water resources! breathable air! raw materials can be drilled from beneath the surface and shipped back for profit!) theyd be laughed out of the room but somehow people take the elon musk space poo poo seriously Elon Musk has done nothing except shoot garbage into space and then land military contracts to put military satellites into space All the nerds worshipping at his feet are complete morons. He's just another rich oval office capitalizing on militarization. He's never going to put you into space, only tools of the military.
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Sep 15, 2020 22:42
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Guillotine
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Sep 15, 2020 22:44
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Only dumb clods think LotR is boring
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Oh the little english boy has to return a piece of jewelry. Boo hoo welcome to Feb 15th kiddo
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LotR, and more so the Silmarillion, is about how god planned for you to suffer to fulfil his plan. Mysterious ways. Tolkien was very much into the idea that suffering made you noble, because he was an orphan who fought in WW1.
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the silmarillion is good
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Shibawanko posted:the silmarillion is good Well it's much better than LotR because it's not a novel, and Tolkien was a bad novelist.
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Sep 16, 2020 10:12
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its a religious document
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Shibawanko posted:its a religious document it is a doctoral dissertation in linguistics that never got submitted
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Shibawanko posted:the silmarillion is good 
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Sep 16, 2020 15:18
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the loose fitting men's boxer short, like its brother-in-arms the backpack, has been unfairly demonized. any men's underwear that squeezes your balls can gently caress right off
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Sep 16, 2020 16:48
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If you need a backpack to carry your balls, you should see a doctor.
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Sep 16, 2020 17:12
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Or a pornographic film producer.
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Sep 16, 2020 17:54
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the underwear problem has been solved with boxer briefs
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Buster Gonad!
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Sep 16, 2020 20:07
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Fake wasabi is better than real wasabi. The real stuff is weirdly mild and tastes really planty. Give me that food-dyed horseradish every time.
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Sep 16, 2020 21:11
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I think that Monstrous Regiment is a drat good Pratchett story.
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Manager Hoyden posted:Fake wasabi is better than real wasabi. The real stuff is weirdly mild and tastes really planty. Give me that food-dyed horseradish every time. I like both, but they're very different I agree!
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Josef bugman posted:I think that Monstrous Regiment is a drat good Pratchett story. Get it out of the thread
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Amy Winehouse was overrated. "Rehab" would have been a novelty one-hit-wonder if she wasn't living a tough life in the public eye. She was talented and her death is tragic, but it cemented a legacy because she never had to do a follow-up that people would have ignored or disliked.
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