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Shame Boy posted:He's real life iron man!!!! I think he's more Batman, his main superpower is inheriting a bunch of wealth. Also because I feel like this didn't get enough love earlier... 
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he isnt even doing anything to make life on mars easier, like if he was funding self sustaining habitats at the bottom of the ocean or actively building a space station then i could believe that his end goal is mars, as it is hes just getting stoned on pills and funding whatever ideas pop into his head
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Apr 11, 2021 15:50
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he doesn't even sell real flamethrowers
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Apr 11, 2021 16:09
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duz posted:he isnt even doing anything to make life on mars easier, like if he was funding self sustaining habitats at the bottom of the ocean or actively building a space station then i could believe that his end goal is mars, as it is hes just getting stoned on pills and funding whatever ideas pop into his head He hasn't even tried to stop the lawman from beating up the wrong guy.
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Apr 11, 2021 16:19
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Orange Devil posted:My engineer friends tell me humanity is going to need another planet and Musky is the best chance of getting one. It takes too long to explain why this is dumb soooo. this is what STEMlords actually believe lmao
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Apr 11, 2021 16:25
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they're not wrong - humanity needs another planet because assholes like them are going to do nothing to stop the destruction of this one. we, as a species, are incapable of saving our own asses. we have the worst global pandemic in a century and the usa is more worried about moderna and pfizer profit numbers than they are opening up patents so the world can get over this plague. the earth is hosed because of humans, and after we kill nearly everything on land and oceans it'll take a few million years for the cephalopods and crabs to take over all the land niches once held by vertebrates. the need for another planet for the human species to survive is 100% correct. they're wrong about thinking that anyone is getting us off of this rock let along an idiot like musk. we're dying on this rock.
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Apr 11, 2021 16:38
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there'a 100 billion planets in the galaxy but i got a really good feeling about Mars, literally the closest one to us
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Apr 11, 2021 16:44
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Accretionist posted:Maybe this 'Mars' business is cover-for-action? The trouble with Antarctica is that earth laws still apply. So you'd have to use paid adult labour. And consensual adult wives. These are deal-breakers to Captains of Industry. Also most of Mars has some sunlight year round, unlike Antarctica. But mostly it's the child abuse.
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Apr 11, 2021 16:46
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Mr. Nice! posted:they're not wrong - humanity needs another planet because assholes like them are going to do nothing to stop the destruction of this one. we, as a species, are incapable of saving our own asses. we have the worst global pandemic in a century and the usa is more worried about moderna and pfizer profit numbers than they are opening up patents so the world can get over this plague. Hey. The earth is hosed because of some humans, not all.
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Apr 11, 2021 16:48
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NYT: Amazon shoppers are the best way to hold Amazon accountable also - no, it's too hard for me to stop shopping at Amazon
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Apr 11, 2021 17:00
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actionjackson posted:NYT: Amazon shoppers are the best way to hold Amazon accountable Man I wish we could vote with something other than our wallets, oh well
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Biplane posted:Hey. The earth is hosed because of some humans, not all. #NotAllHumans
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Apr 11, 2021 17:11
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The Nastier Nate posted:there'a 100 billion planets in the galaxy but i got a really good feeling about Mars, literally the closest one to us Mercury is more frequently closer than Mars. https://www.livescience.com/65002-closest-planet-earth.html And even then, Venus is #2, Mars third.
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Apr 11, 2021 17:12
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I remember when voting with your wallet stopped Walmart 20 years ago
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Apr 11, 2021 17:18
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actionjackson posted:NYT: Amazon shoppers are the best way to hold Amazon accountable huh this sounds like a public good
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BonHair posted:#NotAllHumans Unironically this.
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Apr 11, 2021 17:19
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We can't even unfuck earth, what kind of absolute moron thinks we will ever terraform Mars? Science fiction is fun! It's also fictional.
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Apr 11, 2021 17:22
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Screaming Idiot posted:We can't even unfuck earth, what kind of absolute moron thinks we will ever terraform Mars? "Look if slamming nuke after nuke into Mars to kickstart terraforming is wrong, I don't want to be right"
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Apr 11, 2021 17:23
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Screaming Idiot posted:We can't even unfuck earth, what kind of absolute moron thinks we will ever terraform Mars? Most realistic outcome is we have two uninhabited planets, both heavily modified from their natural state.
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Apr 11, 2021 17:24
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actionjackson posted:NYT: Amazon shoppers are the best way to hold Amazon accountable cause of AWS to fully boycott amazon you'd basically have to give up the internet and live in a hut off the grid
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Apr 11, 2021 17:25
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Mercury is more frequently closer than Mars. If you want to go space dumb, Venus it's way closer to the sun and also basically made of greenhouse gases, sulphur and lava. And Mercury has no atmosphere, which means you either get cancer and boiled to death in two seconds or freeze to death.
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Apr 11, 2021 17:27
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Tiberius Christ posted:I remember when voting with your wallet stopped Walmart 20 years ago not shopping at Amazon is the only thing an individual could do, and there's no reason not to
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Apr 11, 2021 17:28
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Boycotting Amazon, and especially Walmart, requires you to pay way more for your stuff. Which is fine for bourgeois assholes like myself, but it's not like the average American is gonna pay double or triple for organic free range sourdough bread from local sources. Also, you're buying the exact same Chinese crap consumer products in Walmart, Amazon and the mom and pop store/local chain, except at different prices. Paying more for literally the same thing is hard for me, and I'm the guy paying 5x the price for coffee and flour for sustainability and quality.
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Apr 11, 2021 17:40
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BonHair posted:If you want to go space dumb, Venus it's way closer to the sun and also basically made of greenhouse gases, sulphur and lava. And Mercury has no atmosphere, which means you either get cancer and boiled to death in two seconds or freeze to death. It's actually not made of lava most of the time, it's just that periodically the entire surface breaks up and it turns into a giant lava ocean to release the built-up energy it can't get rid of otherwise because its plate tectonics stopped working billions of years ago.
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If you're capable of building completely self sufficient colonies in a low gravity environment without a meaningful biosphere and atmosphere and also constantly bombarded by space rays why'd you bother doing it on Mars 
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Apr 11, 2021 19:07
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Mars is the most famous planet other than Earth because of science fiction so it's optimal for targeting rubes to market himself, which is the primary reasoning behind everything Musk does.
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Apr 11, 2021 19:11
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Colonel Cancer posted:If you're capable of building completely self sufficient colonies in a low gravity environment without a meaningful biosphere and atmosphere and also constantly bombarded by space rays why'd you bother doing it on Mars I don't think we're capable of that either buddy
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Apr 11, 2021 19:20
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Yeah, lol at building a space colony down a loving gravity well. In terms of accessibility and practicality this is roughly the Earth equivalent of building a floating city in the sky and having the only way to access it be free-climbing up a 1km long rope with no knots in it.
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Apr 11, 2021 19:22
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Shame Boy posted:I don't think we're capable of that either buddy You don't say 
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Apr 11, 2021 19:24
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Spatial posted:Yeah, lol at building a space colony down a loving gravity well. Gym teachers have spent years looking for a justification as effective as “you use algebra every day when you go to the grocery store” and if we can give it to them then don’t we have an obligation to do so?
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Apr 11, 2021 19:28
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if we have the technology to terraform Mars to make it inhabitable by humans, it seems like we’d be much better off using it on earth to slightly adjust the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere down.
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Apr 11, 2021 19:31
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Hurt Whitey Maybe posted:if we have the technology to terraform Mars to make it inhabitable by humans, it seems like we’d be much better off using it on earth to slightly adjust the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere down. Yeah but then these billionaires don't get to build super villain bases on different planets Like Muskrat said, Mars doesn't have to follow Earth laws
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Apr 11, 2021 19:43
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I loving dare any of these nerds to build a supervillain base on South Pole or in the middle of a desert with 0 material interaction with the rest of humanity
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Apr 11, 2021 19:48
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Like hell Tesla plans to just indenture their whole working class on Mars because gently caress what are human rights? I've know a Muskrat fan who swears that will never happen because the various governments on Earth wouldn't let it happen and they'd stop it. And just no they won't stop it at all
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Apr 11, 2021 19:55
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Len posted:Like hell Tesla plans to just indenture their whole working class on Mars because gently caress what are human rights? They literally don't stop it on Earth what makes anyone think they'd stop it on Mars? What makes them think they'd even try to?
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The Oldest Man posted:They literally don't stop it on Earth what makes anyone think they'd stop it on Mars? What makes them think they'd even try to? He fully believes that capitalism is fine. I made the mistake of saying I'd like public transit in discord once and he went off on a tirade about how public transit is bad and garbage and shouldn't exist Well yes, we live in bumfuck, ohio. It's bad here because everything is spaced out and we don't fund the service to make it good. Just keep ignoring the guy from Columbus telling you that's not how the bus system works at all in a civilized place where people live
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Hurt Whitey Maybe posted:if we have the technology to terraform Mars to make it inhabitable by humans, it seems like we’d be much better off using it on earth to slightly adjust the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere down. I think the most "promising" plan for terraforming mars (lol) involves nuclear reactors melting the ice caps, so I don't know if applying the same thing to Earth would be a great idea.
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Apr 11, 2021 20:13
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BonHair posted:Boycotting Amazon, and especially Walmart, requires you to pay way more for your stuff. Which is fine for bourgeois assholes like myself, but it's not like the average American is gonna pay double or triple for organic free range sourdough bread from local sources. so you will simply always go wherever the price is the lowest, 100% regardless of that company's policies? I mean part of the reason they are the cheapest has to do with how they treat their employees. And things like "prime shipping" only exist because they continue to exert more and more pressure on them. I think people should boycott Amazon, but Americans buy a ton of poo poo every year they don't need, so I think people need to be shopping a lot less in general.
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Colonel Cancer posted:I loving dare any of these nerds to build a supervillain base on South Pole or in the middle of a desert with 0 material interaction with the rest of humanity P sure Thiel is trying exactly this with his funding of that stupid bitcoin seasteading pod community thing. Last update from that was "the prototype was impounded by the korean navy" or something.
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