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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by UlyssesT@hexbear.net to c/the_dunk_tank@hexbear.net

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

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[-] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net 20 points 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.

Liberalism? In MY Hexbear? shocked-pikachu

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 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@hexbear.net 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 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@hexbear.net 16 points 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@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 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@hexbear.net 12 points 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@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 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@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

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

[-] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 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@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago

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

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[-] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net 10 points 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@hexbear.net 9 points 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.

[-] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I am the post, Randy

[-] carpoftruth@hexbear.net 5 points 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

[-] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

But then I would have to just do work shit the whole time and that would be un-hexbear-able

[-] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Whitey's on the moon came out how long ago? Pretty simple refutation of the whole idea imho

https://youtu.be/goh2x_G0ct4

[-] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Second reply, currently got "Whitey On The Moon" at a lot of decibels

no hot water no toilets no lights, but whiteys on the moon

edit: how come I aint got no money here, hmm whiteys on the moon

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago

Second reply, currently got "Whitey On The Moon" at a lot of decibels

Whitey on the Moon used to really piss off "I FUCKING LOVE SCIENCE" Redditors to the point of many Youtube listings of it eventually shutting off comments.

Really vile cryptofascist shit too, like "enjoy your mud huts while we bring the light of consciousness to the stars." cryptofascist us-foreign-policy

[-] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

enjoy your mudhuts

I hate crakkkers and this type of racist fuckery. Europeans developed immunity to illnesses because they slept in pig shit in actual mud huts while throwing sewage into the streets outside their home that contaminated the drinking water. Like everywhere else on the planet figured out bathing and hygiene, but whites just wallowed around in actual feces. The Romans thought Brits, French, Germans, and everyone else in northwestern Europe were disgusting.

Here we are, centuries later, and their descendants have the audacity to attack other cultures' infrastructure. A lot of the time, it was Europeans who destroyed everything. It's really easy for them to focus on space when they stole everyone else's shit.

[-] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

a rat done bit my sister nell, but whitey's on the moon

soypoint-1 SPACEX DID A LAUNCH soypoint-2

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago

I hate when I hear the key-jingling kayfabe from people, including on Hexbear, where they start talking about the unquestionable magic of reusable rockets or "the mission" or whatever to shut out any and all dissent against the space treats. not-listening

Someone got really pissed in the past when I called a preoccupation with rocketry no matter its expense or its mistaken resource priority as space treats. Fuck that. It's space treats, especially when it's performative bullshit to get people clapping like seals, like that car commercial in space a few years back.

Yes, there were fucking "the mission" excuses for that too, like "it was just a test payload, it could have been anything, why do you hate science?" morshupls

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[-] quarrk@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago

I was absolutely this kind scientism enjoyer. When I was a teenager. Then I realized that the better world it promised is not possible under capitalism, it requires communism. Advanced technology is a necessary but insufficient condition for that kind of world. The social order matters too.

[-] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

What a great fucking track that really gets to the heart of the issue, thanks. I haven't listened to it in a long time, gonna spin up my Gil Scott-Heron flacs tonight

[-] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

If you want another song critiquing the corruption of science, check out DLZ by TV On The Radio. I've already linked it somewhere in this thread.

[-] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago

Oh I'm jamming that now, got it on my deep storage

[-] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The whole album is a highlight, at a time in the mid to late 2000s when music labels were pushing a certain sound and aesthetic on bands (trying to turn everyone into some MCR pop punk scene clone, no hate to MCR I still enjoy their music, just hate towards the big labels), and TV On The Radio decide to do something completely different and drop one of the best albums of the decade.

[-] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

It seems like there's some kind of lib backlash against TV on the Radio, I don't get it because when I see criticisms I just close the tab

My dudes were cooking the whole-ass time and no notes

[-] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Well you see the band criticized US policy on Israel and bailing out the banks in their songs, called out assimilation, and talked about making an album about killing Nazis, and that's just too far for the libs.

But yeah they were cooking up something good, but they were just ahead of the times so they never got the level of fame they should have.

To arrive ahead of its time
Is the fate of the fish washed up on shore

[-] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

Their Sahel collabs are very good

[-] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

Again replying with a link I am sure you have heard but other hexcubs might not have: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2B8wIOIeO8

fuckin love all these people

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[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Seen that too, sounded kinda like wehraboo praising engineers of "superior german steel"

[-] BynarsAreOk@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

You took one guy who wrote a comment about how the engineers did great work despite working for a fucking ghoul and you're now here spinning a story about how the thread is Elon stanning, its hilarious, if only people could actualy go and read those comments.

[-] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago

No, I took the aghast replies to me not being shocked and impressed by Spacex as Elon stanning, and people should absolutely go read that thread. Elon sucks and his companies do too and anybody who likes them is a chump.

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