Solution: Rocket propelled guillotines
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More cost effective solution: space (verb) billionaires (noun)
They are carbon-negative.
This sounds like giant flying cigar cutters to me.
50lb neodymium magnets. They'll destroy themselves colliding again each other. But we can use the heads of the wealthy to stop it. Even in zero g.
So many unwanted memories
Okay am I dumb, or did I miss something. I've seen the race car guys around a bunch but I don't get why they are here, please help
I would also like to know why Dale Earnhardt is in so many maymays lately.
Seems like a niche initiative to use right wing, working class idols to promote socialist ideals. My guess is the intent is the target market is more likely to read the meme and view it in a positive manner when paired with someone they respect instead of, say, Einstein or MLK Jr.
I assumed it was to sarcastically "twist" there idols. Kind of like the "Jesus being a dick" memes.
Supply side Jesus!
Originated with a face book page "the ol' ghost of dale earnhardt" supposedly. Some guy trying to turn dale into a progressive icon.
I asked this a little while back (and posted this previously), so I'll pass along the answer: because Nascar is typically not associated with these leftist political leanings, and by association of new ideas with familiar imagery you might gently help someone become more open to considering these notions in good faith instead of a knee jerk reaction against it.
It's honestly pretty clever, and if it helps these ideas find new homes in communities they weren't always welcome in then I'd say it's worth it.
I think it’s the irony. A photo of a guy who drives around an oval for a living criticizing capitalism is an unusual choice.
Nah man a couple springs and a crank and you got yourself a bonafide space rated head separation apparatus.
I'm no fan of the French Revolution, which just opened things up for Emperor Napoleon to take the reins and conquer most of Europe, and even take a crack at fighting the Russian winter with a bunch of guys that didn't deserve to freeze to death...
But this one was pretty funny anyway. lol
They're so obsessed with buying up as much land as possible, I say we send them hurtling toward it from space, so they can become one with that which they love so much!
Real talk, they know there's enough mineral wealth in the asteroid belt that even some of it could make either A) everyone effectively rich or B) everyone a slave to their massive wealth forever. They're voting with their rockets.
It's B, the more money we have the less power they have over us.
Like mana from heaven!
That plus the land grab that always happens when a new unsettled area is colonized. Yeah the moon is a horrible place to live, but if you get a parcel of land for free, and a place to live safely there, I bet a lot of people would be tempted.
Nah that's too lofty for them, i think in a just world they would have to produce labor like the rest of us, death and space is too kind a fate. (Not that labor is bad, but they think its a fate worse than death)
The enemy's neck is down!
A log splitter will work just as well.
Start at the crotch.
I mean, if they’re already going to space voluntarily, wouldn’t that solve the billionaire problem?
Except they won't go today or tomorrow. They'll stay here to finish the job of destroying our planet, then go.
And take all things valuable with them.
Why can’t I just swing a blade around?
Narrator: They don't.
Space billionaires would be much more fun than guillotine billionaires
Shout out Dale
Please stop saying gravity when you mean G forces. There is nowhere in our known universe where gravity isn’t a factor. The reason you can experience 0 G forces in orbit is BECAUSE of gravity. You’re free falling to earth constantly because it’s pulling you in.
0G’s is what you need want to say. Also microgravity is appropriate because it’s “low apparent gravitational forces.”
You're fun at parties
I am! Being a nerd is fun.
It's honestly disrespectful to assume people don't already understand this. And that they aren't simply using a commonly understood shorthand to convey a simple idea. It's not a failure of their intelligence but rather of your ability to give people the grace they need to communicate an idea
I didn’t degrade intelligence, just asking if we can stop using because it doesn’t help others who aren’t in the science space. I’m saying this in an open forum. Many people that say it do not understand this. They think that gravity is just absent. I was giving some context to help others.
Hope this helps others! :)