What If It Breaks? The landill economy
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UPDATED: Saturday, April 25, 2026 22:44
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Originally posted by THG:
All 6’s posts show a lack of critical thinking skills. All his posts show he doesn’t possess background information beyond that which allows for anything but an emotional knee jerk response. Nor does he post any comments that show he possesses knowledge of a topic beyond knowing the name of the topic.
His posts are on par with a 13 year old bully. Apparently, for unknown reasons along with his alcohol consumption, his mental growth was stunted at that age. Which means what? It means he is a troll and nothing else. Clearly his alcohol consumption has deteriorated his brain. Lord knows we’ve suffered through years of his active drinking. Only he knows if he is still sober, but I believe that is in doubt. It’s unfortunate he staggered onto our firefly site.
Coming from somebody who wasn't just putting their own inferiority on blast with their post, this might be an insult.
Instead, it's just one more reason to laugh at you, Ted.
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What are graves, other than part of the landfill economy?
Here are a few words from a sci-fi story by Brian Aldiss about Human Obsolescence. It hints at the wrongness of repairing the old rather than replacing them with new.
Tu Fu was withered even then. Yet his words, and the spaces between his words, will never wither. As a person, Tu Fu was the most civilised and amusing man I ever met, which explains my long stay in that epoch. Ever since then, I have wondered whether the art of being amusing, with its implied detachment from self, is not one of the most undervalued requisites of human civilization. In many epochs, being amusing is equated with triviality. The human race rarely understood what was important; but Tu Fu understood.
Although the sage was ill, and little more than a bag of bones, he desired to visit White King again before he died.
"Though I fear that the mere apparition of my skinny self at a place named White King,” he said, "may be sufficient for that apparition, the White Knight, to make his last move on me.”
It is true that white is the Chinese colour of mourning, but I wondered if a pun could prod the spirits into action; were they so sensitive to words?
"What can a spirit digest but words?” Tu Fu replied. "I don’t entertain the idea that spirits can eat or drink — though one hears of them whining at keyholes. They are forced to lead a tediously spiritual life.” He chuckled.
This was even pronounced with spirit, for poor Tu Fu had recently been forced to give up drinking. When I mentioned that sort of spirit, he said "Yes, I linger on life’s balcony, ill and alone, and must not drink for fear I fall off.”
Here again, I sensed that his remark was detached and not self-pitying, as some might construe it; his compassion was with all who aged and who faced death before they were ready — although, as Tu Fu himself remarked, "If we were not forced to go until we were ready, the world would be mountain-deep with the ill-prepared.” I could but laugh at his turn of phrase.
- The Small Stones of Tu Fu by Brian Aldiss continues at
https://archive.org/stream/Asimovs_v02n02_1978-03-04/Asimovs_v02n02_19
78-03-04_djvu.txt
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Are you trying to make a spiritual argument for throwing non-biodegradable shit in landfills because you're too lazy to fix things?
Recently, I helped a friend haul a cargo van worth of shit to the dump, where they'd weigh your vehicle before and after you dropped the shit on the ground for them to bulldoze and charge you by the ton.
Garbage as far as the eye could see.
I saw a lot of old cabinetry in there. Built like tanks like they did in the old days... not that pressed wood shit that people pay upwards of $20k+ for today.
Like the ones I have in my house. The ones that look better and are a hell of a lot sturdier than any of the shit people buy today to replace the old ones because they're too lazy to do it.
Whenever possible, I try to keep whatever I can out of a landfill.
Maybe that's a hidden luxury I have for living the life that I do. Not only am I walking the walk when it comes to having a low carbon footprint, but it makes financial sense for me to do so as well.
When rich white Democrats are faced with this decision, it is financially a no-brainer to pay somebody else to gut their house and replace it with new garbage.
I've also only put an average of less than 2,500 miles on my car in the 14 years that I've owned it (and done my own work to keep it from being scrapped). 40% of those miles were from the first 4 years, with the other 60% being in the last 10 years.
Unfortunately, unlike rich white Democrats who can offset Democrat's high gas prices, I can't further minimize the amount of driving that I do. I don't go on trips, I don't joy ride, and I already bundle necessary driving as efficiently as possible, going so far as to write down all the places that I'm going and making sure that it's as many possible right turns with the shortest possible distance traveled.
Fortunately, I fill my tank so infrequently that the extra money I have to pay for Democrats high gas prices isn't going to hurt me like it hurts most of the working class who is getting stuck with the bill for Democrats being in power.
Until I pumped $4.25 worth of gas in my tank last week, the last two times I used the pump it was $3.18 and $2.38 before that.
Meanwhile, Joe* decides that right now, while gas is more expensive than it's ever been in America.... NOW is the time that everyone has to stop telecommuting to work and they should get in their cars and fill up our empty and dangerous Democrat-ran shitholes we call our big cities.
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