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We're just one month away from the release of Director James Wan's Aquaman, the first full-length feature film centered around Jason Momoa's Justice League superhero. Now the final trailer has dropped, with all the magical tridents, warrior princesses, and epic CGI battles you'd expect from a superhero movie about averting a mythological war between two very different worlds.
Aquaman first entered the DC Comics universe in a 1941 anthology and later turned into a solo comic book series. He was a founding member of the Justice League during the "Silver Age" of the 1950s and 1960s. But he was never among the most compelling superheroes in the DC stable, often serving as the butt of jokes because of his supposedly inferior super powers. Hey, telepathically communicating with fish is cool, right?
Prediction: Scenes full of pathos over dolphins caught in fishing nets, and outrage over the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. What other important lessons will Aquaman have to teach us?
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday November 23 2018, @12:26PM (14 children)
If even now you can't perceive the lesson of Marvel, Warner, Disney etc are keeping you infantile and satisfied only to take your money and make you spend on impulse, they succeeded in keeping you infantile and satisfied.
As such, the garbage patch and dolphins will stay as they were, the next action of a satisfied and infantile person is to go to a comicon and spend some more money.
Because, see, you need a superhero to keep the oceans clean, the consumers are just that, consumers; they can do nothing but eat the popcorn and dispose of the (plastic lined) bucket and soda cup... which are not recycled, because the cost of separating the plastic lining from the cellulose is too high.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 23 2018, @12:54PM
not to mention all the vitamin (D)eficiency marvel and dc inflicted by keeping youngsters indoors reading comics instead of starting their own drug dealing business on the street and increasing teen pregnancy rates...
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday November 23 2018, @01:59PM (6 children)
It would help, if there were ever a reason to recycle cellulose beyond virtue signaling.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday November 23 2018, @02:16PM (3 children)
Yeah, there's no reason not to cut forests, they do nothing anyway.
After all, we made the sacrifice of stopping reading printed books, we deserve now the reward to throw cellulose and plastic in the environment.
'Cayse, see, the environment holds infinite resources and will always care for the human species.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1, Disagree) by khallow on Friday November 23 2018, @02:36PM (2 children)
To the contrary, forests do something - they grow back. You're advocating recycling an easily renewable resource which just isn't worth that much as a material.
As long as the Sun continues to shine, we have enough resources for humanity at its current size.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 23 2018, @09:26PM (1 child)
And warms that sand you keep your head in.
Here's an idea: stop discarding your garbage for a few months from your home. You'll have enough resources from the occupier, but I wouldn't want to live there.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday November 24 2018, @07:24AM
Such an onerous and filthy exercise would have no relevance to the discussion and you can rest assured I will not do it. As you have already noted ("I wouldn't want to live there"), it's a menace to leave trash lying about. That's why we don't keep it in the home or workplace in the first place. My point is pretty damn obvious. Nobody recycles paper or cardboard into anything of high value. At best, it's just more cheap paper products just like the original stuff.
And landfill space is pretty damn cheap even if you have to export it halfway across the world or deorbit it from space. There is no situation where it ever makes sense to waste the time of the people sorting this trash, and then supporting the extensive recycling chain that is needed to handle this waste stream and turn into something of modest value. I've heard all the supposed edge cases. It doesn't matter if it's Hong Kong, the Ruhr, Tuvalu, or the International Space Station.
This is a common environmentalist foible. To decide that some bit of signalling is virtuous in the absence of consideration of actual harm. Here, it's actually worse than just throwing the paper away. For example, wasting peoples' time is an environmental harm because it means they have to consume more resources to compensate for that loss of time and they have less available time to better their own lives.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 23 2018, @04:00PM (1 child)
I look at it in the same way I look at buckling a seat-belt or using the turn signal on your car even when you're the only person on the road at that time of morning: If you do it every time, it becomes habit and you don't have to worry about forgetting to do it when it really is a life-or-death situation.
Virtue signaling is an empty shell which won't keep you from slipping up when it counts. Good habits prevent bigger problems down the road.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday November 24 2018, @07:25AM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 23 2018, @02:28PM
To be fair, Disney does donate to the causes you mention, including STEM Education.
But again to be fair, they donate to LOTS of political stuff too
https://www.orlandoweekly.com/Blogs/archives/2018/06/13/disney-donates-to-almost-everyone-including-nearly-1-million-to-proud-nra-sellout-adam-putnam [orlandoweekly.com]
(Score: 4, Insightful) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Friday November 23 2018, @03:01PM
Also, I would say Disney are at highly culpable in the production of countless of tons of worthless branded landfill fodder that is manufactured in China only to be shipped halfway round the world, dropped into a bag with a fast food order and then discarded within hours.
I mean seriously, would the world really be any worse off without happy meal toys?
(Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Friday November 23 2018, @05:58PM (1 child)
So... what? People only go and watch these movies because they only think they're being entertained, but they're not? How does that work?
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday November 23 2018, @09:20PM
Creating an addiction to entertainment would be one way.
See here [soylentnews.org].
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 23 2018, @06:17PM (1 child)
I couldn't make it to the end of the trailer. I'm more curious about the people who like this stuff. That might make an interesting film.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday November 23 2018, @09:15PM
Try "The men who made us spend" [bbc.co.uk]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford