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posted by Fnord666 on Friday November 23 2018, @12:04PM   Printer-friendly
from the seems-fishy-to-me dept.

ArsTechnica:

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?


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  • (Score: 1, Disagree) by khallow on Friday November 23 2018, @02:36PM (2 children)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Friday November 23 2018, @02:36PM (#765533) Journal

    Yeah, there's no reason not to cut forests, they do nothing anyway.

    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.

    'Cayse, see, the environment holds infinite resources and will always care for the human species.

    As long as the Sun continues to shine, we have enough resources for humanity at its current size.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 23 2018, @09:26PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 23 2018, @09:26PM (#765681)

    As long as the Sun continues to shine...

    And warms that sand you keep your head in.

    we have enough resources for humanity at its current size.

    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

      by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Saturday November 24 2018, @07:24AM (#765836) Journal

      Here's an idea: stop discarding your garbage for a few months from your home.

      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.