I rewatched The Martian and totally forgot how optimistic this movie is about technology, America, and international relations sadness-abysmal

when this movie came out in 2015 my little liberal ass loved it. i still believed in a future.

we dont even have bazinga mars nerds anymore just different flavors of “i wont eat the bugs” all clawing at each other to climb out of a pit rapidly filling with water

xi i will scrub toilets please give me a K visa agony-soviet

  • someone [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    19 hours ago

    still got a SpaceX shirt in my closet. I think I got it over ten years ago. reminds me of where I was at.

    Ten years ago I think is an acceptable statute of limitations on that. Back then, SpaceX leadership hadn’t gone fascist, and the fight in the launch industry was about advanced tech from an underdog group with zero military ties versus the military-industrial complex like Boeing and Lockheed-Martin. Now of course everything is different but I wouldn’t feel bad about having acquired that shirt then.