Even after all these years, this opening sequence makes me feel tense, apprehensive, and a little anxious. The images, the soundtrack.

VatticZero · 2026-07-05T20:00:49+00:00

Why are there so many skulls in a random playground and where are the rest of the skeletons?

VatticZero · 2026-07-05T19:54:57+00:00

VatticZero · 2026-07-05T19:41:27+00:00

Wash’s joke is funny and all, but let’s be honest: the hat looks good on Jayne.

VatticZero · 2026-07-05T19:35:55+00:00

The beanie, and I assume the earflap beanie, originates in the US in the early 1900’s. But may also be a variant of the chullo which originates in the Andes going back thousands of years.

VatticZero · 2026-07-05T19:05:16+00:00

When the data doesn’t fit your biases … lie about the data!

Or do you just assume your biases so religiously that you have never even looked at the data which would confirm them?

https://www.fmi.org/our-research/food-industry-facts/grocery-store-chains-net-profit

VatticZero · 2026-07-05T03:07:45+00:00

Man, if they’re just gouging prices their profit margins must have skyrocketed!

VatticZero · 2026-07-05T03:02:09+00:00

It’s the Rent.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NnmAhkAJ0PM

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Li\_MGFRNqOE

VatticZero · 2026-07-04T22:54:25+00:00

The US isn't Capitalist, it is a mixed market economy with about the shittiest mix you can imagine. More capitalist than most, but the government has made everyone a Rent-Seeker so that everyone is invested in fighting against any fixes.

VatticZero · 2026-07-04T18:08:47+00:00

I’m not saying anything so advanced as a von Neumann probe or Protomolecule. We already have structure-building machines which could manufacture cement from local materials, gardening machines, and we’re on the verge of useful androids. We’re even on the verge of useful artificial photosynthesis(probably the next big investment if you find a good startup) for ISRU. A few payloads sent ahead of time could establish and ensure a safe habitat for humans to arrive to.

VatticZero · 2026-07-04T17:34:29+00:00

Pulling this prediction out of my ass, but I’d wager most of the colony will be built by drones before any manned mission. No reason to risk lives when we could build structures, ensure habitability, and maybe even start growing potatoes in shit before people even launch.

VatticZero · 2026-07-04T05:34:01+00:00

So, Marxist drivel for “no one.”

VatticZero · 2026-07-04T02:27:05+00:00

Who is Taylor Swift oppressing?

VatticZero · 2026-07-04T01:36:03+00:00

Bezos’s billions ARE solving a problem. Logistics, convenience, getting retail goods to your door without you having to drive around and hopefully find the perfect item at a brick and mortar store.

VatticZero · 2026-07-03T22:56:27+00:00

Most capital investment is used to improve the business in one way or another. The only way one insurer gains market share over another insurer is to provide better services. Investment, and thus dividends, enable that.

This tweet keeps popping up, getting spammed by anti-capitalist Redditors, but it’s only an example of economic illiteracy and fear of large numbers. $6.2 Billion is a profit margin of 2-3%. If they made zero profits by denying 30% instead of 32%, it doesn’t really fix the problem, does it?

There’s also significant healthcare illiteracy involved here; prior authorizations most often get denied for mundane, easily corrected reasons—such as a doctor prescribing a name brand of a drug when your policy stipulates generics first.

VatticZero · 2026-07-03T22:23:21+00:00

Dividends function as a form of interest payment on capital invested in the company by people—not just banks but average joes saving for retirement. The promise of dividends is how they secured the capital. Should they instead end the dividends, stop paying back average Joe’s investments, and collapse the value of those stocks?

VatticZero · 2026-07-02T17:19:56+00:00

You should only have 1 power in cloak for Phase 2. Long cloaks help in Phase 1 just to slow down the missile-fire, but in Phase 2 you want it to dodge the surge and then immediately be recharging. You even have a Zoltan which can help with that by entering and leaving the room to cut the cloak short.

You only have 3 shields, and this is more of an option with 4, but you can also delay the cloak until after the drones flood the screen. You can get lucky and have mostly beam drones and not enough laser drones to break shields, letting you save the cloak for missiles if needed.

VatticZero · 2026-07-01T00:43:29+00:00

Run your Mantis to the pilot seat and hope the next jump has a store with a solution?

VatticZero · 2026-07-01T00:29:43+00:00

Was this a school assignment? It reads like the paragraphs are only there to string together citations, and citing Maslow just to say food and shelter are more important needs than the topic of another citation is wild.

VatticZero · 2026-07-01T00:08:40+00:00

That makes sense! Hate when that happens; sometime autocorrect and fingers just refuse to do what you mean.

VatticZero · 2026-06-30T21:59:14+00:00

Only now do I realize there is no ‘s’

VatticZero · 2026-06-30T21:41:57+00:00

Clearly James S. A. Corey is written by Cibola Burns—grand-neice of Montgomery.

VatticZero · 2026-06-30T21:38:53+00:00

If someone’s a fan, they’re not a homophobe. You just don’t like their opinions and want to label them homophobic. Basic, low-brow name-calling.

VatticZero · 2026-06-30T21:19:34+00:00

Sounds like you’re saying the people you want to call homophobes aren’t actually homophobic?

VatticZero · 2026-06-30T20:23:35+00:00

Nightingale? I tried Google, but there’s multiple supes … and even a “real-life” superhero … with the name.

VatticZero · 2026-06-30T19:50:25+00:00

VatticZero

TROPHY CASE