17 points bookofjoe 23 hours ago 14 comments
bookofjoe 23 hours ago | parent
xattt 1 hour ago | parent
Is the title a take on the Neuromancer intro?
karmakurtisaani 42 minutes ago | parent
I hate this "War on X" rhetoric. They're not going to bomb the ocean or send troops to shoot it, so why make it sound like it? Just say what they're actually going to do about it.
baxtr 35 minutes ago | parent
They’re gonna kill the entire ocean and conquer it in its entirety. Any resistance by the ocean will be futile!
chao- 31 minutes ago | parent
Perhaps if they demonstrate a decisive victory over the forces of one Seaweed Lord, and they offer reasonable terms to the rest, they can win their vassalage without further bloodshed?
vconnor 27 minutes ago | parent
Whoever's dubbed it so doesn't know it's a quixotic effort they'll never win, just like the War on Drugs and the War on Terror.
A strange case of nominative determinism.
jannyfer 4 minutes ago | parent
In the article they did send the navy.
DotNetCorePowa 2 minutes ago | parent
When the only thing you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail...
glimshe 2 minutes ago | parent
If the US was doing it, we'd only need a Little Excursion against Seaweed!
daneel_w 1 minute ago | parent
Can this particular weed be eaten as-is, by human or animal, or is it known to e.g. be toxic or full of waste? Because it seems to me rather beneficial that the ocean washes it up on the shoreline ready for pick-up.