Posted on 04/22/2015 3:51:02 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Today is Earth Day. The National Security Agency is celebrating by trying to help kids in Maryland schools up their recycling game.
How do they plan to get kids to care about recycling? The agency has decided to go with filling the kids with terror, by enlisting the help of a new environmental mascot.
Meet Dunk, the anthropomorphized recycling bin. And since he works at the NSA, you know he's been watching you.
What is it about this recycling bin that is so universally horrifying? (The Huffington Post, USA Today, Gizmodo, and other news outlets have all noted that Dunk's chief weapons appear to be surprise and fear, ruthless efficiency, and an almost fanatical devotion to trash.) Is it his nearly invisible eyebrows? Do his sad, world-weary eyes remind you of how green the Earth used to be? Is it the fact that he looks like a Clip Art Frankenstein assembled from Clippy, Bill Clinton's old running shorts, and the soul of the demon radiator from Home Alone?
Or is it something humans have not yet invented words to convey? It is hard to see how any child could avoid becoming a devoted steward of the Earth after watching this video of Dunk explaining trash auditing, an activity that has never inspired such emotion until this week.
This is not the first time the NSA has tried to reach out to kids with cartoons, although language analyst Rosetta Stone is not quite as memorable as her environmentally oriented replacement.
Hopefully this program is expanded nationwide, creating an entire generation of people worried about what will happen if they don't recycle. And if you see a child sprinting toward a blue plastic bin while screaming, you know who to thank.
That’s his uncle.
Almost something I’d expect to see in a South Park episode.
WHAT THE FLYING [BLEEP] IS THE NSA DOING WITH THIS NONSENSE? I guess all the threats to America are solved. Thank goodness the border is secure. Now we can tackle the real issues.
I thought the enessay connection was a joke.
Is it really involved in recycling?
Just doesn’t seem very likely.
Dunk is pointing to his, um, no-no square.
Has anyone checked the sex offender registry?
My wife and I try to recycle as much as we can. But we don’t need some governmental cartoonish troll nor the insidious feds telling us that we must.
NSA is like so many government agencies .... too much money and irresponsible morons willing to blow it on their personal fetishes.
I like it.
I try to make up for your mistakes. Curbside recycling, with the possible exception of aluminum is a net cost for any city. They can make money by burning the trash and turning it into fuel or landfills and capturing the methane. Recycling is mainly a feel good proposition.
Industrial recycling on the other hand can be worthwhile.
We do play their stupid game only because we get charged by the bag for trash and recycling is free. I will never use my water to wash out a can though. That’s their problem.
Sorry, forgot the sarcasm tag after the first sentence.
Whatever happened to Phil D. Basket?
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