Yes, you got the reference. =P

...It's finally come to this.

...everyone is acting like their side is the good guys and the other side is the bad guys, when it increasingly seems like it's the bad guys vs. the bad guys.

It's like being a Ukranian in 1941 and having to choose between fighting for Germany or Russia.

The rabies virus and the ebola virus aren't even in the same taxonomic family. It's like worrying that humans might start cross breeding with rats because they're both plesiadapiformes.

YOU FAIL BIOLOGY FOREVER.

Most carriers don't count wifi usage against the data cap, so this seems a bit paranoid.

Yes, but the city generally isn't collecting the trash itself. It's just bidding it out to a contractor anyways (e.g. Seattle contracts with Waste Managent and Cleanscapes), so you get all the contractor overhead anyways, plus the government overhead on top of it.

...because Android users don't all wear hipster skinny jeans.

Which is what makes it so weird. Since you end up paying for it anyways, why not just contract with a commercial trash hauler directly rather than paying a huge administrative overhead for a bunch of municipal employees to do it?

I always find it kind of weird that people who live in cities expect the government to collect the trash to begin with.

What makes you think I don't consider myself one of the "feeble, ineffectual, even pathetic" already?

We are no longer remembered as vibrant and engaged but as feeble, ineffectual, even pathetic

Not everyone is a director level excutive at a major organization. For a huge chunk of the population, feeble, ineffectual, even pathetic is basically their entire life. If that life isn't worth living, then probably most lives aren't worth living.

Bengie is a good little volk and would never dream of doing anything without the prior approval of his superiors.

You pick up astronomy with Archimede's lever, duh!

On the other hand, you could argue that since the middle aged parent has much less productive life remaining, letting them die reduces the oppurtunity costs to society vs. letting the teenager die.