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Hey so what are those\u2026 metal-caged white plastic cubes(?) called, that off-gridders use for fluid storage these days?

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About 3-4ft on a side, kinda debuted in the sandbox wars, maybe related to those metal-caged fabric sacks that a front-end loader can fill with rocks & dirt to create defensive terrain faster than sandbags?

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\u201cIntermediate Bulk Container\u201d (that name\u2019s not gonna stick) / \u201cPallet Tank\u201d (unless there\u2019s snappier wartime slang, that will)

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IBC, done.

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Or\u00a0\u201cTote\u201d I guess.

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oh jeez OH JEEZ

KNOW WHAT I JUST REALIZED

know how between Alien and Aliens, First Blood begat Rambo, so the second xenomorph movie came out as part of the \u2018Nam revisionist (i.e. \u201cthere was a way to win\u2026\u201d) wave

So after all the projected-forward squad tactics, undermounted grenade launchers/flamethrowers, the remote-controlled turret that\u2019s clearly based on Stoner systems (after they refuse Ripley\u2019s MacArthur-in-Korea suggestion to nuke it all from orbit)

the final battle in the exosuit

that was the future projection of the Vietnam REMF-ass logistics experience of warehouse/carrier-deck forklifts

And now it\u2019s the future and instead of that we\u2019re just further along on reworking our material environment to be shaped better for a forklift

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