Yes, and we do.

I doubt a nuclear war would have killed as many people as the mass extinction event will. Hiroshima was rebuilt and repopulated in decades, while the entire tropics will become uninhabitable for millions of years.

Plus there’s a good chance we’ll have climate crisis and nuclear war.

If you hold the UN responsible for the stability of the past 80 years, you must therefore hold them responsible for its consequence of global industrialization and therefore you must blame them its consequence, the mass extinction of most life on earth, including a majority of humanity.

I mean, the world is going up in flames. That is a pretty big thing that is happening. Those 5 countries and their mutual defensive pact allies are responsible for a majority of global emissions that are heating the planet to the point of uninhabitability.

Billions of people will die violently, for a large part because if the UN-mediated stability of capitalist global trade and its unlimited industrial capacity to make the planet uninhabitable.

The UN with its veto system has effectively prevented non-permanent UNSC member nations from coming to binding agreements and pushing them on the privileged few. 6 billion people from across the world matter less than 70 million British people, even though India and Pakistan both have nukes too.

On the other hand toxic right wing misinformation? That can go fuck itself

That’s what they said, “right wing content”.

The only measure by which “we need police to protect people from criminals” is less toxic than “we need to stop migration to preserve the white race” is how palatable it is to centrists. Both promote causing harm to millions of people while pretending to be necessary for the safety of you and me, tricking people into supporting egregious violence against vulnerable minorities.

I’m not your mom, I can’t tell you how to resolve your cognitive dissonance, but the boundary you’re proposing is merely a popularity contest.

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This is a reference to the 2007 (i.e. almost 19 year old) first person shooter game Bioshock, in which the player could capture ‘little girl’ NPCs as optional collectibles. Whenever the player did, the player character would hold the NPC in a similar way as the kitten is being held in this image, with the option between harvesting the little girl’s life force for in-game benefit killing her in the process, or rescuing her from the biochemical brainwashing she had been put through with minor material gain.

The humble saxifrage:

God, I wish.

I hate in courtrooms when the prosecutor produces a witness and everyone has to wait nine months.

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The reigning diarchs of Albester are King Chiapos IV and Monarch Hel I

In the United States, five hundred spiders have a brain aneurysm every hour

Different sentences are made up in different ways

If you take the Nazis to be incompetent rather than malicious, then you’re going to assume their officially published plan to make a Zionist homeland for Jews in Madagascar was made in good faith, and the timing with the British naval blockade because of the invasion of Poland was unfortunate happenstance.

Never attribute to malice what incompetence can explain

It’s so sad that the Nazis wanted to give Jews a Zionist homeland but had made so many political enemies they couldn’t help them emigrate them anymore… And then those disease outbreaks in the holding camps, whew, that was some bad civil engineering. And when they installed the delousing showers they should really have fired the guy that made the delousing gas release valve dump too much into a closed space, but that’s the for of war for ya.

Malice exists, and people like making excuses for themselves. That quote, even in its original form, has never been good advice.

And kock rhymes with cock

God forbid a woman doesn’t want to hang out with you.

(repeat for all women until no woman wants to hang out with you)

Base rate’s a bitch.

How fast space expands is described by general relativity. For the space between atoms to expand faster than the speed of light, you need a shitload of energy crammed together very densely, like a galaxy worth of stuff in every atom. This is called cosmic inflation, and it’s what happened during (and possibly before) the first part of the big bang.

We don’t know exactly how there can be this much energy in this little space, or where it all went, but we do know it was there because there are waves imprinted on the density of the universe.

This is actually the Volkswagen factory in Wolfsburg. It was built by the Nazis in the 1930s.

Imagine doing useful work because there is work to be done. Now imagine having more people to do that useful work with so more work gets done.

Capitalism is fucking stupid.

When were LLMs invented for good?

Also how about vaccines? Hand soap? Photography? Water purification plants? Solar panels?

What is a monotonic decrease?

(did i answer your Jeopardy prompt correctly?)

Because of their effect, their media positioning, and their cost. These monuments are from the 20th century, when clean alternatives were more expensive and less efficient, so the defunding of nuclear directly fed into increased fossil fuel consumption. And thus into increased pollution, climate change, war, and airborne radioactive waste. Any activist could have seen this.

As for media positioning, it is always very clear whether corporate media support or oppose a cause. Climate activists are disruptive weirdos that get arrested while people whose lives they slightly inconvenienced are interviewed over shots of backed up traffic or a wide-angle shot of a handful of activists amidst a lot of context. Anti-nuclear activists are concerned citizens who get interviewed to low crowd shots that show even small groups as a throng, or lower-middle class moms and pops interviewed at home about their worries for their kids’ health, cut with ominous shots of drinkwater-safe water vapor coming from cooling towers.

As for cost, first there’s the monuments themselves. Grassroots activism tends to have lots of people with hodgepodge equipment, while astroturfing has fancy tools and either a handful of people to operate them or contractors. These monuments are massive projects built by contractors designed by handfuls of individuals. It fits the pattern.

Second, there’s all of the expensive storage. No capitalist government is going to waste millions of dollars listening to their people’s objectively excessive safety concerns, unless it directly benefits the rich people they have made corrupt deals with. Nuclear safety laws were designed to keep nuclear power more expensive than fossil fuels, because if the safety standards were reasonable then it would blow fossil fuels out of the water and threaten the justification for funding the military-industrial complex.

Even now, a quarter of the way through the 21st century, if nuclear power safety standards were reduced merely to those of wind turbines and solar panels - where people regularly die from falling, electrical fires, electrocution, etc. - nuclear power would probably be cheaper than renewables.