We have standards and keep away from mob justice, public shaming, the death penalty and indentured servitude slavery.

Gee, I wonder how ya’ll got those vaunted standards. Weird. Could have been just about anything, couldn’t it.

Seriously, the US has a lot of our own shit to get together, but lets not throw too many stones over the moral superiority of european countries either. Especially right now, in the face of the growing influence of far-right parties across the, ahem, “civilized” world. The US is a whole omnibus of cautionary tales right now, it might be worth hearing one or two of them out instead of going directly to “unbelievable cliche”.

… seven toes??

Fun background info: Trusted Representatives don’t actually carry their shard of the key (to prevent exactly this scenario), they have (iirc) a keycard which allows them to access the secure storage medium where their different pieces are stored.

“Upright and conscious” is my goto response to casual questions. I also preference almost every sentence with some modulation of “Yeah”, meaning everything from “Yeah, I agree wholeheartedly” to “Yeah, bro you sure you wanna do this?” to “yeahh so the cops are here and I told you so”"

Pretty much, I’ve had mama cats try to take care of everything from puppies to fledgling birds, and they will defend them to the death. Very cute.

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Have you noticed that your arguments in opposition to nuclear power appear to be entirely rooted in bureaucratic failure?

And these are just pet peeves, but why are we measuring nuclear waste — something famous for being made of the heaviest materials possible — in tonnes? Wouldn’t a much better metric for difficulty-of-storage be the volume? I know the reason is that it would be devastating to the argument against nuclear power when compared to the size of, say, a football/soccer pitch, but it’s still deeply irritating. Also, there are grades of nuclear waste. There is much less TRU/HLW waste than there is Class A, which is predictably never ever mentioned in poorly researched anti-nuclear propaganda articles like this.

(I almost forgot to mention this one, but the majority of nuclear waste is produced by the Nuclear Stewardship Program not commercial nuclear power plants. I think we can all agree that nuclear weapons are awful, and if we want to stop the production of nuclear waste we’d have to get rid of them as well, an unlikely condition but one I’d be very happy to see realized)

At the risk of retreating to easy retorts, I think most of the answers here can be boiled down to “the extensive efforts of petrochemical companies to suppress every competing technology”. It’s the same reason we’ve had PV or molten salt solar plants for years, but have never extensively pursued them* as a country.

Oh boy. The breakdown is:

Takes too long to build
Expensive
Weapons proliferation
Meltdown
Lung cancer risk to miners
Construction/Operation emits carbon
Nuclear waste

This is… really not great reporting. There are concerns with nuclear power but these aren’t them. I mean, national weapons proliferation? That’s really not a concern with modern reactor tech, and they should know that. The article ignores the last 50 years of advancement in reactor design to present their arguments, and that really undermines their credibility.

Really, anything from the Game Canon is a good choice: Mario, Doom, Tetris, SimCity, Civ I, Warcraft, SpaceWar, Zork, that soccer game I don’t remember, StarRaiders.

I haven’t seen anyone mention Zork yet, and it really ought to be in contention here. Pretty much all video games can trace how their narrative is structured through gameplay back to the foundations laid by Zork, even doom. It drew on Colossus, sure, but it built on it so much that it became revolutionary to both games as a storytelling medium and to natural language processing. Really cool stuff.

Buddy the only other high profile guy to recently get done for shit like this was Epstein, maybe don’t make toooo much noise about justice not being served here…

"Well the USA did it, too! has got to be the worst justification, for anything, that I have ever heard.

“… they need to fix the problem quickly, and after some political dicking around this is the only option they’re left with?”

Allright well we seem to have the Americans warming up to perform their hit number “WE TOLD YOU SO” lets see if it changes from the last fifty times we’ve heard it…

Or psych students feel about CBT…

It’s pretty widely regarded as a slur at this point.

retards

You can’t say that, that’s our word.

What can you do but laugh, man. It took what, a few hours for them to remember what happened to Tumblr and try to walk this back? God, can’t even commit to licking boots…

So your complaint is that it’s really difficult for unknown users, unfamiliar with the rules and conventions, to make edits to wikipedia? Gotta be honest that sounds… like not exactly the worst situation for it to be in.

My first thought, too. Its almost identical to the image from wikipedia’s article on petzval lenses, even.