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  • Okay, I’ll admit I was being a facetious when I said nuclear explosion.

    That being said, it’s still a non-renewable energy source that produces incredibly toxic waste that lasts tens of thousands of years that nobody wants to keep or store nor has any way of effectively making safe except storing it in bunkers underground for tens of thousands of years, which is stupid, impractical, short-sighted at best and incredibly dangerous at worst.

    Also, Absolutely nobody wants to live near a nuclear power plant. Why bother having them take up room if you can’t live or farm near them.

    Why leave the means of production in the hands of capitalist scum that will ask for billions to keep the plants maintained on top of the energy tarrifs we pay, only keep the money, and still let the facilities crumble, when I can just install solar panels in my own house and not pay for any electricity? Sounds kinda dumb to go for nuclear at that point.

    I can’t confirm if it’s the most energy dense, but even if that’s true, it can still trigger meltdowns that leave kilometer-wide radii of uninhabitable radioactivity dead-zones like around Chernobyl.

    As far as I’m concerned, anybody still promoting this technology is so deeply entrenched in their own self- aggrandizement because nuclear energy sounds cool that they can’t grow up and realise other technologies outcompeted nuclear on a number of metrics, decades ago.

    Also, I know that this will continue to get downvoted because there are so so so many people who have made nuclear energy part of their personality and absolutely cannot critically self-reflect on the topic.

    Nuclear fusion or no nuclear at all.




  • I agree with Scott about everyone being at Eleven.

    Labor saved us during the GFC and still know how to manage an economy better than their opponents in this two party system.

    The most annoying whingers are the ones decrying taxes on the top 10%. The best times throughout the last century were when the boomers were young and the taxes on the wealthy were ~94%.

    Times got shit when conservative politicians canned those tax rates,it’s only got so much shitter ever since, and it’ll keep getting shit until the top 10% or even top 1% actually pay their fair share in tax.