JesseoftheNorth

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

Cool deflection. If only we could do both…

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Everything is political. For example, Maude Flanders was killed off in the Simpsons because of a pay dispute between the voice actor and the studio.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ragebait title. Bullying is one thing. Death threats is another. That goes way beyond simple bullying. The arrest was fully justified.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Indigenous peoples lived since time immemorial in balance with nature. Don’t pretend that it’s everyone that is causing this. We told you this would happen, but nobody would listen and just wrote us off as primitive and ignorant.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Astroturfing isn't just paid shills. It's also useful fools parroting the same talking points, which makes it appear to be a grassroots-led initiative. It's muddying the water, like framing the argument as renewables vs nukes instead of renewables vs oil/gas/coal as this article is talking about. Increasing solar and wind power is a good thing. Period. But every time there's a discussion about how a country is investing in wind and solar, you nuclear bros make it about nukes vs renewables. Fossil fuels have to go. I do not endorse or support the use of fossil fuels of any kind. But nuclear energy is not a real solution, and all you are doing is derailing the conversation, which was about increasing renewable energy, which again, IS OBJECTIVELY A GOOD THING. Building NPPs take way too long and are way too expensive to save us from catastrophic climate collapse. Climate collapse is already happening. Crying about NPPs being decommissioned 30 years ago literally helps no one. It is spilled milk. It is nothing but a distraction that will prevent or delay the transition away from fossil fuels TODAY.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The amount of astroturfing for the nuclear energy lobby is insane. Always the exact same talking points. Every. Single. Time. Anytime a post is made about a country switching to wind or solar energy, these nuclear bros bombard the thread saying the exact same shit. Must be a coincidence…

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The dam collapsed due to flash flooding due to storm Daniel which dumped a much higher than normal amount of rain.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The FCC is a governmental regulatory body whose leaders are appointed by politicians. Plenty relevance to politics.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

It's working exactly as it is designed to. Funneling money from the poor to the rich.