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Cake day: October 6th, 2023

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  • What the fuck!

    I just read the article, and I think it’s completely misrepresenting the bill! From what I can see, the article is just inventing this link to the chemtrails conspiracy.

    Does this bill ever mention the word “chemtrails” or “contrails”, at all?

    From what I can tell, the bill is completely talking about cloud seeding, which is definitely its own thing. Cloud seeding is fraught enough, it’s a relatively complicated issue with very serious environmental impacts, it does not need to be mixed up chemtrails which are a bullshit conspiracy theory (the opposite of a serious issue).

    Hey Alabama Political Reporter go find your journalistic integrity, I think you dropped it somewhere.










  • In reality you can, indeed, care about multiple issues at the same time

    You say that, but I am learning first hand that I have a finite capacity for injustice and misery. I see awful shit in the news, sometimes far away, but sometimes very close to home and I see it every day. It takes a toll on your mental health, caring about everything, taking a moment to ask yourself “is there something I can do about this?” - it’s especially hard when the answer you come up with is “not really”.

    I think one really does have a limited amount of bandwidth for this kind of thing, and we absolutely have a limited amount of time. So even if you did care about everything, it’s certainly not feasible to act on everything. And just carrying all those concerns that you know you’re never going to act on, that cannot be healthy.

    Sometimes you just need to let something go, say “this is not my concern”. I don’t believe there’s anything wrong with that, so long as you make an effort to decide which things are important enough to care about, even when you’re at your limit.



  • I’m sorry, it seems like you think anybody is suggesting that launching nuclear waste to space should be a means of disposal for it. Clearly that’s not a workable solution for a dozen reasons.

    A common (and reasonable) objection to nuclear powered spacecraft is the question of “what happens if the rocket explodes?” That’s really what I was responding to.

    The solution for nuclear waste is frustratingly simple, bury it. It’s only a political problem because of misguided nimbyism.