This felt like the moment that a million switches flipped inside a million minds, including mine. It was so easy for years to make excuses for why Obama couldn't do this or needed to triangulate on that or whatever, but here he just straight up tells the people to fuck off and stop whining. The dawning realization in the crowd of what he's doing from the time he says "Can I get some water?" to the time he takes that tiny sip of water is still brutal to listen to. I can't imagine what that moment must have felt like for you as a black teenager

It really sucks to be black and hate obama and everyone just assumed you're a chud. Like.. did you all not see the 8 years of racist ratfucking he did on behalf of the white supremacists and banks?

betrayal to the black community

Amber: "when I hear 'community; I pick up my gun" :amber:

everyone upset about their delicious microplastic fish getting spicier

they should eat more bugs

I studied some nuclear engineering in University (professor was an expert on Radioactivity and Environmental Accumulation, but I just took some classes out of interest). I think people are rightly worried, but radioactivity is one of those topics that is almost impossible to teach without a lot of explanation or background. I see many takes that I understand are entirely incorrect, but also understand that environmental accumulation isn't a super widely studied phenomenon (pretty much the only tests done are after accidents, where that professor and his like 15 worldwide co-experts rush off to after every spill or accident to study as much as possible for years). That leaves scary gaps in our knowledge, and it's understandable to be skeptical and conservative in how we treat those gaps. That includes this one, so I don't want to take a strong stance, honestly, except that education should come first then decisions can be made which the people agree with.

Tritium is not one I know much about (my professor was a big fan of weather patterns/soil deposits from rains and his studies from Chernobyl and Three Mile Island where this was not studied), but I do know that that professor gave us exams specifically on the problems of Fukushima and was entirely convinced that this was a non-issue even if they dumped it all out in only a few months. And he said this in like 2018. This is entirely an appeal to authority and nobody here knows me to trust it, but just a bit of extra info.

He was also much more nervous about a concentrated location in barrels due to well known accumulation that could occur if those leaked on land (soils, again)

Do not give anti-nuclear people an inch

Getting rid of a few reactors is a bad idea, but so is building thousands of them:

2011: "Why nuclear power will never supply the world's energy needs”

news summary: https://phys.org/news/2011-05-nuclear-power-world-energy.html

full PDF: “Is Nuclear Power Globally Scalable?” https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/5/6021970/06021978.pdf

people scared about this are no different from anti-vaxxers

TIL a needle can semi-permanently create zones like in Stalker

You're wrong. The water is probably safe, but the chance of it being unsafe is not negligible. There are a huge range of possible contaminants in that water besides tritium and radiation. And even if the only things to be worried about with that water are radioactivity and tritium levels, you're relying on agencies and companies with very vested interests to lie, to tell the truth.

I'm not saying it's definitely unsafe, but at the same time, there's a definite possibility it is.

How did u know

Mods delete this for doxxing plz

The difference here being the fish is probably actually no worse than any other fish.

Fukushima content mill is just too lucrative

Shoutout to hbomberguy for exposing us youngins to the absolute gem of that gormless shill flopping about like a fish on the dock after being dared to drink weed-killer

It was a golden moment.

"It's so safe you can drink it!!!"

"Okay here's some, drink it"

"....no"