• Agent641@lemmy.world
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      5 hours ago

      Except the retard didn’t just burn his house down, he burned thousands of people’s houses down in such a way that nobody could ever live there again, and came very close to burning down the whole continent in the same way.

      (I’m still in favour of spicy rock steam)

      • Valmond@lemmy.world
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        Isn’t nuclear energy like super safe and have killed incredibly few people compared to all the other energy sources?

        Or are you talking about destilling the magic rocks very much and putting them in a bomb?

        • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
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          Exactly.

          The whole clusterfuck of mishandled Chernobyl cleanup & everything there before and after only claimed a few lives (via direct radiation tissue damage or just accidents).

          Compare that with the daily average of thousands of killed in various (ultimately) oil wars.

          But we don’t even get news about that.

          But western propaganda sure showed us malformed babies & claimed it was from radiation - it turns out it was all bullshit, it was always a toxic chemical behind it (unregulated industries selling toxic shit by the tonnes - fertilisers, paints, even biological warfare).

          We just take radiation super seriously and completely disregard toxic chemical pollution of eg industrial spillages. People just get to live in polluted areas and die sooner because of that. Instead of living for longer & with less health hazards but with a little radiation.

          And lastly - burning coal released way more radiation into air than nuclear accidents.

      • frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe
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        Or to put it another way, we almost ruined a large swath of land and learned from that mistake, but chose not to use it so when we do have to switch to nukes because destroyed our planet we will have forgotten all those lessons and do it again.

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      Na it’s dumb. The issue with the magic rocks isn’t the direct consequences like with the fire. The issues with these rocks are long terms with the consequences on humans and the environment thousands of years later.

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        Yeah, the environmental issues that are orders of magnitude less problematic than literally pumping the toxic chemicals into the atmosphere like with fossil fuels, vs comparatively miniscule amount of solid waste to store inert.

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        What consequences?
        There are no consequences for animals in Chernobyl, they are thriving in all aspects, even mammals living underground (mutations are fiction).

        People that didn’t leave the exclusion zone died of old age there.

        Life on Earth had to deal with all sorts of radiation.

        What caused mass extinction was ecosystem change, eg via global climate change.

      • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        these rocks are long terms with the consequences on humans and the environment thousands of years later.

        You bury them in concrete, done. Nuclear waste isn’t an issue and hasn’t ever been