Eh, this take is axiomatically unacceptable to me. Regardless of how absurd and hopeless it feels like achieving our aims in Western ‘democracies’ (and boy howdy does it feel absurd and hopeless), the abandonment of it is a tacit admission that billions of people are gonna need to die in rather catastrophic fashions before we get anywhere. Which, like I said, is a no go for me.

To quote George Lucas, it’s like poetry, it rhy-ouch ouch stop ouch alright point taken.

We’ve actually got a rather low opinion of ourselves and everyone else, we just like to have fun with it.

The only reason I came back to this site after you knuckleheads changed the name is because we were federating.

[takes drag] How do you think we got here?

Harkens back to those old Aleve commercials

No but I’ve eaten basil grown under a lamp in a location that is primarily nuclear powered.

But not the sun. And r-process elements form on supernova which arguably aren’t stars anymore.

Nuclear fission/geothermal: am I a joke to you?

One of those flammable, inflammable sorts of things I suppose.

Any correction or contradiction on this website, regardless of how it’s phrased, is going be to accused of pendantic reddit debate-broism if it carries on long enough.