You know that nuclear power plant up the road? They just had a big accident, we don’t know exactly what’s going on, and at least one person is already dead from radiation. But it’s fine, and you shouldn’t worry or leave the area.

“No evacuation.” Have you ever actually talked to people?

You know that nuclear power plant up the road? They just had a big accident, we don’t know exactly what’s going on, and at least one person is already dead from radiation. But it’s fine, and you shouldn’t worry or leave the area.

So we agree, airships and nukes are both outmoded, old tech.

also, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disaster_casualties

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster

So, essentially, nuclear power is like airships, except with worse disasters?

Probably the crooks just grabbed up everything they could. That means the stuff people have been keeping around that they never had time to repair.

thanks

Your use of the word ‘obtuse’ fascinates me.

Just for my own reference; which part do you read as ‘banning the internet’?

Socialization is a slow process. Many people who have good families and rich environments still have problems learning how to have face to face conversations. Look how many people on this site talk about not wanting to have a conversation over the phone or talk to a stranger in a shop.

That’s my original comment. Never said anything about banning the internet.

the answer is practice,

There are only so many hours in the day. If a child spends eight hours a day glued to the phone, they aren’t going to learn social skills.

Socialization is a slow process. Many people who have good families and rich environments still have problems learning how to have face to face conversations. Look how many people on this site talk about not wanting to have a conversation over the phone or talk to a stranger in a shop.

I mean, we all saw how well one of them held up to a tidal wave

Nowhere in the first comment did the poster claim that tidal waves and thunderstorms are related.

Maybe you came in after CrimeDad made their comment.

I can understand the confusion.

I mean, we all saw how well one of them held up to a tidal wave

Where did the original comment say that they were related?

You made something up.

If you feel like it’s relevant I guess that’s your choice.

Take a minute and rethink this comment.

One isn’t enough? Especially since he himself was already doing quite well.

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“The Guns Above” by Robyn Bennis. What if Napoleonic armies had an unlimited supply of helium? The author does a great job of describing 1800’s airships and their tactics.

Fun book.

General observation.

As people lose more and more real freedoms [lower real wages, more crowded roads, small retail stores swallowed up by mega-corps] they cling to false freedoms. They will keep those phones on, because it’s their right to, dammit!

Where did I damn all tech?

I just pointed out that tech doesn’t exist in a vacuum.

It doesn’t matter how noble the first rocketeers were, their toys ended up as weapons.

The existence of OSHA proves my point; we only got OSHA because things were so bad that workers started forming Unions, and the Unions had the power to force the government to start protecting the workers.

If you actually watched the video you’d see what I am saying.

How many people died designing the Internet? How many died to figure out how to land a rocket booster on a barge? How many people died figuring out mRNA vaccines?

A lot of people died designing the internet, because the original digital computers were created as a result of code breaking in WW2 and work done by the defense industry to make better missiles.

Same with space flight. You couldn’t have landed that rocket without the V1 and V2 rockets the Nazis dropped on London.

You seem to have some idea that scientific progress can occur in an ivory tower, untouched by base ideas like money or war.

Like it or not, technology grows out of the larger society. If there’s capitalism, capitalism will guide what gets built. Anything else is putting the cart before the horse.

Might want to catch a few episodes of this series that deals with the history of technology and how ideas become actual inventions.

https://youtu.be/XetplHcM7aQ