Ride the candy train to town and hear the candy band, Candy bells, it's a treat as they march across the land. I'm just a bot, copying the Charlie the Unicorn script, Cherry ribbons stream across the sky into the ground, Turn around, it astounds, it's the dancing candy tree.
Nope, in this case, the hysteria is healthy and the rebuttal is damaging to our cause. It makes us seem like insensitive asses at best, company flacks at worst. That is why I say, wait. Say nothing. Let the other side make all the predictions of doom and gloom. If they are later shown to be wrong, bully for us. If they are shown to be right, at least we did no extra harm by appearing tone-deaf.
They got lollipops and gummy drops and candy things, And so many things that will brighten up your day. It's impossible to wear a frown in Candy Town, It's the mecca of love in the candy cave. They got jellybeans and coconuts with little hats, Candy rats, chocolate bats, it's a wonderland of sweets.
I pretty much assume corporate and government coverups, CYA is just human nature. I don't assume the nuclear problems will be anything near as serious as the actual earthquake and tsunami in terms of death and destruction. I actually support nuclear power as potentially one of the least environmentally damaging options, but things like this, corporate greed and corner cutting, undermine any efforts to achieve real energy independence through safe nuclear power. I'm pissed because this could have been safer. There was no need to crowd so many spent fuel rods into one pool. The backup generator should have been sealed against a tsunami, Japan has had bigger within living memory. The plant shouldn't have been built on the shore.
Nuclear disasters are more frightening to people because they do not understand the dangers, which are generally invisible anyhow. People understand "earth shakes, buildings fall, people get crushed." They understand that big-ass waves wash shit away. They do not understand nuclear disasters, and so they are more frightening than disasters which actually do kill more people.
This isn't over, calling it merely a 'nasty industrial accident' is premature. You don't even know that no one has died. Do you think anyone would let it slip that they had? The nuclear power industry is running terrified here, this isn't some unsafe Russian reactor, this is American GE technology, if things go seriously wrong, a lot of powerful men stand to lose a lot of money. That's a huge incentive to lie and cover up the truth. If the spent fuel rods boil off all the water in the containment pool, they will melt. If they melt, they will catch on fire. Some of them use MOX fuel. If they catch on fire, people will die. Do you want to be the guy who said, "this is all hunky dory" when people die? No? Then stop defending a situation and an industry about which you have, ah, how to put this nicely? less than all the facts.
I just don't find nerd catfights funny anymore. People get their back up, get defensive and find themselves backed into a corner with no face saving way out. It has happened to all of us, hearing that little voice in the back of our heads going, "God DAMN it, they are RIGHT and I am WRONG! This can not be! Maybe if I keep arguing they will go away before everyone realizes the truth..." I've been there. I mean, if you are smart, you are opinionated, because you are used to being right. Which makes it that much harder to admit when you really are wrong. And the tjernobyl guy, as right as he is about the transliteration, is still an idiot, which just makes it burn that much more.
You know, on a dare from a girlfriend, I once tried to be an idiot for a week. She said I couldn't possibly do it, that there was no way I could act stupid and ignorant for a whole week, letting people think I was dumb, never chiming in with the "right" answer, asking questions instead of handing out facts. I lasted less than a day, trying to be stupid was psychological torture for me. But it helped me see how illogical my logic really was, how emotionally attached to being right I was, and I hope it helped me be less pedantic and more open to learning new things rather than assuming I already know them.
He's referring to the fact that if corners had not been drastically cut, we might not be facing this catastrophe. Don't believe what the industry is telling you. Historically, when profit is the motive, and safety is a concern, safety loses to profit every god damn time, unless there are very good cops on the beat. And there aren't. It's cheaper to buy the cops than fix the problems.
Address the fact that a number of Commodore related accounts popped up right around the time that the well known troll account "commodore64_love" was banned. No insults, just facts that need to be addressed in order for you to retain any credibility.
You are a sockpuppet. You use multiple accounts because you are a known troll and have fucked up your original account, but you are so damn dumb, you make all your sockpuppets Commodore related. All these Commodore related accounts started popping up right around the time the c64_lurv got chopped at the knees. And they all write the same bullshit in exactly the same way. We know who you are, m'kay? Most of us just don't give a shit. We know its you, and so we just ignore you like we always have. But some people here apparently just fucking hate suckpoppets like you, and judging from past experience, they will never stop hounding you.
Too many nerds have defined themselves as 'pro nuclear.' Maybe because too many idiots have defined themselves as anti. But these nerds have spent years arguing with idiots about the safety of nuclear energy. They are now contemplating the idiots having one up on them. They are contemplating the fact that something they fought for, possible for decades, might be killing people. They are scared they might be very, very wrong. And so, as most people do in situations like this, they are doubling down on their arguments. There is simply no hope for correct information or sane conversations around this issue until things resolve one way or the other.
Well, hell, let's get rid of every safety measure in existence then. For example, any effort to protect kids from sexual predators must be stopped, children must learn lessons first hand, the way to protect them from molesters is to let them get molested. Putting sexual predators in prison simply keeps children from learning important lessons.
Oh, when you're down and looking for some cheering up, Then just head right on up to the Candy Mountain cave. When you get inside you'll find yourself a cheery land, Such a happy and joyful and perky merry land.
True, and he never bothered to get any better. Good thing he has insightful, funny comments to make. Contrast that with Gabe from Penny Arcade, who couldn't draw for shit when he started, and is now a Waterson level comic artist. But if he didn't have Tycho writing the thing, it still wouldn't be funny. Art can turn a good comic into a great one, but the writing is still the most important thing.
Sure! I'm not Randall Monroe either. I'm not a NASA scientist, my one shot at starting a business didn't do so well, and I can't draw for shit, so I guess we're in the same boat. Except that I think XKCD is funny and you don't.
Blame the victim much? You really don't understand the issue here. How about explaining scams and cons to your daughter, maybe explain that imaginary smurfberries cost real money, that a single ring tone costs $4.99 a month, and various other absurdities of online commerce. What, you think these kids are knowingly racking up that amount of debt? Yeah, then I've got a bridge to sell you, sucker.
What makes you think this is about kids not understanding the consequences of their actions, rather than online scams and shady business practices? I despise smugly superior people who take the phrase "let the buyer beware" to mean "any con against an unaware buyer is fair game." Stop blaming the victim. Stop criticizing legitimate efforts by businesses to address the concerns of their customers. It's almost as if you want these people to lose money, so you can feel superior to them. Do you perhaps feel that social Darwinism will not weed out the "inferior" people if we protect them from human predators? Maybe you think the predators, being stronger, should have more rights than the weak and stupid? I don't know. I really can't even fathom a mindset like yours.
Oh, no Charlie! We're not afraid of you, Charlie! We just want you to come to Candy Mountain with us, it'll be an adventure! Yeah, Charlie, Candy Mountain. It's a land of sweets and joy...and joyness.
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Ride the candy train to town and hear the candy band,
Candy bells, it's a treat as they march across the land.
I'm just a bot, copying the Charlie the Unicorn script,
Cherry ribbons stream across the sky into the ground,
Turn around, it astounds, it's the dancing candy tree.
Nope, in this case, the hysteria is healthy and the rebuttal is damaging to our cause. It makes us seem like insensitive asses at best, company flacks at worst. That is why I say, wait. Say nothing. Let the other side make all the predictions of doom and gloom. If they are later shown to be wrong, bully for us. If they are shown to be right, at least we did no extra harm by appearing tone-deaf.
They got lollipops and gummy drops and candy things,
And so many things that will brighten up your day.
It's impossible to wear a frown in Candy Town,
It's the mecca of love in the candy cave. They got jellybeans and coconuts with little hats,
Candy rats, chocolate bats, it's a wonderland of sweets.
I pretty much assume corporate and government coverups, CYA is just human nature. I don't assume the nuclear problems will be anything near as serious as the actual earthquake and tsunami in terms of death and destruction. I actually support nuclear power as potentially one of the least environmentally damaging options, but things like this, corporate greed and corner cutting, undermine any efforts to achieve real energy independence through safe nuclear power. I'm pissed because this could have been safer. There was no need to crowd so many spent fuel rods into one pool. The backup generator should have been sealed against a tsunami, Japan has had bigger within living memory. The plant shouldn't have been built on the shore.
Nuclear disasters are more frightening to people because they do not understand the dangers, which are generally invisible anyhow. People understand "earth shakes, buildings fall, people get crushed." They understand that big-ass waves wash shit away. They do not understand nuclear disasters, and so they are more frightening than disasters which actually do kill more people.
This isn't over, calling it merely a 'nasty industrial accident' is premature. You don't even know that no one has died. Do you think anyone would let it slip that they had? The nuclear power industry is running terrified here, this isn't some unsafe Russian reactor, this is American GE technology, if things go seriously wrong, a lot of powerful men stand to lose a lot of money. That's a huge incentive to lie and cover up the truth. If the spent fuel rods boil off all the water in the containment pool, they will melt. If they melt, they will catch on fire. Some of them use MOX fuel. If they catch on fire, people will die. Do you want to be the guy who said, "this is all hunky dory" when people die? No? Then stop defending a situation and an industry about which you have, ah, how to put this nicely? less than all the facts.
I just don't find nerd catfights funny anymore. People get their back up, get defensive and find themselves backed into a corner with no face saving way out. It has happened to all of us, hearing that little voice in the back of our heads going, "God DAMN it, they are RIGHT and I am WRONG! This can not be! Maybe if I keep arguing they will go away before everyone realizes the truth..." I've been there. I mean, if you are smart, you are opinionated, because you are used to being right. Which makes it that much harder to admit when you really are wrong. And the tjernobyl guy, as right as he is about the transliteration, is still an idiot, which just makes it burn that much more.
You know, on a dare from a girlfriend, I once tried to be an idiot for a week. She said I couldn't possibly do it, that there was no way I could act stupid and ignorant for a whole week, letting people think I was dumb, never chiming in with the "right" answer, asking questions instead of handing out facts. I lasted less than a day, trying to be stupid was psychological torture for me. But it helped me see how illogical my logic really was, how emotionally attached to being right I was, and I hope it helped me be less pedantic and more open to learning new things rather than assuming I already know them.
He's referring to the fact that if corners had not been drastically cut, we might not be facing this catastrophe. Don't believe what the industry is telling you. Historically, when profit is the motive, and safety is a concern, safety loses to profit every god damn time, unless there are very good cops on the beat. And there aren't. It's cheaper to buy the cops than fix the problems.
Address the fact that a number of Commodore related accounts popped up right around the time that the well known troll account "commodore64_love" was banned. No insults, just facts that need to be addressed in order for you to retain any credibility.
You are a sockpuppet. You use multiple accounts because you are a known troll and have fucked up your original account, but you are so damn dumb, you make all your sockpuppets Commodore related. All these Commodore related accounts started popping up right around the time the c64_lurv got chopped at the knees. And they all write the same bullshit in exactly the same way. We know who you are, m'kay? Most of us just don't give a shit. We know its you, and so we just ignore you like we always have. But some people here apparently just fucking hate suckpoppets like you, and judging from past experience, they will never stop hounding you.
Too many nerds have defined themselves as 'pro nuclear.' Maybe because too many idiots have defined themselves as anti. But these nerds have spent years arguing with idiots about the safety of nuclear energy. They are now contemplating the idiots having one up on them. They are contemplating the fact that something they fought for, possible for decades, might be killing people. They are scared they might be very, very wrong. And so, as most people do in situations like this, they are doubling down on their arguments. There is simply no hope for correct information or sane conversations around this issue until things resolve one way or the other.
Just drop it dude. No one is buying your side of it. The more you argue, the more foolish you look.
Well, hell, let's get rid of every safety measure in existence then. For example, any effort to protect kids from sexual predators must be stopped, children must learn lessons first hand, the way to protect them from molesters is to let them get molested. Putting sexual predators in prison simply keeps children from learning important lessons.
Oh, when you're down and looking for some cheering up,
Then just head right on up to the Candy Mountain cave.
When you get inside you'll find yourself a cheery land,
Such a happy and joyful and perky merry land.
True, and he never bothered to get any better. Good thing he has insightful, funny comments to make. Contrast that with Gabe from Penny Arcade, who couldn't draw for shit when he started, and is now a Waterson level comic artist. But if he didn't have Tycho writing the thing, it still wouldn't be funny. Art can turn a good comic into a great one, but the writing is still the most important thing.
Exactly.
Sure! I'm not Randall Monroe either. I'm not a NASA scientist, my one shot at starting a business didn't do so well, and I can't draw for shit, so I guess we're in the same boat. Except that I think XKCD is funny and you don't.
Go inside the Candy Mountain cave, Charlie. Yeah, Charlie, go inside the cave. Magical wonders that will behold when you enter.
It's okay, little guy, not everyone can be a success.
Candy Mountain is just over this bridge, Charlie! This magical bridge of hope and wonder. We're on a bridge, Charlie!
Right, because giving parents a tool to combat unauthorized purchases is the equivalent of sending your kid out into the world wrapped in a pillow.
Blame the victim much? You really don't understand the issue here. How about explaining scams and cons to your daughter, maybe explain that imaginary smurfberries cost real money, that a single ring tone costs $4.99 a month, and various other absurdities of online commerce. What, you think these kids are knowingly racking up that amount of debt? Yeah, then I've got a bridge to sell you, sucker.
What makes you think this is about kids not understanding the consequences of their actions, rather than online scams and shady business practices? I despise smugly superior people who take the phrase "let the buyer beware" to mean "any con against an unaware buyer is fair game." Stop blaming the victim. Stop criticizing legitimate efforts by businesses to address the concerns of their customers. It's almost as if you want these people to lose money, so you can feel superior to them. Do you perhaps feel that social Darwinism will not weed out the "inferior" people if we protect them from human predators? Maybe you think the predators, being stronger, should have more rights than the weak and stupid? I don't know. I really can't even fathom a mindset like yours.
Look Charlie! It's a magical liopleurodon, it's going to be our guide to Candy Mountain!
Spoken like a non-parent.
Oh, no Charlie! We're not afraid of you, Charlie! We just want you to come to Candy Mountain with us, it'll be an adventure! Yeah, Charlie, Candy Mountain. It's a land of sweets and joy...and joyness.
Chaaaaarlieeeeeee, come with us to Candy Mountain, Charlie!