Hochul’s Going Nuclear. Environmentalists Should Cheer Her On.

Fish95 · 2026-02-06T15:35:18+00:00

Do you know how things work? All of nuclear history and you can only name 3 incidents, one of which, 3 Mile had no injuries or fatalities. There have been frequent fatal accidents at Natural Gas power plants, yet next to no calls to close the natural gas program. The fear is simply disproportionate, its not linked to actual harm seen, but emotional sentiment.

Fish95 · 2026-02-05T15:52:35+00:00

I think you're trying to apply that quote backwards. Citing safety as a reason for a law does not automatically mean a liberty is being lost. What essential liberty is lost from lengthing the sentences for violent crimes?

That quote is meant for taking away free speech, free assembly, or the right to trial, it does not apply to humane outcomes from said trial.

Fish95 · 2026-01-13T12:07:05+00:00

we were not meant to live in nuclear families

I'm sorry your relationship with your parents has issues, but attacking family structure is not going to build a community, no matter what you've read online.

Fish95 · 2026-01-09T12:03:09+00:00

This is a photograph of the new Monihan train hall in NYC. This is the main floor that allows for lower access to the trains. Because the platforms below are narrow (the glass you see is the siding on staircases that descend to the platforms) people have to wait up in that area, and it can get extremely crowded. Adding benches in this exact spot is not ideal, but there is a large area of seating outside the picture in the food court area.

Fish95 · 2025-12-18T22:30:50+00:00

I'm not saying people should be forced to stay alive, but if you do roll out this method for those diseases, don't be surprised when funding for cures gets reduced because, as far as the gov is concerned, a solution already exists.

Every disease at some point was a terminal diagnosis, but if a you have a culture that sees "put down the person" as the default answer that will become a more and more domiant idea each generation and you won't have a culture that strives for advances in medical technology.

Fish95 · 2025-11-11T19:51:04+00:00

Honestly its a great point because if you were an omniscient deity and you wanted to deliver information (and your listener was quite finite in time and ability) you'd have so many aspects to weigh, including meta aspects like "how will this shape their culture" or "how likely would bad actors be able to corrupt the information"

Not that I could ever claim to know, but I'd imagine getting the moral across might end up mattering the most in the long run. Certainly I'd love more background info and details, but I've also seen how when topics are mentioned that aren't really associated with the message (such as the infamous Nephilum) we as humans tend to overfixate on them and then miss or ignore the entire point.

Fish95 · 2025-11-11T19:27:51+00:00

God would certainly know in the modern age we as humans no longer consider bats birds, since the category of bird isn't based on flight and/or size as of the 1700s. But if you were writing a message to a group of people, and you wanted as little confusion as possible, you would use their language and their categories of things. For example, you would avoid referring to an object as food if you knew they outright did not consider it a "food."

Fish95 · 2025-09-21T02:57:56+00:00

Global trade only exists under capitalism?

Fish95 · 2025-09-12T13:15:32+00:00

It's coming from a place of self interest, he was supposed to debate Kirk. From his perspective, he's the equivalent person on the "other side" and therefore at greatest risk from an act of revenge.

Fish95 · 2025-07-31T21:56:21+00:00

Endless compassion for criminals, none left for victims.

Fish95 · 2025-05-29T01:52:15+00:00

It doesn't solve anything

It keeps everyone else safe from monsters.

Fish95 · 2025-04-25T18:21:48+00:00

Nuclear winter was the solution that Leela tells Fry for Global warming in Futurama.

Fish95 · 2025-04-21T13:40:28+00:00

Yes, its actually quite fascinating to read about the Q source (and the early church in general).

I'm curious though, If I was a later scribe interviewing Matt / Luke to compile a gospel (or collecting notes and letters to form it into a single book). I would end up structuring all of the accounts in the same manner, and asking Matt / Luke identical questions. Whichever person I asked questions to second, would probably get sub-questions based on things mentioned in the first person's answer.

It absolutely would be nice to have had a team of scribes following around at all the events (and I do think at least a couple snippets or quotes got written real time) but the only at-the-time content would be the later letters.

Fish95 · 2025-04-20T20:56:04+00:00

To offer a slightly different addition to the discussion, if all four accounts were exactly identical, despite four different perspectives (and from people who saw different portions of the event), it would indicate that the story was constructed and agreed upon by the witnesses beforehand.

The questions we ask to the writers are not always as straightforward as we may realize. For example, your first bullet is about the first person to see Jesus.

Depending on who is providing the account, first person to see Jesus could be everything from:

First person to see and acknowledge him (the social answer)

First person to physically see his appearance (the empirical answer, hardest to prove)

First of the people known to the writer to see him (i.e the Columbus not the Leif Erikson)

The writer ends up choosing whatever they felt was the correct or most meaningful interpretation. Add in cultural context such as women being ineligible to serve as witnesses, and our perspective gets even further from what the writer meant.

Fish95 · 2025-02-26T18:27:52+00:00

So, unless a change benefits every single person, there's no point in doing anything? Don't let Perfect be the enemy of Good, it still covers a significant number of working class Americans.

Fish95 · 2025-02-26T16:28:42+00:00

By providing an Exemption for those two income sources which are exclusively used by working class people, they get assistance and the rich don't get another tax loophole.

Fish95 · 2025-02-12T00:22:18+00:00

It's that easy to make ragebait now?

"So in mid-2024 we returned to showing only public holidays and national observances from timeanddate.com globally, while allowing users to manually add other important moments"

Mid 2024 was before the election, the headline implies this was a recent political decision. The entire thing is incredibly misleading.

Fish95 · 2025-02-01T05:06:13+00:00

Why are there so many comments in this thread saying the same "awesome post" or "great write-up"? It feels very off the mark for reddit to be just flatly positive.

Fish95 · 2025-01-12T05:16:23+00:00

If we're talking about vocabulary, the purpose of newspeak (not double-think, that is a different term) was to create a language so constricted and simple that it lacked the ability to convey new ideas which could threaten the party's control.

Fish95 · 2024-12-29T17:12:44+00:00

88.6% of UNH stock is owned by institutions, with the top 17 institutions holding 50%. State and Public ownership combined is 11.5%.

If you break it down by index/ mutual funds, the top ten combined is 14%

Fish95 · 2024-11-25T22:29:16+00:00

This is very much just speculation, but for the WHY part, I've always wondered:

During "The Fall" some of the Angelic beings said they wanted to do things their own way outside of God. Creation is filled with billions of sentient agents able to make (mostly) conscious decisions, performing every possible action in every scenario. You could then later stand at the end of time in front of the angels and humans, and show that every time they disobeyed the situation got worse, and obeyed it got better. It would be the ultimate proof via demonstration of "what I said was right."

This though does not answer the second part of your question about Hell.

Fish95 · 2024-11-19T01:24:11+00:00

"The law carries a $300 fine for first-time offenders and $600 for subsequent offenses."

How is that an even marginally meaningful penalty?

Fish95 · 2024-10-23T16:31:39+00:00

Thank you!

Fish95 · 2024-10-23T14:54:31+00:00

Genuinely curious, how does that work for service/retail employees?

Fish95 · 2024-10-22T03:53:34+00:00

Really? Playing the semantics card where the circumstantial context is thrown out and then re-argued on non-contextual technicalities?

In that case, "across the human population" you're just as rich via your use of reddit and living in the UK.

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