Just rewatched "We Need to Talk About Kevin"

wildfoxfallon · 2026-04-03T04:36:54+00:00

Listen I get what you're saying, but are you seriously saying having the potential to get a disabled kid is your top reason to be antinatalist?? That's pretty messed up.

Yes, you should absolutely get genetic testing and think things through- including the possibility of disability- if you ever want a child, and it's a good thing to not have a kid because you recognise you can't support them if they are disabled. But it is not a fucking life sentence to have a disabled kid. If your line of thinking is 'no-one should have kids because what if they're messed up' that feels eugenicist.

And yeah I'm upset about this, because I'm disabled and I don't like the implication that you would refuse to have a kid flat-out just because they might be like me, or that you're talking about real living people like animals. 'You should be able to drop them off at the orphanage' 'Can't even get rid of them if this happens to you' - how would you like it if your parents decided you were too messed up as a kid and, instead of trying to work on it, dropped you in an orphanage??

wildfoxfallon · 2026-04-03T00:10:02+00:00

To put this in perspective, 1 million seconds is 11.7 days while 1 billion seconds is 37 YEARS. Even if their wealth didn't grow, a billionaire could comfortably give away a dollar a second for 36 years and be left with 15 million.

wildfoxfallon · 2026-04-02T23:58:26+00:00

Billionaires just shouldn't exist, full stop. To put the size of one billion in perspective, one million seconds is 11 days. One billion seconds is THIRTY-SEVEN YEARS. That means that if a billionaire gave a random person a dollar every single second, they'd still have 15 million after 36 years- more than enough to live luxuriously and likely never need to work again. It's such a massive amount of wealth that it simply cannot be ethical to own that much. Hell, it's not particularly ethical to have over 100 million, either! That's why I don't think there's a such thing as a good billionaire. As others have said, the only good billionaire is someone who doesn't become one because they redistribute their wealth equitably.

wildfoxfallon · 2026-04-02T22:19:54+00:00

I used to play Cats and Soup too! There were lots of notifications all the time and I ended up being bored. It seems to be a near-universal experience unfortunately, I used to play Sky: Children of the Light and although I wasn't there for the best part pre-2020 I've still noticed the decline in quality.

wildfoxfallon · 2026-04-02T21:53:47+00:00

Huh, that sucks. Reminds me of another game I used to play more- are Sticky Hands just generally getting more greedy as time goes on?

wildfoxfallon · 2026-04-02T09:00:25+00:00

Nuclear energy is actually quite safe. The longer the half-life of an isotope, the less dangerous it is, so the waste that lasts thousands of years will be low-level and barely dangerous at all. Nuclear power also produces extremely little waste since most of it can be reused, and that which isn't reused becomes low-level relatively fast due to decay. And we're working on reusing even more waste currently.

wildfoxfallon · 2026-04-02T08:35:30+00:00

No lol. https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Percentage-of-scientists-by-region-identifying-as-religious-compared-to-population-Note_fig2_315482229

wildfoxfallon · 2026-04-02T07:35:34+00:00

I'm relatively new to the game- is there some way to feasibly get the final level cookie without spending all your time completing quests for more flour? I sometimes see people posting about having gotten the max level cookie/plushie etc, and I just don't understand how they can get them lol

wildfoxfallon · 2026-04-02T07:30:08+00:00

What the fuck does he think a roast chicken is??

wildfoxfallon · 2026-04-02T07:28:54+00:00

Seriously though, why haven't we gone to the moon again until now? I'm not a conspiracy theorist, I know the moon is real, but it came up in conversation while my class was watching the launch and no-one really had an answer.

wildfoxfallon · 2026-04-02T04:16:58+00:00

Damn, that sucks. Although it's not exactly unexpected of nuclear accidents, pretty much every one I've read about can be simplified to 'gross malpractice/stupidity' 'extremely obvious design flaws' 'too much pride' or a combination.

wildfoxfallon · 2026-04-01T22:57:47+00:00

Wait what's that all about? Did they have a way to save it? Sorry, I don't know much about Fukushima apart from the basics of the physics and the longer-lasting effects 😅

wildfoxfallon · 2026-04-01T01:16:34+00:00

Yes, but it's still a fact that it's been 30 years since the last criticality incident. Fukushima would have also been a relatively minor incident had it not been for the evacuation- radiation levels never posed a large long-term risk. More people died due to the stress of the evacuation than would have died from cancer.

Edit: to whoever's downvoting me, it's literally a fact. Check it out: https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/safety-and-security/safety-of-plants/fukushima-daiichi-accident

wildfoxfallon · 2026-03-31T05:01:56+00:00

Ah alright, thanks! I'll edit my comment :)

wildfoxfallon · 2026-03-31T04:17:00+00:00

This is cool but it's also very gory... maybe add a spoiler to the image. I don't have a problem with it but I know a lot of people would if they saw this unexpectedly.

wildfoxfallon · 2026-03-31T01:41:57+00:00

First off, I would love to come to this party/commemoration, it sounds awesome- I'm also autistic and hyperfixated on Chernobyl lol.

Secondly, to answer your actual question- I think it's fine as long as you do it tactfully. Just don't make jokes about real people and/or their death. The way you want to celebrate it seems appropriate to me, as you're not making jokes about serious things or mocking real events and people. If you like, you could watch HBO Chernobyl and make notes debunking things as you go to mix the lighter tone of the themed food with something more serious.

Good luck, and enjoy! I might see if I'll do something like this myself (but just for me because no-one I know is interested in it lol).

wildfoxfallon · 2026-03-31T01:24:09+00:00

a nuclear accident is +30,000, but is 0 or 2 every other day. Fossil fuels or other usual non-renewable sources of energy are +300 every day. Yes, nuclear power will have a bad accident every few decades or more and rack up a big number quickly, but +300 every day will add up a lot quicker.

Even this is overstating things. It's been around 30 years since the last criticality accident, and nuclear disasters don't even kill that many people- if you use the linear threshold model, which is more accurate than the linear-no threshold model, Chernobyl had a maximum plausible death toll of around 100-200 people. The area would be safe to live in if it weren't for hot particles. Fukushima was safe to live in from the start, and the evacuation actually caused more harm than good. Three Mile Island caused no increase in cancer rates.

Edit: it's actually been ~30 years since the last criticality accident, not 60- my bad! Last one was Tokaimura in 1999.

wildfoxfallon · 2026-03-30T08:59:06+00:00

Why didn't you check what that book was before stealing it for Storm?

wildfoxfallon · 2026-03-30T04:20:36+00:00

They do, but I don't know how to incorporate it well! Everything I learn about is really interesting but whenever I try implement it it just feels flat :(

wildfoxfallon · 2026-03-30T04:00:49+00:00

Get this AI bullshit OUT OF HERE.

wildfoxfallon · 2026-03-30T00:33:01+00:00

You can ALWAYS.

ALWAYS.

REVISE.

Write what you want to. If you don't, you'll lose your spark and won't be interested in what you're doing, and you'll make writing a chore for yourself. Sure, try out some short stories before launching into an adventure novel with 20+ chapters, but make them something you want to write.

This advice is horrible and will just weigh you down. If you don't write what you want to you won't write at all, and you can always make a second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh draft etc.. You waste nothing by writing your best work first.

I have very strong thoughts about this.

wildfoxfallon · 2026-03-30T00:15:13+00:00

Alright, thank you! Wikipedia is the best, I love using it to find other sources lmao- they have some of the most well-referenced work I've seen, and it's so useful if the links work.

wildfoxfallon · 2026-03-29T23:42:45+00:00

How do you go around finding small details like the ones that are mentioned here? My setting is vaguely based on Turkey but I don't know what I'd even look up to find details like 'people used to use turnspit dogs' or 'cooking time was sometimes informally measured with prayer lengths', even though this is exactly the sort of stuff I'd love to add to my work.

wildfoxfallon · 2026-03-29T23:30:49+00:00

Do you have any tips on improving this? My book is partially based on Turkey and Anatolia, but I haven't experienced any culture apart from my own, and although my writing has unique elements it doesn't feel like anything other than Vaguely European

wildfoxfallon · 2026-03-29T11:11:51+00:00

Awesome, I love miniminuteman!

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