• Maggoty@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    The year is 2289.

    We know how Dyson spheres work

    That star is just literally free energy

    But we blew up a solar system and wiped out a developing race one time and we stopped using it.

    Imagine if hunters had stopped using fire?!?

    Fukushima showed us the truth, Nuclear Safety is incompatible with capitalism. I don’t care to find out what other time bombs we build into future plants.

    • Antiproton@programming.dev
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      1 minute ago

      If you listen to the people on Lemmy, everything is incompatible with capitalism. So do we cower in the corner and hope the problems away?

      The amount of death and destruction attributable to all nuclear accidents since we figured out fission is barely statistically significant when compared to fossil fuel consumption.

      Regulatory agencies can and do keep accidents from happening. Not always, because people are both stupid and corrupt. But mostly.

      Capitalism isn’t going away any time soon. Maybe in a post fusion world, we’ll cross the threshold of post-scarcity too. Until that happens, we do the best we can with the tools at our disposal.

      You could make the same argument about literally anything. Capitalism caused the 737Max disasters. You want to give up planes?