If I wear a Velcro suit while hugging you would wacky sitcom level shenanigans occur?

It is a luxury so is.grocery shopping. Meanwhile we are told that there is no inflation

Greenpeace: we should save the planet!

Me: great, let’s build nuclear power so we can shut down fossile fuels

Greenpeace: …No

You understand that good doesn’t wash bad and ER doctors don’t get a few freebies to run over people in the parking lot?

Tell that to Iraqis.

Ok Carl Sagan you have a way with words and rock the leisure suit turtleneck combo but this isn’t the 90s anymore. It is 2024. The Middle East is on fire over who has the best skydaddy, American democracy has under a year left before the evangelicals start opening concentration camps, Russia is about finished up in Ukraine, and the PRC is going to make sure that there is one China soon.

So excuse me for not being hopeful when I am having to spend money and time making sure my daughters have citizenship in another country to flee to before we go all Gilead.

In other words you want special pleading. All other energy techs are allowed to have problems and produce waste except for one.

Maybe one day we will produce a civilization capable of using technology as it comes out instead of one that decided to call it quits decades ago. Oh sure we got cellphones but we are still burning coal. Because nuclear is scary.

To be fair 1/3 of women don’t die in childbirth, 1/2 of children don’t die before they are ten, we have weed and booze they could never have dreamed of, freaken chocolate and aspirin, and you are highly unlikely to become a sex slave. It was paradise for a very small fraction of the population and rape/slavery/castration for the rest.

Still I could go for an orgy and some figs if anyone is in the mood.