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[–] Hegar@fedia.io 60 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Burning down your house doesn't poison people thousands of years later, so it's not a perfect analogy.

Plus we have magic mirrors and magic fans that do the same thing as the magic rocks just way cheaper.

[–] CleoTheWizard@lemmy.world 17 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

We’ve upgraded from burning our houses down to burning our atmosphere down which will absolutely poison humans for centuries to come. And since we now burn larger fires with black rocks, those release far more magic rock dust that poisons people than the magic rock water heaters do. Not to mention that fire has both killed more of us cave dwellers than magic rocks ever have (including the flying weaponry runes made from them) and have caused more ecological disasters, so fire is much worse.

Then we talk magic mirrors, they have evil rocks in them that get in our rivers and we don’t contain well. That aside, we show tradition to our ancestors by making much of them with slavery.

And the magic fans? The design is very human. They’d be a gift from the gods if only the spirit of the wind were always with us.

Summary: Magic rock still good, black rocks and black water make bad fire and hairless monkey make sick more.

[–] Gutek8134@lemmy.world 6 points 6 hours ago

I love the wording in here

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[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 16 points 7 hours ago (8 children)

One time? Wikipedia says over 100 serious incidents and lists about 30 of them. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nuclear_and_radiation_accidents_and_incidents&wprov=rarw1

It's fine if you like nuclear, just don't try and claim it was one time. It poses serious risk and should be treated as such.

[–] frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe 3 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Just put it somewhere noone lives like the Dakotas or places people who don't matter live, like west Virginia. All the coal miners getting cancer anyway, why not double tap?

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[–] NONE_dc@lemmy.world 85 points 11 hours ago (4 children)

Well, you see, the "Anti Magic Rock" Lobby has immense amount of power because of the money of the still lucrative "burning stuff and pollute everything" business.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 8 points 6 hours ago

It's the "Burning other magic rocks" party.

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[–] kbal@fedia.io 41 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Step 1: Get magic rocks.

Step 2: Now design the rest of the nuclear reactor.

[–] 667@lemmy.radio 17 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Step 3: ???

Step 4: Profit.

[–] Bosht@lemmy.world 33 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I always wonder where we would actually be at as a civilization if it weren't for fuckass lobbyists and money hoarding greedy assholes. This is a perfect example. If we'd learned from our mistakes and actually improved on nuclear energy there's no telling where we'd be at this point.

[–] NeatoBuilds@mander.xyz 8 points 7 hours ago

But the profits!

[–] _bcron_@lemmy.world 28 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

"Right in the heart of it is an itty bitty windmill and that just don't sit right with me" - That one cousin at Thanksgiving

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