alt Hacker NewsYeah the weird thing about living in a democracy is you have to convince people who don't agree with you to do things. Maybe try better politics rather than attacks or else you'll go another 30 years of no nuclear power then die without realizing your dream of nearly free clean unlimited power.
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chii • today at 5:40 AM
> people who don't agree with you to do things.
the problem is that those people who don't agree with me are also not taking the externalized cost of non-action.
pitaj • today at 12:10 AM
Nuclear restrictions were instituted by beurocratic means, not democratic means.
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It’s 10x easier to destroy things and block stuff than it is to build anything.
As witnessed by the US inability to build anything for a generation or two. It’s all NIMBY (or worse) all the time.
Anti-anything is fighting a nearly unwinnable asymmetric political fight these days. Eventually times will get hard enough where this flips, but we are nowhere close to that yet.