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Let’s be frank, the book was pro-fascism, and Heinlein was at the time himself pro-fascism. It’s still a good book, but calling it meditations on fascism sells it short.

Tell me, what is the likelihood that a publicly supported measure will become law on a federal level? And what about one that the public doesn’t support?

No, i feel that entirely. My issue is with supposed doctors prescribing pills like Candy for any little thing. The US has ridiculous rates of anti depressant use. We don’t release the data, but one study found 110 pills consumed per person. Our system isn’t set up to heal people, it’s set up to cover their gaping wounds with paper mache and send them back to work. I can hardly fault the people who went to a professional for help, nor their desire for some sort of salve against our toxic, corrosive society.

They may be aware of it, but they don’t seem to be pushing the appropriate solutions. If someone comes in with severe climate anxiety, the immediate solution may very well be to medicate in order to bring down the anxiety level, but the overall solution should not be to continue therapy and medication, but to embrace that anxiety and utilize it to educate and agitate for change.

In essence, I’m saying that anyone positing to be working on climate related mental health that doesn’t directly advocate for mass movement style populist changes to their charges and the society at large is a charlatan, because nothing they can prescribe will ever make things better in the long run, only make their patient care less.

If you can source an stl file or similar for what you want printed. For really small batches, there are people on Etsy who do commissions.

Surely, if we just give the police 80% of our cities budget instead of 70%, they’ll stop murdering innocent people and harassing minorities!

Many cities are literally being held hostage by their police force, who threaten to not only not do their jobs if held responsible for their actions or if their budget is lowered, in some instances police themselves will vow to become criminals if they are held to account.

The police system is literally strong men blackmailing entire communities into funding their own oppression.

Why would the training be any different than it has been previously? We don’t need more Dante Wrights training people, we need less police killing people. The easiest way to do that is to have less police and to give them less money. The majority of the functions police currently serve in our society are better served by civilians. Police departments take up to 70% of their entire cities budget, significantly cutting into programs that actually help people, like Eugene’s CAHOOTS program or subsidized housing.

You don’t lower crime by increasing criminalization. You lower crime by improving conditions for those most likely to commit criminal acts, the disaffected, the poor, the homeless, and the deranged. You lower crime by putting more money into direct methods of assistance, and preventing the situations that create criminality.

Even in instances where it is used for training, often the training itself is problematic.

See: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/04/daunte-wright-and-crisis-american-police-training/618649/

The answer is not to give more money to police, who already take on average between 30-70% of the entire budget in their cities. The answer is to work towards abolishing the police. This is done a few ways, all simultaneously, and a good first step is things like Eugene Oregons CAHOOTS program or Denver’s STARS program.

See: https://whitebirdclinic.org/what-is-cahoots/
And: https://www.denverpost.com/2022/02/20/denver-star-program-expansion/

Even if you believe in the myth that police are there to protect, 90% of the functions they currently serve have nothing to do with protection, but rather their primary purpose is to ensure compliance and subordination to the systems. Policing is inherently right wing work, and will forever attract primarily right wing individuals.

The vast majority of police functions could and are better served by civilians. So even in you believe that we need police, there’s evidence to show that we don’t need police performing nearly as many functions as they do now. If they are to remain, they should remain only as acute crisis response teams, on a primarily volunteer basis, much in the way the fire department works.

Thank you. I appreciate the response and data. I wonder what the difference in the WHO limit would be if, instead of being for drinking water, which enters and leaves your body the same day, it was for people to live 24/7 in a pool of water, as fish do. I imagine it would be a significantly lower number, but you’ve still done a lot to convince me this is safer than it sounds. Cheers!

I kinda feel like the size of the full ocean isn’t relevant to the effects of acute radiation exposure to the fish immediately in the area around the dumping zone. I’m not saying the whole ocean will be irradiated, or even the entirety of Japanese seas. But there will definitively be a section of the ocean, that, at least for the duration of the dumping of the (300 million gallons was it?) irradiated water will be exposed to significantly higher than acceptable amounts of radiation.

What I’m trying to figure out is not if this zone will exist, it will, period. What I’m trying to figure out is how big will that zone be, and will iT persist after dumping has completed? It could be just the 30ft immediately surrounding the outlet, or it could be 30mi, but I can’t seem to find any estimates, everyone is using the whole ocean as their metric, when I’m talking about the immediate area around the dumping area.

So if I understand you right, you’re saying that the dilution will be so quick that there will be no area immediately around the dumping zone with raised radiation levels? When I pour colored water into a bowl of regular water, the force of the water rushing in pushes the regular water out of the way, and the colored water stays mostly with its own kind, until it slowly spreads out to color the entire bowl of water. This would be different?

It will take quite a while for it to be diluted across the whole world, and in the meantime, those fish and animals living near the release zone will be receiving said doses, making it a perfectly reasonable stance to refuse to buy Japanese fish until we have some more hard data.

From what I’ve seen, two weeks in the water would be equivalent to the dose a flight attendant received in a full year, one of the highest radiation jobs out there. These fish live in that water 365 days a year though, not two weeks a year, so they’ll receive 25x that dose over the course of the year.

It’s gotta taste better than kombucha I guess lmao, and I drink that shit, so I don’t have much room to talk.

I’m good, I don’t even want to talk to myself when I’m all stinky Lmao.

If normie means taking showers, I’ll take that moniker gladly lmao. I’m a stinky fucker, I don’t care how neuro-divergent you are, you do not want to be around me if I’m not showering regularly.

You mean they gave money to the charity industrial complex? That means we gotta like them!

Is this really a post both gatekeeping poor hygiene and implying it is positive? Gross dude, take a fucking shower.

The amount I like the smell or taste of energy drinks is inversely correlated to the health of my diet. The healthier I get, the more stuff like that puts me off, to the point where it kinda makes me nauseated smelling them these days, so I feel you there.