ChonkyOwlbear @ ChonkyOwlbear @lemmy.world

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Yeah, because their parents are dying and leaving their kids an inheritance.

It really should be a law that Congress can only get a pay raise if they raise the federal minimum wage by a proportionate amount.

It doesn't depend on an ever growing population. It depends on a certain percentage of people dying before they collect.

60+ years ago medical science was a lot worse than today. They were still giving people lobotomies and using leaded gas in the 50s and 60s. They knew the acute effects of radiation but some of the long term effects did not become apparent until decades later. Just because you survive the initial blast, does not mean you escape harm. Suburban areas as much as 20 miles downwind could receive severe fallout.

I wouldn't trust the bunkers to be able to maintain a consistent supply of air, water, and electricity for extended periods of time. Once you have to flee to the surface, you have to contend with not only radiation but a complete collapse of infrastructure and social services. Fires will burn unchecked with fire departments dead or overwhelmed and broken gas lines stoking fires among the rubble. Water supplies will be interrupted or tainted. Electrical services will probably have failed along with cell and internet. Roads will be blocked by debris and abandoned vehicles, so even if anyone wanted to risk radiation to bring in supplies, it would be extremely difficult. Deaths from thirst or starvation will follow the deaths from radiation.

Hiroshima had about 250,000 people and conservatively 66k were killed and another 69k were injured from the initial blast. The final total killed is between 90k-166k. Now extrapolate that to cities with 10x the population hit by a bomb that affects 10x the area. Now imagine 10 cities like this being hit at once. Social collapse would be inevitable and nobody is going to be able to outlast that in a bunker.

Due to the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, the majority of bombs since 1962 were detonated underground to limit fallout dispersion.

Also keep in mind that A-bombs like were dropped in Japan killed everyone within a 1 mile radius. Modern warheads are H-bombs which kill everyone in a 5-10 mile radius.

It would be supremely ironic if Mangione goes free because the prosecution can't prove the terrorism part of the charge.

You can get a terabyte SSD for like $50 these days. It might be worth it to just upgrade.

Damn immigrants....

I'm betting on the mystery illness spreading in the Congo right now.

Not if there isn't sufficient infrastructure to charge them they wont

Not as easy as it sounds. What people want and what they need are often different. Americans want gas powered cars (69%), not EV cars. But we need to switch to electric ASAP.

Instead of Jews, it's Hispanics. Instead of gypsies, it's the homeless. And instead of trans people....well that one is the same.

It's a result of any stage of capitalism

I can't wait for crime to spike in Trump's term and then have Biden blamed for it because of this.

There's a lot of fake "bronze" stuff coming out of China, so keep an eye out.

In linguistics this is called expletive infixation. It's a good example of the inherent grammar of language that we are never directly taught but know anyway. For example, we know fanfuckingtastic is correct but fantafuckingstic is wrong.

It's an offshoot of a group Paul Manafort has worked for since the end of the Trump presidency, so I would say that's a sure bet.

The latest genetic tracing points to the origin being the animals sold at the market in Wuhan.

https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(24)00901-2

They are a dark money group, so they hide their donors. The founders are Ted Cruz's PR guy and a personnel guy from Trump's presidency. It was created in 2020 specifically to obstruct Biden.

There is still a good chance their plans will fail due to incompetence or greed. If that doesn't happen, there will be a lot of people without much left to lose.