Here's a simple fact, there are Chinese nuclear plants that are releasing more tritium into the ocean during normal operations than Fukushima is, or ever will.
Another simple fact, all the tritium released worldwide is basically negligible when you look at the diffusion rates in ocean water.
I've got no clue what China is really wanting with the seafood ban, but it's not to punish Japan for releasing Fukushima water.
Well, Pepsi was originally sold as a miracle cure for Dyspepsia. (or upset stomach)
Dyspepsia was a massive problem at the time, as food safety laws didn't exist. And neither did refrigeration. So the food available in cities was often expired, and then slathered in toxic chemicals to hide the fact that it was expired.
Coca-Cola was also first marketed as a medicine, but for headaches and hangovers. Cocaine and caffeine might work on a headache or hangover...
See, they live in a distorted reality, because advisors who don't tell them what they want to hear, are often no longer their advisors. Sometimes they simply no longer are.
The second part of the dictator trap is loyalty. Fear does not engender loyalty. Fear leads to greed. So with people actively lying to the dictator, they see it as given that they will skim a little off the top for themselves. For any unexpected retirements that they have.
The dictator knows that his people are crooked, but he also knows that he would not be the dictator without them. So he trusts that he has eyes on everything, but then he cannot actually trust his advisors to tell him the truth, because of part one of the dictator trap.
And this cycle just feeds back into itself endlessly.
Most mass shooters are actually right wing nutjobs.
Take this one, he was part of a right-wing militia.
While he did have a metal issue, he also had access to far too many guns, and then continued access after threatening to go on a mass shooting. All because he was part of a "militia".
I had forgotten about this game... I put it on a wishlist ages ago waiting for a sale...
And it turns out, that sale happened a while back when my old computer was dead. I've had my new computer for months now and this game in my library and not remembered that I had it.
I like GURPS as my main system. It's point based, and higher point values tend to give more breadth rather than depth.
For example, a 500 point character can possibly be killed by a 25 point goblin.
Starting point values are usually 100 to 150, or 250 for more epic games. 500 is usually the realm of supers. As in Superheroes... Those games are a bit rare. Superheroes are just too reactionary. As in, you mostly wait around for villians to start something, then catch them, then wait around again... Now, a supervillians campaign, those are fun.
It's not even a gun rights thing. It goes deeper. The conservative movement has the ideal of the Pater Familias, the male head of the family who holds the power of life and death over the members. In every way that matters, the Pater Familias owns their wife and children.
That's the traditional family that they want to bring back.
The thing is, even in ancient Rome (where the term was created) the community would often step in and take the family away if the abuse got too bad.
All throughout human history, if a husband beat his family too much, the other men in the community might "have a word" with him. Sometimes that was a quiet conversation, and sometimes it was a beating with the wife and kids staying suddenly with her sister.
It was only after we started living in cities that people started "minding their own business".
And yes, there have always been abusers who have been clever about hiding their abuse. But the conservative ideal of a man who could do whatever he wanted to his own family, never actually existed.
The survivors of the cult splintered and became a bit of a running gag, but yes, the players were a bit pissed that the big bad of that part of the campaign was dead off screen.
I don't really do a singular big bad... Just groups and factions and madmen wanting power.
The players run into some of it. And hear tails of other adventurers solving some of it off screen. Which is what they thought happened at first until the wizard made a great roll and spotted an error in the ritual circle.
See, this shit wouldn't throw me. As a DM I love improve in my plot lines. Hell, I often don't plan things out past laying out the world and enemy motivations.
Sure my big bad has goals, but they have to work for them just as much as anyone else does. One of the most fun (for me) campaigns I ever ran was where the big bad conducted a ritual off screen, and botched the roll. He ended up killing himself.
The party knew that he had been planning a ritual of some sort and had gone into seclusion. They had decided to dismantle his organization before tracking him down.
So weeks of fighting and taking out little hidden cells of the cult, they finally find info about where the big bad was doing his ritual. Only to find a mangled rotting corpse and a closed hell portal.
I can sort of understand a life long R voter supporting him in 2016. The news at the time didn't really dig into his nonsense too much, and the worst of his criminality was not on full display.
2020? No. There's less of an excuse.
After Jan 6th? Those people are insane and need to not be allowed in public until they spend a long time watching something other than the conservative brainwashing channels.
Here's a simple fact, there are Chinese nuclear plants that are releasing more tritium into the ocean during normal operations than Fukushima is, or ever will.
Another simple fact, all the tritium released worldwide is basically negligible when you look at the diffusion rates in ocean water.
I've got no clue what China is really wanting with the seafood ban, but it's not to punish Japan for releasing Fukushima water.