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  • Hey I didn’t say that. The two Black Panther movies deal with some pretty heavy socioeconomic themes,

    1. Black Panther - Wakanda is a hidden, restricted ethnostate that comes under a coup by a racial supremacist with fascist imperialst ambitions. T’Challa decides to open the country up to the greater world instead of keeping the status quo.
    2. Wakanda forever - Wakanda’s technological hegemony is challenged by another nation that has equal access said technology, the parallel between the USA/USSR and Atomic weapons for Vibrainium is obvious. Ultimately Shuri decides to make peace instead of continue the cold war.

    So they films aren’t without any intelletcual merit. They just dress these themes with a lot of explosions and asskicking.





  • Sorry, but I simply do not agree. Regulatory agencies are only effective when politicians aren’t taking bribes to kneecap them, which Trump has proved happens on a regular basis. There can and will be another Fukushima scale nuclear accident, somewhere, some day. I would not like to live next to whichever plant gets hit with the bad luck. I’m not saying nuclear power isn’t “safe,” just saying when the shit hits the fan I’d like to be nowhere near it.

    I mean, you can live near one all you want, go right ahead. It’s not for me.

    By the way, there are many actual valid NIMBY points against highways, airports, datacenters, aluminium plants etc. There are air pollution and noise laws in reasonable countries for this reason.

    Yeah but living near those things just “sucks.” When things go bad at an airport they don’t have to permanently evacuate everyone in a 20 mile radius.