I will probably never care about “climate change solutions”, but I’m happy to support this campaign to rehabilitate nuclear power, because it is a very good idea.

Japan seems to be doing ok.

Maybe they’re just expecting to get trust busted and turned into a utility, like AT&T?

I wish ATT was a utility. Maybe then, the payments for my mobile phone would not have gone towards purchasing a dying business like DirecTV, or Time Warner Media, or funded racist television channels radicalizing my countrymen. Imagine all that funding going towards rolling out fiber to the home and making mobile networks better.

Great movie. This bit sums up my feelings:

> Basically any quibbles or hesitations are erased by images like the above, of the Bene Gesserit departing that spaceship, and about which I can only say: That’s fucking sick as hell. This shit rules.

You probably want to start with the glossary and historical notes at the back. Otherwise, yeah, the first time through will not make much sense.

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” - C. S. Lewis

Yep, sampling bias.

Most religions are not about life satisfaction, they’re about afterlife satisfaction...

Afterlife satisfaction is just a method of control. It's not what religions are about per se.

Well, that was a tsunami that killed ~10,000 people, so maybe not exactly like Fukushima.

I suspect this is true of all countries, after enough time.

After enough time it’s simply swamped by random noise. Killing person X might avoid or cause WWIII.

That said, killing several million extra people without any forms of lockdown would have also had very serious economic repercussions. People would have started voluntarily staying home even if it meant quitting their jobs and thus presumably making them ineligible for unemployment insurance etc. Some stay at home orders might have actually minimized economic disruption, though we simply don’t know.

>killing several million extra people without any forms of lockdown would have also had very serious economic repercussions

Political, too. Some heads would be bound to roll after that election cycle, in Argentina the ruling party that mishandled the economic and sanitary aspects of the campaign, lost about 30~40% of their electorate and indirectly caused the emergence of a liberal movement in a country that previously was overwhelmingly pro-welfare state.

I think the political consequences would be more of an incentive not to try this, the economic part is just a statistic.

I don't think anybody is arguing that lockdown cons don't outweigh the pros after an arbitrarily long time.