2/ now I'm daydreaming of a world sort of like A Canticle for Leibowitz, except after the nuclear war, the enraged crowds of survivors don't drag scientists out of the ruins and beat them to death, but instead think-piece authors
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3/ one huge problem in modern society is diffusion of responsibility https://ethicsunwrapped.utexas.edu/glossary/diffusion-of-responsibility … people sit around and chant "won't someone rid us of this meddlesome priest / foreign politicians / American billionaire", and no one picks up a knife and gets blood on their own hands
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4/ bringing back duelling would be interesting Sen Warren: Elon Musk doesn't pay his fair share Elon Musk: I paid more taxes than anyone in history. Retract your lie or pick up a Bowie Knife. I'll see you in front of the Washington monument tomorrow at noon.
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5/ I'd likely live about 12 hours in such a world. I never ever retract !@# unless it's factually wrong. Go !@# your feelings. But ... that's cool. 12 based hours, and then going out on my feet. One sure way to avoid the next 20 years of income tax.
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"I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed. But I do say no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops. Uh, depending on the breaks." Noah, unironically
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“I’m perfectly willing to crack some eggs to make an omelet as long as they’re not my eggs.”
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yeah I feel confident with our risk exposure here
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Idk about you but I was pretty comforted to learn there isn't much scientific basis for nuclear winter
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It's entirely fucking alien to me that anyone would think that even a limited nuclear war would fall into the category of "things that aren't that bad, tbh".
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I’ve long held the theory that most of America wouldn’t really notice if an asteroid fell on Washington DC. Yeah, it would suck to lose all that history, but it’s not like they produce anything of value.
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