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Comment Re:“ leaving five plans circling” (Score 1) 20

Isn't there a default "holding pattern" if bleep happens? I think they talk among themselves to each pick a unique altitude level, and then circle there and wait for further instruction. When the problem clears, the jets with the least fuel land first (or land if just plain run out).

Comment Not a simple question (Score 1) 81

false narrative that the possession of these nuclear weapons is actually making us safer when they're not.

I suspect it trades one kind of problem for another. While the world has been on average more peaceful after WW2*, it's also possible that a war between superpowers could wipe out the majority of humans and animal life in something comparable to the Permian Extinction Event.

Even as an energy source, nuclear power has often presented a choice between small continuous problems (like carbon smog) versus headline-making events like 3 Mile Island and Chernobyl.

* History is war after war, peace was a fluke.

Comment Re:what value? (Score 1) 118

didn't lose their political and first amendment rights when they work together with other humans using a structured organization.

Limiting corporations doesn't limit what they can still do as individuals. Their individual rights don't go away if they form a corporation. Sorry, but Walmart is NOT a fucking "person"!

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