sooo they don't want the feds to draw the maps, but they want the feds to draw maps that they like, so the states can have/abrogate their responsibility simultaneously? I feel like i need a wall of crazy to work this out
You blubbering idiot, I'm not worried Russia is going to make a dirty bomb on purpose, I'm worried someone is going to accidently disturb the melted down core by mistake, most specifically letting it contaminate the aquifer, the river and the Black Sea. The original post was to point out that every nuclear waste containment system is a 20,000 year commitment made by a society that is driven by the next fiscal quarter, the next election or the next news cycle.
Not my point. People in very different geographic areas often have very different interests, but when you have a fixed number of representatives that hasn’t kept pace with population growth, one person ends up representing groups that are ridiculously far apart, geographically and politically. It’s dumb, and it hides political issues that actually have a lot to do with land. My congressional district, for instance, has been in the stranglehold of mining interests in both parties, while downstream communities like mine get completely screwed because the district extends so far west and south that the people who want a copper mine on every corner up north, plus people in the Twin Cities exurbs who don’t give a shit unless/until it affects the value of their vacation homes drown out the interests of even the one mid-size city in the district. Ten percent of the world’s fresh surface water is at stake, but we don’t live densely enough around it, so fuck us, right?
No, but a bomb is the least of my worries ab out nuclear material. Material so toxic that enough to wipe out all life on earth can be carried around in one truck. Now, add up how much of it there currently is, and explain to me how you plan to ensure none of it gets accidently dumped into a waterway that leads to the oceans, for the next 24,000 years. Or what kind of container can be made to hold it, or how we can promise that some madman doesn't find a bunch of it and just start spraying it out of aerosol sprayers.You can't, and no one can promise me that this deadly waste will be responsibly container for a period of time that is about twice all recorded history.
>Material so toxic that enough to wipe out all life on earth can be carried around in one truckYou are so confused. The level of purity for this to be true has no association with spent fuel.You know the opposition to nuclear power was primarily funded by oil and coal companies?
And the legislature decided to bury Lawrence – electorally, anyway – in the First District. Lawrence is half an hour from Missouri, while the First covers most of the (painfully red) western two-thirds of the state. It's more than a little symbolic that on the map of the new Big First, Lawrence looks like a vermiform appendix.
Transmutation could make it safe, at least in principle. You should make an effort and check this out.
Latin woman are even hotter
That is because people and not land vote.
You are an idiot.
So let's go with global climate change then?
You seriously think spent fuel can just be dropped in a bomb?
FFS.
sooo they don't want the feds to draw the maps, but they want the feds to draw maps that they like, so the states can have/abrogate their responsibility simultaneously? I feel like i need a wall of crazy to work this out
You blubbering idiot, I'm not worried Russia is going to make a dirty bomb on purpose, I'm worried someone is going to accidently disturb the melted down core by mistake, most specifically letting it contaminate the aquifer, the river and the Black Sea. The original post was to point out that every nuclear waste containment system is a 20,000 year commitment made by a society that is driven by the next fiscal quarter, the next election or the next news cycle.
Your ability to move goalposts is astounding. I am genuinely impressed.
Not my point. People in very different geographic areas often have very different interests, but when you have a fixed number of representatives that hasn’t kept pace with population growth, one person ends up representing groups that are ridiculously far apart, geographically and politically. It’s dumb, and it hides political issues that actually have a lot to do with land. My congressional district, for instance, has been in the stranglehold of mining interests in both parties, while downstream communities like mine get completely screwed because the district extends so far west and south that the people who want a copper mine on every corner up north, plus people in the Twin Cities exurbs who don’t give a shit unless/until it affects the value of their vacation homes drown out the interests of even the one mid-size city in the district. Ten percent of the world’s fresh surface water is at stake, but we don’t live densely enough around it, so fuck us, right?
Also thanks for being unbelievably fucking condescending. I had NO IDEA votes weren’t apportioned by acreage. 🙄
No, but a bomb is the least of my worries ab out nuclear material. Material so toxic that enough to wipe out all life on earth can be carried around in one truck. Now, add up how much of it there currently is, and explain to me how you plan to ensure none of it gets accidently dumped into a waterway that leads to the oceans, for the next 24,000 years. Or what kind of container can be made to hold it, or how we can promise that some madman doesn't find a bunch of it and just start spraying it out of aerosol sprayers.You can't, and no one can promise me that this deadly waste will be responsibly container for a period of time that is about twice all recorded history.
>Material so toxic that enough to wipe out all life on earth can be carried around in one truckYou are so confused. The level of purity for this to be true has no association with spent fuel.You know the opposition to nuclear power was primarily funded by oil and coal companies?
And the legislature decided to bury Lawrence – electorally, anyway – in the First District. Lawrence is half an hour from Missouri, while the First covers most of the (painfully red) western two-thirds of the state. It's more than a little symbolic that on the map of the new Big First, Lawrence looks like a vermiform appendix.
You are genuinely a babbling idiot.
I know. I grew up in Lawrence. It sickens me.
For sure, and cities would also get better representation. There would probably be a rep for almost every zip code in NYC, for example.