aevaif I were a physicist I would simply not become death the destroyer of worlds
I can't believe someone replied to argue that am becoming death the destroyer of worlds was necessary, good even. "FOSS" in bio, go figure.
🇺🇦 haxadecimal 🚫👑@aeva I don't know about necessary, and certainly wouldn't claim it good. Perhaps less bad than some other reasonably plausible outcomes?
It seems remarkable that we've avoided any further use in anger for 78 years. I'm not optimistic that the record will stand for too much longer.
It seems remarkable that we've avoided any further use in anger for 78 years. I'm not optimistic that the record will stand for too much longer.
@brouhaha I just think it's weird that there's a ton of crumbling genocide machines that have a button that kills everyone and salts the earth for generations, and nobody wants to press that button and most if not all of these machines are older than I am.
If we stop and apply the "the purpose of a system is what it does" test, it would appear that the purpose of having a nuclear arsenal is to instill fear into the population that owns it, because it forever holds open the door to nuclear war.
@aeva Well said.
But then there's a nuclear power that has a narcissist in charge, who might have a tantrum and use them if he doesn't get his way.
At least for the moment there's only one such. We might go back there being two of them next year.
But then there's a nuclear power that has a narcissist in charge, who might have a tantrum and use them if he doesn't get his way.
At least for the moment there's only one such. We might go back there being two of them next year.
@brouhaha we could have zero of them. I think that would be best
@aeva Zero would be an EXCELLENT number. I'll do my small part to try to keep the number from doubling next year, but I don't know of anything I can do toward actually reducing it.