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"...we have no choice but to live in somebody’s future — the question is whether it’s somebody with a plan or somebody with a neurosis."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3149680/ :

"Women have been found to score higher than men on Neuroticism as measured at the Big Five trait level, as well as on most facets of Neuroticism included in a common measure of the Big Five, the NEO-PI-R."

Hm.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/153452/americans-favor-nuclear-power-year-fukushima.aspx :

"Men and women have sharply different attitudes about nuclear power, differences that are larger than those found between partisan, ideological, age, and educational segments of the population. Men favor nuclear power as a source of electricity by a 72% to 27% margin. But 51% of women oppose it, with 42% in favor. The same large gender gap exists in terms of views of the safety of nuclear power plants. The wide gender gap in attitudes about nuclear power has been found in previous years' surveys as well."

Interesting.

https://datausa.io/profile/cip/bioethics-medical-ethics?degree-grads_ethnicity_gender=degree7 :

"This chart shows the granted degrees by sex at the 5 institutions that graduate the most students in Bioethics & Medical Ethics: [Female 69.4%]"

You don't say.

"Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn't be that women are the exception."

---Ruth Bader Ginsburg

And here we are. All cozy and safe in the Longhouse.

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Men who support nuclear power must support big government, given the subsidies and other exemptions required to encourage that industry.

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I’m disquieted with the vaccine crowd getting behind nuclear power.

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Another industry that happens to need immunity to being sued. Insurers won't touch it.

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Just wait till they get behind genetic engineering.

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🧟‍♂️🧟‍♀️🧟

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It will be way worse than that. Imagine what youngsters who craft their own genders after getting advice from trannies on Tik Tok are going to ask the staff at the fertility clinics for. We are a long way from peak insanity.

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You sound like a chick pretending to be a libertarian. What energy sector ISN'T heavily regulated / subsidized by the modern state?

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They all are, but nuclear produces about 10% of the world's electricity. Electricity accounts for about 10% of fossil fuel energy use. 10 of 10 is 1%.

Nuclear was invented to produce material for weapons. Fusion research exists to test those weapons in the face of the test ban treaty.

Correction: nuclear is 4% of primary energy production; transportation is 10% of fossil fuel use.

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not sure I'm following this discussion, but it may be relevant that acc. to Bloomberg, the US will join several other nations at COP28 in proposing a global tripling of nuclear power by 2050. My take is even the Greens are starting to realize that wind and solar don't cut it.

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I believe it's likely that nuclear will be built up, especially in developing countries. But it isn't the source of limitless energy that proponents make it out to be.

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Good point. One expects safetyism in women, and in fact it is totally understandable from an evolutionary perspective. Whereas, men must take risks. In the US, at least, safetyism takes hold right after feminism becomes a mass movement.

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