Fukushima is leaking radioactive material into the ocean, the “containment” pool there rises and falls with the tides, and TEPCO is, as always, minimizing. Lather, rinse, repeat.
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
Fight for a just cause, love your fellow man, live a good life.
When we show up, we win.
If you can’t control your emotions, someone else will.
The republican ‘Pastor’ of the House is an odious authoritarian little creep.
We need to vote them all out and restore sane Democratic government.
The real work of an opposition party is to oppose.
If a good thing happens for a bad reason, it’s still a good thing.
Compromise? There is no middle ground between a firefighter and an arsonist.
Optimism opens the door to great things.
“Facilitate” is an active verb, not a weasel word.
Innocent people do not delay justice.
Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.
Fundamental belief of white supremacy: white people are presumed innocent, minorities are presumed guilty.
Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.
I did not have this on my fuck 2025 bingo card.
Stamping your little feets and demanding that they see how important you are? Not working anymore.
Hey Washington Post, “Democracy Dies in Darkness” was supposed to be a warning, not a mission statement.
Today’s gop: why go just far enough when too far is right there?
America is going up in flames. The NYTimes fawns over MAGA celebrities. No longer a real newspaper.
I have other things to bitch about but those will have to wait.
Polls are now a reliable indicator of what corporate Republicans want us to think.
Fight them, without becoming them!
So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.
Giving in to doom is how we fail to fight for ourselves & one another.
Carnacki
And a new Godzilla movie is in the works. Coincidence? Or are we being prepared by our secret rulers for the disaster that lies ahead?
Belafon
“Lat[h]er, rinse, repeat.”
If you do it in the water there, you won’t have to do it for to long.
Linda Featheringill
I saw something about that. Sucks. Royally.
Of course, it is a given that humans are so hellbent on destruction that they are doomed to extinction.
CaseyL
@Linda Featheringill: It’s hard to think of a way to rectify humankind’s impact on the global ecosystem that doesn’t involve a massive die-off of one sort or another. Worse: much of the poison we leave behind will stick around and be toxic for a long, long time.
sparrow
@CaseyL: In Biology/Medicine it’s called a “self-limiting infection”, where the invader bacterium or virus will basically be walled off, consume resources until exhausted, and then die off entirely thus ending the infection…
Humans are a self-limiting infection of the Earth. Either we purposely reduce our birthrate and numbers as soon as possible, or mother nature/the universe/reality will do it for us, in a violent way.
Montysano
@CaseyL:
As George Carlin noted, in what is maybe the most brilliant of his many brilliant pieces, the planet will be just fine.
Bendal
A not so minor comment. The “containment” pool you mention that is ‘rising and falling with the tide’ is an underground storage trench used to hold contaminated water used in cooling one of the reactors until it can be treated. In nuclear parlance, a “containment pool” is the water bath spent reactor rods are placed in to dissipate their heat as the remaining nuclear fuel in them decays.
LanceThruster
Mah. Thur. Fah. Curse.
Fred Fnord
Which puts me in mind of another headline, lo these many years ago: ‘Gorbachev Sings Tractors! Turnip! Buttocks!‘
mere mortal
The ocean is probably the absolute best place for any radioactive leak to go. The water directly around the plant will be dangerous (hopefully not any beach-goers there anyway), but otherwise it should quickly disperse and be indistinguishable from background radiation.
This is far, far better than stories I had read soon after the disaster, where radiation might be making it into groundwater / drinking water supplies.
tones
At least the EPA has changed the safety limits so there is no longer any reason to worry…
A few years ago yeah, this would be deadly dangerous.
Now, it is within safe margins…
yay.
Cermet
Yet we all want energy, cars, AC in the summer, heat in the winter, power and (I, too) bitch about AGW … the Candu reactor is very safe compared to any other existing reactor by far and helps with AGW but do we encourage that design? No. Dumb.
steve s
Coal plants produce more radiation than nuke plants do
We shouldn’t be doing either. In a sane country, we’d have spent the Iraq war money on enormous solar thermal plants and storage facilities. Could have shut down every last coal plant in the US.
Just One More Canuck
Somewhat ot, but there’s a documentary called “Chopin Saved My Life” (aired on TVO here in Ontario) – it’s about two young pianists who got through terrible events in their lives by playing Chopin’s Ballade No 1. One of the subjects was a 15 year old girl from Sendai who takes solace from the devastation in the music
billB
AND here in Oregon the Rethuglican Newspaper is running a multi-day attack on our massive new
[Awesome] wind farm.
All for one and one for Mittens RMoney.
And now we have seen that the Jap. Gov. is endangering the world [again] and the UN should step in with a multi-national crisis team to stabilize
the poisoning of the entire pacific ocean.
Maybe Hopey Obamster could step in…. Seriously someone tell Michelle, she will get something done. She will be retired in Hawaii which will be washed with Jap. Gov. radiation for decades.
Ben
@billB:
Your ideas do not intrigue me, and I wish only to hear of your love for pie.