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Volcanically speaking, fertile soil. And where there's a volcano, there are also bound to be Earthquakes. At least if were talking about subduction zones. The key problem imo though is that people aren't able to actually comprehend the risk even if they're aware of it. They'll think that because the disasters are usually so far apart on a time scale, like hundreds of years. That it cannot happen to them.

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I wasn't expecting that at all. Amnesia.. I guess it's going around.

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Active subduction zone that is approaching in recurrence interval, packed city, overhead powerlines. Truly, what could go wrong. Harold Camping might as well have predicted "the big one". There's been talk for a long time about that. I'm okay with another earthquake 100-300 years from now. I don't know who that is. Geologically speaking, the recurrence interval isn't exactly a precise thing. It's based only on a few points of data to make a statistic. It ranges from 300 to 600 years for the Cascadia subduction zone. And the last Earthquake was in 1700. Recurrence interval aside, the other problem is with the stress involved in this particular subduction zone, it's not going to be a small tremor when it drops.

Active subduction zone that is approaching in recurrence interval, packed city, overhead powerlines. Truly, what could go wrong.

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Which is rooted in human nature. I don't think it's the human norm to avoid responsibility and accountability. Parenting is proof of that much at least. Parents, generally become protective of their children. Even going so far as to take responsibility for them when they do bad things. I think the lack of responsibility and accountability is rooted in society and the nature of larger groups, not the nature of the individuals in general. When a person becomes a part of an organization, any responsibility or accountability pertaining to incidents that relate to the organization is placed on the organization as a whole. This can lessen the responsibility of the individual. The tendency of people to abandon ship at companies while shoving the responsibility and accountability onto the people below them is a decent enough example. And like you said, ethnic labels, social classes, etc. They also fit the bill as "groups" Perhaps that really is rooted in Human nature. I don't know, my own nature is telling me otherwise but I guess that's possible. If that's the case is it really human nature if not all human beings possess it? Or is avoiding responsibility and accountability really just a choice that different people with different experiences answer differently. Anyway, back to the Nuclear power plant. Even if the new design reduces the time it takes for the waste to decay, the waste itself is still a problem. It cannot be simply stored on site. It has to be buried and that leaves hundreds of years for the waste to breach its immediate containment, then breach the containment of it's surroundings and finally end up in our ground water. Which I shouldn't need to emphasize on how bad that would be. Also, with Nuclear power it's not a matter of what could go wrong. Even if the chances are less than for someone to be hit by lightning, it's the exceptions that are the problem. As even just one or two exceptions can fuck up the entire planet. Why stick to that risk when it's a non-renewable resource to begin with. doesn't it make more sense to use a resource that is renewable and then invest to make it as efficient as possible?

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I don't think the problems are rooted in human nature. I think most of our problems right now are rooted in a lack of individual responsibility and accountability.

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I don't think that would work in today's world. Governments aren't much different from the companies that pay for their campaigns.

Keep in mind that companies, organizations and governments work on a longer time scale than citizens do. The problems of the previous generations for us are not our priorities, we weren't there, and we are quite likely not even aware of them. Of course that means that any group with even the most basic mission plan can get what they want so long as they can stall for time. And yes, indifference. The tried and true medicine for which is loss.

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haha I raise you with some Takamura from Hajime no Ippo.

The fan in my laptop sounds like an old propeller airplane that's running out of fuel. I sometimes wonder if it's squeaking is some kind of call for me to put it out of it's misery.

Which can be greatly reduced or eliminated if the new reactor designs ever manage to get past the hippies and start getting built. Heck, we're running out of space probe fuel because there's actually a SHORTAGE of Plutonium. Just what exactly is this new reactor design that will greatly reduce or eliminate nuclear waste? Space probe's wouldn't be able to even use up 0.1% of the current nuclear waste. And the space programs around the world are in a decline, so lets not even go there.

That was fucking hilarious. Great stuff Ross.

Fuck yes. I love Sonic Mayhem. Honestly, quake II, best metal soundtrack for a game of all time.

Yeah nuclear power is incredibly safe so long as you ignore the slow decaying waste it produces.

I think it's also reasonable to suggest that some of the more complicated emotions arose from human's becoming more and more social creatures over thousands of years.

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There's been quite a lot of research on the subject. Instinctual emotions come from the Amygdala while cognitive emotions from the prefrontal cortex http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion Maybe the key being that they're located in different lobes of the brain.

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+1 Though I may have concerns about same sex couples adopting children. I don't care about the couples right in that regard, but I do think children should have the right to grow up in a biologically normal household. As a same sex couple has a very good chance of influencing the child to be biased against the gender that isn't present. Child psychology is an interesting thing. It doesn't require the couple to even speak ill or have any views on the other gender. The very act of the couple preferring the same sex, could be viewed by the child as the other gender being not good enough. And that is not the kind of influence a child needs. I wouldn't know what it could sprout into but I see no reason to increase the potential problems that society is already laced with.