#FearMongering

[thatonesketchyaxolotl]

im extremely disappointed to see people in the dteam fandom pointing and laughing at the hermitcraft fandom for having drama at the moment

we have no information about what happened. it could be as mild as some people not being a good fit for hermitcraft any longer, and assuming its something horrible does nothing except stress people out. iskall and stress have resigned, mumbo jumbo has said that no minors are involved, and we have no more information than that.

seeing everybody assuming iskall and stress both did horrible things, and using that as a "take that!" against the hermit fans... thats not good. xisuma (the guy who runs hermitcraft, for those unaware) has handled this incredibly well, keeping details at a minimum to protect peoples privacy.

anybody demanding more information, im sorry to say that a) youre likely not getting it and b) learn to respect ccs privacy over interpersonal issues amongst themselves

hermitcraft fans, i am deeply sorry for any rude comments youve gotten from this side of mcytblr. im also a hermitcraft fan, and seeing iskall and stress go saddens me. i hope you can all heal from this as quickly as possible.

[rebel-girl-queen-of-my-world]

[rjalker]

"if a nonbinary person on the internet tells you that their friends/family/coworkers accept and respect them and use their neopronouns they're lying to you to put you in danger! no one will ever respect you or your xenogender or neopronouns!!!"

I hope you suffer every day of your life you gods damned fear-mongering liar.

Hey people who use neopronouns. People with xenogenders.

You will find people who will respect you. No, people do not just go online and lie about being accepted by the people around them.

If someone is telling you that you will never be accepted for who you are, block them. They're fearmongering and spreading exorsexism. It is not an impossible task for people to respect us. People respect neopronoun users even offline. Anyone who tells you otherwise is a self-hating fearmongering liar who is miserable and wants you to be miserable too.

My coworkers back when I wasn't too disabled to work anymore used my it/its pronouns. The only person who ever said anything rude about it was a random customer whose face I got to laugh in.

Do not listen to people who tell you that no one will ever respect you as though it's some insurmountable task. It's basic fucking common courtesy and you deserve people who will show you it, and you will find them eventually.

Anyone who tells you that using neopronouns "doesn't work ~in the real world~" because they're "unprofessional" is not someone you need to listen to.

Everyone who exists online also exists offline. Everyone who respects neopronouns online also respects them offline. And guess what? There's a ton of people who respect neopronouns who don't even use social media.

You will find people who will respect you. Do not let anyone convince you you just have to give up and stay in the closet forever, even if they're trying to frame it as "for your own good". Those people are not your friends.

[porterdavis]

[alpaca-clouds]

About Nucear Permanent Disposal Sites

So, a couple of days ago someone commented under my one blog about nuclear energy what boiled down to: "But what about the waste? We need to take responsibility for the next thousands of years of humanity!" And yes, that is very much the favorite argument for the anti-nuclear lobby... and it is pretty much based on the science of the 1980s.

What a lot of people do not understand is:

How little nuclear waste we actually have.

How little of that waste is actually the highly radiating stuff.

How well we can contain this stuff.

That we actually have figured out a solution for permanent disposal.

First need about nuclear waste you have to understand that most of it is not that dangerous. Most of the waste we get out of the nuclear facilities is actually just stuff that was around the radiation and got slightly radiated. 90% of all nuclear waste is stuff like items that just happened to be within the nuclear facilities for a long while. Tools, wortk clothing and so on. This stuff radiates, yes, but it is technically not dangerous levels AND it will stop doing so within 100 years max. We literally do not need to worry about it. Those yellow barrels you will keep seeing in old media that somehow end up mutating people? Yeah, those are used for this kind of waste. And to be quite frank, we are super extra that we store this either way. Because we have waste from other types of facilities (like coal power, but also from places like airport) where this kinda waste also happens and we... just throw it away normally.

Then there is about 7% of nuclear waste that is a bit more radiated. This is mostly metal parts and such that were in direct contact with the nuclear elements. This gets more radiated and as such will radiate for a longer time. But, this, too, is radation that will be gone or down to safe levels within a few centuries.

Only 3% is waste, that is high-level radiating and even from this not all will radiate for millennia! In fact we have gotten real good with recycling this high-level waste and if we are now talking SciFi scenarios like Solarpunk, we could actually just switch to thorium based reactors, where almost all of it is recyclable.

But... Even with the high level radiating stuff that we cannot recycle and need to permanently store, we... actually long have a solution for it.

You have to realize that those fuel cells are actually pretty small. And that we have materials that can basically protect you from the radiation. So, we basically just take those small spend fuel cells, put them into glass, put that into several layers of metal, put all of that into a deep, deep hole the ground and then fill everything up with clay. And... done.

Chances are: Nobody is gonna find it. Because it is gonna be so deep underground. Even if they did: It is protected enough that nobody is gonna die of radiation poisoning directly. Not only that: But the best rock material to burry this stuff in, is already radiating. So... Like, duh. We already have super radiactive stuff in nature.

And even if someone got radiation poisoning... Unless you suppose that humans of the future are dumber than most animals... They will learn: "Dude died. Area bad. Do not dig there."

Scientifically speaking... The entire nuclear waste thing is such a fucking non-issue, that keeps getting pushed up mostly by fossil fuels (that, again, also produce radiating waste!) to keep folks from going for a full renewable + nuclear energy mix. Aka: The clean option.

The reason why so many politicians do not just agree to those disposal options is that a) they do not understand it themselves and b) nor do their constituents and there is sooooo much fearmongering about this going on.

Again, I am not saying that we should go full nuclear energy. But rather for an energy mix of renewables and nuclear. Be CO2 neutral. Because I can tell you one thing: If we do not do that, there are not gonna be humans in 3023 we have to worry about. Because they are all fucking dead, with the planet being inhospitable to life.

[dougielombax]

Nobody is eating anybody’s pets!

Especially not Haitian people!

If anyone tells you otherwise, they are lying, and they KNOW that they are lying!

[deepbreakfast]

"I must not fear.

Fear is the mind-killer.

Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.

I will face my fear.

I will permit it to pass over me and through me.

And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path.

Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."

[greencheekconure27]

When you try fearmongering about "escalation" in Ukraine but you don't even know how many World Wars we've had:

[creature-wizard]

New Age and Christian conspiracy theorists alike both insist that they aren't trying to scare you; they're trying to inform you so that you can protect and liberate yourself. Both insist that it's the other people doing the fearmongering. Not them, though. They can't be fearmongering because they're doing it out of love.

Thing is, this is literally how fearmongering works. Fearmongering isn't about scaring people for the sake of scaring them. It's the stick in a carrot-and-stick deal - "you listen to me and do x, y, and z, and then you'll be safe."

If you've done your fearmongering right, your followers don't feel afraid at all. They feel protected and powerful.

[immaculatasknight]

Give them the fear of God

[caparrucia]

Writers, I love you but you're not entitled to an audience.

People are not obligated to read your work just because you posted it. There's no malign, evil conspiracy destroying fandom at the seams because you didn't get engagement.

AO3 is an archive. It means you put stuff in it, so it will be preserved. It's not the systems fault that you decided it was the Validation Machine instead, and that you convinced yourself it's a transaction that's taking place: you put in words, you get validation. It's not. It's an archive. That's it. That's all it is.

Posting stuff and getting comments or kudos or bookmarks are two completely distinct and separate things. Stop listening to the monkey brain trying to force a correlation. You're smarter than that. You deserve to not live like that.

Writers, your audience owes you jackshit.

But hey, you owe them about the same, so take comfort in that.

[voidpunkanathema]

But are the multi-millionaire disability faking scammers that got rich off panhandling in the room with us right now

[rebel-girl-queen-of-my-world]

[rjalker]

A new version because I'm getting tired of repeating myself. Please go put concerted effort into learning about the Public Domain if you literally only heard about it four days ago. I am begging you.

[ID: A a cartoon version of Mickey Mouse’s head on a blue background. He has a white face and eyes, black fur, round ears, and an open mouth showing a buck tooth and a greyscale mouth. He is holding up one white-gloved hand and giving the middle finger, saying, "I can wear gloves, you just don't know how the Public Domain works!". Below him, black text reads, “Stop fearmongering on Disney’s behalf. You’re not even getting paid for it.”. End ID.]

[thoughtlessarse]

Justice minister Dilan Yesilgöz based her claim that thousands of people were moving to the Netherlands as family members of family members of refugees on general information rather than specific facts, according to her answers to MPs questions which were published on Wednesday. Yesilgöz claimed on television talk show Op1 last November that “a great many” people came to the Netherlands after a distant relative had successfully applied for asylum and told the Volkskrant in an interview later “thousands” of people were involved. The claim eventually led to the collapse of the previous government, after ministers were divided on how to cope with the flow of people, whom Yesilgöz said were abusing the system. But now it appears the minister “made up the figure” and did not have access to any information that substantiated her claim, Trouw reported on Thursday.

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Seventy. Seventy people a year come to be reunited with family, and then only close family members can come, not distant relatives. She lied, and she has a seat at the table trying to form the next cabinet. Why is it that people from a migrant background often turn out to be the most anti-migrant?

[gettothestabbing]